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    Default What Year Do You Predict DC Will Be Done Reprinting Pre Crisis Superman & Batman

    If DC continues to collect the classic comics starring the Trinity in Silver and Bronze Age omnibuses as they have been doing for their Golden Age adventures, they should be finished collecting Pre Crisis Wonder Woman with Wonder Woman #329, Superman with Action Comics #583 & Superman #423, and Batman with Detective Comics #567 & Batman #400.

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    Jan 1st 2112

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    I'm not sure they will ever by completely collected. A large chunk of the Bronze Age stuff has never been collected, and at the rate they are releasing volumes if they do the SA stuff first, I am not sure how much of a market there will be left for that Bronze Age stuff in print collections by the time they get to it, or if sales are strong enough to keep moving forward with those types of collections at all. I've been waiting for decent collections of BA Batman that aren't scatter shot by creators (or by villains/supporting characters) for a decade now and there hasn't been an inkling at all that we will see them.

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    Ideally I'd like to see everything before 2000 collected in a character run (though that might be a controversial opinion). Certain Characters might have different end points than others e.g. Batman No Man's Land, Death and Return of Superman, JLA by Grant Morrison etc.

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    With no additional variables like the ongoing pandemic or supply chain issues (re: paper supply)?
    It is a moving timeline now. They still haven't officially completed one of the Trinity's GA runs yet. Plenty of chatter about Batman needing a vol.10, right, to complete his GA run?
    Batman GA Omni vol.1 = 2015 release
    Batman GA Omni vol.10= 2022 release??

    That's 7 years for Batman. What is the projected volume count for SA&BA? If things hold static or get better maybe it can be altered up by a year or two and then you have the approximate answer.
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    Never.

    They'll circle back and reformat/reprint GA and SA material before they ever complete a full run on any of these characters. Although Batman has the best chance, considering he's the most profitable.
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    Why wouldn’t they release all eras at once? I am dying for big oversized Silver and Bronze Age Superman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Thunders! View Post
    Why wouldn’t they release all eras at once? I am dying for big oversized Silver and Bronze Age Superman.
    smaller staffs and shortages in paper and press time limit the number of projects that can be done at one time. Allocating staffers, resources and time on the presses to one project means it is not available to other projects, which means they have to prioritize which projects get done, and since collections of older material have a smaller customer base than more recent material or evergreen materials, they will pick and choose which projects get done, and since the GA collections for Bats, Supes and Wondy are in process, they will be completed before moving to another era, as doing a Silver or Bronze volume likely means the resources aren't available to do another GA collection. Also sales in series have weaker sales the longer the series runs, as each volume will likely sell fewer than the previous volume as customer interest drops off and these types of projects rarely draw in enough new customers to make up for the attrition from existing customers. DC doesn't have unlmited resources, so they are going to prioritize projects with the largest return on ivestment of resources, and in the pandemic era, those resources are even more limited than previously.

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    In the year 2525, if man is still alive
    Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft

    Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”

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    Honestly, never, because they barely reprint any of it at all. Batman has basically nothing reprinting the early 80s stuff by Conway and Moench, etc. Does someone know otherwise?

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