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Mar 14 13 8:18 PM
wildlele wrote:Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 1: 1958 - 1961—SPOTLIGHT Jerry Siegel and Others (w) • Curt Swan, Wayne Boring, Stan Kaye (a) • Pete Poplaski (c) The Man of Steel comes to the Library of American Comics! In partnership with DC Entertainment, the Eisner Award-winning imprint will produce deluxe archival editions of the Superman newspaper strip that ran from 1939-1966. The Dailies will be released in three sub-sets, starting with The Silver Age, then The Atomic Age, and finally, The Golden Age. (Sundays will be released in a separate, concurrent series.) These Silver Age classics have never been reprinted. The first volume boasts art by Curt Swan and Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye, as Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel scripts stories by Otto Binder, Robert Bender, Jerry Coleman, and a new version of his own classic "Superman Returns to Krypton!" The book includes almost 800 strips, the complete episodes from December 15, 1958 - July 1, 1961. This is the series Superman fans have been waiting for! HC • B&W • $49.99 • 288 pages • 11" x 8.5" • ISBN 978-1-61377-666-7 Expected in-store date: 7/10/13 Advance solicited for a July release! The Man of Steel comes to the Library of American Comics, courtesy of DC Comics! Never before reprinted! Edited and designed by Dean Mullaney, foreword by Tom DeHaven, with introduction by Sid Friedfertig, and cover drawing by Pete Poplaski.
Mar 14 13 8:31 PM
Osgood Peabody wrote:Yeah, I'm very curious to check out the SA Superman strips, especially after Batmite posted that excerpt recently. I'm wondering whether they were all verbatim from stories that had already appeared in comic book form. You would think that the conventional wisdom would have been to target a more sophisticated audience with the strip, and therefore there would be significant variation, but we'll see. Knowing how Dean and the LOAC crowd do things, I would expect to see a lot of background material that will shed some light on this sort of thing.
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Rod Keith wrote:Wow, best news I've heard in a while! I wonder how these volumes are being released-- i.e., are they alternating Superman, Batman, and WW, or releasing each character somewhat concurrently?
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DavidTai wrote:The one I'd be really interested in (as it was more around the time I was paying attention to the strips) was the 90s Batman strip with the Two-Face Origins that might have been one of the better Two-Face Origins told. First ran across it here:http://about-faces.livejournal.com/tag/reading%20list%3A%20batman%20comic%20strip%20%2889-91%29 It also featured Marshall Rogers art early in the run.
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wildlele wrote:No it will not.Did a quick search and found a ton of strips, even chopped up by storyline and/or year.
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Mar 15 13 12:20 PM
Great news!!! I look forward to finally owning complete sets of these strips! (I really can't wait to see Wonder Woman at long last!) If they're all around this size (covering 2 1/2 years) it'll take about 11 volumes for the Superman dailies and maybe 3-4 more for the Sundays. Not too bad.-Eric
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Mar 15 13 12:30 PM
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In other words will this be a test or a testament to the impact of digital piracy on comic books sales?
Mar 15 13 5:35 PM
Fin Fang Foom wrote:In other words will this be a test or a testament to the impact of digital piracy on comic books sales? I doubt it. I think the type of audience this material is most likely to appeal to is most likely to want it to be in physical book form, carefully reproduced. Anything that's not modern-day comics seems to be a difficult thing to sell in a digital format -- I don't think that's so much because of "piracy" as it is "disinterest," and likelihood that the audience that's interested in that material is more likely to want it in physical form. (And may I say how wonderful it is to see more Pete Poplaski work after all these years.)
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Mar 15 13 9:29 PM
Mr Kayak wrote:are IDW's reprints any good? I remember buying their first volume of 'terry and the pirates' a few years ago, and I ended up giving it away since I found its pictures too pixelated for my taste. (just so you know my standards, I'm perfectly happy with fantagraphics' historic reprint lines like the popeye one).
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Mar 15 13 10:20 PM
wildlele wrote:Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 1: 1958 - 1961—SPOTLIGHT Jerry Siegel and Others (w) • Curt Swan, Wayne Boring, Stan Kaye (a) • Pete Poplaski (c) The book includes almost 800 strips, the complete episodes from December 15, 1958 - July 1, 1961. This is the series Superman fans have been waiting for!Hot damn! That's the day I was born. My wife gave me a copy of that day's Winnipeg Free Press for my birthday a couple of years ago but the strip isn't in it.
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