13 New FAMOUS FIRST EDITION Treasuries We Want to See
It’s plausible… — UPDATED 5/12/26: Diggin’ in the vault time — when we go deep into the recesses of the shadowy subterranean 13th Dimension headquarters for great columns that deserve another look. This one first ran in May 2020. Since this was first published, New Fun Comics #1 was released as a Facsimile Edition, close to its original 1935 10″ x 15″ dimensions. It wasn’t labeled a Famous First Edition, like the 2020 hardcover. But you never know what can happen, especially when you consider that DC is now publishing standard-size classics as treasuries. Dig it. — Dan — DC recently released its first Famous First Edition treasury in more than four decades with the oversized hardcover reprint of 1935’s New Fun Comics #1. Naturally, this compelled me to call upon the treasury expert of treasury experts Rob Kelly to summon a list of 13 more comics deserving such an august presentation. (In fact, Rob reviews the New Fun edition on the latest episode of the podcast TreasuryCast. Click here.) So here are 13 NEW FAMOUS FIRST EDITION TREASURIES WE WANT TO SEE: By ROB KELLY To celebrate its 85th anniversary, DC has revived the classic Famous First Edition series of treasury-sized comics to reprint New Fun Comics #1, the first-ever issue of all-new material — from the publisher that would eventually become DC Comics. A truly handsome book, it appears DC spared no expense to commemorate their humble (yet ambitious) beginnings as a company. As someone who owns every single Famous First Edition from the 1970s, this was a welcome addition to that series’ storied, if brief, history. To that end, we thought, why stop there? Now that DC has decades of additional historic releases under its belt, why not keep the Famous Firsts going and give some other books the deluxe treatment? Sure, comics of previous decades are a lot more accessible now than they were in the 1970s, but I still maintain that there is a lot of value — in every sense of the word — to issuing keepsake editions of comics that truly left a mark on the medium. So, to that end, here are 13 NEW FAMOUS FIRST EDITION TREASURIES WE WANT TO SEE: — Detective Comics #38 During the heyday of Famous First Edition, a lot of DC’s biggest icons — Superman, Batman, Wonder...
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