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Trevor Smith
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**Which is, of course, the first thing people check for
when they see something that looks like a superhero
comic, feels like a superhero comic, smells like a
superhero comic…
Those different versions, which DC not so subtly referred
to as the "hardcover" and "softcover" versions -- "hard"
and "soft", get it? -- crossed an important line, one
which DC has continued to work hard to erase.**
Which is where, of course, we get into the "whole other
discussion". I'll be the first to admit to being wowed
by the glitz and (figurative) gloss of the Baxter Books.
The vibrancy of the colours, the quality of the paper -
it was all ever so exciting!
What I didn't grasp at the time, however, was how if this
had happened just a few years earlier, when I re-
discovered comics (due in large part to Perez/Wolfman and
Giffen/Levitz), those books probably would not have held
the same appeal to me. I was younger, and the baxter
versions of those titles were clearly not aimed at the
age group I was in when I discovered The New Teen Titans
and The Legion.
In hindsight, and this has been said here before time and
time again, if DC wanted to launch this line of Baxter
Books, *all* the titles should have been original books,
like Giffen's Omega Men. All ages books like The Titans
and The Legion should not have been taken away from the
kids and made adults only.
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Paul Gibney
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Didn't the Baxter books get reprinted into the regular comic after a certain time had passed? I recall that was supposed to be the deal when the Baxter books were created.
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John Byrne
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Didn't the Baxter books get reprinted into the regular comic after a certain time had passed? I recall that was supposed to be the deal when the Baxter books were created.•• Yes. That was how the "hardcover/softcover" nomenclature came to attach. Minus the "adult" pages, the "hardcover" versions were reprinted on regular stock.
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Paulo Pereira
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Wait, Peter David really had Aquaman fall in love with a dolphin??
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Knut Robert Knutsen
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There's a clip from a panel discussing exactly that on this page:
http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2009/2009_Indi vidual/2009_06/001961.php
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John Bodin
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Re: Link posted by Knut:
OMG! Now I see how Liefeld came to be hailed as a "superstar" artist -- seems as though his contemporaries were no more talented than I am. I mean, let's face it, looking at those panels from that Aquaman book is almost enough to make Liefeld look credible . . . almost.
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Paulo Pereira
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Thanks for the link, Knut.
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