Collected Edition Blog browsing on a Tuesday morning

June 3, 2008
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    No messing around today, let’s get right to it:

  • Apparently over $10,000 in CGC-slabbed comics were stolen from the Graham Crackers Comics booth at Motor City Comic Con on Sunday, May 18th. I’m guessing all of the plastic covers will be opened and sold E-Bay or some other market. One good note comes out of this: these books will now be read and not covered in iron-clad packaging just so people can look at the covers. Don’t agree with me? Go watch Toy Story 2.
  • CBR is reporting that Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales will be collected in hardcover format (144 pages, $24.99, June 12). IDW Publishing is proud to present six standalone graphic stories adapted from Doctorow’s short stories into comic books, each featuring cover art by some of the industry’s top talent. IDW continues to grow and is slowly becoming one of the premiere comic book and collected edition publishers.
  • CBR is also reporting that IDW has landed the license to GI Joe. I first heard this rumor back in November. I really hope it doesn’t spell doom for Devil’s Due Publishing, but I’m not sure what other big name property they have. Just looking at the Top 300 comics for April (thanks to John Mayo) no comic, not even GI Joe Elite cracked the top 100 (#116). In fact, only 3 of the eight books published cracked the Top 200. I still have yet to check out Golden Age Sheena: The Best of the Queen of the Jungle TPB, a book that I’m really looking forward to. On the flip side IDW promises to publish classic collected edition of GI Joe. Hopefully, they mean the old Marvel books. Cool news.
  • ICv2.com is reporting that the first volume of IDW’s collection of Little Orphan Annie, due for release June 11th, will include a previously unpublished strip from the first month, found in the Harold Gray Archives at Boston University. I told my daughter, Erin, about this book and showed her pics of classic Annie strips on the internet. She wants me to buy this book the day it comes out. Oh, one more thing — have I mentioned what a kick-ass company IDW is?
  • The Collected Editions Blog found this Dr. Fate book on Amazon.com. Check out the title. Perhaps Mr. T is under that helmet?!
  • Heidi MacDonald, The Beat, is reporting that Titan Publishing Group Ltd. has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to a range of books celebrating the work of Golden Age comics legend, Joe Simon. The titles include: Joe Simon: The Man Behind The Comics, The Best Of Simon & Kirby, and The Simon & Kirby Superheroes.
  • Remember the Marvel Vault book from 2007? Now publisher Running Press is going to do The DC Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book ($49.95) in October. This chronicle of America’s oldest comic publisher contains more than 25 plastic-encased archival pieces for readers to pull out and examine. Included in the collection are exact reproductions of early sketches, covers, memos, press materials, a working model of a 1942 Junior Justice Society of America Decoder, plus original pencils and inks from Wonder Woman #63.
  • Review: Stephen Pakula, Sequart, on X-O Manowar: Birth (Valiant Entertainment)
  • Review: John Hodgman, New York Times, on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volumes 1-4 (DC Comics).
  • Review: Scott Cederlund, Pop Syndicate, Host of Wednesday’s Haul Podcast and overall good friend on Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight: No Future For You TPB (Dark Horse).

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0 Responses to Collected Edition Blog browsing on a Tuesday morning

  1. Seth Hurley on June 3, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Amazon has Kirby’s The Demon HC coming out in November. The trade dress matches the OMAC and Fourth World hardcovers.

    any word that DC will finish the remaining Kamandi Archives or just reublish it like these other Kirby reprints?

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  2. Chris Marshall on June 6, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Seth,
    Thanks for the month on Demon. I wasn’t sure when that was coming out.
    With the Archives slowing down, I doubt we’ll see Kamandi get a Volume 3.

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