Is there any conceivable reason, legal or otherwise, why DC does cannot or will not reprint the original art? Speculation will be welcome...If there is no such reason, why not, in a 400 page Deluxe Edition reprint both versions?


I'm sure most people can think of a good reason not to reprint the original, which is that -- not to put too fine a point on it -- there's just not all that much interest work by in Howard Bender and/or Rodin Rodriguez. If not for the Giffen-drawn version of the story, it probably wouldn't have been reprinted, anyway.

As to the question of why not reprint both? That's the nature of the "curated" collection. You don't just reprint everything, you make concious decisions about what to leave in and what to leave out. Arguably, comic book fans being the curious way they are, you couldn't really go wrong by including something like this in the back of the book -- but that's not necessarily a strong argument in favor of doing so.

(But no, there probably wouldn't have been any legal reason, and no impediment that couldn't have been cleared by renegotiating a contract, if the will were there.)

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