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It's a tricky question. An all Eastman/Laird Mirage would of been cool sure...
But, the thing is so tough to imagine. Vol. 1 is amazing because they got busy... because they couldn't work on stuff... It's just great in those respects.
I couldn't imagine it any other way. The thing is... if they never licensed stuff out and it was a moderate success... they would of been forced to do issues, and it probably wouldn't of ran to 62 issues anyways.
So I guess I prefer the way it turned out. We got Eastman/Laird stuff through what? #11 was it? Then Laird did 12 by himself? I can't remember.
Then we got the Return to NY stuff for 3 issues then it was all the way until the City at War stuff? I think? Not sure.
But all those guest era stuff for a couple years were great. It shook it up, gave up interesting covers, weird stories... bad stories and some really really good ones.
The magic is in the 1st 10 issues in my opinion, the rest is just really good stuff, with some bad mixed in.
I'm very pleased with how Vol. 1 holds up over time. It's perfect in it's own way.
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