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Veli Loponen Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 19 April 2004 Location: Finland Posts: 86
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I've been pondering should I buy this. I have the Man of Steel in two versions already, that is Man of Steel tpb and Finnish magazines. But I think the amount of bonus material is the key factor here. Last year Man of Steel came as a tpb in Finnish but I didn't buy it because I already have Finnish magazines. But it's published twice in Finnish (in 1987 and 2025), which means Byrne is yet a quite big in here as well. We also got a collection of JB's Fantastic Four stories (I think it's same as FF Visionaries #2) and the Dark Phoenix Saga. Mostly these have also been published in Finnish already (there was one or two stories in FF tpb that were firsts), but apparently nostalgia sells and Byrne is the best.
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United States Posts: 32272
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Yeah, the bonus material is what sold me. I’ve got the MOS hardbacks of JB’s run and a year or two ago found a first print TPB that looked new right out of the box that I bought for a song. So I didn’t really NEED this one. But…
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 137172
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I’ll admit I sometimes roll my eyes at people who buy multiple editions of the same work—then I remind myself how many copies I have of THE LORD OF THE RINGS!
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Dave B Stewart Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 27 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 446
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Your eyes would roll all the way around if you knew how many editions of your FF I have. I even made a custom vol 0 of the John Byrne Visionaries FF before Marvel went back and made theirs...
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