Treasury Comics Interview with Kevin Nowlan

New Interview! Kevin Nowlan, a fan of TreasuryComics.com since its inception, graciously did an interview with me about his work on Wednesday Comics and some of his favorite treasuries growing up. Click the above graphic to read our talk!

Death Ray Magazine - Oct. 2009

New Article! Treasury Friend Warren Bixby sent me another article, from the same Oct.2009 issue of Death Ray magazine, this time talking about the first Superman Vs. Spider-Man treasury edition!

Click the graphic to head to the Articles page, and thanks Warren!

Marvel UK Ads

New Page! Thanks to the individual efforts of Treasury Friends Warren Bixby and Graham Hill, I have so many great (and not so great) British/Marvel UK treasury ads that I decided to give them their own page on the site. Click the graphic to check it out, and thanks guys!

Death Ray Magazine - Oct. 2009

New Article! Treasury Friend Warren Bixby sent me a mid-point review of Wednesday Comics that appeared in the Oct.2009 issue of Death Ray magazine. Thanks Warren!

Wednesday Comics definitely got more attention in the greater media than most other comics "events", but this article was one the largest and complete I've seen. Nice to see such a worthy project gets its due, even if the review is a little on the negative side.

I'd love to see if Death Ray follows up with a second piece, now that Wednersday Comics has concluded. Click the graphic to read the piece.

Wednesday Comics Collected

News! DC Comics revealed yesterday that Wednesday Comics will be collected as an 11x17" hardcover edition, retailing for $49.99. No release date yet.

That price point is a little...well, pricey, but I guess that's to be expected, when you're talking about a book this big. And I'm thrilled that DC is preserving the giant-size format of the series...Wednesday Comics just would not have worked squeezed down into standard comic book size.

If I may indulge myself for a second, it'd be cool if DC could simultaneously release a softcover, printed-on-newsprint version in the classic 10x13" treasury format that could be a cheaper alternative to the $50 version. I bought multiple copies of every issue of the series for various nieces and nephews, but at $50 a pop I'm only getting one for myself.

Thanks to Treasury Friend Mark Perez for the tip!

Marvel UK Ads - 1975/1976

New Ads! Courtesy Treasury Friend Warren Bixby come a whole bunch of treasury ads from Marvel UK's line of weekly titles.

Like the ones we ran before, the color ads ran on the back covers, with the interiors being black and white.

I absolutely love seeing stuff like this (and that top most ad makes me wish Marvel had done that line of literary adaptations at treasury size)--thanks Warren!

Wednesday Comics #12- 9/23/09

New Addition! The final week of Wednesday Comics!

Wednesday Comics wraps up its extraordinary run:

--Batman has a melancholy, hard-bitten end

--Kamandi ends spectacularly. Who's up for a regular Gibbons/Sook Kamandi series?

--Superman has a nice sweet ending with a bit of a twist

--Deadman, off to face more adventures

--Green Lantern ends a bit anti-climactically, but still a lot of fun

--Neil Gaiman jokes in Metamorpho about "Next week's Wednesday Comics"--don't toy with me, Gaiman!

--All of the strips, I'd say Teen Titans was consistently my least favorite, mainly because I wasn't familiar with a lot of the characters and, a lot of the time, I didn't know what the heck was going on!

--Strange Adventures, ends just as well as it started. This series never made a false step--a classic!

--Supergirl has a wonderfully sweet ending. Like with Kamandi, Hawkman, and Strange Advenutures, it makes me want to see a regular Supergirl book by Palmiotti and Conner

--Metal Men, solid!

--Wonder Woman really took off in the last quarter of strips. A really unique take that I thoroughly enjoyed.

--A nice mellow ending for Sgt. Rock

--The Flash goes out with a bang. One of Wednesday Comics' most consistently good strips

--Demon and Catwoman ends on a flirty note

--Hawkman, Aquaman, and the JLA! Going out with a bang and a boom!

...and so we come to the end of Wednesday Comics. To say I enjoyed this series is a vast understatement. I was so sure that the "giant-size" format of comics (from DC and Marvel, at least) was gone forever, but this series gave me hope that maybe mainstream comics are embracing presentation again as an important part of comics.

I'm so grateful for DC, Mark Chiarello in particular, for doing this, and I hope it was a big sales success for them. I'll cross my fingers for Wednesday Comics 2...and even if that doesn't happen, we have the (hopefully) giant-size collected edition to look forward to!

Wednesday Comics now has a page all its own in the main body of TreasuryComics.com, a spot it highly deserves!