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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 9, 2024 12:51:09 GMT -5
It's that time again, Top Shelf Friday time! So show us a comic (or comic-related or comic-tangential item) 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. For this week, most of my comics are still not accessible as I do the shelving reset, so I am going to go tangential, and feature the only REH Conan story I have in it's original pulp debut-it's one of the posthumously published stories-"God in the Bowl" from this issue of Space Science Fiction (and odd titled pulp for a sword & sorcery yarn)  -M Previous Picks
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
6/14/24 Daredevil 158
6/21/24 King Kong #1
6/28/24 Hellrider #1
7/5/24 Michael Golden's Doctor Strange Portfolio
7/12/24 Barbarian Comics #1
7/19/24 Phantom Stranger #1 signed
7/26/24 Genius Animated
8/2/24 Flash Gordon: The Ice Monster
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 9, 2024 13:21:35 GMT -5
Here’s mine for the week:  Never thought this crossover would work, but it did! |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 9, 2024 13:37:51 GMT -5
As per my decision last week to dedicate the rest of the summer to annuals, my pick this week is Avengers Annual #9:  Just loved this one ever since I first read it all those years ago: love the moody story by Bill Mantlo, love the moody art by Don Newton (one of his few jobs for Marvel) and inkers Jack Abel and Josef Rubinstein, love the cover, love the giant robot. It's always been in the top tier of my favorite annuals, so I made it a point to reacquire it.
My previous picks, just for kicks (all it takes is less than 2 clicks):
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01/03/2024: Blackmark (1970s b&w pocketbook)
08/03/2024: Archie’s Superhero Comics Digest #2
15/03/2024: Donald Duck & the Golden Helmet (Whitman, 1978)
22/03/2024: Star Wars #38
28/03/2024: Showcase #100
05/04/2024: Chandler: Red Tide
12/04/2024: Alien, the 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: Giant-Size Power Man #1
24/05/2024: Batman Annual #8
31/05/2024: Marvel 2-in-1 #51
07/06/2024: Superman #400
14/06/2024: Marvel Team-up #79
21/06/2024: Detective Comics #500
28/06/2024: Avengers #1&1/2
05/07/2024: Batman Special #1 (1984)
12/07/2024: Ismet #1 (Canis Publications, 1981)
19/07/2024: Detective Comics Annual #4
26/07/2024: X-men Annual #3
02/08/2024: Amazing Spider-man Annual #13 |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 9, 2024 14:23:07 GMT -5
As per my decision last week to dedicate the rest of the summer to annuals, my pick this week is Avengers Annual #9: Just loved this one ever since I first read it all those years ago: love the moody story by Bill Mantlo, love the moody art by Don Newton (one of his few jobs for Marvel) and inkers Jack Abel and Josef Rubinstein, love the cover, love the giant robot. It's always been in the top tier of my favorite annuals, so I made it a point to reacquire it. I remember getting that one off a spinner rack in a Dairy Mart. Loved the story and the issue of Iron Man that featured Arsenal that I got via a mail subscription. It was one of the first times I felt I was reading a part of a bigger tapestry and was starting to see how all the pieces came together to make something bigger i.e. a shared universe. -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 9, 2024 15:27:12 GMT -5
My pick this week is Powerpuff Girls #7  In my younger days, I was a very VERY big fan of the show. It had a very anime flavor to it, it wasn't afraid to be violent, and was very silly. And I appreciated that very much as a young comic book reader Issue seven perfectly encapsulates why the people who wrote and drew the various Cartoon Network shows understood what made them so special to people. So in this issue, the ever impressionable Bubbles is enraptured by "Dr. Blowtop's Land Of Happy Show", so enraptured that she doesn't help Blossom and Buttercup fight crime. Well, turns out that Blowtop is slowly manipulating the Townsville youth into giving him money under the impression that everyone in the show will litterally die if they don't      -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)
-Wetworks #1 (6/14/24)
-OMAC #1 (6/21/24)
-Horus: Lord Of Light (1963 Book Five) (7/19/24)
-Captain America #243 (8/2/24) |
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Post by supercat on Aug 9, 2024 16:01:45 GMT -5
Since we have been on the topic of Deadpool in other threads, I'll post my pride and joy as a big DP fan myself. When I took my hiatus from comics in the late 80's, part of what got me back into them in the 90's was some of the fun crazy stuff (even in spite of the iffy artwork at times). Deadpool just hit me the right way, and maybe it's the passing resemblance of the costumes, but he kind of reminded me a little of the old wisecracking Spider-Man (granted, in a murderous, insane way, but still...). In addition to the comics, there was this PS3 game (it was also on xBox 360), Marvel Ultimate Alliance, where you select from a wide cast of characters teams of 4 for each level, and Deadpool was always a favorite. His one-liners were great, plus the teleportation was handy! But I significantly digress, my #1 Deadpool comic:  |
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Post by supercat on Aug 9, 2024 16:04:54 GMT -5
