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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 25, 2024 12:45:25 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, a haunting retelling of Dr. Strange Annual #1 by P. Craig Russell-What is is That Disturbs You, Stephen? is one of my favorite Dr. Strange stories, and my copy is signed by PCR himself when I met him at Gem City a few years back. On a less fun note-The Top Shelf Friday threads have been getting less traction and few responses or looks after the Friday posted for a while now, and falling off the front page by the end of the weekend usually. There's a very small handful of people engaging with the thread, but I'm not sure there is enough interest to keep this going, I will keep it going until the end of the year, but unless the trend reverses, I will probably retire this feature in the new year. -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 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 10/4/24 Ghostly Haunts #41 10/11/24 Conan the Barbarian #76 10/18/24 Krypto covers
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2024 13:37:17 GMT -5
I'm currently compiling the full set of 8 Misty Annuals (1979-86), one of the best British supernatural / horror series of the time. Not easy to get in high grade (British annuals are notorious for getting the price clipped or with puzzles filled in with writing etc).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 25, 2024 16:48:28 GMT -5
I pretty much never buy new single issues, but I made it a point to track down and get Marvels Snapshots: Sub-mariner from 2020... ...because it features a story by one of my favorite comics writers (and really just favorite writers in general), Alan Brennert. Ordway's art is just the icing on the cake.
My previous picks (click now, or forever hold your peace): {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 20/09/2024: Hulk Annual #14 27/09/2024: Hulk Annual #15 04/10/2024: Ironwolf 11/10/2024: Marvel Premiere #56 18/10/2024: Project Pegasus Saga (tpb)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 25, 2024 16:50:51 GMT -5
I pretty much never buy new single issues, but I made it a point to track down and get Marvels Snapshots: Sub-mariner from 2020... ...because it features a story by one of my favorite comics writers (and really just favorite writers in general), Alan Brennert. Ordway's art is just the icing on the cake.
My previous picks (click now, or forever hold your peace): {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 20/09/2024: Hulk Annual #14 27/09/2024: Hulk Annual #15 04/10/2024: Ironwolf 11/10/2024: Marvel Premiere #56 18/10/2024: Project Pegasus Saga (tpb) That was a good read.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 25, 2024 19:46:00 GMT -5
I bought this years ago and have loved it on a special level. Almost like I had found buried treasure. It's a DVD-Rom of all the Avengers issues from 1963 to 2005. It ends with issue #12 of the Bendis New Avengers. It also has all the Annuals included in this time period. I have all of these Original issues ( Except Avengers 1 and 4 ) but it's a cool thing to download this to an iPad and take it on vacation. The pages are shot from actual comics and not any film or original pages. It adds to the charm of it. This item was available before the Marvel Unlimited era and it's great. I got it off eBay for around 30 and have seen it offered for hundreds afterwards. I also have the FF version of this.
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Post by jtrw2024 on Oct 25, 2024 20:01:01 GMT -5
I bought this years ago and have loved it on a special level. Almost like I had found buried treasure. It's a DVD-Rom of all the Avengers issues from 1963 to 2005. It ends with issue #12 of the Bendis New Avengers. It also has all the Annuals included in this time period. I have all of these Original issues ( Except Avengers 1 and 4 ) but it's a cool thing to download this to an iPad and take it on vacation. The pages are shot from actual comics and not any film or original pages. It adds to the charm of it. This item was available before the Marvel Unlimited era and it's great. I got it off eBay for around 30 and have seen it offered for hundreds afterwards. I also the FF version of this. I love these! I bought a whole bunch of them when they came out, Amazing Spider-man, Hulk, Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America, X-men, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider plus a few other Marvel collections. I've also got Star Trek, Mad Magazine and a Scooby Doo set. There were some others, but the ones I got covered pretty much covered anything I was interested in. Prior to this I didn't really read a lot of comics on the computer, preferring my originals, but these scans, with ads and everything, are the next best thing, especially for all those comics I'll never be able to afford. The cost was about $50.00 each (for 500 issues per set) which is the best comics deal I've ever gotten! Sadly Marvel cut ties with the company Gitcorp that was producing them before they could release any more, but I'm pleased with the ones I got!
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 26, 2024 8:40:54 GMT -5
Here’s mine: And I got it signed:
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 26, 2024 8:42:16 GMT -5
I'm currently compiling the full set of 8 Misty Annuals (1979-86), one of the best British supernatural / horror series of the time. Not easy to get in high grade (British annuals are notorious for getting the price clipped or with puzzles filled in with writing etc).
My older sister bought the comic religiously, and I’m sure she would have bought the annuals, too. She thought some stories were quite disturbing!
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