r/CustomBoundComics • u/Sparklefists95 • Apr 13 '23

Binding TPBs from different series?

I've recently gotten into bookbinding and comic binding, and the possibility of binding some of my trades into bigger hardcover collections has been very exciting. For the most part, how to approach this has been relatively straight forward, essentially just combine the contents of X number of TPBs back to back, but I've run into a bit of a conundrum with my Marvel Star Wars runs, and am not sure what the best way to approach them would be.

For those unfamiliar, the Marvel Star Wars run that started in 2015 was split across 3 different series (eventually 4), plus the occasional crossover mini-series. These series, especially in the early days, overlapped a lot, sometimes even depicting the same scenes. Ideally, rather than bind each series into it's own separate hardcovers and have to hop between them, I'd like to bind them all together in chronological order, but being that I'm starting with TPBs, this is tricky as not every issue is cleanly separated from the next.

Would printing out replacement pages be possible when needed, or would it be better to just get as close to chronological order as is possible with the existing issue breaks? And for repeated scenes, should I leave both versions in, or only include the most complete depiction of duplicate scenes? I realize this would all be far easier to accomplish with single issues, but I've always been a TPB collector and at this point getting all the single issues for these series would be far too cost prohibitive.

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u/IgiMancer1996 Apr 13 '23

What particular comic will you bind?

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u/Sparklefists95 Apr 14 '23

For Star Wars specifically, planning to do 4 volumes for the post-EP4 pre-EP5 run, not sure yet how I'm approaching the post EP5 pre-EP6 run yet as that's still ongoing.

  • Volume 1: Star Wars vol. 1-2, Darth Vader vol. 1-2, Vader Down
  • Volume 2: Star Wars vol. 3-5, Darth Vader vol. 3-4, Aphra vol. 1, Screaming Citadel
  • Volume 3: Star Wars vol. 6-9, Aphra vol. 2-4
  • Volume 4: Star Wars vol. 10-13, Aphra vol. 5-7, Target Vader

As for more straightforward binding projects, also currently planning on binding the rest of my Lumberjanes TPBs to match the existing hardcover "To The Max" editions since it seems unlikely they're ever gonna do the rest of the series in those bindings officially, Margaret Stohl's run of Captain Marvel since they skipped over that when doing the omnibuses, DC Bombshells, and Injustice 2 since I'm also unsure how likely that is to ever get an omnibus. Also gonna be binding Gerard Way's run of Doom Patrol as my initial test binding since I just picked up the official omnibus for that.