Collected Edition Blog browsing on Friday afternoon

It’s Friday and I promised in this weeks podcast that I would be Blogging about something. It took me a while, but I did dig up a few links that you’ll find both informative and entertaining, not to mention an easy way to spend your cash this payday. Have a great weekend and I’ll catch you Monday morning. Go Blue!

• Random House’s Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia Slipcase HC, solicited as being two volumes, will now contain three volumes. As a result, the price of the item has changed from $75.00 to $125.00.
• Secret Wars Omnibus HC – Regular & Direct Market Editions ($99.99) will be 496 pages, not 384 pages.
• In gearing up for the Archie Heroes revival at DC Comics next year, Newsarama has put together the first part of a pseudo Who’s Who. Characters include: The Shield, The Comet and The Web.
• Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin, a cartoonist couple for The New Yorker, have a collected edition of their work due out in early 2009. It will be titled Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony.
• IDW Publishing will be republishing Kevin Colden’s Fishtown in a Deluxe Hardcover this November.
• Go read John Mayo’s report on the July 2008 Sales Analysis. Then go listen to our podcast together.
• Heidi MacDonald has all the news that’s fit to print on the recent Diamond Retailer Summit. Collected Edition highlights include:
  • Radical will publish oversized hardcovers of Hercules and Caliber this November and will be $19.95. Trade Paperbacks will follow four to six months after that.
  • In gearing up for the live action Dragonball Z movie, Viz will offer two box sets (one for each Dragonball line) as well as large hardcover collector’s edition which will retail for $19.99. Viz will also publish collector’s editions of these three titles, Bleach, Death Note and Naruto offering the first three volumes of each series in a large hardcover edition.
  • Marvel and Icon says Volume Two of Powers will end with #30. Volume Three will begin late next year, will have guaranteed shipping dates, and that the interim will feature hardcovers, paperbacks, and an “Art of” book.
  • The current Voltron series from Devils Due Publishing will be collected in Spring.
  • Beanworld (Dark Horse) launched recently on MySpace, will be collected.
  • Marvel’s Greatest Collections will be getting a second issue. It is a comic/backlist catalog of some of the highlights of Marvel’s trade paperback and hardcover collected editions.
• Locke & Key Hardcover – Official Press Release. IDW will release it on October 1. It features the first six-issue storyline, a complete cover gallery, conceptual sketches by Gabriel Rodriguez, and an all-new introduction from best-selling mystery novelist Robert Crais.
• Sam Thielman, Publishers Weekly, Kevin O’Neill and Pat Mills Enforce Marshal Law at Titan
• Review: Allan Holtz, Stripper’s Guide on Little Orphan Annie Volume One
• Review: Jamie Hailstone , Den Of Geek, on X-Men God Loves, Man Kills
• Review: Raoul, Trade Talks, on Essential Defenders Volume 4 and Zot!, 1987-1991: The Complete Black and White Collection
• Review: Collected Editions Blog on Superman: Last Son, Superman: Camelot Falls Volume 2 and Superman: 3-2-1 Action!. CEB also blogged about the CCL in a recent post How do you want Final Crisis collected? My sincere thanks.

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