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* [[Archie Comics]] seems to rarely reprint stuff involving their (Non-Pureheart) superhero output: They themselves put out three trade paperbacks in the early 2000s on certain characters.

** Archie is offering many of the stories as part of its ''[[New Crusaders]]'' digital subscription service starting Spring 2012.

* ''[[Elf Quest]]'', while an excellent series, hasn't been reprinted since 2003, its quarter-centennial, and the only full-ish reprints--the Donning/Starblaze 20th anniversary Readers Collections--are getting harder and harder to find as time goes on. On the plus side, all of it--and even never-printed material from aborted series--is available on the official website.

* The issues of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage]]'' written and illustrated by [[Rick Veitch]] (issues #24-26 and 30 of Volume One of the original Mirage run, plus the story "North by Downeast" initially serialized in Plastron Cafe #1-4 and later colorized and given a conclusion in the two-part ''Casey Jones'' mini-series) face problems when it comes to reprints as Veitch never signed away those rights. Possibly the TMNT stories by a guy named Rick Arthur (who did TMNT Vol. 1 #41 and a short story called "Lucindra" in Turtle Soup (vol. 2) #1) fall into the same trap, though there's no confirmation from anyone involved with the franchise (nor from Rick Arthur himself, who seems to have fallen off the face of the earth without doing any other other comic book work). Frank Bella, who did the two-page gag story "Pesticide" in Turtle Soup (vol. 1) #1, also never signed away reprint rights, which leads this troper to believe that the same thing happened with the other story in that special (save for one done by Mirage regular Eric Talbot which was later reprinted, a crossover story with [[Stan Sakai]]'s ''[[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Usagi Yojimbo]]'' which has been reprinted times, and one by Steve Bissette who did sell the rights to his TMNT-related work). Some of the other TMNT short stories and Vol. 1 issues done by freelance writers and artists during the late 1980s and early 1990s may also have legal problems, but in some cases it's hard to tell since Mirage's contracts could be a bit loose regarding reprint rights at the time.

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