FFF Results Post #265—Collection Wish-List 2011

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics Works You'd Like To See Collected In Archival Editions." This is how they responded.

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John Vest

1. Gerber/Colan Howard The Duck newspaper strips
2. Omaha The Cat Dancer stories from Sizzle by Vance and Waller
3. Dick Moores' Gasoline Alley
4. Shary Flenniken's Trots And Bonnie
5. VT Hamlin's Alley Oop

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Michael Dooley

1. the complete Virginia Huget
2. the complete Ethel Hays
3. the complete Faith Burrows
4. "Oh! Margy!" and "Merely Margy" by John Held, Jr.
5. "Blondie" (from 1930 to 1932) by Chic Young

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Michael J. Ryan

* Keif Llama by Matt Howarth
* Rima by Kanigher and Nebres
* Journey by Meisner-Loebs
* The Hecker by The Bierbaum and Giffen
* Not Brand Echh!

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Jeet Heer

* The Gumps by Sidney Smith
* Bungle Family by Harry J. Tuthill
* Suburban Heights and other newspaper panel strips by Gluyas Williams
* When a Feller Needs a Friend and other newspaper panel strips by Clare Briggs
* New Funnies and other comic books from the 1940s and 1950s by John Stanley (i.e. all his non-Little Lulu work)

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Steven Stwalley

1. Barnaby by Crockett Johnson... oh, wait, that's already happening.

1. Stumble Inn by George Herriman... that one too?

What an embarrassment of riches they are publishing these days, eh? This list just gets shorter and shorter... it's still pretty long, though.

1. Steven by Doug Allen
2. Odd Bodkins by Dan O'Neill
3. Peter Wheat by Walt Kelly
4. Barney Google by Billy DeBeck (Designed by Roger Langridge, please!)
5. The Doo Dads by Arch Dale

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Matthew Johnson

1. VT Hamlin's Alley Oop
2. Tom Batuik's Funky Winkerbean
3. Mort Walker's Sam and Silo
4. Dean Young's Blondie
5. Chip Samson's The Born Loser

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Don MacPherson

1. the Len Wein/Dave Gibbons run on Green Lantern
2. Mark Waid and Barry Kitson's Empire
3. Pre-Moore/Davis Captain Britain comics from Marvel UK
4. the Alex Saviuk-drawn backups from Action Comics (Atom, Aquaman, Air Wave)
5. Batman Family

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Joe Schwind

1. Bob Armstrong's MICKEY RAT
2. Melinda Gebbie's Comix & Stories
3. Marsh, Sgroi & Ushler's DAVY CROCKETT (1955)
4. Harrison Cady's Bugs, Birds & Bird's Eye Views
5. Gabby Hayes Western (1948-53)

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Matt Maxwell

1. THE MICRONAUTS -- Marvel run. No explanation is necessary. None would suffice.
2. Kirby's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Probably impossible due to rights, still, would love to have it.
3. EPIC ILLUSTRATED. The entirety of the magazine run.
4. Alex Toth's short works for DC. This is a no-brainer.
5. RUDY by William Overgard. One of my favorite strips from my childhood, sadly overlooked.

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Thomas Scioli

1. Jack Kirby's In the Days of the Mob
2. Michael Golden and Bill Mantlo's Micronauts
3. Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy's Master of Kung Fu
4. Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema, and Steve Ditko's ROM:Spaceknight

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Buzz Dixon

1. Sam Glanzman'z Kona, Monarch Of Monster Isle
2. Jim Stenstrum & Abel Lazaman's Rex Havoc & The Ass-Kickers Of The Fantastic
3. Dave Sim's Glamourpuss
4. Shary Flenniken's Trots And Bonnie (Yeah! Me, too!)
5. Stan Lynde's Rick O'Shay (particularly the Sunday strips in full color)

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Tom Bondurant

1. Doonesbury
2. Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey (adaptation and ongoing series)
3. 'Mazing Man
4. Cerebus
5. The Phantom (newspaper strips) by Lee Falk, et al.

