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Regarding the JLA/Avengers collection...
« Thread started on: 08/12/04 at 4:35pm »
by Brian Morris

I liked the enlarged format for the artwork it allowed the small items to be seen. But, I was very disappointed with the companion book. Compared to other collected volumes of work put out by DC and Marvel separately in the past this one was lacking. I would have liked to have seen pencils from the series itself, concept drawings, even promo pieces published at full size. I feel that both the editorial teams at Marvel and DC let us down. I am also glad that I did not order the signed edition, for this version was not worth the $75 price tag.

Vu is there a chance that you can get some input from George as to what the two editorial teams wanted in this collection as opposed to what we received.....

I bought the Hardcover JLA/Avengers collection thingy yesterday and the one thing that bugged me the MOST (aside from all the missing art - the 2000 JLA/Avengers picture Perez drew for Wizard for Eg) was the fact that not all of the 21 pages of JLA/Avengers from 1983 were scanned from the oginals. What a bummer!

I've been looking forward to this aspect of the collector's edition the most of all since 2001, or whenever it was suggested they'd be included in such a volume, anyway.

So can you shed more light on why it *seems* DC didn't try very hard at ALL to collect all the pages to borrow and scan as they should have done (for the price if no other reason) ????

Do you think DC or Marvel may one day scan *all* the pages again and print them with a consistent quality level?

(Vu: I don't have the book yet to compare notes, for those interested Amazon.com hasn't billed or shipped the book to me yet (I ordered two copies). I think sometime people forget that, hey, we have the series printed in a big, nice format! The companion piece should be treated as a bonus, it's not going to please everybody, but it's still better than not having anything. I do agree that the price seems high for extras that doesn't seem to have a lot of work put into it, even though the people putting it together will probably disagree. I don't want to speak for DC Comics, but things probably went down to copyright. They would've had to hunt down all the owners of the ACTOR auctions, the Wizard people, the Heroes Convention people, just to get permission to print those artwork in high quality, and it's a lot of work. Not to mention that they seem to be on a tight budget, I don't know. This is an open forum, if you think the price was reasonable or the extras were awesome, please let me know, I feel like I've just been posting negative reactions to this hardcover.)