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    Facsimile Editions

    You might have noticed but Marvel has been soliciting facsimile editions of key issues from their library for quite some time now, and DC has recently done the same. One major difference with DC is that they are really doubling down on those beautiful All-New Collectors’ Editions or Treasury Editions they released in the 70/80’s. This month alone DC solicited two: the famous Superman/Flash race and Batman’s Strangest Cases.

    I think this is quite smart of them. My customers do not have to fork over hundreds of credits for a huge oversized Omnibus to grab these beautiful, classic stories or have to engage the collector’s market, where prices are even higher for a good grade of the same comic. Previously we had the Superman/Muhammad Ali and another Batman depicting the famous duel between Batman and Ra’s al Ghul. So it does seem to be Neal Adams centric so far, and I’m not complaining in the least. I do hope DC continues this trend and so far they have been restricted to actual reprints of the Treasuries that were already released so I am curious if they will go into new territory of some classic storylines that never got the oversized treatment?

    Either way and from Franka’s comic this week, is the old trumping the new?

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    01 – Catalogs

    I was sitting around the store, doing some basic administration, when Franka came up to me with an idea to publish a weekly comic depicting some of the happenings around expatNERD. She is our in-house artist so of course I couldn’t refuse. But naturally a weekly obligation seemed to me to be quite a hard deadline, but she reassured me she would be able to keep it and it wouldn’t stress her out. She even used the word fun.

    I think Franka’s first attempt is good and pretty much sums up one of our most frequent customers’ exploits who always manages to make us laugh. I do expect Franka will probably keep using Curt often, if not exclusively.

    And indeed, I do see those Preview catalogs with checklists in the back, but never thought to use them. Most of our pre-orders or pull-list requests come on physical visits or a list via email. But after looking at a few I think it is quite handy because it does sum up all the various books that will be released in two months, including the specific week of their release. But I must admit, until Curt handed one over to me, I didn’t think a lot of people used them.

    I would be curious if anyone has used them and handed them over to their LCS?

    Anyway, welcome to the first comic and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and until next time!

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      Ilse Rodewijk

      Great comic:) love the characters.

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