The Comic Conspiracy: Episode 658

But first, I have to talk about one of the coolest-looking collections ever.

Out of nowhere, Marvel, who has been just – I don't know what has been going on with Marvel's graphic novel department.

Like it was the cream of the crop for years, and all of a sudden the last year or two because of all the problems they've been having with everything else, their graphic novel – like so much stuff is going out of print immediately.

Very few new books are coming out.

Like new stuff is, but it's like whatever was going on has – because they've really slowed down, which is unfortunate.

But then out of nowhere, they announce two faux leather-bound Indiana Jones Marvel comics and other stuff on the buses.

And they're nice sizes, too.

They're like, what is it? The first one is, I have the list here.

It's like 1 through 16, and So it's not like – they're not big books.

They're like $75, Toby,

so they're like the midsize ones.

Oh, good.

Yeah, two leather-bound Indiana Jones, The Further Adventures, which collects all the Marvel Indiana Jones comics from the 70s and 80s.

Or from the 70s, from the 80s.

And did they do it into the 90s? No, by that time it had gone to Dark Horse.

Did they – They must have –

when did The Last Crusade come out? Was that 90? Was it like – 89.

89.

Yeah, yeah.

So yeah, right at the very tail end there.

And these – I think

Dark Horse reprinted

these as part of their little – Those, like, kind of half-size omnibuses they were collecting, like Alien and Predator and Buffy, and I want to say they did these, but these haven't been collected in any sort of, like, standard version, let alone a cool, oversized book.

So, yeah, obviously a passion project for someone at Marvel, because this is an awesome-looking collection.

I'm not going to say they're the greatest comics ever made, but this stuff has not been reprinted by Marvel, and definitely not in this format, so...