|
|
Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 23, 2024 12:31:02 GMT -5
It's 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. This week's pick... New Gods #7 featuring "The Pact" my single favorite issue of the entire Fourth World saga. I just read the Mark Evanier New Gods series from the late 80s via hoopla, and it put me in a mind for "Kirby Koncepts" this week and this is what I landed on.  since I pulled the book out, I am also including one of the Kirby double page spreads in the issue...  -M Previous choices...
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
8/9/24 Space Science Fiction-God in the Bowl
8/16/24 Flash Comics #1 Millennium Edition
|
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 23, 2024 15:14:39 GMT -5
My summertime annuals continue with Avengers Annual #13:  Story by Roger Stern, and art by the unusual team of Steve Ditko (pencils) and John Byrne (inks). This is one that I had completely missed back in the day, because by that point, 1984, I was pretty much out of comics, even dropping the last two I was still reading up to that point, X-men and New Mutants, at the end of summer. When, much later, I learned that there was a book with Byrne inking Ditko, I had to get it, and it's among my favorite annuals (because the story - as one can expect from Stern - is quite good, too).
My previous picks (for your eyes only): {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 & 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
08/08/2024: Avengers Annual #9
16/08/2024: Amazing Spider-man Annual #14 |
|
|
|
Post by Ricky Jackson on Aug 23, 2024 15:16:45 GMT -5
For a Kirby Koncept, I'll go with this collected edition of SHIELD by Steranko, a series Kirby and Lee started in 1965. This came out in 2000 I believe. It sold out immediately and I missed out, but a new printing came out shortly later and I wasn't caught unprepared that time. I love Marvel Steranko and this is great. My only complaint is that it collected just the Strange Tales issues and not the 4 issues (and 7 covers) of the SHIELD series Steranko did as well, even though the cover image on the TPB is from SHIELD #4  |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Aug 24, 2024 6:29:11 GMT -5
This week I'm going with Fantastic Four # 120.
 This is when Big John Buscema won me over and entered the Mount Rushmore of comic artists. This was early in my collecting days and FF from about 112- 135 was my sweet spot. This book has one of the best ending splash pages of all time.  {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
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
Ms. Mystic #1
Iron man # 128
|
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Aug 24, 2024 6:30:26 GMT -5
It's 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. This week's pick... New Gods #7 featuring "The Pact" my single favorite issue of the entire Fourth World saga. I just read the Mark Evanier New Gods series from the late 80s via hoopla, and it put me in a mind for "Kirby Koncepts" this week and this is what I landed on. since I pulled the book out, I am also including one of the Kirby double page spreads in the issue... -M Previous choices...
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
8/9/24 Space Science Fiction-God in the Bowl
8/16/24 Flash Comics #1 Millennium Edition
This is in the running for one of my top Friday choices. Great book. |
|
|
|
Post by Batflunkie on Aug 24, 2024 6:40:30 GMT -5
For mine, I think I'll post a recent purchase, Rune #0  So for October 1993, Malibu did something unique. On the reverse side of all their books for that month, they had a small chunk of a story called "rune" about a centuries old vampire that's slowly dying of cancer and wishes to be immortal. While I'm not the biggest fan of Barry's art sometimes (still think Bloodshot #1 and it's included poster is some of the worst art I've ever seen), both it and the story grabbed me hard. Eventually, they released all of the pieces together in a handsome package called "Rune #0", but there was a catch. Much like how in the old Valiant books, there were coupons. Well, you had to collect a bunch of them in different Ultraverse titles and send in five smackeroos in and you could either get Rune or The Solution #0 (which, as far as I know, was an original story. Loved the Solution btw). Just found the book very fun and always wanted to have it -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)
-Powerpuff Girls #7 (8/9/24)
-Hardcase #1 (8/16/24) |
|
