Chris Pratt with Infinity Gauntlet #1From Vu
INFINITY GAUNTLET #1 (Jul 1991)
Marvel Comics
In a recent appearance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, guest Chris Pratt proudly display his photograph with Infinity Gauntlet ...
Posted by Vu Nguyen
"Like Puppets On A String"/"Promethium Unbound"/"When Titans Clash"/"Clash Of The Titans"/"Friends And Foes Alike"/"Revolution"/"The Brotherhood Of Evil Lives Again"/"Starfire Unleashed"/"The Possessing of Francis Kane"/ "Reunion!" (240 pages)
NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES VOL 2 PRELIMINARY COVER
(2004)
Check out this mock-up cover for NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVE #2 from Amazon.com.
As
you know, Amazon requires their book listing six months in advance.
Often the covers submitted to Amazon (via Diamond) are different than
the final product.
NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES #2 (DF) (Signed)
(May 2004)
DC Comics
According to this Ebay
auction (see information below), THE NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVE #2 is
available from Dynamic Forces. As usual, the official website lists
this item as "Coming Soon".
DYNAMIC FORCES SIGNED EDITION .TEEN TITANS VOLUME 2 HARDCOVER....Signed
by creators MARV WOLFMAN and COMIC ART LEGEND GEORGE PEREZ...ONLY 99
made!! HTF!! ...... complete with cert and holofoil seal....
BEST OF DC #18 BACK COVER, art by George Pérez and Romeo Tanghal, scan by Bill Walko
(Vu: Art CLEARLY reads PEREZ & TANGHAL, I do not know why DC Comics
credited the NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES #2 cover as George Pérez and Bob
Wiacek. Can anyone contact the archive department for verification?
Did Wiacek re-inked the new cover or maybe this is a serious error?)
May 25, 2004 12:48 am | Back Cover of Best of DC #18
Just thought that I'd drop you a line and let you know that I enjoyed your
review of The New Teen Titans Archive # 2. Regarding the cover, it originally
appeared as the back cover to Best of DC #18, except the characters on the right
were on the left, and vice versa, with Titans Tower in between. I'm sure that
somewhere out there there's a scan of it. I have to admit, at first the Archive
cover looked a little weird to me having seen the original composition, but I
like it, too.
I must say that these Archive Editions are really nice books.
The bright white sturdy pages really shows off the brilliant colors by
Adrienne Roy, who I suspect the color reconstruction of Jamison had a
lot to do with it as well. The paper is so much nicer than the normal
"newsprint" paper that DC uses on their Trade Paperbacks, such as WONDER WOMAN: GODS AND MORTALS TP #1 (Feb 2004) or THE NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON TP (Jun 2003), but it does come at a much higher cost: $49.95, which includes 240 pages and a hardcover.
If you look at a newsprint Trade compared to Marvel's trade, which
consists of a glossy paper stock, you'll notice that the DC Trades are
far more inferior, especially when you factor in the price.
Anyway, the Archive printing is crisp and readable and, apparently, the
book was published in Hong Kong. Previously all of DC's books were
printed in Canada. I guess it's cheaper to print in HK and have it
shipped to the US.
The book contain a new foreword written by Marv Wolfman,
which recounts all of the collected issues (#9-16) with some fun facts
and anecdotes. The cover, which I haven't seen before, was penciled by
George Pérez and inked by Bob Wiacek.
I did notice a small error, the content lists "A REUNION" when the title is actually "REUNION!".
Also, the George Perez/Romeo Tanghal cover to BEST OF DC #18 (Nov 1981) did not get reprinted (all of the other issues had the cover reprinted in the book).
Another slight oversight was that Len Wein was not credited in the
contents table. However, a short biography was written for him on the
last page of the book, along with the other creators.
Anyway, this will make a fine addition to any book collection. The
benefit in having such a nice book is that you no longer have to go and
open up the original "pamplets" and risk damaging the comic (I've had
many experiences with the tape-stick-to-cover incidents).
May 23, 2004 12:22 am | Titans Archives Foreword
From TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES #2 (May 2004)
FOREWORD
written by Marv Wolfman
published in TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES #2 (May 2004)
transcribed by Vu
Books change as they grow. Or at least they should. As time goes on, the
writer and artist begin to feel more confident with what they're doing.
If they're lucky they know they've got something that works so they
don't mind taking chances. Most important, they know they've laid the
proper groundwork so if one experiment fails, it won't spell instant
disaster for the book
That's TITANS #9-16 in a nutshell.
