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Post by BubblesZine on Jan 9, 2022 0:27:03 GMT
TASCHEN is starting to publish some old Marvel books. Completely flexing on those Marvel Masterworks books. Anyone pick up this first one? Marvel Comics Library. Spider-Man. Vol. 1. 1962–1964I didn't buy one, but I saw my friends copy today and it's awesome. It's really big, but the pages look really nice. |
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Post by bayls171 on Jan 9, 2022 1:30:13 GMT
It looks really amazing, but I don’t ever need comic-sized comics reprinted at larger than comic size. Hopefully they’ll do a smaller printing in the next few years
But yeah looks way better than the terrible reprints Marvel usually do
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Jan 9, 2022 3:24:19 GMT
I'm all for the upsizing of pages, I'm just picky about how they go about it. From afar, it looks like whomever worked on the TASCHEN collection got it exactly right! Why can't we close our eyes and wake up in a world where quality scans of the original elements is the re-print standard? Maddening how Marvel's norm is flattened fill colors on bright white plastic paper, right? I pretend-spent the $200 almost immediately after the company sent me the Spidey spread email - it's not that crazy a price to pay for a well produced book that's the size of a human abdomen - but I'll most likely live without... Unless, of course, they end up offering it up for something like the bananas discount they had on the similarly-sized Krazy Kat and Little Nemo collections last summer: $40-$60 each for a couple of $200 books that I've been coveting? Yes, please! The Folio Society have been doing something similar over in the UK, with the Cracker Jack prize being a really nice looking facsimile on newsprint of a 'key' issue from whatever series or era they're covering, but the books themselves don't look half a tasty as what the kids in Cologne are up to. Turn the volume OFF if you know what's good for ya'! PS - Fully jelly that you got to play with a copy, B. |
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Post by wigshop on Jan 9, 2022 4:50:22 GMT
I've been following TASCHEN for years -- used to work for them a lifetime ago, too, ha. It's been really interesting to watch their business model shift around over the past decade. TASCHEN began as a comics shop in the 80s and while I'm not a Marvel fan it's super cool to see them go back to their roots like this. (a side note... I felt their Nemo / Krazy books were weird moves when those came out. I'm a die-hard Sunday Press fan and feel like they were published with Sunday Press in their crosshairs. But that's for a different thread...) In my experience, we can be almost 100% certain that a similarly-oversized, cheaper edition of this Marvel Library will come out in a few years for something like $80. It's what TASCHEN does, for better or for worse. Folks who've followed them for years know that you can just wait for something massive to be sized-down if you don't want to shell out the cash for the $200ish edition. (I'm patiently waiting for their EC book to come out in a smaller size.) OR they'll dump unsold stock in their warehouse sale in lieu of remaindering them. Back to this Marvel Library -- did you see there's a $600 version with an aluminum-y slipcase and a faux-leather spine? www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/graphic_design/all/60042/facts.marvel_comics_library_spider_man_vol_1_19621964.htm...only for a "particular" collector but what I think is really impressive of TASCHEN is that they're letting you lock in your edition number if you buy this Spider-Man one... let's say you get #300/1000 -- you'd be guaranteed dibs on #300/1000 for all subsequent special editions you pick up. Very cool of them to work out the logistics for that. |
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Post by dominocorp on Jan 9, 2022 5:05:48 GMT
Still seems best to just buy the Marvel Tales that reprint the Ditko/Romita (and beyond) runs and save tons of $$ plus have the work on newsprint as nature intended. Also the best way to buy Kirby Fantastic Four through the Marvels Greatest Comics floppies.
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Post by maxhuffman on Jan 9, 2022 17:58:09 GMT
Don't those Marvel's Greatest Comics reprints cut pages though? Mostly splashes too (less plot to work around). They're still great pickups but someone telling me that ruined the hunt...
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Post by disneyweirdness on Jan 9, 2022 19:08:12 GMT
Still seems best to just buy the Marvel Tales that reprint the Ditko/Romita (and beyond) runs and save tons of $$ plus have the work on newsprint as nature intended. Also the best way to buy Kirby Fantastic Four through the Marvels Greatest Comics floppies. The smartest thing I ever did as a dumb college student is figure out that you could get Marvel Tales and Collector's Item Classics issues cheap on Ebay; you get all the wacky silver age sea monkeys ads and the Stan's Soapbox and everything without breaking the bank. I can guarantee I would never have read any Ant-Man or Human Torch solo stories if they didn't come packaged with Spider-Man and Thor. |
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Post by disneyweirdness on Jan 9, 2022 19:08:49 GMT
Don't those Marvel's Greatest Comics reprints cut pages though? Mostly splashes too (less plot to work around). They're still great pickups but someone telling me that ruined the hunt... Yeah I have heard that too but I still pick them up whenever I see them. |
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Post by dominocorp on Jan 9, 2022 21:36:11 GMT
they do cut pages, it's true, but it still makes sense to me to have the stories in floppy format and on newsprint, sorta a King Solomon style compromise.
for instance, I have the Marvels Greatest Comics for the first Silver Surfer/Galactus story through This Man This Monster. It may be missing some pages, but overall, reading that classic run of stories on that paper with the right coloring still feels pretty mind blowing. Ive tried all the other reprint projects for that stuff and even if it's 'all there' it still feels horrible to read. Maybe this Taschen thing would be a step in the right direction, but there's still something about the material being presented as overly precious that grosses me out, like getting a 'deluxe' copy of Great Expectations rather than some beat up Signet classic with an amazing cover illustration.
classic x-men floppies also a nice way to get the early Claremont run, altho the editing in the early ones is more obtrusive.
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Post by dominocorp on Jan 9, 2022 21:37:13 GMT
Still seems best to just buy the Marvel Tales that reprint the Ditko/Romita (and beyond) runs and save tons of $$ plus have the work on newsprint as nature intended. Also the best way to buy Kirby Fantastic Four through the Marvels Greatest Comics floppies. The smartest thing I ever did as a dumb college student is figure out that you could get Marvel Tales and Collector's Item Classics issues cheap on Ebay; you get all the wacky silver age sea monkeys ads and the Stan's Soapbox and everything without breaking the bank. I can guarantee I would never have read any Ant-Man or Human Torch solo stories if they didn't come packaged with Spider-Man and Thor. so true...best way to read Don Heck |
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