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Michael Hunt Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 9:48am | IP Logged | 1
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Was there ever a hardcover collection of the MOS? I've been casually looking on eBay, etc for one? I recall something being advertised (back when the title was released) about a special edition hardcover. I can't find any reference on the internet to confirm an existence of one.
Anyone?
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 10:17am | IP Logged | 2
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I don't think it has ever been released as a hardcover. It hasn't been released that much as a TPB, for that matter.
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Michael Connell Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | 3
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I have the 1993 Man of Steel trade, that's the only version I've seen in tpb form.
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Robert Kowalewski II Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | 4
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The one I have at the house is a blue cover with Superman from the last page of MOS on it.
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Frank Stone Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | 5
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The most recent printing of MoS was vol. 1 of the MAN OF STEEL trade
paperback series, reprinting all the Superman comics of the time in
chronological order.
(And about the edition pictured above: the only thing more embarrassing
than not knowing the difference between "foreword" and "forward" is
misspelling "foreword".)
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David Barker Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | 6
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I think the above edition was a bookstore version (mass market) and the other version is the direct market version.
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Michael Connell Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | 7
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I bought my edition when it was brand new, but it's been so long I can't remember where I got it.
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Daniel Kendrick Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 11 June 2007 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | 8
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I remember a "giveaway" when the books first came out. Send in coupons that were present in the first books that came out after Man of Steel and receive a tpb of MoS. IIRC it was the black cover posted above.
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Ted Pugliese Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 12 June 2007 at 8:49am | IP Logged | 9
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It was close, Dan. I have one and will post it later. It may have been the first official DC trade too. It was a compilation of the issues with adds and everything. I also have the original Balantine Books MOS trade. I will post that too. I used to have the blue one mentioned above, but that is a second print. The original BB trades have great paper too.
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Eric White Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 12 June 2007 at 9:01am | IP Logged | 10
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It may have been the first official DC trade too.
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Close to it but DC had released Watchmen, Ronin, The Dark Knight Returns
and Howard Chaykin's Shadow the year before MOS in 1987.
Besides the MOS trade, DC released Batman: Year One in 1988 and also a
few of those Greatest Stories TPB's starring Batman and Superman.
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Daniel Kendrick Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 12 June 2007 at 10:02am | IP Logged | 11
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I'd "qualify" the "trades" earlier then that. I remember buying paperback book sized reprints of Legion of Super-heroes and Superman/Batman stories back in 70s. B&W reprints, but stories from different issues none-the-less.
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Eric White Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 12 June 2007 at 10:14am | IP Logged | 12
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I don't think they were put out by DC, were they?
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