246 More Marvel Books
By Ian | Filed in Blog >Database Updates 01/14/2011 | 5:07 am | 10 Comments	Tweet

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1. Jockman wrote on at January 14, 2011 11:15 am:

   Are these supposed to only be trades/graphic novels? A few of these (the four JLA/avengers for sure, as well as a few others) are actually links to the individual issues sold by Amazon.

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   Ian replied on January 14th, 2011 at 11:35 am:

   Those are prestige books (cardstock, no ads between story pages) and I consider them bookshelf format. I list them in the dc list, so should do so here as well. They’ve been collected, but it’s possible someone may have just one book out of 4.

   A lot of the amazon listings for books in this batch are mislabeled as well, which is even more confusing.

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   Jockman replied on January 14th, 2011 at 11:49 am:

   Ah, ok. Didn’t know they sold such a thing.

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   Ian replied on January 14th, 2011 at 11:25 pm:

   they were much more popular in the nineties, though DC just did a couple for Lobo and Guy Gardner more recently.

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   Dirt55 replied on January 15th, 2011 at 4:07 am:

   I was wondering why I saw some Guy Gardner books that I thought were trades but looked more like single issue comics.

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   Ian replied on January 15th, 2011 at 8:50 am:

   Yeah, they kind of look like comics, but sometimes are listed as graphic novels. The main difference is that they are perfect bound and have no advertising between the story pages (almost everything, trades and hardcovers included, has an ad page in the back these days.)

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2. Marc wrote on at January 14, 2011 12:19 pm:

   That Marvel Graphic Novel book certainly has a lot of good stuff information it. I thought I was done with the Punisher OGNs before taking a look at it since I had about 15, but then I found like a dozen more in the book. Apparently Marvel was REALLY into the prestige-format Punisher books in the late ’80s and early ’90s!

   However, there is some stuff in there that I consider kind of suspect. He lists a few things that I’m pretty sure are just single issues (since he doesn’t list an ISBN and because Comic Book DB doesn’t say anything about them being prestige format), so I’ll probably actually have to track them down myself to see what’s up with them.

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   Ian replied on January 14th, 2011 at 11:27 pm:

   CBDB is actually really wrong about those cardstock cover releases, very often.

   Probably because Marvel never really popularized the prestige format, at least in name. They released a lot of them, but I think they often just marketed them as #1, etc, of a limited series.

   I try to look on ebay to see if I can find pictures that show the binding. Besides that, I have to double check or do some serious googling.

   I’m about 90% sure about the ones I have on this list. There area few from his listing in the book that I wasn’t that sure about. It’s not exactly clear what his criteria is, I think.

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3. Marc wrote on at January 15, 2011 12:07 pm:

   Yeah, I’ve noticed that CBDB is usually wrong about half the time on these things. But there are some things listed in the book without ISBNs that CBDB says are single issues, and I’m not quite sure what to do with them (for example, Timely Presents The Human Torch).

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   Ian replied on January 15th, 2011 at 11:21 pm:

   hehe, usually half the time.

   I’m thinking that one is a cardstock release. Not every prestige book has an isbn. And some are one or two issue collections. It’s tough. There are some collections that I’m pretty sure also aren’t prestige, but I’m kind of including them just because I really like what they’re collecting.

   In any case, right now I’m happy to err in the direction of including too much. Much easier to take something out later than add it back in :D

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