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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 24, 2024 12:56:00 GMT -5
It's time for this week's top shelf Friday. Post a comic or comic related item you believe belongs on the top shelf. Whether tits something rare and important, a sentimental favorite, valuable, or just a book you love, let's see it. Bonus points if its a pic of the actual copy you own. I'm going with one of my signed books this week, I had this one signed to Mrs. MRP when Mike Grell was one of the guests of honor at Gem City Comic Con as Ollie is one of her favorite characters. This is the copy I bought form the comic shop when it was released. I present Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1 signed by Mike Grell...  -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
5/17/24 Frazetta ghosted Spirit Section |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 24, 2024 13:24:57 GMT -5
Think for mine, I'll submit Radioactive Man #100  While it's unfortunate that it's basically all that survived of my original Radioactive Man books when I finally got my comic book collection back, it was one worth saving I think what I appreciate about it the most is that it's a comic within a comic. Basically Bart & Milhouse go to The Android's Dungeon looking for a cheap comic and notice CBG's weathered issue of Radioactive Man #100 and that leads the reader into quite the adventure I feel  -----Previous Selections Of A Curious Vintage------Gumby 3-D #1 (3/22/24)
-Judge Dredd #3 (3/29/24)
-Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #3 (4/5/24)
-Super Mario Adventures (4/12/24)
-DC Special #15 (4/26/24)
-Oni Press FCBD 2005 (5/10/24)
-X-O Manowar #6 and Bloodshot #2 (5/17/24) |
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 24, 2024 16:26:06 GMT -5
My pick this week is the wonderful Batman Annual #8:  Always loved this issue - from the eye-catching cover to the equally lovely interior art by Trevor von Eeden and colorist Lynn Varley, as well as the story by Mike Barr, which remains one of my favorite Ra's al Ghul stories. |
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Post by tonebone on May 24, 2024 19:23:31 GMT -5
I've written about this comic before on CCF, but Captain Canuck #10 is my favorite single issue of a comic. I found it on the drug store spinner rack in a small town in rural eastern North Carolina, and it opened my eyes to comics outside of Marvel, DC, Archie, Harvey, etc. I thought the art and coloring were the most beautiful I had ever seen in a comic book.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 24, 2024 19:29:25 GMT -5
Badger #1 ( 1984) My brother bought this when it came out and I read it. One of the most interesting single issues I ever read. Norbert Sykes is mentally ill with multiple personalities and one of them is the Badger a hero who beats up muggers, Jaywalkers and litterbugs. He's insane and he gets hired by a druid from the 5th century who has just woken up from a 800 year coma. Great book and great series. 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
Marvel Treasury edition #28/ Superman and Spider-Man #2
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Post by chaykinstevens on May 25, 2024 3:34:08 GMT -5
Norman Sykes is mentally ill with multiple personalities and one of them is the Badger a hero who beats up muggers, Jaywalkers and litterbugs. I thought the Badger's name was Norbert Sykes. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2024 4:27:03 GMT -5
Norman Sykes is mentally ill with multiple personalities and one of them is the Badger a hero who beats up muggers, Jaywalkers and litterbugs. I thought the Badger's name was Norbert Sykes. Oops, Thanks , I fixed it.  |
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Post by Ricky Jackson on May 25, 2024 10:55:58 GMT -5
I've written about this comic before on CCF, but Captain Canuck #10 is my favorite single issue of a comic. I found it on the drug store spinner rack in a small town in rural eastern North Carolina, and it opened my eyes to comics outside of Marvel, DC, Archie, Harvey, etc. I thought the art and coloring were the most beautiful I had ever seen in a comic book. Wow, I'm not sure I knew that Captain Canuck was sold outside of Canada. I had a handful when I was very young (I remember them being available in 3 packs in department stores). They were weird af |
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Post by MDG on May 25, 2024 14:09:42 GMT -5
Arcade was launched in edited by Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman to provide a venue for the underground artists as the traditional underground distribution market started to collapse, and as an alternative to Denis Kitchen's and Marvel's watered-down Comix Book. I was in vacation at my grandmother's in Dearborn, Michigan, on one of trips to a local smoke shop that had a huuuuuuuge selection of magazines. I'd go there to get the latest MAD (or special thereof), Warrens, or some unusual book that struck my eye. I spotted issues 1 and 2 on display with the skin books, requiring passing through a small swinging gate to pick them up. Read them to death, and got a subscription. Arcade shows the first-generation undergrounders at the top of their game. Unfortunately, they were done in by, I believe, distribution problems, leading to a "dark age" until LCSs and the new publishers, especially Fantagraphics, started springing up. 
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Post by DubipR on May 25, 2024 18:48:08 GMT -5
Superman #121 One of my favorite single issues by Dan Jurgens. When gang violens erupts in Suicide Slum, Clark Kent turns his latest column into public interest. When an innocent child gets caught in the crossfire, Superman gets involved. With all of the violence in the world, Superman's attempt to save a child, proves he's not always faster than a bullet. It's a really good issue.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2024 10:21:39 GMT -5
The Archie Digest guaranteed to evoke stares no matter where you rest it....1000 pages, what a whopper!! They used to be 256 pages max....
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Post by Batflunkie on May 27, 2024 10:25:40 GMT -5
The Archie Digest guaranteed to evoke stares no matter where you rest it....1000 pages, what a whopper!! They used to be 256 pages max....
If they ever do a 1000 Page book devoted to nothing but ol' Jughead, I might have to buy it |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 27, 2024 10:33:37 GMT -5
The Archie Digest guaranteed to evoke stares no matter where you rest it....1000 pages, what a whopper!! They used to be 256 pages max....
 You’re brave. Your poor arms. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 27, 2024 12:20:38 GMT -5
You’re brave. Your poor arms. Actually, despite the page count, those Archie books really aren't that heavy or unwieldy - they're made of pretty light-weight materials. Here's a pic of a 500 page digest with the same dimensions as that 1000-page book (roughly 5 x 6.5 inches) comfortably held in my hand:
And here's pics of a 650 page book with slightly larger dimensions:
They're very reader friendly.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 27, 2024 12:43:16 GMT -5
I guess like a manga type book.
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