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Post by MRPs_Missives on Apr 12, 2024 1:30:52 GMT -5
Might not be around much today so getting this up early... This is your chance to showcase a book form your collection that belongs on the top shelf-it can be a rare book, a key book, a valuable book, a book with a great cover, a book with a story you adore, but a book that you just love for whatever reason and want to share with the community. Here's my pick for this week... I'm going with my PS Artbook facsimile edition of one of the earliest graphic novels, with gorgeous art by the inestimable Matt Baker...It Rhymes with Lust  -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 12, 2024 4:05:58 GMT -5
This is one of the earliest books that I owned featuring the FF. It's the two parter where Daredevil helps them battle Dr. Doom. The catch is, that the team has no powers. I love this book also because it has a third story that pits Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch against the Human torch and the Thing. It's a reprint from a Strange tales book.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 12, 2024 4:29:14 GMT -5
(...) I'm going with my PS Artbook facsimile edition of one of the earliest graphic novels, with gorgeous art by the inestimable Matt Baker... It Rhymes with Lust
This week it's my turn to express pleasure at seeing a book here that I also own. It's a wonderfully done reprint, with - obviously - beautiful art and a pretty good story as well. So this week, I'll pick something similar: another rather recent, and nicely done, reprint of a book that until then had been pretty hard to find at anything resembling a reasonable price. I'm talking about Alien: The Illustrated Story by Archie Goodwin and the incomparable Walt Simonson that was originally published by Heavy Metal Magazine...
I've gushed about this adaptation at length before, both on this forum and on other comics-related sites, so I'll just say here that this is a book I'm so pleased to own. I think it really sets the standard for how movies should be adapted to comics.
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Post by DubipR on Apr 12, 2024 8:01:01 GMT -5
In memory of the passing of the great Trina Robbins, I highly recommend any of her books that talk about women in comics. Amazingly informative and a must for everyone's bookshelves. A Century of Women Cartoonists, from late 1800s to the 1990s, Robbins gives us the history of those pioneers that were overshadowed and some you never heard of. It's an amazing read, like of her works.  |
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Post by driver1980 on Apr 12, 2024 8:13:41 GMT -5
What do you do if you decide you’d like to read some Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire Justice League? Why, you dig out the omnibus of course:   |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 12, 2024 8:57:26 GMT -5
My pick would be one of the MGN that really wowed me when I first read it. It' a great non-superhero suspense stroy. It reminds me of the those forbidding 70's no one knows about films that has all of like 3 actors in the movie. It bare bones, no frills story about the colder side of humanity. Those movies that you walk away from the theater looking over your shoulder and wishing you hadn't parked so far away from the theater entrance. Oh and it was based on a true story. Arena GN #1 (1989) Writer/Artist Bruce Jones  |
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 12, 2024 13:04:40 GMT -5
First appearance of the Silver Age Black Canary. I've been hyping this importance of this book for 15 years, but it's only recently that it seems to have caught on some. The classic black cover doesn't hurt either.  |
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Post by Rags on Apr 12, 2024 13:54:31 GMT -5
5 decades of the best of MAD's legendary caricaturist, Mort Drucker, collected in one lovely 272 page HC.
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Post by Rags on Apr 12, 2024 13:57:48 GMT -5
First appearance of the Silver Age Black Canary. I've been hyping this importance of this book for 15 years, but it's only recently that it seems to have caught on some. The classic black cover doesn't hurt either.
^ I need to get this.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 12, 2024 17:52:45 GMT -5
My pick would be one of the MGN that really wowed me when I first read it. It' a great non-superhero suspense stroy. It reminds me of the those forbidding 70's no one knows about films that has all of like 3 actors in the movie. It bare bones, no frills story about the colder side of humanity. Those movies that you walk away from the theater looking over your shoulder and wishing you hadn't parked so far away from the theater entrance. Oh and it was based on a true story. Arena GN #1 (1989) Writer/Artist Bruce Jones I think my favorite MGN was Neuromancer, really sucks that they never continued the story for various reasons. It was a really good adaptation, probably only bested by the BBC Radio Play Thought I knew what I wanted to post about, but after some soul searching, I knew it had to be Super Mario Adventures  I got my original copy years ago at the clearance section at a local Walmart and loved it, but it unfortunately got water damaged fairly badly. Before the re-release came about, trying to replace it was a nightmare, people wanting insane amounts of money because of how popular Nintendo products are. While it's still an all-ages read, it's not without it's charms. When I was younger, I loved the character of "Friendly Flyod", this door to door salesman who sells lipstick to Paranaha Plants and gives the Mario Bros an English to Yoshi translation book that proves utterly useless.   It's full of great moments like that. Another one that sticks out is Mario and Luigi winding up at a Boo House and conning the biggest one into revealing the location of Koopa's castle during a break-thru therapist consultation     |
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Post by spoon on Apr 13, 2024 12:22:31 GMT -5
(...) I'm going with my PS Artbook facsimile edition of one of the earliest graphic novels, with gorgeous art by the inestimable Matt Baker... It Rhymes with Lust
This week it's my turn to express pleasure at seeing a book here that I also own. It's a wonderfully done reprint, with - obviously - beautiful art and a pretty good story as well. So this week, I'll pick something similar: another rather recent, and nicely done, reprint of a book that until then had been pretty hard to find at anything resembling a reasonable price. I'm talking about Alien: The Illustrated Story by Archie Goodwin and the incomparable Walt Simonson that was originally published by Heavy Metal Magazine...
I've gushed about this adaptation at length before, both on this forum and on other comics-related sites, so I'll just say here that this is a book I'm so pleased to own. I think it really sets the standard for how movies should be adapted to comics.
I have a 2012 reprint of Alien: The Illustrated Story. I was thrilled when I learned such a thing existed, because I'm a big fan of the original film. There was also a high school here in New Jersey that put on a stage production of Alien. It went viral on the internet, so they put on an encore performance and I drove there to see it. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 14, 2024 5:14:09 GMT -5
5 decades of the best of MAD's legendary caricaturist, Mort Drucker, collected in one lovely 272 page HC.
There’s just too many artists to all fit in my Mount Rushmore. He certainly needs to be there. I used to just study his pages in Mad magazine. I was surprised to learn he actually did straight comic book work in the 60’s. |
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Post by MDG on Apr 15, 2024 14:41:46 GMT -5
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Post by Kal on Apr 16, 2024 14:24:58 GMT -5
I'm late to the game but here is my set of Steranko's History of Comics (I know we're supposed to post just one book but these are kind of a package deal to me). First volume 1970, second is 1972, just tons of great information and visuals (even with the B&W format inside), and no modern BS. Gorgeous wraparound covers too, I can still lose myself for hours in these.   |
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