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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 22, 2017 10:59:54 GMT -5
Second shelf houses my DC Showcases:  The Toy Story gang were a Christmas gift from my youngest niece Katie and her hubby Garry. Both my brother's granddaughter Maddie and my sister's granddaughter Presley make a beeline for them whenever they visit Uncle Kurt.  Gonna have to pick up the rest of the Legion volumes one of these days.  Cei-U! That's the Rip Hunter Showcase behind the horse! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 22, 2017 11:07:18 GMT -5
The third shelf concludes my Showcase collection:  ...and begins my Essential collection. The two music encyclopedias are placeholders for as-of-yet unpurchased additions.   The figurines are the villains that came with the PVC JLA/JSA sets. Cei-U! Love that Grundy! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 11:50:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 14:13:50 GMT -5
Wow!
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 25, 2017 16:34:47 GMT -5
Almost forgot to wrap this up. Ergo, the fourth shelf featuring the rest of my Essentials:  The Pogo figurines were originally included in boxes of Duz dishwasher detergent back in 1968 as a tie-in to the Chuck Jones-produced TV special. It took me the better part of my lifetime to get the whole set, which would still be incomplete had Dr. Cyclops not run across Churchy (the turtle) at a swap meet and snagged him for me. Two generations of Mitchell clan babies have teethed on these indestructible critters, the prize of my collection.  As I've mentioned numerous times, I *love* the Essential/Showcase format. I hope one day to fill this big bruiser top to bottom with the things. The hunt at used bookstores is ON!  The bottom shelf of this bookcase (not pictured) contains all my fine art books and various volumes of movie and TV history. Cei-U! Onward! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 25, 2017 16:50:31 GMT -5
Moving on to the third and final bookcase in my office, a smaller two-shelf case. On top (not pictured) sit my CD collection, my lava lamp, my nameplate from my days at the Washington State Attorney General's Office, and a paor of ashtrays for when my nicotine-enslaved big brother drops by. Both shelves house my books on comics theory and history:  The big red book is a collection of "Max und Moritz," the proto-comic strip by German cartoonist Wilhelm Busch that Rudolph Dirks based "The Katzanjammer Kids" on. It's in German *and* printed in Gothic type so I've never actually read it.  Understanding Comics and the two R. C. Harvey books are particular favorites, and are the source of much of my thinking on the aesthetics of the medium.  By the way, all these pictures were taken by my comics-loving niece Karly. Cei-U! I summon the photo credits! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 25, 2017 17:02:22 GMT -5
Finally, the bottom shelf, and the wrap-up of this virtual tour:  Let me know if you can't make out a title or are otherwise curious about a book.  The sharper-eyed among you will have noticed there are a few spaces on this shelf. That's because my hardbound World Encyclopedia of Comics, my five volumes of the American Comic Book Chronicles (the series for which I am currently scribing the 1940s volumes), the two Steranko Histories, Michael Barrier's Funnybooks, and a handful of others are sitting either on my desk or my nightstand, readily at hand for my research.  Those are my DC and Marvel treasury-size books on the end, a modest collection I hope to extend. Cei-U! Th-th-th-that's all, folks! |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 26, 2017 8:58:53 GMT -5
Cei-U! You've been around almost as long as I and must have had most of that collected material in it's original floppy incarnation. Did you sell those comics at some point and use some of that money to buy the trade books?
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 26, 2017 10:10:32 GMT -5
Cei-U! You've been around almost as long as I and must have had most of that collected material in it's original floppy incarnation. Did you sell those comics at some point and use some of that money to buy the trade books? I did have most of the Marvel stuff printed in the Masterworks and Essentials at one point but sold off the originals as I bought the former and traded those reprinted in the latter back in '85 for the core of my Silver Age DC collection. Since nearly all my Archives reprint Golden Age material (Justice League and New Teen Titans excepted), that didn't apply. Most of the Showcases collect books I've either never owned or only have sporadic issues of. I try to avoid duplicating my actual comics in buying TPBs, as a rule. Cei-U! Did I answer your question? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 21:27:22 GMT -5
There have certainly been some pretty cool and impressive pics posted in this thread. Anyone have others to post?
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