TMNT #50 Treasury Edition
 

#50 treasury edition out today, reprinting (in a grand scale!) the original layouts of issue 50, with lots of Kevin's annotations! Also surprised to see full notes on issues 51 thru 54 included. Not sure why they stopped at 54 though - maybe to coincide with the Ultimate v4 Collection? Would have liked to see the final pages reprinted along with the layouts (but they probably want you to pick up the Ultimate Collection for that too). All topped off with some rockin' pin-ups, which I believe were also in the original issue 50, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it's a gem of a book to have for the hardcore TMNT fans, some 'new-old' material from the vaults of yesteryear. Definitely worth a look!

Does it have duotones?

No - because they are page layouts, not final art.

Oh, I thought it was the regular #50 in addition to layouts. So you don't get the actual original comic at all?

Nope, as I said, they probably want you to buy the Ultimates Collection for that... or they just didn't have room (it's THICK for a staple-bound book). #50 was duotoned appropriately in the collection though, right?

EDIT: there is a 'Reference & Notes' section where Kevin makes some notes on a few shrunken-down pages of the final art.

Wait.. no actual comic pages?? Layout pages only, mmh... I think I need to see it before buying this one. I was thinking to buy Ultimate Collection vol.4 and then we discovered that duoshade issue, so I decided to buy this one so that I could have had the first issue of City at War oversized at least but now.. I'm not sure I'm even buying this.

Yeah, the way this thing was advertised I thought it was the regular issue #50.

Hmmm, might be cool. I'll have to see if my shop has it when I head in.

I wasn't impressed that its not the actual book in treasury size... the artwork and stuff is cool to see... but i was hoping for an actual reprint... yet, i bought it anyways. lol

Didn't see a copy at my comic shop today. I didn't plan on buying but I would be interested to browse through a copy of this one.

I wasn't sure if my shop would be getting this, but they did and I'm actually really impressed with it. Honestly, including the finished comic wouldn't make sense in this context. It is an interesting format to publish in. I could see them putting these layouts and the finished comic into a hardcover collection.

Didn't even know this was coming out. Ordered.

I hope to get this

Are these the layouts that were in the Artobiography book from a few years ago?

Unfortunately my shop didn't have this so I wasn't able to pick it up today. However, I did find some page previews here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...eview&id=16124

Hopefully this will be helpful to some people.

That IS helpful, mhm! It tells me it's an instabuy. I'll have to keep my eyes out for it, that content is new to me.

I preordered this a while ago, along with this:

http://forbiddenplanet.com/100758-te...phy-hardcover/

It got posted yesterday but it hasn't arrived yet. I assumed it was just a larger scale issue 50 but nevermind, I'm sure the content will make up for it!

I just picked this up today and I think it's great. I love seeing behind the scenes stuff like this. Also, if anyone cares about this kind of stuff, the book feels very high quality, almost tpb quality.

With a $10 Price Tag I'm going to guess most shops didn't order general stock, they probably only ordered copies for specific people that pre-ordered them when they saw it listed in the Previews (which was all the way back in November I believe since this book was supposed to ship in February.) I pre-ordered mine but haven't gotten a chance to pick it up yet from the shop, I'm looking forward to it!

Just picked this up, and flipping through the book, the content seems pretty dope (especially since #50 is one of my favorite issues), but two things stand out as really weird. Why is it not bound like a trade and why is it so big? Geez...I have no idea where I'm gonna put that thing. I don't know if all treasury editions are like this but this issue's size is cumbersome, and bulky. I haven't made it home yet, but I'm pretty sure it can't be comfortably stored with any other TMNT books. Its really odd.

**Edit** Woohoo, I finally made it to 100 posts!