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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 31, 2024 14:14:28 GMT -5
It's that time once again to showcase a comic from your collection that you love, that's right, it's Top Shelf Friday for May 31, 2024. Show us a comic from your collection that is important, valuable, had a great cover, is a sentimental favorite, or is just a comic that you love. Bonus points if you show us the actual copy you own. My entry this week, is a brand new arrive at Chez MRP, Daredevil #47. I've loved this comic since I first read it in the pages of Son Of Origins as a kid, and always wanted a copy, but did not get one until I snapped up this copy on the bay from a seller I do frequent business with. It just arrived this morning in time for this week's TSF! For me, this story captured the essence of what it means to be a blind super-hero for ole DD.  Let's see what you folks have got for us this week... -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
5/31 Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters #1 signed |
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Post by tonebone on May 31, 2024 15:35:07 GMT -5
    I bought these back in 1981, in the book section of my local Belk department store. Forgive me for posting 4 books, but they are kind of a set. Each book is a 64 page color trade paperback, odd sized (just a tad smaller than a comic), with an origin story, a silver age story, and a "modern" story. All presented by Stan Lee. They were published by the Ideals company which was known more for books about home decorating and crafts. The Stan Lee material is written for a very young audience. They are probably the first paperbacks that I ever saw that presented reprint material in color on nice paper. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 31, 2024 15:43:02 GMT -5
I bought these back in 1981, in the book section of my local Belk department store. Forgive me for posting 4 books, but they are kind of a set. Each book is a 64 page color trade paperback, odd sized (just a tad smaller than a comic), with an origin story, a silver age story, and a "modern" story. All presented by Stan Lee. They were published by the Ideals company which was known more for books about home decorating and crafts. The Stan Lee material is written for a very young audience. They are probably the first paperbacks that I ever saw that presented reprint material in color on nice paper. I have the FF book but not the others. Great stuff. -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 31, 2024 16:25:34 GMT -5
(...) My entry this week, is a brand new arrive at Chez MRP, Daredevil #47. I've loved this comic since I first read it in the pages of Son Of Origins as a kid, (...) (...) Same here. It's such a nice story, and a much better one to include in Son of Origins than the bonus Iron Man feature in that same book from Tales of Suspense #97, which was just one, none to impressive, installment in a multi-part story.
Anyway, my pick for this week is delightful Marvel Two-in-One #51:
Written by Peter Gillis with art by Frank Miller and Bob McLeod, it starts with our heroes playing poker in the Avengers Mansion, but then get interrupted to help thwart the skyjacking of the SHIELD Helicarrier. So much fun & done in one.
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Post by MDG on May 31, 2024 17:32:57 GMT -5
The first book in the series where we learned to love Harvey, despite all his faults, which he had no trouble sharing.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 31, 2024 19:15:18 GMT -5
World's Finest 211 This is one of my favorite , maybe most favorite WF issue. A spaceship containing cops from another star system is searching for a fugitive that they believe is on earth. They want the earth to give up the fugitive in 2 days. They incapacitate Superman and it's up to Batman to fight the super powerful warlike cops. This story has art by two of my least favorite artists , Dick Dillan and Joe Giella , but it still is one of my favorite stories. 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 Badger #1
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Post by Batflunkie on May 31, 2024 19:37:12 GMT -5
The first book in the series where we learned to love Harvey, despite all his faults, which he had no trouble sharing. I really liked the American Splendor biopic with Paul Giamatti as Harvey (who I love and wish was in more stuff), need to give the books a proper read through at some point So, a couple of weeks ago I posted some Valiant stuff, and today (big surprise!) I'm gonna do it again with a particular issue of Shadowman that's always stood out to me, issue 15  Basically Jack goes on a journey of self-discovery after almost dying at the hands of Darque (who I've always pronounced "Da-roke", not "Dark" for some reason) and ends up picking up a hitch hiker psiot who has the ability to create living memories for the people he touches for a brief period. Well the psiot ends up summoning forth the Lao inside Jack and they have a tussle at Carhenge. Just thought it was a fun read. Bob Hall era Shadowman really is fantastic -----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)
-Radioactive Man #100 (5/24/24) |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 1, 2024 7:03:33 GMT -5
World's Finest 211This is one of my favorite , maybe most favorite WF issue. A spaceship containing cops from another star system is searching for a fugitive that they believe is on earth. They want the earth to give up the fugitive in 2 days. They incapacitate Superman and it's up to Batman to fight the super powerful warlike cops. This story has art by two of my least favorite artists , Dick Dillan and Joe Giella , but it still is one of my favorite stories. GCD says the first page misquotes Bob Dylan's Desolation Row: "At night the superhuman crew arrest eveyone who knows more than they do." but when the story was reprinted in Best of DC digest #20, they corrected the line to: "Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do." Dick Dillin and Bob Dylan in the same comic. The lyric was more famously quoted by Alan Moore in Watchmen #1. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 1, 2024 7:13:57 GMT -5
My thoughts about the quote was whether they would get in trouble for using it without permission.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 1, 2024 9:47:00 GMT -5
I just watched a great movie on Netflix, I think, called The Holdovers, with Giamatti in a great Award-worthy role. |
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