nakamachi wrote:
Not even half of everything needs to be collected, especially in high quality masterworks. From an historical perspective I can see understand the desire for archiving all of the GA and SA comics but that doesn't necessarily mean there is enough of a market for all of it. They could print all of the Romance and Western comics in Essentials and I bet it still wouldn't sell well enough to support the printings. 
Agreed.
Even with my love for the 70s era comics I don't think there is much need to print any more in MMW unless perhaps it's Luke Cage. They could do Peter Parker, SVTU, MS. Marvel and others in TPB and it would be just fine with me. As far as the current open titles I think it's worth going up to a good stop point between 1980 - 1983 but after that my guess is the demand for TPB of the material may take over.
There are 2 ways to look at 70s, B and C grade Marvel comic lines:
1) Many lines like; Champions, Omega, Invaders, Kirby's Black Panther, TOD, Eternals, Nova etc.....have already been reprinted as either TPBs or OHC/Omnibus.
and by that thinking, most of the remaining 70s B rate Marvel will slowly make it to TPB or OHC.
2) In time, most of the 70s output will make it MM, like Jeph said: "one format reprint doesn't exclude another", so eventually The Eternals, TOD and many others will make it to MM.
Personally I think sales will be the deciding factor, and as long as we have only 9-10 Marvel Age MM volumes per year, concentrating on the main lines, everything else will be excluded.
 I'm thinking the Epic Line will grow gradually and eventually surpass MMWs for the 80s material.
No doubt, with double the size of a Masterwork, and an actual monthly release of MA only material, it will not take long, and for now all we have seen is 80s reprints
to avoid duplication with HC and SC MM, so......

The thing to remember here is, that as long as we have people at Marvel like Cory and Gabriel, and the top brass that approves their decisions, then Marvel
will keep on releasing not only high quality MM reprints, but also when possible improved Omnibus versions of the same, and no doubt, in time 
even more high quality formats will surface, it is the nature of a publisher like Marvel to do so.



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