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[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for January 6, 20, 26.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a neat new volume to pick up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel will collect the classic Star Wars Newspaper strips that ran from 1979 to 1984 in a brand new omnibus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verizon TV2, the stories are by Russ Manning and Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson and take place in the period between a new hope and Empire Strikes Bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only that, but the strips will include the colorized versions which were collected and released by Dark Horse when they had the Star Wars license.
[SPEAKER_00]: So got that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel publish them in newspapers then Dark Horse collected them and now they're back at Marvel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Licenses is aside, it's neat to have these otherwise mostly forgotten pieces of comic book history collected again.
[SPEAKER_00]: They previously released an epic collections by Marvel.
[SPEAKER_00]: The 1,096 page hardcover titled Star Wars Legends The Newspaper Strips Omnibus will hit stores on July 22nd.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here are some magical news.
[SPEAKER_00]: D.C. will collect Paul Dini's Zittana stories in one 720 page hard cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Featuring art by Stephen Rude, Joe Canone's, Cliff Chang and more of the collection, titled appropriately Zittana by Paul Dini Obtibus, include issues of detective comic 16 issues of the Zittana series, and several one shots.
[SPEAKER_00]: The collection will cost $100 feature a cover by Adam Hughes and hit stores on May 5.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Albin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I can't wait to re-read that strip where Luke Skywalker tries to eat a big sandwich, but his nag of a wife keeps interrupting him.
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