{"id":616,"date":"2009-02-19T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/02\/19\/c-o-u-s-reflections-from-ricks-collection-20\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:30","slug":"c-o-u-s-reflections-from-ricks-collection-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/02\/19\/c-o-u-s-reflections-from-ricks-collection-20\/","title":{"rendered":"C.O.U.S.: Reflections from Rick’s Collection #20"},"content":{"rendered":"

While "researching" a recent Nexus Graphica<\/a>, I had reason to look through my collection of Comics Of Unusual Size. This set of the big and small and odd of comicdom offers many gems. Deciding that I really should share some of these largely forgotten and sometime rare pieces, I’m taking you through a tour of the more interesting selections.<\/p>\n

Click on images for full sized versions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHere Comes… Daredevil<\/span> (Lancer Books, 1967)
\nArt uncredited but most likely John Romita<\/span><\/p>\n

Continuing my tour through some of the more mainstream selections. Throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties, Marvel produced several mass market (or pocket-sized) paperbacks reprinting several of their titles. The first of these collections were published by Lancer, 1966-67<\/a>. The books included two Fantastic Four volumes and one each of Spider-man, Thor, Hulk, and Daredevil. The black &amp; white pages were roughly 1\/3 the size of a standard comic and had to be read sideways.<\/p>\n

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\nInteriors to Here Comes… Daredevil<\/span> (Lancer Books, 1967)
\nScript by Stan Lee Art by John Romita<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nConan, Volume One<\/span> (Grosset &amp; Dunlap, 1978) and Conan, Volume Two<\/span> (Grosset &amp; Dunlap, 1978)
\nArt by Barry Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

Then in 1977, Pocket<\/a> began their ten volume reprints of Marvel favorites: Three Spider-Man, one Captain America, two Doctor Strange, one Fantastic Four, two Hulk, and one Spider-Woman. All but the Spider-Woman were in full color. Grosset &amp; Dunlap’s Tempo Star<\/a> six volume full-color reprints of Conan the Barbarian<\/span> appeared in 1978-79. Both lines chopped up the pages to make them fit on the pocket-sized pages. The color printing for the Conan volumes were particularly well done.<\/p>\n

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\nConan, Volume Three<\/span> (Grosset &amp; Dunlap, 1978) and Conan, Volume Four<\/span> (Grosset &amp; Dunlap, 1978)
\nArt by Barry Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nInteriors to Conan, Volume Two<\/span> (Grosset &amp; Dunlap, 1978)
\nScript by Roy Thomas Art by Barry Smith and Sal Buscema
\nfrom the "The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn eighties Marvel began producing their own line of black &amp; white mass market paperback titles under the banner of Marvel Illustrated Books<\/a>. This series included the usual culprits of Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Hulk and Captain America with the Avengers and the newly-popular X-Men thrown in. Much like the Pocket and Tempo books, these volumes chopped up the pages to accommodate the mass market size.<\/p>\n

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\nStan Lee Presents The Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of Daredevil<\/span> (Marvel Comics Group, November 1982 Art by Bob Larkin)
\nStan Lee Presents The Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of The X-Men<\/span> (Marvel Comics Group, March 1982 Art by Dave Cockrum)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nInteriors to Stan Lee Presents The Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of Daredevil<\/span> (Marvel Comics Group, November 1982)
\nScript by Stan Lee Art by Wally Wood<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMuch like the DC digests<\/a>, these books introduced me to several influential bits of comic book history including the legendary Giant-Size X-Men<\/span> #1 and the incomparable Wally Wood.<\/p>\n

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\nInteriors to Stan Lee Presents The Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of The X-Men<\/span> (Marvel Comics Group, March 1982)
\nScript by Len Wein Art by Dave Cockrum<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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