crom wrote:
I am going to lean a bit out of the window, but I predict, that the time the KDL era begins in the according volumes of "Strange Tales" and "Journey into Mystery", that they will OUTSELL every other Masterwork that they will publish around that time!!!


I agree with you, but I worry that it may be too late.
Years ago I begged & pleaded for Cory & Co to release the Kirby/Ditko ST/JIM material first and then go back & start the runs with #1 only if sales warranted. It was around 2008 & I was very worried that the newly weakened economy would not support sales thru the early ST/JIM material, which would risk us never getting that Kirby/Ditko material masterworked.
I was branded a lunatic/heretic and summarily pilloried on this board for taking this position.
Over the years I have seen a trend of negative reviews on these boards regarding the material collected in the early ST/JIM volumes and I can only imagine sales must have reflected this droppoff of interest, which then would have poisoned those lines in the eyes of Marvel management. So it may be too late to resuscitate the patient with better sales if those Kirby/Ditko volumes never see print.
I want to say that the chickens have come home to roost so thank you very much, but I don't think it's polite to gloat, so I won't.
No, instead I will wander through the "What If" section of the Masterworks Library and choke back my tears for what could have been. It could have been so beautiful.... [cue Frankie Avalon "Venus" & fade out]