Today’s mail brought yet another Marvel Comics’ hardcover which reprints an old comic story of mine—and at this point, they’re all old comic stories.

The book collects the adventures of such superheroes as Adam Warlock, Nova, Rocket Raccoon and others before they assembled in the 2006 Marvel Comics crossover Annihilation to battle Annihilus, the Super-Skrull, and other super villains.

My contribution to the volume was drawn by Mike Zeck and first appeared as a back-up story in a 1977 issue of Logan’s Run. It focused on an early battle between Drax the Destroyer and Thanos. This is the second time the story has been reprinted, as it also appeared in the trade paperback Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos.

So many of my ’70s comic-book stories have been reprinted in recent years that I occasionally feel that old impulse surge up, and think that I’d like to publish something new in comics. I don’t know that I’ll ever try, because when ideas do pop into my head, they’re always for text-only short stories rather than anything that seems particularly suited for comics. But these reprints certainly do stoke that appetite even as they bring back good memories.