the Whitman 3-packs were printed at the same time as the regular newsstand comics, or if they were printed separately at a later date... hence being reprinted comics. This is a nagging question amongst collectors. I know Star Wars went into multiple printings when sold in Whitman 3-packs. That just complicates the question as to whether the initial 3-packs were reprints also.

The Prisoner was chosen as one of the greatest comics never seen in Marvel Vision #25. Apparently, Xeroxes of Jack Kirby's work completed on the first issue weren't found in hidden warehouses until late 1997. At that time, it was unknown how the art was lost or why the project was scrapped. These Prisoner pages became a captive of back closets which is ironic because Number 6Burroughs Estate was very difficult, so much so that it prompted him to quit writing Tarzan. The straw that broke the camel's back for him was when Burroughs' daughter called Thomas and accused him of plagiarizing his adaptation of a couple of the Jungle Tales of Tarzan from a Burne Hogarth book that adapted the same stories. Thomas says he pointed out that since both adaptations came from the same source it was inevitable that they would have similarities, and that he had not read the Hogarth book. Burroughs' daughter would not let it go, and went so far as to accuse John Buscema of swiping from Hogarth's book. Thomas says that would have been ludicrous since Buscema did not even like Hogarth's work and hadn't seen the