SHOWCASE REPRESENTS! THREAD TWO!

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I love Nick Cardy even more, having read this. Some of his covers are among the best I've ever seen, right up there with Joe Kubert.

Please announce Showcase Presents Diana Prince: Wonder Woman ASAP. Thank you.

http://www.amazonarchives.com/wwseries1b.htm

(Nubia?)

I actually found House Of Mystery possibly the hardest going, but Green Arrow probably was the worst. I have a volume of Spirit Archives (#2, I've enjoyed both of them thoroughly so far) to finish before I get to Haunted Tank.

Where the hell is my Showcase Presents: Sugar & Spike?

Actually a Showcase Presents The Postwar Spirit would be a MUST.

again, if not a Showcase, I want a collection of Ditko Charlton material! or maybe a best of Charlton which would include Sarge Steel, Pete Cannon, Son of Vulcan and Nightshade. Or something with the Question, Blue Beetle, capt Atom and Hawk and Dove and the Creeper, Shade the Changing man!

They're doing a slim colour best-of, innit?

Then again, they might see it as another option once the Archives series has run its course (though one could argue that cheap b&w now would only serve to let people know HOW MUCH BETTER that era is and thus drive sales for the colour versions as they come out)

the elongated man collection will offer the rare chance to see infantino inking himself, even if the stories are the usual 60s DC piffle

HOOOOOOOOOOOWL!!!!!

Finally bought Teen Titans and Haunted Tank to finish off the pile. Where does one store these? Long Boxes? A separate bookshelf? I'm hooked.

Word up on the Sugar and Spike Douglas; where's my Red Tomato? AND THE LEGION?!?!?!?

The chances of a cheap Spirit reprint collection seem highly unlikely, unfortunately.

I want all the Jimmy Olsen comics to come out. And a good Wonder Woman collection.

And jesus christ, where is the Batman? Are they scared to have squarejawed smilin' bruce wayne out in the open in the midst of his dark return? T'hell with that nonsense, I want Batmutt!

Somehow I'm still reading ONE Jimmy Olsen story (from the Showcase Pres: Superman Family) every second day or so, and I'm starting to side with Lex Luthor. Like, the post-Byrne Luthor who believes that Superman diminishes HUMAN accomplishment and HOLDS US BACK and makes us supersubserviant.
Jimmy is clearly ALL OF HUMANITY and remains a perpetual teenager because Superman CONSTANTLY circumvents OUR/JIMMY'S passage into adulthood.

Check out page 511 of "Showcase: Shazam!" for a Ned Ragget sighting!

Showcase Prez: Suicide Squad in November!

For a second, I thought you wrote Showcase: Prez, which would be a delightful mindblower.

a Joe Simon Showcase - w/ Brother Power the Geek and The Green Team as well as Prez - wld be much more entertaining than the fuckin flash

I think they're gonna HAVE to do sugar and spike sooner or later right?
BOB HOPE!

Been reading the Simon stories from the seventies and they are positively bonkers, a Showcase would be great, only it would be only 100 pages long :P
Brother Power, especially, is really great, with its idea of hippiness and its protagonist who only wants to do good but ends up being shot into space or things like that.

So when I picked up "Showcase: The War That Time Forgot", I had this idea that the main premise was about WWII soldiers from both sides getting trapped on a tropical island, where they had to fight each other and also dinosaurs. But so far the volume works a pretty steady formula: U.S. soldiers get lost somewhere in the pacific, WTF DINOSAURS, act heroic and get rescued (and apparently forget to warn the rest of the army that WTF DINOSAURS.) So did I just dream this other premise up? Is it from a different comic?

Also, the artists aren't very scientific w/r/t the beasts themselves, are they? Those are some huge ass pterodactyls that keep showing up, they look like they could spar with a t-rex!

TWTTF really picks up speed once Mac and his robot buddy appear.

Those stories were written by a computer, I think. Kanigher entered in various factors and situations and hit a button, then Andru drew up whatever popped out of the couch-sized printer three weeks later.

not gonna buy another Showcase volume until they do Plop!

did not buy Atom or Flash--saving all my love for Superman Family.

Flash was surprisingly fun, I thought. But I've always loved that guy. I used to be him at recess every day in kindergarten.

They're putting these things out way too fast. They should scale 'em back to one a month.

Am enjoying Martian Manhunter quite a bit. The art is quite good for a back-up strip, and the early stories where the detective angle is most prominent are quite exciting. I also like the way JJ calls humans "Earthians" and his various attempts at a catchphrase--most notably "Shades of Saturn!"
But the BEST is when he joins the circus undercover and "By mere concentration, my powers enable me to grow a goatee in an instant!"

Martin Skidmore told me the Martian Manhunter has a brother called T'omm, I don't know whether to believe him or not

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=127206

Bad news for everyone waiting for Atomic Knights and Suicide Squad books...

I like how in LOSH time is treated as a spatial dimension.

Way to go, DC. Suicide Squad was the first Showcase volume that I was actually planning on buying. You really are attempting to completely alienate me at this point, aren't you? It's like I don't even know you anymore.

DC would have lost a LOT of money if they'd release the Showcase volumes that they scrapped. They are actually being really generous about a lot of this stuff, but they've got to draw a line someplace, you know? It's a business.

According to DC collected editions editor Bob Greenberger:

"DC pays a royalty based on a percentage of the cover price to writers, pencillers,and inkers to all material published prior to 1976 and after 1997. For the period in between, the vouchers that were in use called for a set reprint fee to be paid. In some cases, the amount of contractually obligated reprint fees makes the budget for a proposed collection unprofitable. In those cases, DC will either scrap the project or ask the talent involved to waive the reprint fee in lieu of the standard royalty arrangement. If the parties agree, then everyone benefits."

That actually seems like a pretty good reason for the cancellation.

But FUCKING BOO to JLA Vol 3. After the snoozefest that was Vol 2, this may be the first one I pass on.

Batman 2 is also pretty lousy. I don't find it at all hard to believe that Detective Comics was THIS CLOSE to cancellation before the TV show hit. Though, oddly, the Detective stuff is usually pretty good, what with the Infantino art and the Outsider mystery!
Also, let me reiterate: Showcase Wonder Woman is from the late 50s and is BLANDBLANDBLAND.

Yeah, you're right, Batman 2 was teh sukc. Given it features the famous "I'm going to stay at home and watch myself" go-go check period that probably shouldn't have been a surprise.

I may well take your advice on WW.

Super-Horse is such a jerk and faker to Proty II!! >=(

was so close to getting B-man and the Outsiders, but am already straining house structure with all the others and will be moving soon

Agh. I go out of town and they cancel the ONE Showcase I was actively waving the flag for (that being Atomic Knights)? Sigh.

I wish DC would put out some later runs Batman, Detective or Brave & the Bold into Showcase.

Gene Colan did Detective for a long time in the 80s and his stuff would look really good in black and white. I am eventually going to get one of those Essential Tomb of Dracula's for just that reason.