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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jun 14, 2024 1:40:27 GMT -5
It's after midnight local time, so technically it's Friday, so time for this week's Top Shelf Friday. So show us a comic that you own that you believe should be on the Top Shelf. It can be because you think the comic is important or valuable, because it's a sentimental favorite or one of your favorite stories, because it's signed and holds great memories for you, just has a really cool cover or strikes your fancy or is just plain cool-whatever the reason show us that comic. Any pic of that comic will do, but bonus points if you can show us the actual copy you own. Since I have been on a spree of getting Miller Daredevil's recently, this week I am going with Daredevil #158, the first issue of his Daredevil run. I had a copy years ago but it got sold when I sold most of my Marvel collection from the Silver Age up as part of preparing to move half way across the country and get married, but I got a nive cheap ($5) reader copy from Jesse's weekly FB group auction about a year and a half ago. This is a pic of that copy. This week's entry DD #158  Funny story, for a long time I thought I had owned this comic as a kid, because it's cover is very similar to that of #148, a comic I did own and read as a kid, both of which feature the same cloaked adversary looming over ole Hornhead, just coming form the opposite sides of the cover. It wasn't until I owned copies of both that I realized the glitch in my recollections, since before the age of the internet it was really hard to see covers of comics you didn't own unless they were spotlighted in something like an Overstreet Guide or some other fanzine or comic mag. #148 for comparison  -M Fine Print so I don't repeat myself (spoilers as noone but me needs to see this for reference, but click on it if you want to see the full list) 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
5/24/24 Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters #1 signed
5/31/24 Daredevil 47
6/7/24 Batman Black and White #4 |
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Post by Rags on Jun 14, 2024 2:11:19 GMT -5
The Warriors Jailbreak TPB
Extremely rare. I've only seen 2 copies listed in the past few years and I got the high grade one above.
It was supposed to be an imagined 4-part series, but after #1 was released by Dabel comics back in 2009, issues 2-4 were 'cancelled' and went straight to TPB so that's the only way to read the whole story. And good luck finding it.
The story continues on from The Warriors movie. Because of overcrowding in the city jails from the amount of arrests made at the conclave meeting in the park, Ajax is taken to a detention center that's less fortified, along with members of The Riffs. Both gangs form an uneasy alliance and hatch a plan to spring their men. Inside the detention center, there is also a psychotic member of the Baseball Furies who wants to earn his stripes by killing Ajax.
Might have made a good sequel on the big screen.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 14, 2024 3:41:50 GMT -5
(...) This week's entry DD #158 I picked this one off of the spinner rack at the time, just on a whim (I never had an issue of the regular series prior to that, and was only familiar with the character thanks to guest appearances in other books and the stories reprinted in Son of Origins). And it immediately became a must-buy monthly book for the next few years. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 14, 2024 3:56:17 GMT -5
And now for my own pick, which is Marvel Team-up #79:  I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum before (for sure during the 12 days event when the theme was superhero team-ups) that this is my favorite single issue of Marvel Team-up. Brought to you by the - at the time - on-fire creative team from Uncanny X-men (Claremont, Byrne & Austin), it's an action-packed done-in-one that has a perfectly plausible explanation (by superhero comic logic) for the encounter between two characters who existed millennia apart from each other, and also includes a few nice character moments in the Daily Bugle staff room.
My previous entries (behind the pay-wall): {Spoiler: Click to show}
01/03/2024: Blackmark (1970s b&w pocketbook)
08/03/2024: Archie’s Superhero Comics Digest #2
15/03/2024: Donald Duck & Golden Helmet
22/03/2024: Star War #38
28/03/2024: Showcase #100
05/04/2024: Chandler: Red Tide
12/04/2024: Alien Illustrated Story
19/04/2024: Amazing Spider-man Annual #10
26/04/2024: Marvel Premiere #32
03/05/2024: Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #9
10/05/2024: JLA #200
17/05/2024: GS Power Man #1
24/05/2024: Batman Annual #8
31/05/2024: Marvel 2-in-1 #51
08/06/2024: Superman #400 |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 14, 2024 12:13:44 GMT -5
My first wife was not a comic reader except for the Groo the warrior comic. There was a show in NY that Sergio Aragones was attending so I took my Groo #1, He was the nicest guy you ever met and he ended up drawing a picture on page 1. No charge . It was also signed by Mark Evanier.   {Spoiler: Click to show}
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
World’s Finest 211
Flash #201
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 14, 2024 13:27:37 GMT -5
Here's my choice for today--
It's the only original EC comic I own. I do have the complete 306-issue run of the Russ Cochran/Gemstone reprints from the 1990's, but I've never spent the coin to pick up the originals.
This one is an exception, and it was a complete lark to find it-- and to pay only $3.00 for it! It's one of my favorite EC issues, as it is one of the Civil War-themed issues (they did several).
Frontline Combat #9, cover dated Nov-Dec. 1952. It's packed wall-to-wall with Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, John Severin and Wally Wood art, with Kurtzman scripting throughout.