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Patrick Ford

1. Jack Kirby Silver Surfer graphic novel from the complete pencil photocopies with Kirby's original typed script.
2. George Herriman Los Angeles Herald-Examiner cartoons complete
3. Harvey Kurtzman Little Annie Fanny a big chunk reprinted from Kurtzman's layouts
4. Garrett Price White Boy/Skull Valley
5. Sidney Smith Chester Gump Sunday adventure pages complete

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Evan Dorkin

1. Wired World by Phil Bond
2. The uncollected Captain Marvel/Captain Marvele Familymaterial by CC Beck, et al (w/better production)
3. The uncollected Plastic Man material by Jack Cole (ditto)
4. Scribbly by Sheldon Mayer
5. Rubber Blanket and other miscellaneous comics David Mazzucchelli doesn't wish to reprint/collect

Does the uncollected Cromartie High School material count? Or is that a translation -- ? Aw, who cares, I just want to see the rest of that material already. This is bullshit!

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Marc Arsenault

1. Complete Smilin' Ed Smiley by Raoul Vezina
2. Cap'n Quick & A Foozle by Marshall Rogers
3. The short works of Brian Ralph from Non, Monster, etc.
4. Harvey Kurtzman's freelance years - late '50s/early '60s
5. THB by Paul Pope

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Fabrice Stroun

1. Rom (Mantlo, S. Buscema, Ditko; Marvel)
2. Champagne et gâteaux secs (Michel Pirus; published in 1985 & 86 in Métal Hurlant)
3. Soldier X (Igor Kordey, Marvel)
4. Big Numbers (first three issues + third finished but never published one)
5. All the comics Jim Shaw has exhibited in art galleries over the years

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Jeffrey Flowers

1. The Complete Witzend (Wally Wood and company)
2. Twisted Tales And Alien Worlds (Bruce Jones's anthologies from the 80's)
3. Jeff Jones's Idyl and I'm Age strips
4. Jim Steranko's Outland movie adaption
5. Shary Flenniken's Trots And Bonnie

Sadly, my number five matches yours!

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Indigo Kelleigh

1: The Complete Life in Hell
2: The Heckler/Ambush Bug
3: Akiko
4: 1963 (complete with unpublished issues!)
5: Cerebus (the phone books are comprehensive, but the newsprint paper is hardly archival)

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Johnny Bacardi

1. Trots and Bonnie
2. Deadenders (complete this time)
3. The Shadow by Helfer & Baker
4. Adventures of Bob Hope

and... oh yeah...

5. Thriller!

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Charles Brownstein

1) The Comics of National Lampoon, organized by artist
2) The Complete Works of Joel Beck
3) The Complete Works of Richard Corben
4) Tales From The Heart (one proper, definitive edition)
5) Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children (Not Comics, but originally presented in that format. And I still love it)

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Michael Grabowski

1. Michael Evans' Montague Hale
2. Al Taliaferro's Donald Duck (a decent best-of would be fine)
3. Air Pirates Funnies
4. Kurtzman & Elder's Goodman Beaver (complete, including "Goodman Goes Playboy")
5. Steve Ditko's non-Spider-man/Dr. Strange work for Marvel in the 60's.

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Danny Ceballos

1. Fort Thunder, PAPER RODEO newspapers
2. George Carlson's work from Jingle Jangle Comics
3. Gabrielle Bell's 31 Day's of July Web Comic Experiment
4. Osama Tezuka's Phoenix
5. Frank Santoro's Blast Furnace Funnies

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John Platt

1. The Secret Files of Dr. Drew
2. The complete Dick Briefer funny Frankenstein issues
3. F.G. Cooper's cartoon monograms
4. The collected gag cartoons of Tom Cheney
5. All of Rick Geary's short strips

