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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 29, 2024 15:48:21 GMT -5
Welcome to this week's 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. This week's entry Hawk #9 cover dated November 1954, featuring a cover and 1 interior story by Matt Baker, and another story with art by Joe Kubert.  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2024 16:13:29 GMT -5
In my neverending quest to find certain Golden Age reprints, the more obscure characters naturally tend to be the hardest. One character I always liked a lot was Air Wave, but in my Bronze Age reading it was the newer/younger version. The original's Golden Age run was a backup feature in Detective during a good portion of the 40's. This copy of Superman features one of the rare reprints from that run:   |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 29, 2024 16:23:20 GMT -5
I've actually been pondering my own choice this week and decided that it should be something Judge Dredd related, but not what got me into the series, but rather what got me hooked on it.  How I came into owning it is kind of a bizarre story. So me and my cousin Luke one day were going to the Walgreens across the street from my old house in the mid 00's. To get there, we usually have to cut through a former mortuary that was recently turned into a Baptist church. Well, we passed by the bushes and something caught my eye, it was a 20 dollar bill. Elated, we hung onto that sucker and decided to use it towards buying a comic at the recently brought back "Ground Zero Comics". The original Ground Zero was out in the middle of absolute nowhere, but was a cool place that had a gaming set up in the back with arcade machines and XBOX consoles for Halo. The newer one that we went to wasn't quite as lavish and was more kind of a hole in the wall. As we browsed through the bins, I found Judge Dredd #3 and was immediately taken by the Brian Bolland cover art. Luke was more into the random Spawn issue that he found, but I forgot the 20 and we kind of had to settle (I think he felt that Dredd was the better choice?) As someone who hadn't experienced the wonders of "body horror" before, this issue was something else and the following panels still give me chills (though not inherently body horror really, it was still kind of shocking)   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2024 16:34:42 GMT -5
This is an upgraded NM copy of course, but according to family talk when I was pint-sized Rags, my original copy would have been the very first Spider-Man comic I pulled out of a storage box at home in England in the late 80s. And he shared bragging rights with (my favourite version of) Captain Britain, Brian Braddock.
British weekly comics were larger than their US counterparts so they always get curious stares from those who are unfamiliar with them.
Captain Britain appeared in British comics first, before crossing the Atlantic to the US with Marvel Team-Up 65.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 29, 2024 16:49:12 GMT -5
Continuing with some of the highlights of my now meager collection of floppies, it's Showcase #100:  I've always just loved this issue: a cosmic cataclysm so big it needs ever character who appeared in the first 99 issues of Showcase to handle it! A fun story by Pauls Kupperberg and Levitz, with wonderful art by Joe Staton. |
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 30, 2024 7:58:56 GMT -5
I hope it’s okay to share a book this week:  Here’s some of the stories:  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 30, 2024 10:06:08 GMT -5
This weeks pick is  I remember buying this in a used books store not too far from where then Twin Towers stood. I'm a fan of all stories involving the original Avengers and this story was great. This tale from Shooter, Gil Kane and Klaus Jansen follows the events right after issue #2 from the first Avengers volume. I won't spoil this 40 year old book, but I will say that Iron man creates suits for all the Avengers ( Minus Thor) to fight Namor and the Hulk paralleling issue # 3. I want to continue to beat the drum for this weekly thread by inviting tartanphantom, Crimebuster, chaykinstevens, MDG, DubipR, spoon to participate. Cmon guys, let's see your books. |
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Post by james on Mar 30, 2024 12:35:25 GMT -5
My all time favorite Hulk issue. I remember clearly getting my first copy of this at about age 12 at the Downingtown Pa Farmers Market. Since then I have probably own about 3 issues of this over the years and it was the first issue I got when I decided to really work on my Hulk collection.  |
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Post by MDG on Mar 30, 2024 14:19:29 GMT -5
Well, I could mention that I used to own the original cover for this: But I'll pull down something that is literally on a top shelf:   Got it (and more stuff) signed at Ithacon in '84. |
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Post by DubipR on Apr 1, 2024 10:39:47 GMT -5
Danger Trail! #s 1-4 Len Wein/Carmine Infantino/Frank McLaughlin  The original Danger Trail from Kanigher and Infantino was created back in 1950 which debuted King Faraday was your typical early pre-cold war counter-espionage comic of spies, femme fatales and action. Super fun stories with great art of era. Reprinted in Showcase under "I-Spy" (where I first read them), the issues were solid. Flash forward to 1993, Len Wein along with Infantino brings back King Faraday for a 4 issue mini which brought King to a modern day audience. Its goofy fun with a globetrotting action adventurer. I love the Gulacy covers; only wish he did the interiors. |
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