Showcase Presents...

[huedell]

What's the definition of "SHOWCASE PRESENTS..." ???

They're not gonna collect ALL the Secret Society O.S.V.s
in ONE volume are they?

That would be incredible!

[thunderbolt]

The SSoSV should all fit in one volume. Its roughly 20 to 25 issues per volume.

[The Toyroom]

Yeah SSOSV was only 15 issues I think plus a special and cross-over or two so it'll all fit.

What's the definition of "SHOWCASE PRESENTS..." ???

"Showcase" was a title that originally ran in from the mid 50s to the 70s and was a spotlight book that featured new characters before they were deemed sales-worthy to have their own book. Some of the more memorable guys that were breakthrough Showcase stars are the Silver Age Flash, Silver Age Atom, Challengers of the Unknown, Lois Lane, Silver Age Green Lantern, Space Ranger, Metal Men, Teen Titans, B'wana Beast (?!), Power Girl.....

"Showcase" was also revived in the 90s several times but the focus was more on supporting characters from the Superman and Batman families...the new characters that were introduced haven't done much or reappeared since their tryouts.

[samurainoir]

I'd be all over these if they were newsprint color TPB's, the B&W kills it for me.

I just picked up a Mister Miracle trade collection and was fuming mad to find out that it was in black and white given the fact that it cost as much as a regular DC colour trade. I would have been less upset if it collected twice the amount of material in Showcase format.

Vintage Doom Patrol would be awesome.
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I've been after cheap Kurtzman mad for a decade.

The recent Pocket Book reprints were a step in the right direction for a nostalgic thrill, but there is just something about seeing the art in a larger format, as it was laid out comic book style (particularly Will Elder's stuff).

A few years ago I discovered a large format colour softcover volume published by Russ Cochran that reprinted the first six issues for only twenty bucks. I was in heaven. If only they had put out more of these inexpensive volumes! The hardcovers slipcase volumes Cochran put out are just too much $$$.

Someone recently told me that they did recently do Kurtzman Mad reprints in an affordable Magazine format, but I'm not sure if the entire Kurtzman run was ever completed.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I was skimming through the latest Previews last night and noticed that the same company that produced CD-ROMs of the "40 Years of Spider-Man, X-Men", etc. were also doing a MAD volume. Not sure if it goes all the way back to the original comic issues, but it's a safe bet it does.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

"Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad" was 8 issues and reprinted "Mad" No. 1-23 (the issues before it became magazine sized). The irony is the reprints were magazine-sized.