Essentials for March 2007

Sad news coming from Marvel : there'll be no new Essentials published in March 2007. Marvel is going with two new printings of old books for that month. Considering the amount of work the trade department is putting into the line month after month, we'll give them a break. It also seems new printings are as long and hard to put together as all new volumes.

ESSENTIAL FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 3 TPB (NEW PRINTING)
Written by STAN LEE
Pencils & Cover by JACK KIRBY
This volume collects perhaps the greatest of the legendary Fantastic Four stories - including the first-ever appearances of the Black Panther, the Inhumans, the Negative Zone, and the Silver Surfer and Galactus. Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #41-63 and ANNUAL #3-4.
520 PGS./All Ages …$16.99
ISBN: 0-7851-2625-2

I think there's no content change here. The previous printing also had FF #41-63 and Annual #3-4. Guess it just ran out of print...

ESSENTIAL X-MEN VOL. 5 TPB (NEW PRINTING)
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR., BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH, MICHAEL GOLDEN, BRET BLEVINS & STEVE LEIALOHA
Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
NOW INCLUDES THE EPIC X-MEN/ALPHA FLIGHT LIMITED SERIES! The X-Men face off with some of their greatest foes in this all-new edition - including the Juggernaut, Doctor Doom and the Hellfire Club's newest recruits, the Hellions - and team up with the Avengers, Spider-Man, Power Pack and more! Featuring the first appearances of Forge and Nimrod, and a chapter from the legendary SECRET WARS II crossover! Plus: Parts I and II of Claremont and Windsor-Smith's unforgettable epic, "Lifedeath." Collects UNCANNY X-MEN #180-198, X-MEN ANNUAL #8 and X-MEN/ALPHA FLIGHT #1-2.
632 PGS./ Rated T+…$16.99
ISBN: 0-7851-2692-9

Since Annual #7 is in the 2nd printing of volume 4, they took out it out from this volume to replace it with the X-Men/Alpha Flight mini series. Probably not worth getting if you already have the previous printing, but a nice addition for those who don't.