Back in 1981, sales of THE NEW TEEN TITANS started high, dropped with
issue #2 and 3, then began to zoom higher and higher starting with issue
#6. The readers were with us. They saw something special, something
different was happening. And, most important, the Titans were
attracting readers who hadn't bought a DC comics in years. We could have
been content just writing and drawing the same stories month in and
month out, but we weren't. The ever-amazing George Perez and I both
would get bored pretty quickly, and, trust me, the readers, sensing
that, would not be far behind.
We knew this was the time for us to push the envelope. TITANS would hit
its stride in what will be our third Archive volume, but all the
groundwork was laid in issue #1-8 and confidently pushed along in issue
#9-16, the stories that are represented here.
(Vu: You will need Acrobat Reader
to view or print the document. The reason for this is to prevent the
copying and distribution of the copyrighted text. Special thanks to Marcus Mebes for the conversion.)
The following products are expected to ship to comic book
specialty stores this week. Note that this list is tentative
and subject to change. Please check with your retailer for
availability.
MAR040334 NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES VOL 2 HC $49.95
In this crossover featuring the two lovely ladies of the CrossGen
Universe Mordath tires of Arwyn's constant interference and summons Lady
Death to dispatch the beautiful and deadly archer.
Written by Chuck Dixon with art by George Perez and Tom Ryder DF is
especially pleased to offer an exclusive foil cover edition of this
titanic event!
Each copy features a certificate of authenticity and is sealed with a DF Holo-Foil sticker!
In this crossover featuring the two lovely ladies of the CrossGen
Universe Mordath tires of Arwyn's constant interference and summons Lady
Death to dispatch the beautiful and deadly archer.
Written by Chuck Dixon with art by George Perez and Tom Ryder DF is
especially pleased to offer an exclusive foil cover edition of this
titanic event!
Each copy features a certificate of authenticity and is sealed with a DF Holo-Foil sticker!
NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES #2 (DF) (Signed)
(May 2004)
DC Comics
The second archive edition collecting the classic NEW TEEN TITANS issues
of the 1980s! This archive reprints THE NEW TEEN TITANS (volume one)
#9-16 plus BEST OF DC (BLUE RIBBON DIGEST) #18 with the Titans heading
to Mount Olympus taking on the Brotherhood of Evil and more!
Each Signed copy is hand-numbered features a certificate of authenticity and is sealed with a DF Holo-Foil sticker!
Written by Marv Wolfman; art by George Perez, Romeo Tanghal and Carmine Infantino; cover by Perez and Tanghal.
The second archive edition collecting the classic New Teen Titans issues
of the 1980s. This archive reprints The New Teen Titans (volume one)
#9-16, plus Best of DC (Blue Ribbon Digest) #18, with the Titans heading
to Mount Olympus, taking on the Brotherhood of Evil, and more.
The TRIGON collection is a trade and the next Perez Titans material you
see is will be the second volume of the Archives, probably in 2004. Yes,
we'll be recoloring his JLA and Wonder Woman books when we get to them.
No, George won't be doing new covers, as mentioned earlier.
This may be a one of those smaller Archives like Challengers. I e-mailed
Marv Wolfman and asked him what the contents of #2 would be. I
specifically wanted to know if the 10 page DC Digest story would be
included. He replied that he did know but couldn't remember, but that
the Archive might cover the next 5 to 6 issues. Wouldn't that make it
alot less than 200 pages?
Thanks, Mike. I'd love to see DC print all George's an my Titans, and
with a second Archives edition coming out soon, as well as the Titans
Baxter reprinting, they are on the way to doing just that. I'd also love
for them to finally finish and print the Titans graphic novel George
and I started so many years ago. He completed about 80 pages of
incredible art and we can always get someone else to finish it up and
then have me write it as planned.
Marv,
DC just announced that The New Teen Titans Volume 2(1984)
issues 1-5 will be collected into a Trade Parerback. Did you write a
intro for the new TPB? I always like the introductions that provide a
little behind the scenes info on the project. Just wondering.
posted 12-04-02 04:31 by Marv Wolfman
No, I was not asked to write an intro to the Trigon storyline. On the other hand, I did write the intro to the second Titans Archives edition.
It is possible they asked George, which would make sense as it was, in
many ways, his swan song on the Titans. He did do approximately 80 pages
of a 120 page Titans graphic novel - that I think is still the best
Titans work he ever did - but that has never seen print and to date
there seems to be no interest in having me finish writing it and him -
or someone else - finish drawing it. Even with another artist it would
still be 80 pages of Perez/Wolfman Titans.
As for the Trigon collection - I don't know too much about it. But I,
too, hope it's printed as least as well as the original which was
beautiful.
NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES #2
(May 2004)
BEST OF DC #18
(Nov 1981)
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