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Dec 13 13 12:54 PM
nakamachi wrote:dc newton wrote:Cosmic Powers Unlimited if from way too far ahead in historic chronology I'm not sure why people want to leave out a story that's important because it's too far away timeline wise for that volume?Partly because it's from the 90's and was junk, I wouldn't call it important at all. So far MMW haven't really made many enormous leaps of a decade or more. A year or two ahead is one thing but frankly I have no interest in buying MMWs that are reprinting anything past 1983 or 1987 at the very latest. Once the material being reprinted is easier to find in the quarter bin at your local LCS then they don't need to be in a masterwork format.
dc newton wrote:Cosmic Powers Unlimited if from way too far ahead in historic chronology I'm not sure why people want to leave out a story that's important because it's too far away timeline wise for that volume?
Cosmic Powers Unlimited if from way too far ahead in historic chronology
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Dec 14 13 3:13 AM
nakamachi wrote:Jeez that looks cheezy. Who was the writer?
Dec 14 13 12:54 PM
Lark Knight wrote:nakamachi wrote:Jeez that looks cheezy. Who was the writer?According the the GCBD the writers were Tom Brevoort and Mike Kanterovich. Art by Scott Kolins. Yeah, sure looks like typical 90s gak.
Dec 15 13 11:56 AM
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Dec 15 13 12:27 PM
nakamachi wrote: I'm thinking the Epic Line will grow gradually and eventually surpass MMWs for the 80s material.
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Dec 15 13 12:47 PM
DrDoombot wrote: That kind of makes me sad since I started collecting in the '80s and would like nicely repro'd hardcovers of my favorite runs.
Dec 15 13 1:03 PM
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.
Dec 15 13 1:06 PM
DrDoombot wrote:nakamachi wrote: I'm thinking the Epic Line will grow gradually and eventually surpass MMWs for the 80s material. That kind of makes me sad since I started collecting in the '80s and would like nicely repro'd hardcovers of my favorite runs.
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Dec 15 13 2:29 PM
Batmite wrote: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.
Dec 15 13 2:35 PM
Heathenson wrote:I would think the more celebrated runs from the eighties will appear in Omnibus not MMW. There's too much drudge to get through to reprint them all comprehensively in a prestige format and for those who would like them all there is the EPIC line.
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Dec 15 13 9:51 PM
Heathenson wrote:I prefer the EPIC line for seventies-eighties material myself. Smaller TPB for short runs.
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Dec 16 13 12:27 AM
nakamachi wrote: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.
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Dec 16 13 4:13 AM
Lark Knight wrote:nakamachi wrote: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. I hope we get Power Man, Ghost Rider, SVTU, Spectacular Spider-Man, Invaders, and Champions in Masterworks. And a few volumes of Power Man/ Iron Fist would be cool as well.
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