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Friday, April 08, 2005
Jazzy John
It's no secret that you can find the news about unreleased Marvel books through Amazon (Rich Johnston did it all the time). Looking up the price for the Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko book I found this bit of good news.
Marvel Visionaries: John Romita Sr. (not to be confused with the Spider-Man Visionaries book) will, according to the product description Amazon has posted, reprint the following books:
Strange Tales #4; Menace #11; Young Men #24, 26; Tales to Astonish #77; Tales of Suspense #77; Daredevil #16 and 17; Amazing Spider-Man #39, #40, #42, #50, #108, #109 and #365; Fantastic Four #105 and 106; Vampire Tales #2; and Untold Tales Of Spider-Man Minus 1.
I like a lot of things about these hardcover, over-sized Visionaries books (the Jack Kirby and Stan Lee ones have been released, the Ditko one will be out this month). They reprint works that would never be seen otherwise (Lee's prose piece for Captain America, Kirby's What If?, a lot of the pre-Fantastic Four sci-fi and monster Marvel books). We can see how an artist's work has evolved throughout the years. I have issues with the quality of reproduction on some of the reprints and of course there will always be arguments about what should and shouldn't have gone into the books (why were the Silver Surfer stories done with Moebius not in the Lee book?). Overall I am happy that there are collections that are based around creators that serve as a type of "greatest hits" and hope that Marvel will keep the series going.
Who else would be worthy of this treatment? Roy Thomas? John Buscema? Mark Gruenwald? I'd love it see Steve Englehart and Gene Colan editions myself but I doubt we'd see those. Still, a boy can wish.
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