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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 22, 2024 17:06:14 GMT -5
Welcome to the fourth 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...my battle-hardened copy of Conan the Barbarian #1...  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2024 17:19:36 GMT -5
9 out of 10 are still amazed that the 70s had a 'black Archie' series because they never knew it existed. And half of those try to get my copies to no avail. This is my favourite cover of the lot. I had to chase away a 6ft 4 inch cop who asked me 'miss, is this for sale?' He settled for Spider-Gwen instead.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 22, 2024 17:20:31 GMT -5
Okay...caveats...I'm not a collector. I read comics. Be they books or strips. But I have almost zero collector impulse any more. And, I won't be posting pics of my own stuff because tons of it is in storage and most of the rest is in a disorganized mess, such that I'd never be able to find it. That said...  The Blackhawk novel by William Rotsler. I still have my copy that I bought new off a paperback spinner in 1982. That was a monumental move. I bought a ton of paperbacks in that era. But 99.9% of them were purchased used at the Paperback Bookworm used book store. I virtually never paid full price for a paperback. I did for this one. The idea of getting a prose of the Blackhawks was way to much to pass up. I'm pretty sure I loved it at the time. I know that I re-read it about 20 years ago and it was awful. But that was a damn thrilling buy at the time. |
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Post by DubipR on Mar 22, 2024 17:22:27 GMT -5
Here's something pretty cool and top shelf. This Rocketeer 3-D comic and audio tape to go along with the story. I love the Rocketeer 3-D glasses that come along with it.  |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 22, 2024 17:40:47 GMT -5
9 out of 10 are still amazed that the 70s had a 'black Archie' series because they never knew it existed. And half of those try to get my copies to no avail. This is my favourite cover of the lot. I had to chase away a 6ft 4 inch cop who asked me 'miss, is this for sale?' He settled for Spider-Gwen instead.
I have a copy of that issue of Fast Willie Jackson (and #1) I rarely see them in the wild. I got both form a deadler friend of mine who had double sin his own collection (Dan of the Jim & Dan shows and shop I go to). Okay...caveats...I'm not a collector. I read comics. Be they books or strips. But I have almost zero collector impulse any more. And, I won't be posting pics of my own stuff because tons of it is in storage and most of the rest is in a disorganized mess, such that I'd never be able to find it. That said... The Blackhawk novel by William Rotsler. I still have my copy that I bought new off a paperback spinner in 1982. That was a monumental move. I bought a ton of paperbacks in that era. But 99.9% of them were purchased used at the Paperback Bookworm used book store. I virtually never paid full price for a paperback. I did for this one. The idea of getting a prose of the Blackhawks was way to much to pass up. I'm pretty sure I loved it at the time. I know that I re-read it about 20 years ago and it was awful. But that was a damn thrilling buy at the time. I have, and have even read that novel. I have a Challengers of the Unknown novel from the same time that I haven't read yet. The author, Rosteler, also wrote the Dr. Strange novel in the series of Marvel novels that were done in the 70s. -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 22, 2024 18:01:01 GMT -5
Here's something pretty cool and top shelf. This Rocketeer 3-D comic and audio tape to go along with the story. I love the Rocketeer 3-D glasses that come along with it. I remember Disney doing something like that to tie-in with the Super Mario Bros. Movie, it was a really decent radio drama too. Wish I still had the poster (edit, I do, but it's in terribly shabby condition and covered in scotch tape)   For my contribution, I think I'll post something in a similar vein, Blackthorne publishing's Gumby 3-D series (or rather issue 1). As someone who didn't have a lot of access to a whole lot of Gumby growing up (outside of tapes I rented as child back in New Orleans), these were wonderful. For the most part, they just straight up adapted episodes of the show, but I didn't mind and frankly, I still don't!  Also always loved the cover of the first issue with Gumby reading a smaller version of the comic (how meta!) juxtaposed by some pigs |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 22, 2024 18:08:57 GMT -5
I'm not gonna lie, I look forward to this thread every week. I have lots of comics and I'm tempted to post mostly Avengers covers, but I won't. This week my entry is  Why this comic, you ask? Well, my older brother had a letter printed in this very issue.   |
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 22, 2024 18:18:39 GMT -5
  I didn’t expect to enjoy vampire tales involving Batman, but I was pleasantly surprised by these, although Red Rain is probably the strongest. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 23, 2024 3:43:27 GMT -5
Depending on how long these posts continue, I'll eventually end up posting the sum total of the bona-fide, original format (floppy) comics that I own (like Slam_Bradley above, I'm first and foremost a reader rather than a collector, so I mainly pick up collected editions for the stuff I want to read, while the total number of actual comic books I have roughly fits into the equivalent of a single shortbox.) This week I'm going with Star Wars #38:  My favorite single issue of Marvel's Star Wars, and the only one I had to reaquire. It contains what can only peripherally be described as a Star Wars story (Luke and Leia accidentally hyperjump into a starless void, and then their ship gets sucked into some kind of glowing object that ends up being a living creature that's a bit insane). It's written by the regular SW scribe at the time, Archie Goodwin, but the art is by guest penciler and inker Michael Golden and Terry Austin. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 23, 2024 5:37:09 GMT -5
Depending on how long these posts continue, I'll eventually end up posting the sum total of the bona-fide, original format (floppy) comics that I own (like Slam_Bradley above, I'm first and foremost a reader rather than a collector, so I mainly pick up collected editions for the stuff I want to read, while the total number of actual comic books I have roughly fits into the equivalent of a single shortbox.) Feel free to include favorite collected editions as top shelf choices as well. It doesn't need to be a floppy. As Slam_Bradley demonstrated with his choice of a novel. Hell, it can even be a favorite book or magazine about comics for all I care. It's just to have fun sharing the things we love, so rules and limitations other than it's something you own (and that can even be digitally as long as you love it) need not apply. -M |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 23, 2024 5:38:37 GMT -5
This week I'm going with Star Wars #38: My favorite single issue of Marvel's Star Wars, and the only one I had to reaquire. It contains what can only peripherally be described as a Star Wars story (Luke and Leia accidentally hyperjump into a starless void, and then their ship gets sucked into some kind of glowing object that ends up being a living creature that's a bit insane). It's written by the regular SW scribe at the time, Archie Goodwin, but the art is by guest penciler and inker Michael Golden and Terry Austin. That's an interesting issue. The Golden/Austin artwork is excellent and, to my eyes at least, somewhat influenced by Japanese Manga artwork (which, if so, is really ahead of the curve for an American comic published in 1980). The story itself feels very much like filler, which of course is precisely what this issue was, but it's a weird enough story that it's certainly one of the more memorable comics from that series. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 23, 2024 6:00:48 GMT -5
That Star Wars issue has me intrigued. I might see if I could read it on MU.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 23, 2024 7:04:11 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 23, 2024 7:09:30 GMT -5
Feel free to include favorite collected editions as top shelf choices as well. It doesn't need to be a floppy. As Slam_Bradley demonstrated with his choice of a novel. Hell, it can even be a favorite book or magazine about comics for all I care. It's just to have fun sharing the things we love, so rules and limitations other than it's something you own (and that can even be digitally as long as you love it) need not apply. Oh, yeah, I'm aware there's no restrictions - sometimes I just set little additional rules for myself to keep it simple. Even so, I'll probably eventually chime in with some of my favorite reprint collections, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2024 9:51:46 GMT -5
This is my copy of Batman #144. Betty Kane is my favorite Batgirl (or "Bat-Girl" as it was originally), and I had always wanted an original comic with her on the cover.  |
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