#facsimile editions

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"Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars" Hits 40th Anniversary in 2024

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars from Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, and Bob Layton was a Marvel Comics' first massive comic book crossover event. For the 40th anniversary of this milestone, Marvel Comics has a few celebrations planned - facsimile editions of Secret Wars and Amazing Spider-Man as well as a new saga set during Secret Wars!

During Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, The Beyonder assembled Spider-Man and members of the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men on Battleworld to fight an army of villains. Meanwhile, Doctor Doom and Magneto are each hatching their own plans.

Marvel Comics is re-presenting all 12 issues of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars as facsimile editions, meaning you get the ads and all. Each facsimile edition will also be available with new variant covers and special foil variant covers.

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 Facsimile Edition (of 12), from writer Jim Shooter and artist / cover artist Mike Zeck, goes on sale on January 3, 2024. Following issues will release monthly.

The anniversary of Secret Wars also marks the anniversary of Spider-Man's black costume, which would one day become Venom. The issue, released the same month as Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1, took place after the events of Secret Wars, leaving readers to guess as to the mystery of this new suit. Marvel Comics is releasing facsimile editions of Roger Stern, Tom Defalco, and Ron Frenz's Amazing Spider-Man #252 and it's following issues monthly, coinciding with the facsimile editions of Secret Wars.

Amazing Spider-Man #252 Facsimile Edition, from writers Roger Stern and Tom Defalco and artist / cover artist Ron Frenz, goes on sale on January 31, 2024.

Announced earlier this year, Marvel Comics is also releasing a new 4-issue story set during Secret Wars. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld hails from writer Tom DeFalco and artist Pat Olliffe.

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld takes place after Spider-Man receives the black suit. The story will also show characters not previously seen fighting in the original Secret Wars saga, characters like Baron Zemo, Hobgoblin, Electro, and Constritor.

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 (of 4) goes on sale on November 22, 2023. The first issue features a main cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli, a variant cover by Pat Olliffe, a variant cover by Francesco Mobili, an homage variant cover and a virgin homage variant cover by Ryan Stegman, a connecting variant cover by Todd Nauck, a Saturday Morning variant cover by Sean Galloway, and an Action Figure variant cover by John Tyler Christopher.

(Images via Marvel Comics - Mike Zeck's Cover of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 Facsimile Edition, Ron Frenz's Cover of Amazing Spider-Man #252 Facsimile Edition, Giuseppe Camuncoli’s Cover of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1)

[evilhorse]

House of Secrets (2024 Facsimile Edition) #92 (Beetlejuice variant cover)

[yiddishknights]

Do you all know the 16th century Old Yiddish chivalric epic Bovo d'Antona? Have you ever wanted to read a facsimile of the original 1541 edition? In vaybertaytsh font and everything? The Yiddish Book Center's got one fully digitized.

[thebibliomancer]

Remember when comic solicits would just threaten readers?

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

The commemorative box created by the publisher.

Parts of the letter that Beatrix Potter wrote to her governess’s son, Noel.

Staff Pick of the Week

Before The Tale of Peter Rabbit became a well-loved children’s book for those in England, and eventually spreading further, it was a story created for one special boy. Beatrix Potter was very fond of her last governess, Annie Moore, who had left her position in order to get married. The two women kept in touch and Beatrix was known to send Moore’s growing family illustrated letters featuring many animal friends. When Moore’s eldest son Noel fell ill, Beatrix wrote him one of her famous letters and Peter Rabbit was born.

The idea of publishing Peter Rabbit didn���t come to mind until it was suggested by fellow author, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. Despite Peter Rabbit’s monumental success presently, Potter’s story was rejected multiple times and she ended up publishing it herself in 1901, though it was a limited quantity and sold within her social circle. To no one’s surprise, however, it was a big hit! Frederick Warne & Co had rejected the idea the first time around but quickly reconsidered, if Beatrix would do the illustrations in color. This she did, and the first edition was published by Warne in October 1902. After that, the story took off, and is now a “must have” on children’s bookshelves.

To commemorate 100 years of the original Peter Rabbit picture letter of 1893, Frederick Warne & Co created this 1993 limited-edition commemorative box set in a limited edition of 1175 copies that includes a copy of the original Peter Rabbit letter and facsililes of her privately-printed edition of 1901 and the first deluxe Warne editon of 1902, all printed and bound by the venerable William Clowes Limited. Although it’s a facsimile, it was made to look and feel exactly like the original. It’s very convincing! I chose this book as my first staff pick not only because I like her artwork but because it looked like it might’ve been an original.  

View another Beatrix Potter post. 

