For my regular SF Site column Nexus Graphica, I produced a companion piece of sorts to the Uncanny Un-Collectibles: Missing Comic Book Trades.
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| Upon completion, the project weighed in at 52 titles, 48 essays, 29 contributors, and some 14,000 words. I divided the writings, thankfully better titled "The Uncanny Un-Collectibles: Missing Comic Book Trades," into six easily digestible servings, each title listed in chronological order from Scribbly (1939) through Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham (2001). Beginning on Monday, September 27, the feature serialized over the next six days. |
Beyond the origins of the project, I also supplied some analysis of the survey.
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| A few interesting statistics emerged. Half of the titles originated at DC Comics. The number increases to 56 percent if you include properties that DC acquired later. The only other publisher with even a double digit percentage (10) resulted from Marvel’s preponderance of toy licenses in our survey, as three of their five titles were based on toys.
The 40s and 80s dominate, each with 11 titles. Superhero stories (35%) barely beat out science fiction/fantasy (33%) publications. |
Read the entire article (with also includes three reviews of recent books) and be sure to check out the Uncanny Un-Collectibles. ’nuff said!