Remember when you went to the local shop or news agents and picked up your weekly supply of super hero goodness for 20s ?...NO, fark moi Im old....anyway, I absolutely dug those black and white comics , and I had a mountain of em Superman, Batman, Worlds Finest , Strange Adventures, Legion of Super heroes, Horror comics , The Phantom, Justice League etc etc so on and so forth ...
then for some reason , probably fiscal, they more than halved the issue size and colored in the pages , I sort of wore it for a while, I still had Phantom and then 2000 AD but then the prices skyrocketed and that was me done, I couldnt see the point of paying much more for much less....So fast forward to the mid 2000's and Im on holiday in Melbourne and discover Minotaur Books
I was almost apopleptic ( what a great word) they had all my childhood favourites in giant size versions in the original black & white , sure they cost a bit BUT they averaged out at 510 pages a book...
so I was stoked and have since amassed quite a few of the marvellous things .
Mind you I have regularly bought Phantom annuals and Judge Dredd did mega collections in the late 80s...
BUT my personal faves have always been DC ...dunno why, blame Kal-el ;)
Mind you l did buy the "IMPORTANT" books ( the Death of Superman, Rise of the Supermen and All Starr Superman" , I see a theme forming)
And they all do them , I got Marvel Essentials, DC Showcase and Dredd Case Files ...so if you miss your black and white favourites and for some reason you never heard of these things , its been my absolute pleasure to enlighten you
Seeya next time
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