It’s always fun to be in that period where a bunch of trades are tied-ins to a big DC event, when back in the day an event tie-in issue was more likely an indication that it wouldn’t be collected than that it would.
Somehow or another it seems like DC arrived a little late to the full-court press on trades and DC K.O., with a couple of collections that weren’t solicited with “DC K.O.” in the title being renamed, and then others, like Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2, getting “DC K.O. tie-in” cover branding, maybe because it was too late for more.
I wonder if, doing it all over again, DC might’ve liked to call Aquaman Vol. 2: Justice League Blue “DC K.O.: Aquaman” instead. There’s six issues here and three had DC K.O. branding on the individual issues. That’s half, and maybe Superman or Justice League was more directly tied in to DC K.O. than Aquaman, but I’m sure I’ve seen DC try to brand less, and I wouldn’t have blamed them this time.
