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Jeff Youngquist: Editorially Speaking
2006-12-14 17:06:45

JLA/AVENGERS: THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION OVERSIZED, SLIPCASED HARDCOVER (Aug 2004)

If you read Tom Brevoort's blog or have caught any of my interviews with other Marvel editors, you can get a good grasp as to what goes into putting together a monthly comic--from getting talent to making sure the book looks and reads well and everything in between. But what are the editors who put work on the collected editions? Think it's a cakewalk job because they're working with already finished products? Think again, buster. I spoke with Senior Editor of Special Projects Jeff Youngquist to get some insight on what goes into editing collections, a bit of info on what's coming up (Frank Miller's DD, Champions Classic and Secret Wars, to name a few) and much more.

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AM: Does anything stick out in your mind as being especially cool from your tenure under Brevoort?
Youngquist: We worked on Avengers/JLA and that was a lot of fun. I wasn't actually credited in any of the issues because they came out so long after I was in the office. There was a lot of lead-time on that book. I remember getting George Perez reference for that first issue. That was ridiculous. And of course, Tom knows down to the panel what you have to get.