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Stergios Botzakis

1. Mark Landman's Fetal Elvis stories
2. Alan Moore's Miracleman
3. Pete Bagge's Hate Annuals
4. The Grendel: God and the Devil storyline
5. Tim Truman's Scout

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Grant Goggans

1. Doonesbury by G.B. Trudeau
2. The Bogie Man by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Robin Smith
3. Steed & Mrs. Peel by Grant Morrison and Ian Gibson
4. Oh, Wicked Wanda! by Frederic Mullally and Ron Embleton
5. Sapphire & Steel by Angus Allen and Arthur Ranson

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Dustin Harbin

1) Blueberry
2) Comprehensive collections of early Richie Rich
3) Adolf (I know this isn't what you're asking, BUT it's been out of print forever, since long before the Vertical revival of Tezuka reprints)
4) Corto Maltese
5) All Jay Stephens' early stuff (Sin Comics, Oddville, etc.)

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Mark Coale

1. 1950s danger trail
2. 1950s phantom stranger
3. Master of kung fu
4. Deadly hands of kung fu magazine
5. All american men of war balloon buster

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Gerry Alanguilan

1. Collections of the best work from Nestor Redondo, Alfredo Alcala, and Alex Niño from '70s DC.
2. Collection of Barry Windsor Smith's 80's work from Marvel including covers.
3. Mad Magazine Omnibus collecting issues #1-50
4. Alan Moore's oversized Swamp Thing Omnibus in black and white.
5. Supernatural Thrillers from Marvel.

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M. Emery

1. Ron Embleton/Frederic Mullally Oh Wicked Wanda!
2. Jose Ortiz/Alan Hebden/John Wagner/Alan Grant The Tower King/House of Daemon
3. Keith Watson Dan Dare
4. Len Lawson The Lone Avenger
5. Conrad Frost/Basil Blackaller/Tony Speer Ace O'Hara

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Gabe Fowler

1. Raw 1-8 (comprehensive, full-size)
2. Arcade
3. Dan Clowes's uncollected early work
4. all of Cowboy Henk by Kamagurka and Seele
5. Paper Rodeo

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Simon Heath

1. Krazy Kat dailies by George Herriman
2. Polly and Her Pals dailies by Cliff Sterrett
3. U.S.S. Stevens by Sam Glanzman
4. Thriller by Robert Loren Fleming and Trevor Von Eeden
5. Master of Kung Fu by Moench and Gulacy et al.

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Fred Hembeck

1. Dennis The Menace by Fred Toole and Al Wiseman
2. Little Archie by Bob Bolling
3. EVERYTHING Jim Aparo illustrated for Charlton: Wander, Thane, Tiffany Sinn, The Prankster, Miss Bikini Luv, The Phantom, and a bunch of mystery and sci-fi tales (while i certainly liked his DC stuff, there's something about his earlier work that I absolutely love!)
4. All the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Atlas era (and early Marvel) shorts. I realize that these are actually being collected in the ongoing Atlas Masterworks editions currently being published, but--taking nothing away from the accompanying stories by Kirby, Heck and all the rest--having the Ditko stories all gathered together in one place would be a dream come true!
5. Master of Kung Fu by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy

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Scott Dunbier

* Wordsmith
* Slow Death
* Witzend
* Kelly Green
* Weirdo

I know Wordsmith was collected in a couple of trades but I'd like to see it in a nice book.

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Michael Buntag

1. Darna by Mars Ravelo and Nestor Redondo
2. Voltar by Alfredo Alcala
3. Ikabod by Nonoy Marcelo
4. Slice of Life by Larry Alcala
5. Hagibis by Francisco V. Coching

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Mark Waid

1. Scott McCloud's ZOT, complete in a uniform library
2. The Complete Superman Dailies and Sundays, 1939-1965
3. Jimmy Thompson's Robotman
4. Tales From the Heart by Goff & Nieves
5. John Stanley's Dunc 'n' Loo

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topic suggested by John Vest; thanks, John

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