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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 15, 2024 23:11:25 GMT -5
Sorry was busy running around today, and didn't get a chance to do this earlier... Welcome to the third week of Top Shelf Friday. This is a way to feature comics you love innovated by a fellow collector I interact with over on bluesky-Vinsonlovescomics and I have enjoyed participating in it and seeing lots of wonderful comics. Each Friday I'll ask you to post a comic that you own that you believe belongs on the "Top Shelf" whether it's a key, just a beautiful comic, or just a comic that you love for whatever reason. In a sea of negativity, it's a chance to share something comic-related that you love with the community. Here's my entry this week... Piracy #1 the only non-reprint EC Comic I own...  Love this stuff, I have a lot of EC via the Gemstone reprints, but this is my only original EC at the moment. -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 16, 2024 3:58:04 GMT -5
(...) Welcome to the second week of Top Shelf Friday. (...) Isn't this the third week?
This week I'm highlighting Donald Duck and the Golden Helmet...
I went through a phase mainly in my 4th grade year (but it spilled over into 5th grade) when my comics reading was almost exclusively Archies and funny animals - and my favorite funny animals were the Disney ducks as published by Gold Key at the time. But my very favorite books were these Dynabrite specials published by Whitman - all had about 50 pages, no ads, printed on higher quality paper in cardstock covers. This is the first one I recall getting, and I've always had a special fondness for it - and made it a point to reacquire it later. It has the title story plus two more, all by Carl Barks.
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 16, 2024 5:43:36 GMT -5
Here’s mine:   How much it adds to The Prisoner mythos, and how necessary any sequel to that universe is, has been debated. Personally, I found it intriguing, although any sequel to the TV series must surely be apocryphal, right? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 16, 2024 6:48:11 GMT -5
I love this thread ! This week I highlight Thor #126 I originally read it in this form as a reprint-  This might be when I discovered Kirby as the most prolific and influential Artist in comics. Sure, saw his FF and Fourth World stuff were amazing ,but he blew me away with this book. Most of my collecting as a kid and maybe until my 20's were done by buying books off the news stands. In the 80's , comic books shops began to appear in the Village in NYC and I started to buy back issues for more than cover price. In the late 90's and early 2000's eBay arrived and it was a game changer. I never imagined to pay for than a few dollars for a back issue, I just never thought that way. Thor 126 broke the barrier for me. This book was given to me by my wife for Christmas but when it arrived , as nice a copy as it was, the cover was almost detached. So I bought a second copy that I want to say cost me around 50. This was the first time I can remember paying over 5 dollars for a book, but it was totally worth it. The story itself might amount to be nothing more than a classic slugfest between Hercules and a Jealous Thor , but I loved it and still love it today. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 16, 2024 6:58:24 GMT -5
Isn't this the third week? Yes, I was in a bit of a rush to get this up after my bi-weekly Friday night D&D session but before I crashed for the night, and I didn't edit after I copy and pasted the intro form last week. It's fixed now, but thanks for pointing it out. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2024 8:19:05 GMT -5
This is my copy of Adventure #59, and it was the first original Golden Age comic book I ever purchased. Hour-Man had become my favorite JSA member by way of his appearances in All-Star Squadron, but I had never read any reprints of his original appearances. I saw this at a convention around 25 years ago give or take, oh how I loved finding stuff like this before the Internet sales really took off when you never knew what you'd discover. It was more than I had intended to spend (and was the biggest comic book purchase I ever made at the time), but that book came home with me and it was such a great experience actually reading it! Hour-Man's Adventure run would later get published in an Archive so that was nice as well, but holding actual history in my hands is still such a thrill (I still read this copy probably every few years).  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2024 10:23:02 GMT -5
If I was on a deserted island with only one comic from my collection, it would be this one. 2 of my favourite characters in one, with one of the best covers from the bronze age.
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Post by tonebone on Mar 22, 2024 14:55:20 GMT -5
This is the only book in my collection that I have personally owned since I was 9. It's the Star Wars adaptation, 1977, B+W, pocket sized, and SOMEHOW, still in great condition. I can't even read the tiny text anymore, but I love it so. I was going to take it to a con a few years ago and get Chaykin to sign it, and then thought better of it and decided that would somehow ruin it for me. The movie changed my life and set me on the path of being a creator of stuff. It was literally the first inkling for me that the stuff I loved was created by real people, this comic included. More than once, I set out to make my own adaptation of Star Wars.  |
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