EXCLUSIVE: A SNEAK PEEK at the next issue in DC’s new line of full-on reprints — featuring Swamp Thing’s debut…
DC’s Facsimile Edition line is off to a terrific start: Batman #232 came out last week and, thanks to first-rate production values, it’s a real winner. (Click here for the complete REVIEW.)
Next up? 1971’s House of Secrets #92 — including Swamp Thing’s first appearance by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, plus all the ads, letters, back-ups and whatnot.
It’s out this Wednesday (Aug. 28) and we have an INSIDE LOOK for you: Check out the colors. Check out the groovy ads. Check out the intro by Gerry Conway and Wrightson. Check out the two-page back-up by Conway and Dick Dillin, who eschewed his classic JLA style:
And check out the lettercol, which I’ve blown up here so you can read it more easily:
Pretty cool, eh? There are two other back-up stories in the issue too, including one co-written by Jack Kirby.
Anyway, I heartily recommend checking this out in person Wednesday because the devil’s in the details: The cover is classic, glossy paper and the paper stock inside is as close to traditional newsprint as you’re likely to get. It’s like a Bronze Age comic was plopped down in the 21st century.
In all, it’s a terrific package for $3.99 — especially when you consider that a high-grade, unslabbed copy of House of Secrets #92 just sold on eBay for $2,000.
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MORE
— INSIDE LOOK: The BATMAN #232 Facsimile Edition. Click here.
— Landmark GREEN LANTERN #85 to Get Facsimile Edition. Click here.
August 25, 2019
I’m loving all of the DC and Marvel facsimile editions!
August 25, 2019
For people like me who love the Facsimile Editions, this is truly a Golden Age. My only complaint – which applies to Marvel’s facsimiles as well, and also their “True Believers” $1 reprints – is that the original cover date isn’t included anywhere in the book. They could easily do this in the indicia – add it to the “Originally published in single magazine form as” line. “Originally published in single magazine form as HOUSE OF SECRETS 92, July 1971.”
August 25, 2019
What a very interesting sneak peek.
August 26, 2019
They keep getting the editors wrong in the indicias of these things. Two for two so far. (They have them switched.)
August 26, 2019
Yeah, it looks like they dropped in the wrong ones for each: Schwartz was for Batman #232 and Orlando was for House of Secrets #92.