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?