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CCL Podcast #279 – Comic Con 2010 Collected Edition News Wrap Up

July 28, 2010
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #279
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It’s all Comic Con all the time in on this week’s show. All the Collected Edition news from Marvel, DC, Top Cow, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, IDW, Titan, TwoMorrows and more. I also go over all the 2010 Eisner Award winners and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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Collected Edition News from Comic Con 2010

July 26, 2010
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Here’s the complete list of what I was able to gather up that was either announced or seen at Comic Con this past weekend. I’m sure the list will expand as more news trickles out. Don’t forget this is a follow up to what we already know, Pre-Comic Con, that I blogged about last week. I’ll be talking about all of these books (including contents, price and dates) and the Eisner Winners on the next podcast due out Wednesday.

Vertigo/DC Comics
Absolute We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, coming 2011

Marvel
Atlantis Attacks Omnibus, $75.00 collects:
Part 1: Silver Surfer Annual #2
Part 2: Iron Man Annual #10
Part 3: X-Men Annual #13
Part 4: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23
Part 5: Punisher Annual #2
Part 6: The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #9
Part 7: Daredevil Annual #5
Part 8: Avengers Annual #18 (and New Mutants #76)
Part 9: New Mutants Annual #5
Part 10: X-Factor Annual #4
Part 11: Web of Spider-Man Annual #5
Interlude: Avengers West Coast #56
Part 12: Avengers West Coast Annual #4
Part 13: Thor Annual #14
Part 14: Fantastic Four Annual #22
Captain America Lives Omnibus collects Captain America #43-50, #600-601, Captain America: Reborn #1-6, and Reborn Digital Prologue, $64.99
Thor Worldengine Premier Classic HC Volume 58 HC by Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato collects Thor #491-494 and Journey Into Mystery #103
X-Force Premier Classic HC Volume 59 collects New Mutants #98-100, X-Force (Volume 1) #1-4 and Spider-Man #16

IDW
Ultimate Alex Raymond Collection: The Definitive Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim (Library of American Comics) starting form January 7, 1934 through April 30, 1944, oversized, 12 x 16 champagne edition format.

Top Cow
Classic Pitt by Dale Keown
Rest TPB by Milo Ventimiglia & Russ Cundiff, an unfinished comic miniseries from Devil’s Due Publishing, will be out in the Fall.

Dark Horse
Savage Sword, Continuing in the tradition of bringing Robert E. Howard’s incomparable prose to comic book form, Dark Horse Comics is set to showcase even more of the writer’s legendary work with Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword. Beginning in December, this 80-page perfect bound series will feature the exploits of well-known heroes like Conan and Solomon Kane while also aiming a well-deserved and long-overdue spotlight on some of Howard’s more obscure but no less exciting characters, including Dark Agnes, El Borak, Bran Mak Morn and Sailor Steve Costigan. While Savage Sword will premiere all new comic tales featuring Howard’s creations, it will also feature recolored reprint material as well as plenty of bonus content. A can’t-miss item for fans of action and adventure!
Signor Manara Library (overseen by Kim Thompson) The celebrated Italian comic book writer and artist known for The Adventures of Giuseppe Bergman, Butterscotch, Click, Indian Summer and more will be bringing a major catalogue of his work to the states
Bethesda’s Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition by Geof Darrow

Drawn & Quarterly
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths and NonNonBa (North American English versions) by Shigeru Mizuki

Fantagraphics
Complete Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse (starting with the 1930 comics) beginning in May 2011, and continuing at a rate of two volumes per year. The retail price of the volumes will be $29.99
Linda Medley’s Castle Waiting Volume 2 HC due out in December
Walt Kelly’s Pogo Volume 1 should see the light of day in this calender year

Titan
Tank Girl: Skidmarks TPB, four issue mini-series by Dayglo & Martin, published by Titan Comics from November 2009 – February 2010.
Beetle Bailey 1965: The Daily & Sunday Strips HC, I’m guessing that this is not in conjunction with the Checker BPG reprints of Beetle Bailey
Dr. Horrible’S Sing-Along Blog Book
Firefly: Still Flying: A Celebration of Joss Whedon’s Acclaimed TV Series
Icons: The DC Comics And Wildstorm Art Of Jim Lee
Sucker Punch: The Art Of The Film By Zack Snyder

WCG Comics
Randy Reynaldo’s Rob Hanes, Adventures TPB (b/w), $15.99 collects 0-5, from 1994-96 All the stories have been digitally re-lettered for the new collection, replacing the hand-lettering of the original series. I met Randy at Comic Con 2006 and still have the original issues. This is good stuff!

TwoMorrows Tune-In #30: Danny Fingeroth, Stan Lee Universe and Comic Con 2010

July 21, 2010
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No CCL Podcast this week, but I do have the latest TwoMorrows Tune-In for you, enjoy!

