With the Superman vs. Wonder Woman Facsimile Edition on the horizon, the world’s foremost authority on treasury editions weighs in… In case you missed the news we broke the other day, DC is planning on re-releasing the classic 1970s Superman vs. Wonder Woman treasury edition in full size as a hardcover. (You can click here for the details.) Groovy. Of course, when something this cool happens, I immediately get greedy and think, “Well, gee, wouldn’t it be great if THIS happened too?!” So naturally, I thought about THE TOP 13 TREASURY EDITIONS THAT NEED TO BE RE-RELEASED — RANKED. And just as naturally, I asked Rob Kelly, the world’s top scholar on treasury editions — and the host of the superb TreasuryCast — to weigh in. He readily agreed. So here’s Rob: By ROB KELLY Based on the (very) welcome news that DC will be publishing a hardcover treasury-size facsimile edition of its classic 1978 all-original oversized comic Superman vs. Wonder Woman by Gerry Conway, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (Praise Be His Name), and Dan Adkins, Dan Greenfield has asked me to compile a list of 13 other classic DC and Marvel treasuries that should—nay, need—similar deluxe treatment. And while there are hundreds, if not thousands, of superb comics that would look great reprinted as treasury-sized hardcovers, I’m going to stick to just those books that were originally published at that glorious tabloid size — except for one, which we’ll lead off with: 13. Justice League of America #210-212: When A World Dies Screaming! This is my one exception to my treasuries-only rule for this list. But the reason I’m putting it here, aside from the fact that it’s a super widescreen, action-packed, planet-hopping story by Gerry Conway, Rich Buckler and Romeo Tanghal is that this three-parter was originally commissioned as a treasury edition! But by the time work on it was completed, DC had decided to scale back their all-original treasuries and the material was shelved for years, sitting in inventory until it was dusted off for three successive issues of the regular Justice League of America comic book series (I remember buying these comics off the stands, and wondering why newer members like Zatanna and Firestorm weren’t part of the fight against this massive alien invasion of Earth). Once you know that it was planned as a treasury,...
From film to comics, they’re the toughest — and the coolest. In these terrifying times, we all want someone to save us. And a lot of us are looking for any kind of diversion through which we can vicariously face down our fears. Enter writer Helen Mullane; artists Dom Reardon, Matthew Dow Smith and Jock; and colorist Lee Loughridge, who’ve brought us Humanoids’ Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen, an unsettling coming-of-age horror story. Here’s the official description: “London teen ‘Nissy’ Oswald is stuck in the countryside for the entire summer with only her mother and little brother for company, but things start to look up when she meets Reggie, an attractive and mysterious older man to whom she feels inexorably drawn. As Nissy divides her time between feuding with her mother and lusting for Reggie, the small town is rocked by a grisly murder and everything changes.” With badass women facing impossible odds on her mind, writer Mullane has provided us with THE TOP 13 MOST KICK-ASS HEROINES IN HORROR: — By HELEN MULLANE There are few characters in the world of genre tropes as misunderstood as the horror heroine. For too long the prevailing wisdom has been that for a girl to survive a horror movie they had to be nice, they had to be sweet and they had to live clean with no drinking and certainly no sex. But for every paint-by-numbers slasher (satirized to blockbusting effect in Wes Craven’s Scream series, “Absolutely no sex!”) there’s an interesting and challenging horror movie with more to offer than tits and gore. Since the very earliest days of horror there’ve been at least one badass heroine for every simpering goodie two shoes. But rarer than the tough girls, the cool chicks and the sexy badassess are the complex heroines. You know, those women who are tough, but also vulnerable. Smart, but maybe also wrong sometimes. Here are 13 of my favorite horror heroines: Some are kick-ass women we’re all rooting for while others are complicated anti-heroes or even all out villains. These fascinating characters prove that women in horror can be so much more than your run-of-the-mill, basic-as-hell Final Girl. This entire TOP 13 – in no particular order — is riddled with SPOILERS, so… — Alien. Of course no list of women in horror would be complete without...
With the Superman vs. Wonder Woman Facsimile Edition on the horizon, the world’s foremost authority on treasury editions weighs in…
From film to comics, they’re the toughest — and the coolest.
ROBIN WEEK: Technically, it’s more than 13, but you’ll see what we mean…