In my younger days, I was a very VERY big fan of the show. It had a very anime flavor to it, it wasn't afraid to be violent, and was very silly. And I appreciated that very much as a young comic book reader Issue seven perfectly encapsulates why the people who wrote and drew the various Cartoon Network shows understood what made them so special to people. I watched that show all the time and still enjoy it, so many great episodes and pop culture references. The comic seems to capture it well, love it! |
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Post by supercat on Aug 9, 2024 16:05:37 GMT -5
Here’s mine for the week: Never thought this crossover would work, but it did! The cover alone is worth the price of admission, that's awesome. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 9, 2024 16:26:02 GMT -5
In addition to the comics, there was this PS3 game (it was also on xBox 360), Marvel Ultimate Alliance, where you select from a wide cast of characters teams of 4 for each level, and Deadpool was always a favorite. His one-liners were great, plus the teleportation was handy! I got my hands on the PS2 version some time ago and got to the point where I really wanted an action RPG with Steve/Cap, so I decreased my party to just him and had a blast |
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Post by supercat on Aug 9, 2024 16:28:57 GMT -5
In addition to the comics, there was this PS3 game (it was also on xBox 360), Marvel Ultimate Alliance, where you select from a wide cast of characters teams of 4 for each level, and Deadpool was always a favorite. His one-liners were great, plus the teleportation was handy! I got my hands on the PS2 version some time ago and got to the point where I really wanted an action RPG with Steve/Cap, so I decreased my party to just him and had a blast Oh, that's a cool strategy, I never even thought to play it that way! I may need to try something like that. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 9, 2024 16:42:04 GMT -5
I got my hands on the PS2 version some time ago and got to the point where I really wanted an action RPG with Steve/Cap, so I decreased my party to just him and had a blast Oh, that's a cool strategy, I never even thought to play it that way! I may need to try something like that. It's not a particularly smart move, but it reminded me of playing the kid-friendly Diablo clone "Fate" back in the day. So it was fun in that sense |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 9, 2024 18:29:13 GMT -5
This week I will highlight Ms. Mystic #1 by Neal Adams .  Growing up a huge Adams fan, I of course followed him where ever he went. In 1982, he released this book for the Pacific comics line. He ended only doing 2 issues for them and revived the series in 1987 for his own Continuity label. I had it signed by Adams in a New York show, and it was so long ago, that he didn't charge me like they do these days.  These are the copies I have today, including the reprinted #1 for Continuity.  previous top shelf entries {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
Groo #1 ( Epic)
Avengers 211
Mr. Miracle 8 ( 1972)
New Teen Titans 13 ( 1980)
Phoenix 1 ( Atlas)
Avengers V1 #12
Superman V1 #176
Fantastic Four 200
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Aug 9, 2024 19:07:07 GMT -5
Going with a comic I found in the wild about 25 years ago at a shop called Phoenix Comics in Calgary. It collects the entire 70s Detective Comics run. I love the 80s Baxter reprints of classic 70s stuff that both DC and Marvel put out then. In the late 90s, just before the TPB boom, finding these was one of the best ways to get some classic stuff that would be otherwise too expensive and/or difficult to track down. One of my all-time fave covers  |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 9, 2024 19:25:18 GMT -5
This week I will highlight Ms. Mystic #1 by Neal Adams . Growing up a huge Adams fan, I of course followed him where ever he went. In 1982, he released this book for the Pacific comics line. He ended only doing 2 issues for them and revived the series in 1987 for his own Continuity label. I had it signed by Adams in a New York show, and it was so long ago, that he didn't charge me like they do these days. These are the copies I have today, including the reprinted #1 for Continuity. Continuity comics was one odd-duck of a dead-universe. Surprised it lasted it long as it did, but thankful too. Loved me some Cyber Rad |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 10, 2024 2:36:24 GMT -5
This week I will highlight Ms. Mystic #1 by Neal Adams . Growing up a huge Adams fan, I of course followed him where ever he went. In 1982, he released this book for the Pacific comics line. He ended only doing 2 issues for them and revived the series in 1987 for his own Continuity label. I had it signed by Adams in a New York show, and it was so long ago, that he didn't charge me like they do these days. These are the copies I have today, including the reprinted #1 for Continuity. Continuity comics was one odd-duck of a dead-universe. Surprised it lasted it long as it did, but thankful too. Loved me some Cyber Rad I have a Pretty extensive collection of this line. I dare say, I have most of the books that they produced, even the books during the 90’ explosion. Great art, lackluster stories. |
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