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-- Sarah W., Special Collections Undergraduate Intern

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[fashionbooksmilano]

Jan Christian Sepp The Book of Marble

A representation of Marble Types 1776

Directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen

Geert-Jan Koot

Taschen , Cologne 2023, 312 pages, 32 26 cm, Hardcover in slipcase, 100 richly hand-coloured plates, ISBN 978-3836594349

euro 100,00

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Famous First Edition: First printing of 10,000 numbered copies

An exhaustive compendium of marble, Afbeelding der Marmor Soorten (A Representation of Marble Types) depicted 570 samples across 100 colour plates, accompanied by texts in five languages. Published in 1776 at the peak of the Enlightenment, it is regarded, rightly, as one of the finest illustrated scientific books of the era.Over the course of the 18th century, beautiful books that categorised, annotated, and illuminated the Enlightenment pursuit of learning across Europe had become increasingly popular. Knowledge was everything and everywhere, and these books provided it for those not wealthy enough to build their own personal collections of rare and exotic objects. Marmor Soorten, one such edition, took the standards of both aesthetics and categorisation to a whole new level.Jan Christiaan Sepp and his father Christian – himself a respected collector – had already earned a reputation for luxury publications on scientific themes, starting with Christian’s own Nederlandsche Insecten (Insects of the Netherlands). But it was his son who created the visual masterpiece Marmor Soorten, revising an existing German publication from 1775 by Adam Ludwig Wirsing. The result – published in 11 instalments to a print run of around 100 – was among the finest examples of its kind.Featuring new photography to depict the intricate details of the marble samples, this edition brings an unknown treasure back to relevance. The plates, each meticulously hand-coloured and arranged with painstaking precision, have an abstract-art feel that gives this volume an almost modern slant.This edition reproduces the pages from two copies of Marmor Soorten held at the State and University Library in Dresden and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Reprinting the work in full for the first time, The Book of Marble brings that rare blend of beauty and encyclopedic knowledge to a wider audience.

04/06/23

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[daydreamerdrew]

Whiz Comics (1940) #2

[gregdotorg]

Eis, Eis Baby

Gerhard Richter made a 41-color [!] screenprint version of a squeegee painting as a fundraiser edition for Lincoln Center, but also as a poster. At this point, though they're literally made from the same screens on the same paper, the signed prints are selling for like 30x the posters.

[chronivore]

Classic Traveller Facsimile Edition - Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) | DriveThruRPG

[jerryw2011]

[evilhorse]

Justice League of America #1 (Facsimile Edition)

[zegalba]

H.R. Giger: N.Y. City - Facsimile Edition (2021)

[centrally-unplanned]

I will add my voice to the chorus that chronological feed is at this point one of Tumblr's biggest selling points, because chronological is a default form of ownership. I can edit my feed to match exactly my expectations by following & unfollowing who I want, because chronology as a concept is completely scrutable to me. Algorithms are fine as everything is an algorithm; its the lack of comprehensibility and agency most platforms inflict on you that makes them so hostile to users who actively curate what they engage with.

I in fact think Tumblr would benefit from more feed options! I would absolutely enable deviations from the chronology based on the people I follow and the moods I am in - but they again would need to be under my control.

The discoverability problem is real, and I do in fact think that there should be better ways. I don't object to the "you may also like" in the corner for example. In reality Tumblr's search functions are the place to do this; they aren't as bad as many claim but they aren't great, they are exactly the choice-focused place to surface new blogs. Make that tool better and I will find others like me and give them a shot.

But. Another thing that makes tumblr great is the fact that it is 'community' based over 'content' based. I follow the people I follow, and they follow me, because we interacted with each other over time. It is a facsimile of actual socializing; you make a few comments on a post, you build up the courage for a reblog or two, you are discoursing, you tag them on a meme, now you are mutuals. Content creators are not community members - that is a hierarchical relationship, the 'lead' and the 'fan', and is defined by parasocial and weak connections. Tumblr can be more than one thing ofc, I follow some art blogs who never talk to their followers, that is a content-follow. But in the main I don't think most people want their community-based feed structure to be disrupted by attempts to content-itize it.

This is again one of Tumblr's strengths - every other site (besides partially Facebook) has pivoted to content-style models over community-style models due to inherent winner-take-all dynamics and greater monetization applications. But Tumblr cannot chase YouTube, it is going to lose, YouTube already exists. I don't see much of anything in that post that recognizes that, and that is imo a huge mistake.

[kingdomcomicscenter-blog]

Facsimile Reprint.

[owlbear33]

#i mean personally this seems a little trimmed-down for my tastes#but then again i grew up with traveller and its hyperspecific shipbuilding rules#so maybe im just a little number crunching freak

hopefully obviously, there would be more to the system than this, it's just a suggestion for the delineation of scales the game would use

(by narrower than Lancer I meant that the difference in size between a size 1/2 mech and a size 3 mech in Lancer is much larger than the size difference between an interceptor and a heavy bomber)

but really it's a matter of focus with rules that cover the generation of a wide variety of ships, from the tiniest of fighters up to supercarriers, you can only spare a bit of mechanical depth for customisation within a category

focus on just one or two categories and you can afford to have deeper customisation of those categories

it really depends on the sort of game you want to create/play, if you want to tell stories about (space) fighter pilots, you should have rules for customising (space) fighters if you want to tell stories about generic space adventurers, you probably want broader rules for customising a great variety of ships but comparatively, those rules will be shallower

it's funny really, back during Lancers' development I had some funny ideas around adapting the ruleset to spaceships, because honestly, I'm so much more into spaceships than mechs

of course, it never went anywhere because I don't really know the first thing about ttrpg dev, just a lot of ideas

but thinking about the lancer sizes adapted to spaceships, well I have ideas

using Star Wars ships as examples 1/2 - interceptors (also people in space suits), think tie fighters and A-wings 1 - mainline fighters, X-wing 2 - heavy fighters and light Bombers, Y-wing 3 - gunships, heavy bombers, B-wing 4 - corvettes, light freighters, Millenium Falcon

like it's narrower than Lancer but still good