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Phonics Monkey Vol 2 wrote:He lives in the Bizarro world!
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botolo wrote:I would like to thank all the friends who have been posting on this thread and on the other thread I have created (Amazing Spider-Man: newbie question) for the great suggestions you gave me. I can happily say that I have started my masterworks collection buying yesterday the first volume of the softcover edition, regular. I would have loved to buy the Omniboo and then continue with the HC masterworks but the cost of the first Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus and some considerations about restoration of the stories made me decide to go along with the SC edition. As you can see from the pic below, I am a happy Spider-Man fanboy now Thanks again!
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Phonics Monkey Vol 2 wrote: Fin Fang Foom wrote: I have some of the first Superman and Batman archives and chronicles, but compared to Marvel DC is centuries behind the reconstructioh process... To each his own, but keep in mind that some of that stuff was first reprinted decades ago, when the process of preparing Golden Age material to be reprinted was often very different, and even the computing power available for a digital process was still relatively modest.If you can find a copy of the hardcover reprint of Marvel Comics #1 from (I think) the late 1980s, you'll see it's on par with other reconstruction efforts of that era.(And if you could see how this material was first presented in the Masterworks, you probably wouldn't be so complementary.)Right, but the fact that DC is still using their rustic restoration files from 25 years ago shows how far behind they are. It's like using a movie mastered for VHS, and slapping the VHS files onto a BluRay disc and saying voila. Standards change. Marvel has continually refined and improved their product, while DC has not. Technology has allowed for greater restoration, and DC is once again behind Marvel.
Fin Fang Foom wrote: I have some of the first Superman and Batman archives and chronicles, but compared to Marvel DC is centuries behind the reconstructioh process... To each his own, but keep in mind that some of that stuff was first reprinted decades ago, when the process of preparing Golden Age material to be reprinted was often very different, and even the computing power available for a digital process was still relatively modest.If you can find a copy of the hardcover reprint of Marvel Comics #1 from (I think) the late 1980s, you'll see it's on par with other reconstruction efforts of that era.(And if you could see how this material was first presented in the Masterworks, you probably wouldn't be so complementary.)
I have some of the first Superman and Batman archives and chronicles, but compared to Marvel DC is centuries behind the reconstructioh process...
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I for one would buy their expensive HD archives in they'd printed them in the same SC format that Marvel does, if they use the same paper, ink, and provided they take care to upgrade their golden age material in terms of restoration by getting the original comics or something. Granted, getting a real life copy of Action Comics 1 or Detective 27 is like impossible, but once I read that Marvel Comics 1 was one of the rarest comics ever, even harder to find than Superman and Batman's first appearances.
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Fin Fang Foom wrote: (If Marvel hadn't had the opportunity to redo the disappointing reprint of Marvel Comics #1 that appeared in the Masterworks, by subsequently repackaging it in another expensive hardcover, chances are the softcover would have been equally disappointing.)
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intp wrote:I bought a reprinting of the variant edition of Fantastic Four Masterworks v.4 long ago, but some of the pages are distorted and hard to read, during the Frightful Four storyline. I've always wondered if this was just my copy, or a defect in all of the books in this run. As a result, I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to get the softcover for this volume. Curious as to the reproduction therein.
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Fin Fang Foom wrote Unfortunately, as Golden Age material really only appeals to a small part of an already small audience that's buying "classic" reprint collections, there's really not too much to support the investment of "upgrading" or reworking older Golden Age reprints. That has happened at DC from time to time, when key issues have been reprinted in other books -- I believe Detective Comics #27 was revisited, as was the cover to Action Comics #1 (though I'm not sure where that was used) -- but there's just not enough interest in this stuff to make it worth the publisher's while. (If Marvel hadn't had the opportunity to redo the disappointing reprint of Marvel Comics #1 that appeared in the Masterworks, by subsequently repackaging it in another expensive hardcover, chances are the softcover would have been equally disappointing.)
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DC could have done any of the things Marvel is doing if they wanted. DC has the opportunity to redo their books an repackage them in another expensive hardcover. It's not as if someone gave Marvel that opportunity. It was in their control.
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DavidSpofforth wrote:intp wrote:I bought a reprinting of the variant edition of Fantastic Four Masterworks v.4 long ago, but some of the pages are distorted and hard to read, during the Frightful Four storyline. I've always wondered if this was just my copy, or a defect in all of the books in this run. As a result, I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to get the softcover for this volume. Curious as to the reproduction therein.impeccable.
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