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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 17, 2024 13:34:17 GMT -5
Time for this week's Top Shelf Friday... Post a book that you own that you love for whatever reason...it's important, key, valuable, sentimental, awesome or that you just plain love for whatever reason... Bonus points if you post the actual copy you own... For this week I am posting the only actual Spirit Section I own not in reprint Jan 17, 1943, allegedly ghosted by a young Frank Frazetta (though GCD does not mention this).  -M Fine Print so I don't repeat myself
3/1/24 Son of Sinbad
3/8/24 Brave & Bold #35
3/15/24 Piracy #1
3/22/24 Conan the Barbarian #1
3/29/24 Hawk #9
4/5/24 SSWS #126
4/12/24 It Rhymes with Lust
4/19/24 Avengers #162
4/26/24 1st Issue Special 8
5/3/24 Bat Lash #2
5/10/24 Straight Arrow #3 |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2024 13:42:52 GMT -5
This one has some backstory. I was outside doing a bit of gardening wearing really short pants, and something bit me. So I rushed inside to put something on it and while sipping on some herbal tea I pulled up ebay. This little gem had about 20 secs to go and the bidding was fairly low. At the time I had no golden-age Supes and this one just had one flaw of note, a one inch tear on the lower cover. So I made a lowball play and got it for well under $200. SUPERMAN 25 Nov-Dec 1943. I'm assuming the K911 is a street date (Sept 11). It's not my lowest number (that will come in a future Top Shelf when I unpack it)....but it was my first Golden-Age DC, and I owe it all to an insect biting my bum.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 17, 2024 14:42:12 GMT -5
Wow Rags, great book.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 17, 2024 14:46:08 GMT -5
This week's pick for me is Giant-Size Power Man #1 (1975):  It reprints a three-part story from Hero for Hire #s 14-16 (1972), which is notable because it was co-scripted by its artist, Billy Graham. |
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Post by tonebone on May 17, 2024 16:09:34 GMT -5
My mom bought this off the rack for me in 1979... It was my first exposure to the wacky MLJ heroes, and I have been a sucker for them ever since. It includes some Adams, some Toth (I think), and a lot of silver-bronze age goodness.  |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 17, 2024 17:37:08 GMT -5
My mom bought this off the rack for me in 1979... It was my first exposure to the wacky MLJ heroes, and I have been a sucker for them ever since. It includes some Adams, some Toth (I think), and a lot of silver-bronze age goodness. I love the MLJ heroes and wish to god Archie did more with them besides just trotting them out whenever the mood strikes Had kind of hard time thinking up what I wanted to show off, so I chose two books (Wow Billy! Your mom let you show off two books?!)  Let me explain, my favorite villain in the Valiant universe (and there's tons of good ones) is AX, a little a-hole punk kid who gets "stung" by Peter and becomes a godly computer hacker with an ego the size of the moon (or Uranus). So it was fun to see him pop-up in other books like X-O (where he gets a Spider-Alien armor suit) and Bloodshot (where AX learns that he can manipulate Bloodshot's nanites and also gets his arm sliced off) and royally get his butt handed to him |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 17, 2024 19:38:50 GMT -5
This weeks choice is Marvel Treasury edition #28/ Superman and Spider-Man #2  This is the almost totally trashed copy that I bought at my LCS back in 1981. I don't know how to store these tabloid sized editions and to be honest, If a comic isn't the regular comic size, I treat it with very little respect. Anyway, this might be my favorite crossover of all time. Between the amazing John Buscema/Joe Sinnott artwork and having Superman tangle for the first time with Dr. Doom, it just hits all the beats. Jim Shooter captures all the personalities perfectly and Spider-man is not a fifth wheel in this book deferring to Superman. Dr. Doom arrogantly talking down to the man of steel is just a highlight to see.  This is just a perfect book to me. It even has a Superman/ Hulk battle of sorts. If they ever release this in single comic sized form, I'm snatching it up. Previous weeks:
Avengers #4
Flash ( 1987) 1
Thor #126
Kamandi #10
What if? v1 #3
JLA v1 # 91
Marvels Greatest comics # 31
Master of Kung Fu ( Special Marvel edition) 16
Iron Man # 150
Alpha Flight #12
Superman #227
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 17, 2024 19:43:51 GMT -5
This weeks choice is Marvel Treasury edition #28/ Superman and Spider-Man #2This is just a perfect book to me. It even has a Superman/ Hulk battle of sorts. If they ever release this in single comic sized form, I'm snatching it up. they did rerelease it in normal comic book size as part of their gold label Marvel/DC x-over releases around the time they did the Marvel vs. DC x-over and the Amalgam stuff in the mid 90s...  -M PS you can get a F+ copy for $15 on Lonestar... -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 17, 2024 19:46:51 GMT -5
This weeks choice is Marvel Treasury edition #28/ Superman and Spider-Man #2This is just a perfect book to me. It even has a Superman/ Hulk battle of sorts. If they ever release this in single comic sized form, I'm snatching it up. they did rerelease it in normal comic book size as part of their gold label Marvel/DC x-over releases around the time they did the Marvel vs. DC x-over and the Amalgam stuff in the mid 90s... -M I have one of these books , but up til now, I thought it was the first one with the Road Andru artwork. I have to check and see if I DO have this. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 17, 2024 19:48:39 GMT -5
they did rerelease it in normal comic book size as part of their gold label Marvel/DC x-over releases around the time they did the Marvel vs. DC x-over and the Amalgam stuff in the mid 90s... -M I have one of these books , but up til now, I thought it was the first one with the Road Andru artwork. I have to check and see if I DO have this. They did both of the Supes/Spidey books I think, plus X-Men/Teen Titans and the Batman/Hulk book in that format. -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 17, 2024 19:52:53 GMT -5
That's what I thought, I have the reprint of the first one.   |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 17, 2024 20:06:04 GMT -5
That's what I thought, I have the reprint of the first one. If it's any consolation, that one sells for more so would cost more to get if you didn't already have a copy... -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 17, 2024 20:18:26 GMT -5
I remember seeing this gold trim on a X-men/ Teen Titans reprint and laughed because I routinely saw the original go for less money.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 17, 2024 20:24:54 GMT -5
I remember seeing this gold trim on a X-men/ Teen Titans reprint and laughed because I routinely saw the original go for less money. I had all the Gold Border reprints at one point, but the X-Men/Teen Titans one is the only one I still have, and ironically, the only one of those cross-overs I have the original of as well. -M |
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Post by MDG on May 18, 2024 16:59:37 GMT -5
I picked these up a couple years ago when I searched eBay on a whim and found a seller who had both for a good price. Kim Deitch's first solo books. Not as deep as some of his later work but always weird.  |
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