DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks

[Thor2014]

What Archives and Masterworks do you have? The few I own...

-Wonder Woman Archives 1-5. Martson's WW was good fun with HG Peter's ecclectic artwork. Steve, rotund Etta and the Holiday Girls. Woo-Woo!

-Black Canary Archives. The evolution of BC from Johnny Thunder sidekick to her own feature. I liked in the early stories where she seemed to command black canaries with a twisted variation of the Green Lantern Oath. Some nice Murphy Anderson artwork in the two Brave and the Bold issues with Starman.

-Comic Cavalcade Archives. Nice selection of stories featuring the All-American trinity of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Flash. Other interesting stories as well, involving various genres.

-DC Comics Rarities. The DC rarities was a nice sice of history, especially the two World's Fair specials included.

[SJNeal]

I don't have too many of either, as they're overpriced and I'm not a fan of Golden Age material - which these lines have a heavy focus on. The books I do have were picked up during blowout sales -

DC Archives:

Black Canary Vol. 1
Aquaman Vol. 1
Doom Patrol Vol. 1-5

Marvel Masterworks:

Doctor Strange Vol. 1-5
The Defenders Vol. 1-3
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1-5 (In paperback, but I'll be selling them now that I have the Omni's)

[The Lucky One]

DC Archives:

All Star Comics vol. 0-11 (volume 1 signed by Shelly Moldoff, Martin Nodell, and Irwin Hasen)
JSA All Stars vol. 1
Golden Age Sandman vol. 1
Golden Age Flash vol. 1 & 2
Golden Age Hawkman vol. 1
Golden Age Spectre vol. 1
Golden Age Dr. Fate vol. 1
Golden Age Green Lantern vol. 1 & 2
Golden Age Starman vol. 1 & 2
Black Canary vol. 1
Robin vol. 1 & 2
Comic Cavalcade vol. 1
DC Rarities vol. 1
Seven Soldiers of Victory vol. 1-3
Shazam vol. 1-4
Shazam Family vol. 1
Plastic Man vol. 1-8
Blackhawk vol. 1
The Spirit vol. 1-5

Marvel Masterworks:

All-Winners vol. 1-4
Golden Age Captain America vol. 1-6
Daring Mystery vol. 1 & 2
Golden Age Human Torch vol. 1-3
Golden Age Marvel Comics vol. 1-7
Mystic Comics vol. 1
Golden Age Sub-Mariner vol. 1-3
USA Comics vol. 1 & 2
Young Allies vol. 1 & 2
Atlas Era Heroes vol. 1-3
Atlas Era Venus vol. 1
Atlas Era Black Knight/Yellow Claw vol. 1
The X-Men vol. 7

Yeah... I, uh, like the Golden Age. Clearly.

[Dr. Jay]

What's the deal with DC archives? They haven't scheduled any new ones for the rest of the year. They've had maybe four or five books in the past two years. Are they discontinuing the line or what?

[Kaine322]

What's the deal with DC archives? They haven't scheduled any new ones for the rest of the year. They've had maybe four or five books in the past two years. Are they discontinuing the line or what?

Did they discontinue? Why?

[mooch]

Did they discontinue? Why?

People like omnibus’s more, I guess?

[Captain Craig]

The only Masterworks I have are the Daredevil ones #1-12. I'm current.
I started them cause it was feeling like the Silver Age Omni vol.1 was never going to happen. Now, with solicits thru 2018 accounted for we've yet to get a volume 2. So I've kept getting them even though I prefer the Omni format. The unknown we talk about is will we get SA DD vol.2 in 2019 or the Bendis Omni reprints on both volumes??
I doubt we get all 3.

And to digress why aren't they calling the Marvel Knights Omni what its contents indicate really should be the title: Daredevil by Joe Quesada

[JAG2045]

Did they discontinue? Why?

I don't think the DC Archives line was ever officially discontinued but program ground to a halt a few years ago. According to Wikipedia It was widely believed that the DC Archive Editions would cease publication in 2008.[2] However, in an issue of the publication Comic Shop News (issue #1080, February 27, 2008), an update was provided: "In spite of earlier reports of their demise, DC Archives will continue in 2008 and 2009, although in reduced numbers, focusing on continuing already-established Archives' series.[citation needed] The numbers have since decreased from fourteen volumes released in 2007, to seven released in 2008, five in 2009, four in 2010, and three in 2011, before rebounding in 2012 with ten volumes. In 2013, the volume length was increased to 400 pages, but only three volumes were released. The most recent volume, Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives Vol. 3 was released in 2014. A Captain Comet Archive Vol. 1 and Batman: World's Finest Vol. 3 were both solicited by DC for release in 2013, but both were canceled prior to release and have yet to be rescheduled.

From 2008-2014 we got:

Adam Strange Archives 3 2008
Doom Patrol Archives 4 2008
Doom Patrol Archives 5 2008
The New Teen Titans Archives 4 2008
Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives 3 2008
Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives* 24 208
Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives* 25 2008
Batman: The Dark Knight Archives 6 2009
The Flash Archives 5 2009
Golden Age Starman Archives 2 2009
Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives* 26 2009
Superman: The World's Finest Comics Archives 2 2009
Batman: The Dark Knight Archives 7 2010
Robin Archives 2 2010
Superman Archives 8 2010
Wonder Woman Archives 6 2010
Sugar and Spike Archives 1 2011
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane 1 2011
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archives* 7 2011
Batman Archives 8 2012
Batman: The Dark Knight Archives 8 2012
The Flash Archives 6 2012
Green Lantern Archives 7 2012
Justice League of America Archives 10 2012
The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives 13 2012
The Mad Archives* 3 2012
The Mad Archives* 4 2012
Sgt. Rock Archives 4 2012
Wonder Woman Archives 7 2012
Metal Men Archives 2 2013
The Silver Age Teen Titans Archives 2 2013
Wonder Woman: The Amazon Princess Archives 1 2013
Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives 3 2014

So you can see how the line slowed down considerably, then a few years ago DC began reprinting the GA/SA/BA omnibuses which used alot of the archive material, certain lines such as Batman, Superman, Flash and Green Lantern have reached or about to reach a point where they will surpass where the archives got to