"I re-read the Adam Strange stories every few years, mostly because I remember Alanna as being my first comic book crush as an emerging teenager. The reproduction is crisp and clear in this reprint collection, and of course the paper quality is good…"

"There's a fair amount of diversity if we  spread the nut that far, but those aren't readily available in most comic shops. I have to go to Amazon to find TPBs most of those things. I'd love for there to be more European…"

"I would like there to be more of an audience, but counting translations of European comics, mangas and reprints there's huge diversity."

"I've heard retailers say that Marvel needs to cut back their total titles per character and let readers focus on a few. That might raise sales and would definitely make it easier for retailers to order.  Even without figuring all the…"

"I just did a quick count of DC's January 2017 output and with variants it was 198 books (including TPB, HC, etc.), 114 without variants.  Of that (not counting variants) there were  88 different comic books.  In the period Luke…"

"Although titles came and went, the number DC put out monthly didn't vary much. These are how many DC issues DC Indexes has in its gallery in each January during the lifespan of the original Showcase: 1955 30 Showcase was a year from…"

"Gang Busters didn't have regular stars, but the GCD tells me at that point it ran four stories of 6 pages each. The "Manhunters" issue had three of 8. Mr. District Attorney starred the D.A., and Big Town starred newspaper editor…"

"Luke Blanchard said: I suspect how much effort the editors put into the try-outs varied. In some cases they may have needed more to do, in others they may have had enough on their plates already and not cared much. I understand that the editors were…"

"I think Fireman Farrell could have fit in nicely with that type of comic, but its time was coming to an end, albeit  a few years still in the future. Could the “Manhunters” stories have been intended for those other titles and…"

"DC had a line of licensed police/crime comics in the 1950s - Gang Busters, Mr District Attorney and Big Town, and The New Adventures of Charlie Chan after Big Town was cancelled. It dropped them at the end of the decade."

"I picked up the Suicide Squad softcover a few months ago.  I’ve wanted to read them along with Cave Carson if I get the chance because Showcase and The Brave and the Bold had an incredible string of successes through 1962.…"

"I agree with most of the points you've made about the Silver Age version of Suicide Squad, but on the other hand, the post-Schwartz Adam Strange stories are not as bad as I remember. My main objection when I was a kid was that they were…"

"So it sounds like Suicide Squad is well-named, as that's what it makes its readers want to join before they finish reading the book!"

"I borrowed Suicide Squad: The Silver Age Omnibus, Volume 1 from the library, and couldn't finish it. Bob Kanigher can be creative, but he can also be repetitive to the point of inducing narcolepsy.  As Cap describes above, three of…"

"I had never read any Silver Age Suicide Squad before I bought the Omnibus, and to tell you the truth, I don't think I had missed anything. I found it a chore to slog through. I find that I've hit the point of diminishing returns on…"

"It is a beautiful cover and I recognized it immediately, as I am re-reading that series now. But it's eight years past the end of the Silver Age (That's a clue!) so I'm going to abstain. Thanks for remembering this thread. Hoy"