# Question about TPB editions of Superman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284 "2008-07-30T21:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/1 "2008-07-30T21:46:45Z")
Are there Superman collections with No. 243/1, Oct 1971 reprinted in them? Silver age? I remember this comic from my youth. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/2 "2008-07-30T21:51:48Z")
Not sure. But I have seen Superman Collections at my local shop were they seem to be the best of type of short story arcs. So it could be in one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/3 "2008-07-31T00:42:58Z")
I am unaware of it appearing in any trade paperback. That issue came just after the Sand Superman arc which has been collected but the later-Silver/early-Bronze age Superman is almost never collected. The issue has had its stories collected in the tiny Best of DC digest books. “The Starry-Eyed Siren of Space!” was in #12 and “The Death-Trails of Krypton!” was in #40. If you’re interested in the stories these digests are harder to find than the original issue. The last story in the book was actually a reprint from the golden age Superman #38. It has been reprinted in _Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties_ but I don’t think that’s the story you were talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/4 "2008-07-31T01:20:29Z")
Hmmm…anybody else got a lead? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/5 "2008-07-31T07:22:41Z")
Wanna know who the [mystery woman](http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/superman/243-1.jpg) is, do ya? Well, she is indeed the Starry-Eyed Siren of Space referenced by Just Some Guy, and I have that Best of DC digest, too. It was published in May, 1981 and is headlined as “6 Adventures in Time-and-Space!” E-mail me if you need scans, though it’s a pretty mediocre story. _Superman, You’re Dead, Dead, DEAD!_ in the same compilation is more interesting. Incidentally, [here’s the digest.](http://www.digestcomics.com/2007/05/best-of-dc-blue-ribbon-digest-12-may.html) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/6 "2008-07-31T12:33:28Z")
The Showcase editions haven’t caught up to that point yet, but given them time… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/7 "2008-07-31T20:33:27Z")
Hmmm…local comics shop lacked it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/8 "2008-07-31T22:26:00Z")
Try used bookstores. Some of them have bins of old chewed-up comics. Or even garage sales, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tpb-editions-of-superman/458284/9 "2008-07-31T22:42:18Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] The Showcase editions haven’t caught up to that point yet, but given them time.. [/QUOTE] A lot of time. With three volumes they’re up to about 1962 and they cover both Action Comics and Superman. They’re doing roughly two and half years per volume so it’ll take several more years before they reach it. On the positive side of things October 1971 does put it a bit before DC started its progressive freelancer contracts which has killed so many other Showcase volumes so it seems reasonable that it would get collected eventually even if it is in the last Showcase Superman volume.