Old/Out Of Print Trade Paper Back`s

[Citizen V]

Since the comic industry is so established and old,some of the works have been put into a Trade Paper Back.But sometimes certain TPB`s go out of print,or are old works.Some fans want to collect them,because they were a good run.I know both Marvel and DC has some.

This is the thread to talk about Old or Out of Print TPB`s,because i can imagine people have questions about them,or want to know about them.Im wondering if there is a list out there that shows every TPB ever made.

I know Uncanny X-Men and Nightwing has them,is there any others?

[glue]

Aren't the second and third THOR VISIONARIES from Simmonson's run OOP?

Those are the only two I'm aware of because I really want them.

[shaxper]

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow is out of print. I believe both issues are included in the new "DCU Stories of Alan Moore" trade though. Since the two tpbs look to have been of comprable price and the Moore tpb contains a lot more stories, I'm wondering if it's missing any of the content from the original Man of Tomorrow tpb that's worth seeing.

[Aaron Kashtan]

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow is out of print. I believe both issues are included in the new "DCU Stories of Alan Moore" trade though. Since the two tpbs look to have been of comprable price and the Moore tpb contains a lot more stories, I'm wondering if it's missing any of the content from the original Man of Tomorrow tpb that's worth seeing.

I think it's missing the introductory text page, the one that ends "This is an imaginary story... aren't they all?" This page was included in the previous TPB, but if I recall correctly, it was controversially left out of the newer one.

[shaxper]

I think it's missing the introductory text page, the one that ends "This is an imaginary story... aren't they all?" This page was included in the previous TPB, but if I recall correctly, it was controversially left out of the newer one.

That sounds right. Did the introduction exist in the original comics or just the tpb?

[dan bailey]

it's in the original comic -- superman 423.

[shaxper]

it's in the original comic -- superman 423.

Thanks. I went online and ordered it today. Believe it or not, I found the original issues cheaper than the tpbs.

[John Aston]

Speaking of Thor, Dan Jurgens' Asgard over N.Y. story arcs are out of print and fetch serious cash on ebay. I competed for the first two trades from that portion of his run and got my butt smoked with the auction closing a little of $50.

[scratchie]

Thanks. I went online and ordered it today. Believe it or not, I found the original issues cheaper than the tpbs.

That's not uncommon. I just found Barry Windsor-Smith's Machine Man mini for $1.00 an issue ("NM"), whereas the (presumably OOP) TPB would cost me almost $17.00!

Another semi-obscure TPB is the Captain America one that wraps up the original Deathlok storyline (issues 286-288). Again, I think it would be cheaper to find the original issues.

And of course, my favorite dead horse whipping boy is the lousy, lousy, lousy color repro in many Marvel TPBs (if you're lucky, it's only the color which is messed up, if you're unlucky, you get The Life and Death of Captain Marvel, which looks like it was shot from second- or third-generation copies of the original artwork before it was poorly colored). Just one more reason to seek out the originals if cost permits.

In terms of lists of OOP TPBs, GCD lists many, and Mile High Comics stocks many of them as well (that's where I saw the $17.00 price tag on the Machine Man book).

[glue]

Speaking of Thor, Dan Jurgens' Asgard over N.Y. story arcs are out of print and fetch serious cash on ebay. I competed for the first two trades from that portion of his run and got my butt smoked with the auction closing a little of $50.

Are the back issues that costly too?

[MazingMan728]

IF all rights, etc...can be worked out I would like to see the Miracleman TPBs back in print as well as the first Elementals TPB and the Crow TPB.

[Reptisaurus!]

Speaking of Thor, Dan Jurgens' Asgard over N.Y. story arcs are out of print and fetch serious cash on ebay. I competed for the first two trades from that portion of his run and got my butt smoked with the auction closing a little of $50.

That happens quite a bit, actually.

While it's cool that Marvel is reprinting everything in trades, a bunch of them have tiny little single print runs. Meaning there are a LOT fewer trades out there than original issues. An' then supply and demand kicks in.

[Darkwave]

These are pretty recent, but I'd love to get the first trade of Onslaught and the first trade of Cable and Deadpool. Both are just about impossible to find.

[isaac a person]

To maximize funds I usually only buy trades for the lower profile books at full price. Most of the bigger titles (New Avengers, etc) will eventually show up at half-price books.

[Gingold]

A lot of cool trades aren't in print anymore. Marvel releases a lot of great collections these days, but it's a shame so many of their older tpbs are OOP. The first Captain Britain collection that Marvel issued back in 1987 or so, by Jamie Delano and Alan Davis was great, and my copy is really falling apart, so I'd love for them to reissue it. Shouldn't the Stern/Byrne "War and Rememberance" Captain America story be in TPB in perpetuity? or Longshot? or the New Mutants "Demon Bear" saga? Wasn't there a collection of the Marvel-Two-In-One Project Peagus Saga at some point?

DC's original series of Greatest Stories were much better than their current offerings and should've stayed in print. I'm glad to see "Son of the Demon" is coming back into print soon.