DC Cancels Slew of FACSIMILE EDITIONS, DOLLAR COMICS and GIANTS

• Facsimile Editions
  Green Lantern #76
  Batman #321
  Man-Bat #1
  The Flash #135
  Dollar Comics
  Batman #13 (2013)
  Batman #450
  Batman #663
  Catwoman #1 (2002)
  Catwoman #1 (2011)
  Checkmate #1 (2006)
  Detective Comics #826
  Green Lantern #1 (2011)
  Dark Nights: Metal #1
  Green Lantern #29 (2008)
  Manhunter #1 (2004)
  Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #1
  Wonder Woman #212
  Wonder Woman #14 (2005)
  Wonder Woman #206 (1987)
  DC Classics
  Justice League #50
  Saga of the Swamp Thing #21
  Legion of Super-Heroes #1 (1989)
  Giants
  Titans Giant #2
  Flash Giant #5
  Swamp Thing Giant #5
  Teen Titans Go!/DC Super Hero Girls Giant #1
  Wonder Woman 84 Giant #1

I hadn’t bought any of these but was considering the More Fun one out that came recently out of curiosity. Most of these I either passed on originally or bought. I suppose this was for newer readers?

I've probably read most of those. Still those would make for a fun stack of comics to read.

I guess. But why not put them online rather than put out paper copies?

I went to my shop last week..hadn't been in a year. I just got a hundred dollars worth of pre-90 back issues.....I'm old..

For me, it's always been about back issues. Even better when you can pick up a great run for next to nothing!

It's been a long time since I eagerly anticipated picking up a new issue of a series every month. GROO? HELLBOY? LEGION? YOUNG AVENGERS?
I can't recall exactly, but it's been a long time.

That kind of takes me back to the 48-page, 52-page and 100-page issues of the early 1970's. And also the LIMITED COLLECTORS' EDITIONs and FAMOUS FIRST EDITIONS.

For me there was always a magic to these reprint (or partial reprint) issues, a window to an earlier era in comics, before I was old enough to buy and read them.
A really organized line of reprints were the MILLENNIUM EDITION reprints of 1999-2000. the first time a lot of those FAMOUS FIRST EDITIONS were reprinted in a regular comic size.

The last reprint series I recall picking up were the COUNTDOWN SPECIAL collections, circa 2008. I picked up the Kirby JIMMY OLSEN, OMAC (Kirby, Starlin and Perez stories), and Infantino FLASH collections, possibly others.

It's fun to see some of these classics re-appear every few years, re-packaged in new collections for a new era of readers. Too bad this more recent batch suffered from something of an "implosion".

I got 15 issues of groo and a bunch of pre-100 fantastic four

Pre-100 FANTASTIC FOUR?
Lee/Kirby issues? That would be quite a haul.

One I remember, when I was 12 years old and traveled with my family to Ocala, FL, this mom-and-pop corner store had old 1968-1971 comic books on the magazine shelf, as if they were new comics, and they were selling them at cover price, 12 and 15 cents an issue! Man, what a day (this was 1975).

I got Ditko's BEWARE THE CREEPER 6, WONDER WOMAN 195, WORLD'S FINEST 183, and BRAVE AND THE BOLD 90 and 96. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Probably someone had given them to the shop owners, and they sold them at clearance prices to make them move.

Devastation: Warner Media & DC Staff Getting Laid Off Today

I guess catering exclusively to LGTB, SJW and BLM wasn’t a valid business plan for a superhero publisher whose core characters were inherently conservative.

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Other than the current legion title I haven’t been buying comics for years G so can’t really say much one way or another. I wasn’t buying a lot of comics back when I was younger though because the characters were in any way identifiably conservative.

Actually I guess I will have more to say, lol. It’s sad to see these people getting let go but comics are not the big money these days. I’ve been in enough company mergers to know the big fish inevitably makes these types of decisions. I don’t think that makes it right but that is increasingly the way it ends up.

Wow!



Those are some major numbers, cumulatively approaaching a thousand. I'm not clear, but it sounds like... they're completely shutting down DC's offices and comics publishing?