Also, the Secret Society of Super-villains collections had been prepped from their unreleased Showcase.


I'm going to venture a guess that the reason that was eventually published in the different format was a very expensive reprint payment (instead of a royalty payment, based on sales) that DC was obliged to pay.


The same may have been true of Atomic Knights, but I seem to recall waiting for a couple issues, it might not have gotten to that stage before those were canceled.


That book, assuming you're correct, was probably a case of "Hey, we can probably sell as many copies of this stuff in one format as the other, so let's see if we can pull in a bit more money doing this."


Things like that made Recoloring MUCH easier with more time to work on a project, as those issues would be available far sooner than waiting for film, scans, cleanup of stories reprinted for the first time.


It introduces a certain amount of convenience, and a small cost-savings (though that work all goes through DC's Production Department, one way or the other, so it's more a question of which project it counts against), but that probably shouldn't lead anyone to believe that this makes that material significantly more likely to be reprinted again. I think sales of the Archives are at the point now (by which I mean "very, very low") that 90% of the material that's covered will be reliable, crowd-pleasing stuff that's likely to have been reprinted before (because it's reliable, crowd-pleasing stuff).

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