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October/November 2016 Archie Comics Solicits (Super Hype)

Started by chancebond, July 20, 2016, 03:11:08 AM

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chancebond

AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #11
ARCHIE #13
ARCHIE MEETS THE RAMONES #1
BETTY & VERONICA #3
JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS #2
JUGHEAD #10
THE HANGMAN #4
THE SHIELD #4
ARCHIE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #273
ARCHIE GIANT COMICS 75TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK (TR)
ARCHIE'S BIG BOOK VOL. 1: MAGIC, MUSIC & MISCHIEF (TR)
ARCHIE 75th ANNIVERSARY DIGEST #1
ARCHIE 75th ANNIVERSARY DIGEST #2
ARCHIE 75th ANNIVERSARY DIGEST #3
BETTY & VERONICA: FAIRY TALES (TR)
BETTY & VERONICA HOLIDAY ANNUAL #248
JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #23
SONIC:  MEGA DRIVE – THE NEXT LEVEL #1
SONIC/MEGA MAN: WORLDS UNITE 2 – BROKEN BONDS (TR)
SONIC SUPER DIGEST #18
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #288
SONIC UNIVERSE #91

BettyReggie

#1
These are ones I want to preorder
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DeCarlo Rules

#2
Quote from: The Downloader on July 20, 2016, 03:11:08 AM
ARCHIE MEETS THE RAMONES #1 (main/Gisele cover & Dan Parent cover)
ARCHIE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #273
ARCHIE'S BIG BOOK VOL. 1: MAGIC, MUSIC & MISCHIEF (TR)
ARCHIE 75th ANNIVERSARY DIGEST #1
ARCHIE 75th ANNIVERSARY DIGEST #2
ARCHIE 75th ANNIVERSARY DIGEST #3
BETTY & VERONICA: FAIRY TALES (TR)
BETTY & VERONICA HOLIDAY ANNUAL #248
JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #23

Well, those are the ones I'll be buying. Have they offered/will they be offering subscriptions to the entire series of 75th Anniversary digests?

As to the possible contents of those new digest collections (which are referred to in the solicitations as both the ARCHIE SPOTLIGHT DIGEST series, and as the ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS 75th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION digest series), I'll hazard a guess and say that the 75th Anniversary digests will reshuffle the same stories that were contained in the digital exclusive ARCHIE 75 SERIES (14 of which have been released so far) to make a tossed salad out of what were originally "best of" digital collections representing individual titles from the past. I say this because it's my belief that ACP is assuming that there's little or no overlap between print digest/trade paperback readers and digital readers. In page count, these 75th Anniversary digests (at 224 pages) are exactly halfway between a Comics Annual Digest (192 pages) and a Jumbo Comics Digest (256 pages) -- for the same cover price as the latter Jumbo digest. 32 pages more than a Comics Annual, and 32 pages less than a Jumbo Comics digest. I really HOPE (hope, hope) this is not just another reshuffling of the same stories that already appeared in the Best of Archie Comics/Archie's Favorite Stories collections.



Likewise, I believe that the contents of the ARCHIE'S BIG BOOK, which is composed exclusively of stories of MAGIC (Sabrina), MUSIC (Josie & the Pussycats), and MISCHIEF (Little Archie), will be the same stories that have previously appeared in digital exclusive collections devoted to those characters (plus a couple of trade collections now out of print), and the regularly-appearing digest sections devoted to those characters appearing in Betty and Veronica Double Digest (Sabrina), B & V Friends Double Digest (Josie), and other digests (Little Archie) from the past few years, although it does specifically state that the Sabrina and Josie stories are all written by George Gladir and Frank Doyle and drawn by Dan DeCarlo, and the Little Archie stories are all by Bob Bolling, so that would indicate all stories from the 1960s-1970s. But honestly, I don't think they want to go to the extra work of scanning previously-unavailable stories to reprint. I'm just trying to let myself down easy so I won't suffer a huge disappointment when these things finally come out, but I'd love for ACP to make a liar out of me (or at least a bad prognosticator). This looks to be the same page count/page size (480 pages, 4 7/8" x 6 9/16") as the Giant Comics Digests, but UNlike the Giant Comics Digests, which are priced at $7.99, the Big Book is priced at $19.99. Yikes. Hopefully that's on better quality, bright white paper. Or maybe the page dimensions listed in the solicitation are in error, since looking at the cover image, this would seem to have the relative dimensions of either a standard comicbook-sized trade paperback, or the "Archie & Friends All-Stars" series (5 1/4" x 8", same size as BETTY AND VERONICA FAIRY TALES).



The thing is, BETTY & VERONICA aside, it seems as though ACP has no confidence in selling any print collection of stories that doesn't have the word "ARCHIE" in big letters prominently in the title. Their thinking is that as long as you put the name ARCHIE on the cover, and mix up the contents, you can put stories in there that would otherwise prove unsaleable if they tried to just publish a thematic digest or trade collection with SABRINA, JOSIE, or LITTLE ARCHIE in big letters in the title. Unfortunately for me, this means that I have to purchase 160+/- pages of Little Archie stories (which I won't be reading) in order to get 320+/- pages of Sabrina and Josie stories. Personally, I'd rather have paid $6.99 for a 160-page trade paperback collection of either SABRINA or JOSIE, and skipped the Little Archie stories.

I would bet that about 100 pages of the contents of BETTY & VERONICA FAIRY TALES previously appeared in this digital exclusive collection, too:



I'm not complaining, though. If it actually gets published, I'll be glad to have it, as a companion volume to the two previous trade collections BETTY & VERONICA'S STORYBOOK, and BETTY & VERONICA'S PRINCESS STORYBOOK.




BettyReggie

These are ones I preorder from Midtown Comics yesterday.
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BettyReggie

Aren't those new books celebrating Archie's 75th year just like The Best of Archie: 75 Years 75 Stories & Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash!. I have those 2 books. So I won't buy those new ones.

Archiecomicxfan215

I have to get back on my Archie game, will look at comics to preorder and buy after i get my check this week

DeCarlo Rules

#6
Quote from: BettyReggie on July 25, 2016, 07:35:12 AM
Aren't those new books celebrating Archie's 75th year just like The Best of Archie: 75 Years 75 Stories & Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash!. I have those 2 books. So I won't buy those new ones.

75 Years 75 Stories had a lot of reprinted stories that hadn't appeared elsewhere before in previous paperback collections. I don't know what the 1000 Page 75th Anniversary Bash had in it for content, but I suspect that (apart from the title) it's no different than any of the other 1000 Page digests, in that all of the stories in it appeared in ongoing digest comics that had come out just a month or two earlier. I fully expect that to be the case with the Giant Comics 75th Anniversary Book! as well -- in that, apart from the title, the content would follow the same pattern as all of the prior Giant Comics collections.

Now the other new digest collections (numbered from #1-3) referred to as the "Archie Spotlight Digest series", but shown on the cover logo as Archie Jumbo Comics 75th Anniversary Celebration -- those are (possibly, at least) something new. A digest series that doesn't have an established pattern yet for what kind of reprints it might contain. So until I can determine otherwise by examining the contents myself, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that the new series might be more like 75 Years 75 Stories and contain a good percentage of reprinted stories that haven't appeared in other digests very recently.

EDIT - I just got an email yesterday from ACP, offering a subscription to all 12 of the Archie 75th Anniversary Digests (there will be only 12, or so they claim) for $29.99. That works out to $2.50 per issue (cover price is $6.99 US for these 224-page digests).

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