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Jason Mark Hickok
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That stinks. Love the essentials. Quite a number of the titles being
printed were either in or getting to when I was starting to read then as a
youngster.
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Jason Mark Hickok
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Still hopeful for an Alpha Flight Omnibus
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Stephen Robinson
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Perhaps Marvel will make more of its back catalog available digitally. I noticed an increase in classic CAPTAIN AMERICAs in time for the movie.
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Paul Simpson Simpson
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I haven't seen new Showcase volume from DC in a while either.******************* The second volume of Jonah Hex came out recently.
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James Lansberry
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Really irritated about the Essentials getting cancelled.
I was hoping to get a few more Hulk volumes, more Spider-Man and FF sets too. A lot of them were getting to some popular runs.
Haven't been impressed with the last few volumes of X-Men, X-Factor or Wolverine...looks like they just paid an intern off the street to scan colored books on a copy machine. It's all greyscale, not black & white.
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Robert White
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Essentials probably lost a lot of sales with the rise of discount TPB sites; why buy Essentials when you can get softcover Masterworks, in color, for 50% off the cover price? (Depending on the sale, anywhere between $10-$13 dollars for the softcover versions)
I bought the first four volumes of FF and a few others when they first came out, but I was never a fan of black & white reprints of material that was originally in color.
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Joe Hollon
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ESSENTIALS has been a fantastic format for me. I got to read a lot of complete storylines and series I had never seen before and was introduced to quite a few series/characters I probably never would've tried otherwise....and they're at a price I almost can't turn down! At comic shows you can usually find multiple dealers selling ESSENTIAL volumes for less than $10 a piece (3 for $15 is common) and I've even paid as little as $3 for some.
Edited by Joe Hollon on 13 April 2014 at 5:47am
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Ryan Maxwell
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Those are the only things I've bought from Marvel in the last couple years. What a shame.
Edited by Ryan Maxwell on 13 April 2014 at 7:57am
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Carmen Bernardo
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Michael Cross wrote:
| Damn, now i have nothing to buy from Marvel..those Essentials for Spider-Man and the Thing were all i was getting from that company. |
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Back to the dollar bins for me, then. At least I managed to get most of the ESSENTIAL volumes which counted while they were available. Seems as they're opening one door, they're shutting and locking down all the rest.
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Lance Hill
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| At comic shows you can usually find multiple dealers selling ESSENTIAL volumes for less than $10 a piece (3 for $15 is common) and I've even paid as little as $3 for some. |
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With discounts that deep, it sounds like they weren't selling very well at regular price. Not a good thing, especially for a product that takes up so much retailer shelf space for a small return.
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Eric Russ
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I loved the Essential volumes. I rarely buy the contemporary work, unless a creator like Stern, Simonson or Romita Jr. is working on a book.
As most have said, it was the only book(s) I looked forward to, that were actual comic books, that felt like comic books from the company.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Eighteen years for a reprint line is a really impressive run. Not bad for the cheap alternative to Marvel Masterworks and the DC Archives.
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