TwoMorrows Tune-In #30: Danny Fingeroth, Stan Lee Universe and Comic Con 2010 (.mp3)

This month on the show, host Chris Marshall sits down with Danny Fingeroth to talk about the upcoming book The Stan Lee Universe. Danny and Roy Thomas (Alter Ego) have put together one of the most complete and personal looks at one of Comicdoms most famous figure. Here is the official solicit:

Face front, true believers! The Stan Lee Universe is the ultimate repository of interviews with and mementos about Marvel Comics’ fearless leader! From his Soapbox to the box office, the Smilin’ One literally changed the face of comic books and pop culture, and this tome presents in his own words – and those of the illustrious folks he’s worked with – the co-creation of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Silver Surfer, and so many other super-characters! Presented are numerous rare and unpublished interviews with Stan, discussing how he made Marvel Comics the household name it is today. Also featured are interviews with top luminaries of the comics industry, including John Romita Sr. & Jr., Tod McFarlane, Dennis O’Neil, Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Al Jaffee, Larry Lieber, Jerry Robinson, and Michael Uslan discussing his vital importance to the field he helped shape. Plus, this book contains the essential-to-every-writer Stan Lee’s Top Ten Tips for Writers! And as a bonus for this special edition, and direct from Stan’s personal archives (housed at the University of Wyoming), you’ll see rare photos, sample scripts and plots, personal correspondences, and other tidbits from the entire span of his career, some unseen for decades!

The Stan Lee Universe SC
Danny Fingeroth, Roy Thomas and Stan Lee
$26.95, 176 pages, TwoMorrows Publishing, November 2010

Chris also goes over all TwoMorrows Publishing happenings going on in San Diego at Comic Con International 2010, including New Releases, Specials and Panels.

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Frazetta’s White Indian Collection at Vanguard and Dark Horse

July 15, 2010
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If any of you followed me on Twitter today, you would have seen that there is an issue with the forthcoming Frank Frazetta White Indian collected edition.

Back in March the Frazetta estate entered into an agreement with Vanguard Productions and even launched the Vanguard Frazetta Classics.  Two books have been announced: Vanguard Frazetta Classics Series Volume 1:  The Complete Johnny Comet, and the Vanguard Frazetta Classics Series Volume 2: The Complete White Indian Collection.

That’s all well and good but just days ago Dark Horse released their October solicitations which included thier own The Classic Comics Archives Vol 1: The White Indian.

Very odd indeed. So I wrote J. David Spurlock of Vanguard and this is what he had to say, I just got off the phone with Mike Richardson at Dark Horse. I expect that we will issue a joint press release later but basically, Vanguard will release WHITE INDIAN Vol 1: By Frazetta, and Dark Horse will do WHITE INDIAN ARCHIVES Vol 2 of all all the other White Indian material.

That must have been some phone call.

Spurlock had previously stated that, “(White Indian is) well into production now with more Vanguard volumes to come.”  So it’s no surprise that it’ll will be publishing the first book. But I wonder how this problem even came about. I know that Dark Horse does have some rights to the Frazetta estate (they will be publishing the Thun’da, King of the Congo Archives), but Image also has reprint rights. Perhaps they want a piece of the action, too?

In any event, it will be good to have this material reprinted. I’ll post more information as it comes available.

And thanks to Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool,  for reminding me about the Frazetta v. Vangurad/Spurlock lawsuit. Very interesting.

UPDATE: David Spurlock sent me the cover art for the Vanguard collection. You can compare it to the discontinued Dark Horse book.

CCL Podcast #278 – Wanted: Comic Book Adaptation of Harry Potter

July 14, 2010
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #278
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As most of you know, I’m a co-host on the Comic Book Page Podcast with John Mayo. Each month John and I discuss the Top 300 Graphic Novels and Collected Edition Sales Estimates as reported by Diamond Comics Distributors. One thing that has caught my attention over the years has bee the increasing number of comic book adaptations of original prose novels there have been – and how well they sell. This is really nothing new however, Tarzan and Conan novels have been adapted and there was even the great Classic Illustrated Series. More recently Roy Thomas and Marvel brought back that title and even expanded their line of comics with the Best Selling Author series which includes Stephen King’s The Stand. Boom Studios! is also in the mix with Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? the basis for Blade Runner. But there is one contemporary title title that we have yet to see: Harry Potter. As I explain in today’s podcast, now that Marvel is owned by Disney and the final Potter movie is set to be released (Part One this Christmas and Part Two next summer) it would be the perfect time to announce this monumental project at this years Comic Con. Do it now while Potter fever is still hot. At the biggest stage in the world declare to the biggest fanboy audience in the world it and introduce committed team of artists and writers, have J.K. Rowling oversee the entire creative process, make it at least a 100 issues series covering all seven books. It would be one of, if not, the biggest projects to come out of San Diego this year.

What are some of the best comic book adaptations?

Also on the show I catch up with the week’s news including the passing of Harvey Pekar with a book recommendation of Underground Classics The Transformation of Comics into Comix by James Danky and Denis Kitchen ($29.95, Abrams ComicArts), The Harvey Awards, what’s going on with Marvelman and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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