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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 4, 2024 11:22:09 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, to commemorate the start of spooky season, I am picking one of the few horror comics I had as a kid, whose cover was absolute nightmare fuel for me when I was younger-The Modern Comics reprint of Ghostly Haunts #41 from Charlton.  Whatcha got for us this week? -M The shelf so far... 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
9/20/24 Fast Willie Jackson #1
9/27/24 Teen Titans 5 Darwyn variant |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2024 11:37:30 GMT -5
First appearance of the super-hero costume...Herbie 8 from early 1965. If you only get one book from this 23-issue series, get this one! So glad I got this high-grade spare in a large lot that worked out to pennies on the dollar....
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 4, 2024 12:07:30 GMT -5
So way back in late April, my pick was Marvel Premiere #32 (the excellent Monark Starstalker issue), which I had signed by Howard Chaykin himself. And while I particularly prize that one because it's my favorite issue of that series, it occurred to me that the other books I had signed by Chaykin way back when are also top shelf books for me. So this week I'm going to highlight the Ironwolf reprint book from 1986...  ...which collects Chaykin's stories that were originally published in the last few issues of Weird Worlds back in 1974 or so.
My previous picks (the lord helps those who click for themselves):
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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
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
20/09/2024: Hulk Annual #14
27/09/2024: Hulk Annual #15
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 4, 2024 12:57:50 GMT -5
Highly recommended by yours truly:   |
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 4, 2024 16:47:01 GMT -5
Keeping with the season, my pick is the TPB of the 2015 reboot of "Doctor Mirage"  In the past, I've made my opinions very well known about the original version of Doctor Mirage, but this interpretation was incredibly excellent and well done and follows some of the threads of the original, but isn't afraid to do it's own thing (which can be said for the majority of 2012 Valiant) -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)
-Rune #0 (8/23/24)
-The Maxx #5 (9/6/24)
-Adventures In The DC Universe #7 (9/13/24)
-The Comical Tragedy Of Mr. Punch (9/20/24)
-The Demon by Jack Kirby (9/27/24) |
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Post by DubipR on Oct 4, 2024 20:35:28 GMT -5
Highly recommended by yours truly: Probably the best war comic ever made |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 5, 2024 7:09:07 GMT -5
This week I have a blast from my youth. I bought Avengers # 93 off the newsstands when I was 10 and was fairly new to comics reading. This book had the first part of the Neal Adams Kree/Skrull war . ( this is the original copy, with the cover falling off)  The reason it is memorable more than just the issue, is that it was a book that had a printing error. It printed the final chapter twice. I was still new to comics reading and didn't know if it was part of the story , using the chapter twice for some kind of effect.  |
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