So I stumbled across this collection the other day and it looks pretty nice for the price! 35 bucks.

All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition – HIVE Comicade








Three quarters of a century ago, Orrin C. Evans lead a team of cartoonists to create the first comic book anthology of original Black characters created by Black talent, with the expressed purpose of entertaining while rejecting harmful stereotypes and pushing boundaries in the industry. This was only 8 years after Action Comics #1, 6 years after Captain America #1 and a whole 19 years before Black Panther hit the pages of Fantastic Four. All-Negro Comics #1 should be among those revered moments in comic book history, but the original print run was quickly removed from newsstands and in the present day, Superman and Black Panther are recognized everywhere while All-Negro Comics is a factoid that cannot be easily found or read.

All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition is an 88 page hardcover that includes:

• The complete 52 page comic from 1947, digitally remastered! Consistent colors, crisp text, and no damage!
• Brand new prose and comics featuring the All-Negro Comics characters by notable Black creators of today!
• Brand new essays that provide historical and cultural context for folks of any background, thereby deepening the reading experience!

Editor: Christopher Robinson

Lettering: Deron Bennett

Illustrator and recoloring: Tony Washington

Participating Creators: David Brothers (Comics Alliance); Jasmine Hatcher (Kaleidoscope); Ray-Anthony Height (Midnight Tiger); Ryan Marlow (professional debut); Sharean Morishita (Love! Love! Fighting!); Micah Peters (The Ringer); Shawn Pryor (Cash & Carrie); Zipporah B. Smith (Milestone Intiative)

Fascinating. I'm guessing the cover price being 50% higher than other comics of the era was due to a much lower circulation, therefore higher printing fees, etc. ?

Hate to say it but at the time, it was probably just an additional "fuck you" to the black community.

I have no idea though but that would be my first assumption considering.

The higher cover price could also be because they didn't attract advertisers (who subsidized the costs of comics back in the day) the same way that other publishers and titles did.

I was thinking that advertising (or lack thereof) might be a factor as well. I'd hope it wasn't just a "fuck you" to the black community, but it was America in the 1940s, so it's unfortunately a possibility. Hopefully it was just a case of economies of scale, which does make sense.

Always good to learn something new every day, and learning a bit more about the history of All-Negro Comics is fascinating.

Kind of related, victims of the great DC Implosion of 1978, printed for copyright reasons:

I disliked Klaus Janson's art as much as Jack Kirby's as a kid/teen. Still not a fan typically.

I didn't mind some of his inks on Frank Miller's pencils, but that's about it.

Somethings never change. Is Archie a little fickle?

Gotta give ya credit for finding and posting all that!