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srca1941:

--- Quote from: erwin-k on September 24, 2016, 12:01:22 PM ---Lulu you could use just as a printing service to provide copies that you market yourself. The only way to do that at CreateSpace is/was to omit the last step in the publication process. That means that all the copies you might order are marked on the last page, in large letters with the word: PROOF.

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Good to know. That means I need to be sure to leave the last page blank. Otherwise, that doesn't really bother me. These are just for reading a physical copy after all.


--- Quote from: erwin-k on September 24, 2016, 12:01:22 PM ---My advice, as far as content for your proposed Nador collections, is simple. Anthologies, or samplers, of the line's different characters. I picked up a few issues way back when. I generally like what I saw. However, reading any number of issues here on DCM, I've found the stories to be more repetitive than I like. (I mean, did the Fighting Yank ever complete a case without being rescued by his ancestor?) Perhaps you could pick a year and month, then put all the super hero titles from that month into an anthology. Just a suggestion from my personal POV.   :)

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I'm planning company or genre themed anthologies for my books. It just makes more sense from a reading standpoint to get as much variety as possible, and because of the sheer amount of GA material out there that I want to read.

I went ahead and plotted out the contents last night because I was so excited about the book (and still am). Rather than trying to be ordered and logical about it, getting in x-number of Black Terror stories, or putting everything in chronological order. I just went somewhat at random, deciding what character I wanted next and finding a story that looked good, or randomly picking a book from my Nedor folder and including the first story that stood out to me. The only special planning that went into it was saving the good post-war stories for the last 150-ish pages and making sure the story order worked to fit in double page spreads. I also tried to avoid original issues I had in my collection, or AC reprints that I have, even though they're black and white and these will be color. I think I did select a few from Bill Nolan's Pure Excitement Comics, but that's OK. I wanted as much new stuff as possible and I tried to get at least one story of most of the superheroes. A few minor ones got left out, but I'm sure I'll have a vol.2 at some point, and a vol.3, and 4, and... Actually, I figured out that with 500-ish page books, it would take over 35 volumes to fully collect Nedor's superhero books (sans Supermouse). Anyway, here is the list of what I came up with for the first volume:

 1Black TerrorAmerica's Best Comics #22Fighting YankStartling Comics #273PyromanStartling Comics #204Doc StrangeThrilling Comics #335American EagleExciting Comics #336Black TerrorExciting Comics #337WondermanMystery Comics #48American CrusaderThrilling Comics #269Hale of the HeraldThrilling Comics #2610Four ComradesStartling Comics #2311Fighting YankStartling Comics #2512Woman in RedThrilling Comics #1013LiberatorExciting Comics #1514Doc StrangeAmerica's Best Comics #1115SupermouseCoo Coo Comics #716The SphinxExciting Comics #1217Black TerrorExciting Comics #4418PyromanStartling Comics #3819Grim ReaperWonder Comics #620The OracleStartling Comics #2021Text - Fighting YankFighting Yank #422Fighting YankFighting Yank #5 - Story 123Captain FutureAmerica's Best Comics #524PyromanAmerica's Best Comics #825American EagleExciting Comics #3126Four ComradesStartling Comics #2727Doc StrangeThrilling Comics #4928The GhostThrilling Comics #4929Commando CubsThrilling Comics #4130Black TerrorExciting Comics #1231The MaskExciting Comics #232Ace BuckleyStartling Comics #733The ScarabBlack Terror #2034Captain FutureStartling Comics #3635Black TerrorExciting Comics #5036Miss MasqueExciting Comics #5337Doc StrangeAmerica's Best Comics #2738SupermouseSupermouse, the Big Cheese, Summer Holiday #1 - Story 539Black TerrorBlack Terror #19 - Story 140Miss MasqueAmerica's Best Comics #3041Fighting YankStartling Comics #4542Black TerrorAmerica's Best Comics #3043Fighting YankFighting Yank #26 - Story 344Doc StrangeThrilling Comics #6445Phantom DetectiveThrilling Comics #6146PyromanAmerica's Best Comics #2447Black TerrorBlack Terror #27 - Story 348Fighting YankFighting Yank #25 - Story 149Black TerrorExciting Comics #6750Text - Black TerrorBlack Terror #2651Black TerrorExciting Comics #64I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't get in some late-40s stuff like Pantha, or Lance Lewis, but again, there's always vol.2. I wanted to give more priority to the early-mid 40s material since less of that has been reprinted.

-Eric

Yoc:
Phew, that's a lot!  Show us a cover when you got one Eric.
Good luck!

bminor:
Wow! Looks like a tremendous amoun of work!
Good luck!

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