I'll start.
- The Complete Steve Ditko's Mr. A - I have some of this stuff but not all, and not in a consistent format on high-quality paper. (I wouldn't mind seeing a nice collection of Static, either.)
- Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey - Start with the treasury edition and continue on into the series. This had been my least favorite of Kirby's '70s work, but I have come to appreciate it. The rights to anything under the "2001" banner are tied up with MGM, but barring some sort of mutual agreement, we'll never see the first three chapters of "Machine Man" reprinted. And speaking of Kirby...
- Silver Surfer graphic novel by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby - I have this, but I'd sure like to see it reprinted in some archival format. I have only ever seen one of these for sale, and I snatched it right up. I stopped looking after I found it, of course, and have never really looked online, but how many people who would want to read it have ever had the chance? Is it hard to find? Expensive?
- Howard the Duck & Incredible Hulk comic strips - I read the Hulk one in the paper (and I have two Pocketbooks reprints I got from Tim), but I'd sure like to have the whole thing. My local paper at the time carried the Howard the Duck comic strip (by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan) but I never read it. I read the first issue of the comic book but didn't care for it. As with Kirby's 2001, though, I have since come to appreciate it and would love the opportunity to read it now.
- Captain America Comics #25-75 - The Golden Age material that hasn't been reprintyed yet. C'mon, Marvel!
Okay, your turn. What would you like to see collected next?
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I've mentioned this before but since you asked - the yellow uniform era of Challengers of the Unknown. The Challs, with art by Bob Brown and scripts by Arnold Drake as well as Bill Finger and Ed Herron, hit a peak during this period. The Kirby material has been reprinted multiple times and the early Brown drawn material was covered in two Showcase volumes but the 1965 - 67 stories have never been reprinted.
True. That is a classic period with a couple of crossovers and guest appearances (Sea Devils, Doom Patrol). I would extend your window into 1970, since that provides some more variety in one of the most innovative times in Challengers' history, including new associates and members (Tino Manarray, Corinna Stark) and some surprising if not necessarily successful plots and attempts at genre switching.
For my money, you could continue that into the various (weird) attempts over several decades to revive the Challengers. Most of that is ignored now, but those stories did introduce some elements that are still in continuity.
I've mentioned this before but since you asked...
That's all right. Many of my choices above were taken from the original discussion.
That was because the portrayal of Asians in the Fu Manchu and Slam Bradley stories were considered problematic.
Oh, is that why? I knew that it was cancelled but I never heard why it was cancelled. That tracks.
I hate that nobody can see these stories.
FWIW, I once led a discssion of "The Monster Society of Evil" after DC cancelled their plans to reprint it in 2018.
And speaking of projects DC has canelled, I would still like to read the conclusion of Rick Veitch's time travel story in Swamp Thing (which would have included a scene set at Christ's crucifiction). DC came close a couple of years ago, but got cold feet at the last minute. I remeber Veitch saying at the time that it would never see print (although I forget his reasoning).
I seen to be drifting further and furter off of my own topic, but at least one DC "cold feet" project, Second Coming, did see print, albeit at another company (AHOY! Comics).
AROC OF ZENITH:
I only recently found out about this online comic strip (circa 2000) and have been devouring it at the the rate of several pages per day every since. If I didn't know better, I would swear this was a strip from the "Golden Age of Comic Strips." I would LOVE to see this collected in book form. Here is a LINK to all 312 installments.
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