IDW takes G.I.Joe Classic TPB's beyond Marvel's!

GITrekker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Noticed this in my Westfield Comics catalog today -- Volume 6 -- that's SIX -- of G.I.Joe Classic trade paperbacks from IDW.

Now, I have the first five of the trade paperbacks from Marvel, which is when they ceased publishing them. And even though I have all of the original comics, there is something to be said for the convenience of the trades.

I was pleased that IDW was reprinting them, but I was also hoping they would go BEYOND them, and this confirms to me that they are! They're even continuing to have J. Scott Campbell do the new covers.

Good news as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully it is for some of you as well! :-D

night force cynic · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

volume 7 has been solicited on a few websites too... let me see if I can dig up a link

yes, it's most definitely VERY good news

Mysterious Stranger · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:27 pm

I think that since they started putting these out right away when they got the license we'll see them get at least the entire main title run out in TPB form. They did take up a few publishing slots with those "best of" compilations which I have passed on because they're coming out in sequential order eventually.

I don't have the original Marvel run except for a couple of issues I picked up as a kid. So these trades are great and I'm loving reading the issues a few at a time.

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:40 pm

not to steal thunder, but these have been available for pre-order from amazon for awhile now -- at a good price --

GITrekker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Mysterious Stranger wrote:

I think that since they started putting these out right away when they got the license we'll see them get at least the entire main title run out in TPB form. They did take up a few publishing slots with those "best of" compilations which I have passed on because they're coming out in sequential order eventually.

Yeah, I've been passing on the "Best of" ones myself for precisely the same reason.

J_Man · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:42 pm

I've seen the re-releases of the trades and was waiting for the ones that never came out. I'll have to grab the others so I'll have them in print that way eventually.

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:09 pm

#6 is supposed to ship in December, with #7 following early next year

Redmao · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:55 am

Are the IDW TPB exactly like those that came out a few years ago?
Are they divided in the say way issue wise?

Stalker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

They're every 10 issues. I have the original Marvel tpb volume 1 and then picked up with the IDW tpbs for Volumes 2, 3, & 4.

Must haves to fill the holes in your comic collections.

bucky · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am **Location:** IA

I'm going to get them all. MIght even dump my single issues afterwards.

JeffBohn · **Joined:** Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:09 pm

They didn't really take any publishing slots for the Best of TPBs, the Classics have been coming out every other month on schedule. The 'Best of' books seemed to exist to have some character specific books out there for the movie release. The quality of those books wasn't as good, as they hadn't nailed down the re-coloring process, so anything not previously collected didn't look as good.

IDW has said that the they've got the coloring process in place now, so Classic TPBs 6+ should look much better.

IDW takes G.I.Joe Classic TPB's beyond Marvel's!

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