More details on the "EC Comics Archives"

From the Yahoo! EC Comics Group, Russ Cochran further details his plans for a hard cover series reprinting the classic EC titles:

Gemstone Publishing is about to embark on a new adventure: Reprinting
the ECs in a format called the EC Archives. Similar to the DC
Archives, and the Spirit Archives, these would be hardcover volumes, sewn, not
perfect bound, in full color, approximately comic book size, and the
"new" thing about these books is that they would be aimed at the book
store trade market...the Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc, etc stores. I
have a couple of questions I would like to have feedback on from this EC
forum:

1. Should the EC Archives stick strictly to using all the EC stories,
in chronological order...or should we pick out the "best" stories?

2. DC Archives are printed on a matte finish paper. Marvels are
printed on a slick glossy paper. Which do you prefer? We plan to make new
colorings of each page of the EC art and print these by scanning the
artist's colorings, not by the old fashioned way of mechanical
separations. This would give a greater range of colors than the old way, more
subtleties in the coloring, while still sticking the the original EC
coloring theme in general.

In Comic Book Marketplace #116, as an experiment, I asked Marie Severin
to color a 7 page Wally Wood story, "Hate", from an early issue of
Shock Suspenstories. I was very happy with the result. This was printed
on glossy stock, but I can also see the validity to the argument of
using a matte finish paper of good quality but not glossy. Help me out
here, EC fans...tell me what you think!

For what it's worth, I vote matte finish paper (it's not shiny, doesn't reflect light so much and shows off the art better) and am in favor of reprinting everything chronologically.

Man, this is great news...

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