There was plenty of positive news from SDCC for MOTU Chronicles figures (plus the slight possibility the Masterverse line isn’t dead). However, there’s also some positive rumours for Marvel Masterworks collectors.
Nothing official has been announced yet, so do bear that in mind. However some very reliable sounding news has been posted on the main Collected Editions website: Marvel Masterworks and Back and Licensed by Clover Press!
I hadn’t heard of Clover Press before. Looking at their website though, I realised that I had in fact previously looked at their Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip collections. So they’ve certainly got plenty of great experience in the collected editions field.
This is all sounding very promising. As a smaller US publisher though, I was a little worried at how good the distribution will be for us folks in the UK and Europe. I’m no expert but I have noticed that some of the more specialist comics publications (books by Fantagraphics are a good example) can be quite hard to find over here.
UK Distribution?
To put my mind at ease, I did a little bit of digging on a couple of UK-based book sellers’ websites. I didn’t spend hours on this – I basically just looked at Speedyhen and Booksetc – but I easily found listings for the Spider-Man newspaper strip books plus some of Clover Press’ art books on both websites.
This was a nice surprise and bodes well for the distribution of the new Masterworks volumes. Fingers crossed more volumes will be on the way!
(The Incredible Hulk Masterworks cover I’ve used above doesn’t really have anything to do with this news. It’s just one of my favourites!)
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