Well, they reprinted a volume of Don Newton's BATMAN and DETECTIVE stories. So never say never.
My impression is it didn't sell well, because there were no subsequent volumes. A few years ago I completed my run of those WORLD'S FINEST issues (from about WF 250-285), but I would enjoy seeing them in a nice collected edition on better paper.
A COMIC READER cover by Newton you might appreciate:
Newton, tragically, was only 49 when he died in 1984.
But very prolific in the years he was in comics. He also did a lot of illustration for Charleton and fan publications for about 10 years before he began working for DC in 1978. Mostly anthology stories up till then, a comic version of THE PHANTOM, and work for RBCC (Rocket's Blast Comic Collector fanzine) and other fanzines.
