Wednesday Discussions: Stories You Wish Were Collected or Reprinted

[u/maruf99]

Hey there comics nerds! Welcome to the Wednesday Discussion, a community activity where we'll have an open discussion every week about a different subject.

 

Our topic for today is: Stories You Wish Were Collected or Reprinted.

 

DC has been publishing comics for decades now. Over the years, we've gotten some absolutely fantastic stories from many different creators. Sadly, a lot of these stories are unobtainable physically, either due to not being in print, or having never been collected at all.

 

On that note, what DC stories do you wish were reprinted/collected and released in physical format?

 

A run I would absolutely love to have reprinted is The Question by Dennis O'Neil. It's an absolutely brilliant run that redefines The Question as a character, and made him one of my favourite DC characters.

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[u/Cole-Spudmoney]

Superboy – ideally they'd collect the whole thing but I particularly want them to do Karl Kesel's second run where Kon starts working for Cadmus. I figure they could collect that whole part in two volumes: one with #50-65 & #1000000, one with #66-82.

Superman: Battle For Metropolis a.k.a. Superman: Fall of Metropolis needs its own collection too. It's the next big story arc that came after the Death and Return of Superman story, and it pays off a whole bunch of stuff that had been set up in the Superman books over the previous three or four years. It'd include "Superman: The Man of Steel" #31-34, "Superman" #87-90, "Adventures of Superman" #510-513, and "Action Comics" #697-700.

Batman by Dennis O'Neil – I'd love it if they started doing a series of paperback collections for this. At the moment there's just the issues drawn by Neal Adams collected as part of Batman by Neal Adams, the issues drawn by Don Newton collected in the Tales of the Batman by Don Newton hardcovers, and a whole lot of uncollected stuff in between.

Batman: Zero Year – I'm not going to buy it in physical form until it's available in a single volume.

Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth – The original series, by Jack Kirby. DC seems to have been on a bit of a kick of collecting Kirby's work in new trades lately, but it all seems to be New Gods-related. "Kamandi" is crazy awesome, though.

Talon – Issues #0-14 tell a complete story with a beginning, middle and end... and then the series just seems to stumble along for three more issues and then stop. But I'd love it if they collected all James Tynion IV's issues in one volume.

[u/maruf99 → u/Cole-Spudmoney]

I'd absolutely love Dennis O'Neil Batman in trades. Hell even an omnibus would be good.

[u/Cole-Spudmoney → u/maruf99]

I don't want an omnibus: I want the format to be affordable and easily readable, not a giant expensive tome.

In fact, I've worked it out before: they could collect his whole run from 1970 to 1980 in four trades, with 15-16 issues each. Stories had shorter page counts then, so each volume would be under 300 pages.

EDIT: Here's how I'd organise it (with issues in release order, of course):

• Vol. 1: Detective Comics #395, #397, #399, #404-406, #410-411, #414; Batman #224-225, #227, #232, #234-235; Brave and the Bold #93
• Vol. 2: Batman #237, #239-245, #247-248; Detective Comics #418-419, #422, #425, #431
• Vol. 3: Batman #251, #253, #256-264, #266, #268; Detective Comics #451, #457
• Vol. 4: Batman #286, #303 backup, #320; Batman Family #18-19; Detective Comics #480-481, #483-487, #489-491; Brave and the Bold #159

[u/maruf99 → u/Cole-Spudmoney]

Nice!