Road to Watchmen

[Dumarest]

Coming out on November 5th. I already have 95% of this material from the two volumes of the Action Heroes Archives, which included Captain Atom as well, but this also includes the early '80s material from Americomics when they very briefly licensed the Charlton characters. I also have all the old Charlton comics but these collections are a nice way to read them without destroying your 50-year-old magazines. I assume the Captain Atom stories will be in a sequel volume. All of the Charlton stuff is by Steve Ditko in his prime, right after quitting Marvel.

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[Voros]

Wow, so this is reprints of the original comics?

 

[Dumarest]

Wow, so this is reprints of the original comics?

"Collecting stories from CAPTAIN ATOM (1966) #83-86, BLUE BEETLE (1967) #1-6, MYSTERIOUS SUSPENSE #1, CHARLTON PREMIERE #3, THE CHARLTON BULLSEYE(1975) #1, #5, THE CHARLTON BULLSEYE (1981) #1, AMERICOMICS #3 and AMERICOMICS SPECIAL #1."

 

[Voros]

Awesome, added to my Wishlist.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Ooh, what's the cost on this bad boy gonna be?

 

[Dumarest]

Ooh, what's the cost on this bad boy gonna be?

Last I checked I think it was $49.99 for 400 pages of material.

 

[A Fiery Flying Roll]

Also looking forward to Alan Moore's grumpy rant about this.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Looks like Dr. Manhattan has rewritten the timeline to prevent this from happening:

DC Comics Cancels The Road To Watchmen

Bleeding Cool reported on DC Comics' plans to repackage old Steve Ditko comic books with The Question and Blue Beetle as 'The Road To Watchmen', noting

www.bleedingcool.com

 

[Dumarest]

Looks like Dr. Manhattan has rewritten the timeline to prevent this from happening:

DC Comics Cancels The Road To Watchmen

Bleeding Cool reported on DC Comics' plans to repackage old Steve Ditko comic books with The Question and Blue Beetle as 'The Road To Watchmen', noting

www.bleedingcool.com

At least all the Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, and Question material was already reprinted in The Action Heroes Archives.

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I would really like nice reprints of Thunderbolt, Peacemaker, Sarge Steel, and Nightshade. My originals will not hold up if I have to keep reading them. But DC doesn't own the rights to Thunderbolt anyway. (Actually, all the Charlton characters that DC thought they bought fell into the public domain due to Charlton's failure to properly copyright back in the 1960s. If you'll notice, DC changed their costumes and most of their secret IDs very quickly once their lawyers alerted them to the fact that they didn't actually own the versions they were publishing.)

 

[Voros]

That's a bummer as The Road to Watchmen was going to be a cheaper option to get a hold of the comics.