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Steven Brake
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| Posted: 12 September 2021 at 3:26am | IP Logged | 1
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...does anybody else have an affection for them? As a kid, I remember my heart skipping a beat when I saw them in a newspaper agents.
Nice cheap reprints, 100 pages, no adverts, five or six stories, lots of readers - why don't DC still do them?
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Rick Senger
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| Posted: 12 September 2021 at 11:43am | IP Logged | 2
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Such a bargain. I have dozens and they served as my first viewings of many tough to find or expensive comics I later bought which I might never have otherwise discovered like Superman 149 had I not first seen them in reduced form. I was going to add Batman 251 to that list but I'm sure I would have eventually bit the bullet because that was such a definitive Neal Adams issue.
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Rebecca Jansen
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I always got the Year's Best ones, and the ones for series i was interested in were like a quick grounding, especially that Doom Patrol one about when Mento and Robotman were appearing in New Teen Titans!
There was another with a selection of excellent DC war comics than made me look at many Sgt. Fury comics in scorn from then on.
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Brian Hughes
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I love these books and have many of them. The digests were where I discovered Neal Adams work in "The Joker's Five Way Revenge" In best of Blue Ribbon Digest #2, All Batman stories.
The Superfriend's digest introduced me to the Teen Titans just at the time when Wolfman and Perez would release their series.
I have many of the Superman digests. These were where I got to read some of the best past Superman stories or at least more historically known, like where Superman was trapped under a red sun, or the "Imaginary" tale where Lex kills Superman.
The digest were great inexpensive ways to learn comic book history. Marvel toyed with putting digest books out a few years back, but they couldn't get the Archie space at the stores.
Archie knows how to move comics.
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Michael Roberts
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Marvel toyed with putting digest books out a few years back, but they couldn't get the Archie space at the stores.
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The Marvel digests from a few years ago were published and distributed by Archie.
I don't really see Archie digests on the newsstands anymore.
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John Wickett
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They were great for long car rides.
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Brian Hughes
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Archie Digest are is the POS area at my local Walmart. They have prime space for Impulse buys.
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Mark Haslett
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I am a complete sucker for these. I was young enough to fall hook line and sinker for anything that said "COLLECTOR'S ITEM" on the cover. Later I realized these collections often had the advantage of being filled with truly great classic comics.
I love the size and thickness -- just everything about Blue Ribbon Digests gets me.
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Rick Senger
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The digests were where I discovered Neal Adams work in "The Joker's Five Way Revenge" In best of Blue Ribbon Digest #2, All Batman stories.
the "Imaginary" tale where Lex kills Superman.
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Brian, we obviously enjoyed the same ones as those are the two issues I cited up top!
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Vinny Valenti
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"The Marvel digests from a few years ago were published and distributed by Archie."
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Really? I didn't know that. Interesting that Marvel made a deal with another comic company like that.
Anyway, I did buy this one sight unseen:
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Michael Roberts
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Really? I didn't know that. Interesting that Marvel made a deal with another comic company like that.
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They have a current deal with IDW which publishes a line of Marvel books aimed at younger readers.
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Eric Morin
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I remember getting these for car trips as a kid. Loved
them.
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