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Tangent: A tale of the Legion of Super-Heroes and DC Comics.
For a brief time, DC was reprinting some stories as new 100 Page Super Spectaculars... some collections and even mini-runs that were more recent.
They did this with a four part Legion story as a Super Spectacular.
ITEM: The page count wasn't 100. I'm sure that "100 Page Super Spectacular" is a brand name, not intended to be descriptive but even so... COME ON! Corollary: I'm reminded of a letter I saw once in Four Star Battle Stories, but instead of the word "Star", there were four actual stars. Someone wrote in and said that there were only three stories in their book.
ITEM: But the point of all this dreck... at the time those original stories were being printed, there were two comics... Legion of Super-Heroes and Legionnaires, and one of them (I think it was Legionnaires) was always the first part of the story, and it continued into Legion of Super-Heroes.
So the rocket surgeon assembling this collection A) put the stories together by book, and B) started with LSH. That is, for a four part story, it was published as part 2, part 4, part 1, and part 3.
I'm confident that brain trust at DC would (and will?) do the same thing with Generations and Generations 2. As noted below... in chronological order (which might make sense... they were kinda independent chapters. But I'm certain that's not how Mr. Byrne intended them to be read!)
And where's my G3 TPB already, damn it? And for three hot series, why the hell couldn't DC make Generations an ongoing? Or at least order G4? Did they really want to spite Mr. Byrne so badly that they would cut off profits? Was something more important than the money???
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