posted October 24, 2001 09:02 AM            

In any event, I loved DC's 80- and 100-Page Giants during the 1960s and '70s and have been delighted by their revival, both the replicas of old favorites such as the 1963 Flash Annual and the "lost" items such as The Brave and the Bold and the forthcoming collection of Jack Kirby's Green Arrow stories. Beyond taking us senior citizens back to those halcyon times when we were limber and full of juice and knew how to get the best return on 25 cents, these books may serve to introduce younger readers to older material. Conceivably, having thus been lifted from their wretched state of ignorance and cultural deprivation, at least a few callow whippersnappers will then graduate to Flash or Green Lantern or Supergirl Archives, to their own immense enrichment and that of Time-Warner, thereby serving all of us who want the DC Archives line to thrive and expand.

I hope to see a "lost" Wonder Woman Annual in 2002 and, somewhere down the road, the likes of DC Goes Ape (the ultimate gorilla collection) and Weird Secret Origins (Animal Man! The Doom Patrol! Eclipso!). I'd love to see re-issues of the all-villain Superman and Batman giants, and Jimmy Olsen's oddest physical transformations, and some comic comics, dammit -- Scribbly, Sugar and Spike, The Fox and the Crow, The Three Mouseketeers, The Inferior Five, Jerry Lewis meets Batman, etc.

posted October 25, 2001 09:30 PM            

Howabout a "lost" 100 page DC Humour Super-Spectactular.

My wish list:

early 40s Shelley Mayer Scribbly (with Red Tornado)
late 40s Jack Cole Plastic Man
a short Fox & Crow
Sugar & Spike
Binky & or Scooter
The Inferior Five
Stanley and His Monster (the original)
Angel & the Ape (the original)
an early seventies CC Beck illoed Shazam! story (those tended to be more humour driven than the classic Cap stories).

Since some of the above features often had very short (sometimes one page) tales, there should be enough room to squeeze 'em in.

Throw in some of those half-page filler cartoons (like Casey the Cop) and maybe some stuff from Plop! and you got one jam-packed funny book.

posted October 26, 2001 12:25 AM            

And Henry Boltinoff passed not too long ago--I'm nostalgic for his stuff.

But there's simply not room for all the funniness--they'd have to do a second issue.

And it would be so great to see Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope, but I gather DC can't get the rights to reprint those. A dirty rotten shame I say--Hope and Lewis should be begging DC to publish those stories which make them look like two of the funniest men who ever existed on the planet!

posted October 26, 2001 01:17 AM               

What I do like are Marvel's Monsters. They are inexpensive, and I like the mix of new and old (I love the 100 page runs of DCs in the '70s). I also think it would be good for our Archives as it would introduce more readers to the quality of some of the older material, and they would them ask for Archives for Christmas .

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posted October 26, 2001 03:40 PM              

I think the JLA, WW & BRAVE & THE BOLD 100-pagers were my faves, but WF was fun, too.

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posted October 26, 2001 08:00 PM            

Batman vs. The Catwoman - perhaps "The Duped Domestics," from Batman # 22 (1944), or "Nine Lives Has the Catwoman" (# 35, 1946), or "The Lady Rogues" (# 45, 1948), none of which has been reprinted since the 1970s.

Blackhawk vs. The Lady Called Fear - from Blackhawk # 11 (1946), reprinted in 100-Page Super Spectacular # DC-20 (1973).

The Flash vs. The Thorn - the Robert Kanigher/Joe Kubert Flash Comics[i] Flash, of course.

Sargon the Sorceror vs. The Blue Lama - as in "The Woman Who Wanted the World," illustrated by Paul Reinman, originally published in [i]Sensation Comics # 70 (1947) and reprinted in Justice League of America # 98 (1972).

Wildcat vs. The Huntress - "The Count That Never Ended," Sensation Comics # 71 (1947).

Green Lantern vs. The Harlequin - this cute couple's first encounter, from All-American Comics # 89 (1947), was reprinted in 1972; the rest, including an all-Harlequin issue of Green Lantern, have mouldered in oblivion all this while.

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posted October 27, 2001 10:28 PM               

An UNcle Sam National Comics solo,

Phantom Lady,

Blackhawk from Modern Comics,

Firebrand I,

Dollman (# 37, with Doll Girl),

The Ray,

Human Bomb,

posted October 28, 2001 01:35 AM            

Hawkman, "The Ghost," Flash Comics # 88 (Oct. 1947), with art by Joe Kubert. "Is he in Heaven, is he in Hell? That damned, infernal ...." Oh, wait, that's some other guy. Still, the original Ghost always left Hawkman and -girl wondering: phantom or fake?

"The Human Bomb," Big Town # 2 (Feb. 1951), with art by Sy Barry. This is just a swell story, featuring characters -- chiefly, a two-fisted newspaperman -- from a once-popular radio and television program. And where is it written that only costumed superheroes are capable of dealing with really dangerous villains?

Aquaman, "The Menace of the Electric Man," Adventure Comics # 254 (Nov. 1958), with art by Ramona Fradon and Charles Paris at their best.

Eclipso, "The Man Who Destroyed Eclipso," House of Secrets # 65 (March-April 1964), with art by Alex Toth at his best.

posted October 28, 2001 05:35 PM            

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Originally posted by kdu:
Well, I don't care for the expensive re issues of the 100 and 80 page books, though I did get the Lost GL, the two Secret Origins, Batman Annual (so my original can be safe in its mylar) and the Love issue.

What I do like are Marvel's Monsters. They are inexpensive, and I like the mix of new and old (I love the 100 page runs of DCs in the '70s). I also think it would be good for our Archives as it would introduce more readers to the quality of some of the older material, and they would them ask for Archives for Christmas .

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As long as you compare the DC 80/100s to the Marvel Monsters, then yes they will seem overpriced.

But figure out the price per page on these DCs vs. DC tradepaperbacks and you will see that they are actually a steal.

Compare them to archives and it should be a federal crime to get so many reprints for so little.

But I do agree (despite all those ads that take away from the 100 pages) the Marvel Monsters are the best deal in town, and I actually buy most of them (I passed on Hulk as I'm really not a fan of Hulk, except in things like Defenders), just to get the reprints.

Let's not forget who initiated this format almost twenty years ago--DC. Of course, if fans are true to form, they'll be referring to those seventies books as "DC Monsters"--just as fans refer to the DC tabloids as "DC Treasury Editions."

I'm a big fan of World's Finest, but for my money the best reprints were in the 80 & 64 page Giants as they reprinted 50s & 60s tales (many by Edmond Hamilton with Sprang or Swan). WF was fun in the seventies, and the WF Dollar Comic was a great deal, but there were lots better Super-Specs to be had.

posted October 29, 2001 05:11 PM            

ba-dum!

I put my "Giant-Size Man-Thing" in mylar to keep it mint.

I wanna tell you. When I told my girlfriend that I keep my "Giant-Size Man-Thing" in a box she ran screaming from my apartment and I haven't seen her since.

posted October 31, 2001 12:22 AM            

I bought more comics than Utley, I'm sure, though I skipped the more recent stuff. I just can't see that a fellow can have too many issues of All-Star #3 and so I bought two of the regular, and the mylar cover (with the archive and the Famous First Edition that means I have five facsimile copies of the same comic).

If they need to put new covers on these things then I'd prefer something like the second covers that were put on the earlier Famous Firsts. But doubtless if this second cover was cardstock that would put up the price.