Inferior Five? Not Brand Ecch?

Am I the only person who loves wilfully stupid comics?

Man, that “Hollywood Superstars” cover reminds me of the Twilight Zone movie. Well, the filming of the movie, anyway.

It should. The story contained a very similiar incident to the accident that took the life of Vic Morrow and others.

I second the reprint motions for CROSSFIRE and HOLLYWOOD SUPERSTARS. Evanier and Spiegle did some great comics together. DC should reprint their run on BLACKHAWK, too.

Another great Spiegle series was the NEMESIS backup from The Brave and The Bold, written by Dan Miskhn & Gary Cohn. Now that Nemesis has returned in Wonder Woman's book, now the perfect time to reprint his first exploits.

I would also buy TPBs reprinting the Englehart/Dillin JLA and the Mike W. Barr/Alan Davis DETECTIVE COMICS in a New York minute.

Other DC stuff: Invasion, Omac, a Steve Ditko visionaries book reprinting his DC and Charlton stuff. Bat-Lash is crying out for a Showcase volume, as is Anthro; Walt Simonson's Metal Men; the best of Secret Origins; a Bob Haney/Jim Aparo Brave and the Bold Showcase book; and Absolute New Gods.

Marvel needs: Iron Man Visionaries: Bob Layton; Stern/Byrne Captain America back in print; Essential Inhumans, Essential Ka-Zar, and the complete Bob Layton Hercules.

And I forgot more Paperback X-Men Masterworks and a colour reprint of Uncanncy 153(?) - 167 - the original Brood story.

Byrne Alpha Flight Essential would be nice, but a colour reprint would be even better.

More Roger Styrn scripted Avengers reprints - Under Seige is out of print as it is. Some Byrne era Avengers would be great too !

West Coast Avengers LS reprint

Essential Rom - which will happen now I've bought the back issues

Kitty Pride & Wolverine LS - it amazes me that this has never been reprinted.

A 4th Simonson Thor volume to collect together the issues that he just wrote without drawing.

- Jack Kirby's Fourth World: A multi-volume series of trades presenting Kirby's saga in order of publication, from the first Kirby issue of Jimmy Olsen to the Hunger Dogs graphic novel. In color this time, please.

- Essential Warlock.

- I'd like to see some old trades put back into print. Most of the recent Thor series was collected in trade, but (to my knowledge) only had one printing. The first Mark Waid run on Captain America should be in print until the end of time.

- Why isn't all of Simonson's Orion available in trade? Giffen/DeMatteis's Justice League (International/America/Europe)? Kirby's Demon? Anyone?

- Not a trade, but a monthly album-style reprint series (much like Glastone's current Uncle Scrooge series) containing stories from various Golden & Silver Age DC humor titles... Sugar and Spike, The Fox and The Crow, The Dodo and The Frog, Peter Porkchops, etc.

- Thor #292(?)-300 should also be reprinted for the first time. Roy Thomas's Marvel-style reading of the "Ring Cycle" was quite good.

- Three words: Absolute 'Mazing Man.

And, in at least two of them, stressing the vast and tragically overlooked importance of "Trouble With Girls" to the history of the comic medium.

A li'l bit of self promotion is fine if done with style. But this just pissed me off.

Anyway, I'd buy most of the stuff you listed in trade. Is the Crossfire digest still in print?

And Kamandi, of course.

"CHECKER COLLECTS THE TROUBLE WITH GIRLS"

You have the power supreme.

And the Alan Davis/Jamie Delano Captain Britain trade is out of print? Stupid Marvel! It's freakin' brilliant.

Essential West Coast Avengers.

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, collecting the Nekron mini-series and the best of the back-up stories.

A Showcase line for the Julie Schwartz-edited Superman comics.

DC Showcase Presents DC Comics Presents.

Collections of DC's many comics based on Batman: The Animated Series.

And last but not least, a Legion archive every year (the last one came out in 2003, I think).

Likewise, where's the Elliot S! Maggin TPB of his definitive pre-Crisis Superman stories? Where's the collected edition of the entire Engelhart and Wein runs on JLofA? And where, oh where, are the easily-produced volumes of the Secret Society of Super-Villains and Tony Isabella's Black Lightning? Or Grell's Warlord? Or the 10-issue Aztek trade, since both Morrison and Millar are huge these days?

DC also oughtta reprint some of its other "experimental westerns" from the 1970s, stuff like Bat Lash or the various pre-Hex features in All-Star Western and Weird Western Tales. The old El Diablo stories, for example, are often wonderful things.

Likewise, while I'm aware it was once available, I'd love to see Marvel find some way to reprint the post-Alan Moore Captain Britain work by Alan Davis that plays with and expands on the Moore elements of the series. Some of those issues, like "Sid's Story," are classics in their own right.

Too, it's rather a pity that they've never republished Marv Wolfman's rather good 200th issue sequences for Amazing Spider-Man and Fantastic Four.

Among other publishers, count me in as a certain buyer of a TPB of Grimjack episodes now that the insanely tangled rights issues are cleared up. And the complete TPB set for Zot! practically begs for republication. And since we're on the topic of Crossfire, how's about an edition of DNAgents?