![]() Marvel and DC, though, both decided to release weekly anthologies in the British comic book format of a lot of short serialized stories. ![]() Team-up books and anthologies are not very good for that sort of thing. ![]() As the direct market became the primary way that people bought comic books, anthologies (and team-up books) fell by the wayside as people were more interested in seeing books that "counted" and that "mattered" to the continuity of the main heroes. The format used to be WIDELY popular, but that was back when comic books were sold on the newsstand market where fans were more willing to do impulse buying, so having a LOT of features was typically seen as being very appealing to the kid with a few dimes to spend on comic books. ![]() In 1988, Marvel and DC both tried out something that had not been attempted in quite a while in the comic book industry, which was a straight comic book anthology. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT COMIC LEGEND:īarry WIndsor-Smith's Weapon X was always going to be a Marvel Comics Presents feature STATUS: ![]()
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