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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 20, 2024 16:05:11 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, I am going to go with my copy of Fast Willie Jackson #1...  I love funk and this cover always makes me think of watching Soul Train on Saturdays after cartoons. =M Previous Top Shelf 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
8/23/24 New Gods #7
8/30/24 Airboy #5
9/6/24 DC 100 Page Super Spectacular #4
9/13/24 GA Sketch cover by Justin Wasson
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2024 17:04:36 GMT -5
I see your #1 and raise you a #4. This book was an absolute beeyotch to get in decent grade. I should have the full set complete soon and will post it in one fell swoop.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 20, 2024 17:10:06 GMT -5
I see your #1 and raise you a #4. This book was an absolute beeyotch to get in decent grade. I should have the full set complete soon and will post it in one fell swoop.
I currently only have 1 and 6. both of which I got at real good prices from a dealer friend of mine who upgraded his copies and was moving the lower grade copies he had (these are still both in the F+ range). Not sure I will have the chance to get any more as the market for them is more than I want to pay currently, but if I find copies in the right circumstances, I would snag them. -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 20, 2024 18:22:06 GMT -5
My pick this week is  This was the very first Giant sized comic published by Marvel. The memories of the nice Rich Buckler art make me warm inside. ( Even the swipes)  {Past picks}
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
Fantastic Four # 120
The Official Marvel No-Prize book 1
Plop! #1
DC 100 Page Super spectacular Presents Batman DC-20
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Sept 20, 2024 18:34:38 GMT -5
This week I'm going with the first Joe Kubert, and first DC, Tarzan. I first attempted to collect this run the old fashioned way circa 2000 and did get most of the issues then, some in pretty rough shape, but I just wanted to read it and this was before it was collected in trades. I didn't get this one until around 2015 or so, a rare purchase during a time when I was mostly away from the hobby. Eventually I got the collected editions digitally as part of a 3 for 1 deal. Love Joe Kubert and love this series  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 20, 2024 19:19:26 GMT -5
This week I'm going with the first Joe Kubert, and first DC, Tarzan. I first attempted to collect this run the old fashioned way circa 2000 and did get most of the issues then, some in pretty rough shape, but I just wanted to read it and this was before it was collected in trades. I didn't get this one until around 2015 or so, a rare purchase during a time when I was mostly away from the hobby. Eventually I got the collected editions digitally as part of a 3 for 1 deal. Love Joe Kubert and love this series I got a beat up copy of this book a few years ago. Great cover. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 20, 2024 21:27:12 GMT -5
I love funk and this cover always makes me think of watching Soul Train on Saturdays after cartoons. Electro-Funk (like Newcleus' "Jam On It") has always been a personal favorite, same with Detroit Techno. I also miss Soul Train and was sad when they quietly canceled it towards the end of the Millennium. Though some years later they started airing re-runs of older shows, mainly from the 80's (which has my favorite version of the theme song) My pick for this week is Neil Gaiman's "Mr. Punch". My mom bought it for me when I was younger, thinking that it was a kid's story, but it was anything but! It's a very dark story about a boy growing up in rural England set against a traveling Punch and Judy show  It's also a fairly large book, comparable to the old DC Collector's Editions from the 70s |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 21, 2024 6:21:52 GMT -5
O.k., I know it's no longer technically summer, but I'm stubbornly sticking to my guns that September is still summer (and besides, the weather over here today is absolutely beautiful: clear blue skies, pleasantly warm - the perfect day for reading under a shady tree), so the summer of annuals continues with Incredible Hulk Annual #14:  It features a really good story by John Byrne and wonderful art by Sal Buscema; in fact, I'd say that - just as last week's pick of Thor Annual #13 contains what is arguably John Buscema's finest single art job - something similar can be said about Sal's art in this one. And like that latter annual, I've also written about this one at this forum before.
My previous picks (fools click where angels fear tread): {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
23/08/2024: Avengers Annual #13
30/08/2024: Dr. Strange Annual #1
06/09/2024: Incredible Hulk Annual #7
13/09/2024: Thor Annual #13 |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 21, 2024 6:46:11 GMT -5
I know it's a lot of work, but it would be nice if someone created a thread that contains links to every TSF week.
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 21, 2024 6:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2024 16:57:42 GMT -5
This week I'll go with my copy of Superboy #89. Probably no secret I'm a huge Legion fan, and Mon-El is an old favorite. But here in his first appearance is also probably my favorite "alter ego" of all time: Bob Cobb, traveling salesman!   |
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Post by DubipR on Sept 23, 2024 13:09:39 GMT -5
I love funk and this cover always makes me think of watching Soul Train on Saturdays after cartoons. Electro-Funk (like Newcleus' "Jam On It") has always been a personal favorite, same with Detroit Techno. I also miss Soul Train and was sad when they quietly canceled it towards the end of the Millennium. Though some years later they started airing re-runs of older shows, mainly from the 80's (which has my favorite version of the theme song) My pick for this week is Neil Gaiman's "Mr. Punch". My mom bought it for me when I was younger, thinking that it was a kid's story, but it was anything but! It's a very dark story about a boy growing up in rural England set against a traveling Punch and Judy show It's also a fairly large book, comparable to the old DC Collector's Editions from the 70s I remember picking that up at my local comic shop. The cashier said to be "Oh, Gaiman's signing this down the street" I hopped in my car and got him to sign it. Good day. |
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Post by DubipR on Sept 23, 2024 14:25:10 GMT -5
A little late but in time before the next one. As I promised MRPs_Missives, here's a fun sketch cover. A cover that I got a C&D from Disney when I posted it years ago *shrugs* From my friend Rafael, that did my Quest cover, here's Mickey Hex! I asked for, and did he deliver. I love the look of it, the cartoony 1940s Ub Iwerks cartoony catci, Mickey's scar is really well done and him wearing Jonah's confederate unform.  |
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