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Ahoy, Matey!
2009-07-13 11:36:03

HI Gang,
As always we have some really great trades this week. However this week there’s one trade that’s very near and dear to my heart due to its close association with my family history. My great-great grandfather “El Cabón Ribeiro” actually fought alongside the 3 Musketeers after he had reformed from a life of what he called, “Lite-piracy”. His picture has been passed down my family for 3 generations and I have scanned in his appearance in the comic (click on the image to the left to see a side by side comparison)! Be sure to read my great-great grandpappy’s adventures in MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: THE THREE MUSKETEERS. Also pick up this week’s other featured Trades: HULK VOL.2: RED & GREEN and ESSENTIAL MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE VOL.3

See you next week,
Nelson Ribeiro

Missed Masterworks
I've been keeping a watchful eye on the ever-increasing and very impressive roster of Marvel Masterworks reprints. However, one Marvel series from the seminal sixties is conspicuous by its absence. It featured work by, amongst others, Marvel greats Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, Bill Everett, John Severin, Marie Severin, and Roy Thomas.
I'm referring to Not Brand Echh!, a series so full of life, colour and the flavour of the '60s, plus the happy-go-lucky vibe of Marvel at the time. I really can't believe it's not been collected yet.
The spirit of Not Brand Echh! lives on through What The...?, Wha...Huh?, Next Wave, right through to Mini Marvels and Marvel Superheroes: What The...?, but the original is undoubtedly the best.
The Marvel Masterworks series has collected everything from Ant-Man to The Rawhide Kid to The Human Torch so how come Not Brand Echh! has been ignored so far? It must be the only '60s superhero series that hasn't been Masterworked so far.

Please do give a Not Brand Echh! collection some serious thought.

Best
Flintman

Posted by Flintman on 2009-07-16 06:30:04

Flintman
you have my vote! I;d like to see collected volumes of:
• Not Brand Echh!
• What The...?
• Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham

What does everybody else out there think? send us your emails and let us know (or reply right here!)

Posted by trades department on 2009-07-16 09:38:34

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Hi and welcome to the ALL NEW Trade Department Blog! The only place to get the inside scoop on all of Marvel’s trade paperbacks, premiere hard covers and digests!

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We are: Jeff Youngquist, Senior Editor and Trades Department Kingpin. Editors Jennifer Grünwald and Mark D. Beazley. Cory Levine and John Denning, both Assistant Editors. The debonair Alex Starbuck, Editorial Assistant to the stars. Super-designer Spring Hoteling. Trades dept. janitor, Nelson Ribeiro.