New Essentials up at Amazon.

[Slam_Bradley]

Essential Ghost Rider Volume 2 reprinting Ghost Rider #21-50 is set for February 14, 2007.

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Ghost-Rider-2-TPB/dp/0785121641/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt/102-6729475-9370521?ie=UTF8

Essential Ms. Marvel Volume 1 reprinting Ms. Marvel #1-23, Marvel Super-Heroes Magazine #10-11 is set for February 21, 2007.

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Ms-Marvel-Gerry-Conway/dp/0785124993/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt/102-6729475-9370521?ie=UTF8

[Sam T.]

I believe this is already known...!

[Lone Ranger]

I believe this is already known...!

Not by me.

I liked Ghost Rider as a kid (I bought almost the entire stretch from #65-#75), but it imagine that it hasn't aged well.

What about Ms. Marvel? Is it any good? It seems like a typical 'Series by Committee' late 70s Marvel title.

[Slam_Bradley]

Not by me.

I liked Ghost Rider as a kid (I bought almost the entire stretch from #65-#75), but it imagine that it hasn't aged well.

What about Ms. Marvel? Is it any good? It seems like a typical 'Series by Committee' late 70s Marvel title.


I don't have an answer for you on either of them. Neither are books I'm going to rush out and get. I'm sure I'll pick them up eventually, but it will be down the road when I find them cheap.

[scratchie]

What about Ms. Marvel? Is it any good? It seems like a typical 'Series by Committee' late 70s Marvel title.I remember being intrigued by this series as a kid, but what I've read as an adult hasn't rekindled that feeling. They tried to do something clever at the start, where Carol Danvers didn't actually know that she was Ms. Marvel, but I don't know how long they maintained that.

There are some issues by Claremont and Cockrum which will undoubtedly be of interest to their fans.

[spoon_jenkins]

I have a couple of issues of Ms. Marvel. I'd say it's average - not great, not awful. What's odd to me is the reference to Marvel Super-Heroes Magazine #10-11. As far as I know, "Magazine" was never part of the title. Sticking the word "magazine" in the title might make folks think that it was an old magazine format B&W like Savage Sword of Conan or Bizarre Adventures. In actuality it was a quarterly 1990s comic book. Issues #10-11 include stories that would have been printed in Ms. Marvel #24-25. Some of it was only plotted, so new art and scripting was commissioned.

[DDM]

Essential Ms. Marvel looks to promote the current Ms. Marvel series. Although Marvel Super-Heroes #10 does reprint all of the unpublished Ms. Marvel #24 (Carol fights Sabretooth in the subway system in NYC), Marvel Super-Heroes #11 is really half a Chris Claremont story with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants II--Mystique, Destiny II, Pyro, Avalanche--& the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club including the first appearances of Tessa (aka Sage), Donald Pierce, & Harry Leland. Mastermind is in the story too as he tries to corrupt Carol Danvers into becoming the Hellfire Club's Black Queen in Ms. Marvel #25. Another writer completely breaks the story by showing Rogue ambush Carol Danvers in San Francisco, California (which was already shown in Uncanny X-Men #203).

Since Ms. Marvel was cancelled, Claremont moved the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants & the Hellfire Club plot in Uncanny X-Men. Instead of Jason Wyngarde corrupting Carol Danvers into the Black Queen, he corrupted Jean Grey, Phoenix, into the Black Queen.

I might get the Essential Ms. Marvel anyway...