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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
11/10/2020
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I was looking at my collection of X-Men comics and from December 1970 to April 1975, issues #67 to #93 were all reprints. Two questions, #1, were there other Marvel series in reprints in that time frame? #2 question, why? Was Marvel in short of cash, out of ideas for stories or did Stan take a few years off???
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collectibleshop Posts: 3088
11/10/2020
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google is your friend 
from the CGC forum: "When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby first introduced the X-Men it was not received as well as Lee's other creations. The public at the time could not relate to it as much as a Spiderman (sic) or Fantastic Four. It was penciled to be cancelled but some Marvel execs and Stan Lee decided to not give up on the series. Instead of being cancelled, reprints of old issues were released in 1970's. Marvel saw that the stories and artwork is solid and that maybe the series was ahead of its time. It was a cheap and easy way of making money and the reprints slowly created a little larger fan base and Marvel decided it was time for a re-launch in 1975. Most people do not know that the reprints are missing a few pages of the original stories - it was necessary to fit in the modern formats of the day. For reading the full stories, you are better off getting the Marvel Masterworks reprints."
from comicbookresources forum: "In 1970 a number of Marvel titles with lagging sales were cancelled. The original X-Men run ended with the publication of issue #66 March 1970. There was an up roar amongst X-Men fans, so much so that in Dec.1970 Marvel resurrected the title with issue #67 as a double sized reprint featuring issues #12 & 13 from the original run."
and Marvel had multiple reprint titles going in the mid-70s, but most if not all had their own title so you pretty much knew they were reprints, like (from the same CGC thread) Marvel Tales (Spidey), Marvels Greatest Comics (FF), Marvel Triple Action (Avengers), Marvel Double Action (Tales of Suspense), Marvel Super-Heroes (Tales to Astonish), Marvel Spectacular (Sgt.Fury, then Thor, or vice versa), Marvel Adventures (Daredevil).
The more you knooooowwwww....
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
11/11/2020
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Why google when we have you here! Thanks.
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collectibleshop Posts: 3088
11/11/2020
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quinnspuddinjoker wrote:
Why google when we have you here! Thanks.
cuz it's faster and available all the time? Google--billions of answers, no waiting. except then going thru the billion answers to find an actual answer.
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
11/11/2020
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As I said, we got you! I am always thankful of this.
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
11/15/2020
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Also not mentioned...
While sales figures had warranted cancellation, Neal Adams worked on the title starting at #56. The sales had actually increased at the time of cancellation. There was a lag time on sales results, so Marvel did not actually see the increase in sales until after it had gone into reprints.
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
11/16/2020
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See, info I’d probably wouldn’t of seen if googled! Thanks.
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
11/19/2020
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quinnspuddinjoker wrote:
See, info I’d probably wouldn’t of seen if googled! Thanks.
Neal has discussed his run on the series in podcasts.
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