My copy is a very respectable (for an original EC) 6.0-ish condition. It would definitely grade higher if the cover had not been so severely mis-cut (the spine is not rolled, but the back cover wraparound protrudes 1/4" onto the front. Pages are a nice light buff tint, and the color is... well, it's EC... the color is all over the map, but not faded. Staples are tight and un-rusted (but obviously off-kilter), and all pages are complete.
Condition aside, I found this book in a "new arrivals" bin at one of my local shops several years ago. Obviously, whoever bought it in didn't know what they had when they priced it, probably because there were no "X-men" in it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 14, 2024 17:45:18 GMT -5
And now for my own pick, which is Marvel Team-up #79: I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum before (for sure during the 12 days event when the theme was superhero team-ups) that this is my favorite single issue of Marvel Team-up. Brought to you by the - at the time - on-fire creative team from Uncanny X-men (Claremont, Byrne & Austin), it's an action-packed done-in-one that has a perfectly plausible explanation (by superhero comic logic) for the encounter between two characters who existed millennia apart from each other, and also includes a few nice character moments in the Daily Bugle staff room.
My previous entries (behind the pay-wall): {Spoiler: Click to show}
01/03/2024: Blackmark (1970s b&w pocketbook)
08/03/2024: Archie’s Superhero Comics Digest #2
15/03/2024: Donald Duck & Golden Helmet
22/03/2024: Star War #38
28/03/2024: Showcase #100
05/04/2024: Chandler: Red Tide
12/04/2024: Alien Illustrated Story
19/04/2024: Amazing Spider-man Annual #10
26/04/2024: Marvel Premiere #32
03/05/2024: Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #9
10/05/2024: JLA #200
17/05/2024: GS Power Man #1
24/05/2024: Batman Annual #8
31/05/2024: Marvel 2-in-1 #51
08/06/2024: Superman #400 I used to have this book. Maybe I should have held onto it. Mary Jane becomes Sonja? Hmmm |
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Post by driver1980 on Jun 15, 2024 5:47:08 GMT -5
If you ask me, the 1990s’ most enjoyable DC/Marvel crossover:  Just look at the power:  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2024 9:16:05 GMT -5
Yes, I think I agree that of the second wave of Crossovers, this might be the best.
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Post by driver1980 on Jun 15, 2024 9:33:33 GMT -5
Yes, I think I agree that of the second wave of Crossovers, this might be the best. I also liked that it was one of the simpler “shared universe” crossovers as opposed to the universe-hopping shenanigans in, say, JLA/Avengers. There can be a place for the latter - and everyone’s mileage varies - but I don’t feel I need or desire universe-hopping explanations to get on with enjoying a story (and such concepts wouldn’t work with street-level characters anyway). I was able to enjoy the 1981 Superman/Spider-Man crossover (my favourite intercompany crossover) by simply accepting that they lived on the same world, rather than getting bogged down in how and why they’d cross dimensions. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2024 9:40:54 GMT -5
Yes, I think I agree that of the second wave of Crossovers, this might be the best. I also liked that it was one of the simpler “shared universe” crossovers as opposed to the universe-hopping shenanigans in, say, JLA/Avengers. There can be a place for the latter - and everyone’s mileage varies - but I don’t feel I need or desire universe-hopping explanations to get on with enjoying a story (and such concepts wouldn’t work with street-level characters anyway). I was able to enjoy the 1981 Superman/Spider-Man crossover (my favourite intercompany crossover) by simply accepting that they lived on the same world, rather than getting bogged down in how and why they’d cross dimensions. I think the 1981 Superman/ Spider-man is my favorite. Yes , it usually works better when they are all part of the same earth, but in JLA/Avengers it would have been problematic. The 2 superteams worked better in the story because of their differences. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 15, 2024 11:01:45 GMT -5
I think for mine I'll post a book that for a series that I fairly obsessed with a couple of years ago (and still kind of am), Wetworks #1  On paper this book should not work, it's an absolute hodge podge of ideas thrown together in a blender, but somehow it does and it's wonderful Previous postings {Spoiler: Click to show}-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)
-Shadowman #15 (5/31/24)
-Captain America by Dan Jurgens volume 2 (6/7/24) |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2024 17:17:29 GMT -5
I think for mine I'll post a book that for a series that I fairly obsessed with a couple of years ago (and still kind of am), Wetworks #1 On paper this book should not work, it's an absolute hodge podge of ideas thrown together in a blender, but somehow it does and it's wonderful Previous postings {Spoiler: Click to show}-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)
-Shadowman #15 (5/31/24)
-Captain America by Dan Jurgens volume 2 (6/7/24) Dude, I like that you embrace the 90’s , unlike some of the old men here that think it was the worst of times. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 15, 2024 17:48:07 GMT -5
Dude, I like that you embrace the 90’s , unlike some of the old men here that think it was the worst of times. Oh, rest assured it was an absolute dumpster fire at times, but there were some good titles buried in there from that time frame |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2024 18:33:56 GMT -5
My sweet spot was the late 70’s to the mid 80’s But the 90’s was very exciting. So many comic companies sprung up. I loved it.
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