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Assuming that's it's an attractive book; I think it has a lot of potential with Superman fans (not comic fans) and art book collectors, history buffs, and libraries.


If ithe book were promoted as "remastered" (if indeed that were to happen, and who knows, maybe it will), that isn't going to mean much to people outside of comics -- I mean, they'll probably understand the term in the context of it having been applied to other media, but that's probably not going to drive lots of sales, likely not commensurate with the expense. (I don't even think it would drive lots of sales among people who do read comics, either.)

So the choice becomes: spend a not-insignificant amount of money on new restoration work* and new color seps for an 800-page(!) book (without the promise of future products to generate revenue as a benefit of that work), or, just pick up the existing digital files -- and either way, probably sell more or less the same quantity of books. This is what I mean when I say it becomes a difficult proposition to make a compelling argument "for."

* And in this case, there would probably be very real questions about obtaining source material, as DC's previous library copies were very likely "Theakstonized," back in the day.

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