Just bought my first 2 masterworks (Warlock 1 & 2) at a LCS. Why do I do this to myself and my wallet, because of course now I am looking at the Inhumans, Captain Marvel, Defenders....
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Can anyone tell me the difference between these two (aside fr. the diff. covers)?:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/087...A2QKXX3A8LM3ZU
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/078...A1XH3YUB6951NO
They have the same contents. I'm not fluent in when each level of remastering was done on the early MWM books, but it's possible the 2003 edition has slightly cleaner linework or colors. You can see on Wikipedia that those early 1989 editions were the first reissues with the Silver Jackets in 2003. However, just to keep things confusing, the 2003 reissues had variants that looked like the 1989 versions!
Let me know if I can clarify further for you.
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So, are they essentially the same quality wise (e.g., sewn, paper, and the like)?
Last edited by DantonR; 11-20-2016 at 06:38 PM.
You new to go ask the guys over on the MMW MB. They can probably tell you page by page what's different. From the late 80s to the present there have been several different printings. The originals were glued bindings, and the art restoration and coloring has been redone a few times.
Just need Vols 1 and 8 to complete the series so far. Sure the cover will be different fr. the others but I don't really care about that.
Glued binding though...That gives me pause.
Thanks for your help everyone.
I'll chime in with my opinion, ASM Vol II is probably my favorite Omnibus content wise (with the Brubaker Cap Omnis & Stern Spidey Omnibus a close second). To me, the issues contained in Vol II are the ones that really nailed down the character for me, plus Romita's art is my personal favorite for Spidey! Hope you enjoy it
The original printings from the late 80s were actually quite good. The glued bindings are OK and do not hinder the reading experience. Also the pages are the thick-weight, archival type paper.
The only drawback of the original MMW printings, from a purist standpoint, is that sometimes the colors do not exactly match the original comics' coloring. For example, you might have a panel showing all the background characters colored a flat red in the original comic. In the MMW 1st printings, those figures may be colored green & blue, or something like that. However, in my opinion the MMW 1st printings is in some cases superior to the original comic coloring. I don't mean that like they're using modern coloring techniques like shading or gradients, just that they updated the original colors. Some of the guys over on the MMW MB believe this was some kind of blasphemy and only want the original issues published in their original format, identical to original release. Such minutiae particularly doesn't bother me.
I have two original MMW printings in my collection: The first Hulk volume from 1989 and the first Spidey volume from 1987. The others are all from the "back to press era" from 2003 to present. The only MMW versions you really want to shy away from are the late 1990s "comicraft" era editions with gaudy pop-art style dust jackets. Those feature horrible art restoration and coloring in my opinion. I had a Spidey volume from that era, but sold it because it stuck out like a sore thumb from the others and the artwork was so poorly reconstructed in some cases it was a distraction to the reading experience.
Hope this helps.
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