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Post by MRPs_Missives on Apr 19, 2024 8:12:33 GMT -5
Been doing a internet detox the last couple of day, limiting time online so I haven't been around, and probably won't be back on here until next week, but wanted to pop in to do the Top Shelf Friday for this week. What's a comic you would put on the top shelf? One you own that's important, valuable, a key, catches your fancy, or that you just adore. I'm going with my favorite issue of Avengers form when I was a kid...  I traced so many panels from this book so many times that you could see pencil grooves worn into the pages of my childhood copy when I still had it, especially the splash page. I must have read this issue a hundred times or more as a kid. -M |
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Post by Rags on Apr 19, 2024 9:08:36 GMT -5
This one I'd keep locked up behind a glass window, like Anabelle, with a sign that says 'absolutely do not open'....because this #1 variant is insanely hard to get in any grade. If you enjoy the movie, and recent 4K release (which is awesome), you so need this 5-part series
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 19, 2024 9:18:10 GMT -5
This week I'm going to go with a very old favorite, Amazing Spider-man Annual #10:  For me, just that cover is so iconic, as it's the first Spider-man annual I ever had, and in fact the first annual I ever had. And I always wondered why the Fly never became a more regular fixture in Spidey's rogues gallery - he was a pretty cool and formidable opponent. |
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Post by tonebone on Apr 19, 2024 10:30:09 GMT -5
I know it's supposed to be one comic, but I will cheat a little, since they were all one purchase. A long time ago, in a grocery store far, far away, my mom purchased for me this Whitman 3-pack of comics.  It contained all 3 issues of the Flash Gordon movie adaptation. I have treasured these 3 issues ever since, and recently bought the "graphic novel" tpb collection that was also offered at the time. I was really saddened to read about how Al Williamson had such misery creating the art for the adaptation, and how he hated the movie itself. It doesn't show through in the awe-inspiring artwork.  |
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Post by james on Apr 19, 2024 11:22:57 GMT -5
XMEN 128.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2024 14:37:32 GMT -5
This is my copy of the X-Men Asgardian Wars collection, a really nice deluxe style hardcover containing the mid-80's X-Men/Alpha Flight limited series 2-parter, New Mutants Special Edition, and Uncanny X-Men Annual #9. All connected stories, but for me the jewel is that New Mutants Special Edition, probably my favorite comic book of all time. I was already hooked on New Mutants due to the Claremont/Sienkiewicz team, but while I loved Bill's art on that run, I was probably ready for a bit of a change and something a little more mainstream but still nice. Art Adams with Terry Austin on inks was stunning to me, and the storyline was really quite a coming of age for the team in a fantastical setting. Asgard felt so big to me in that story, and definitely very magical. This collection reprints it really nicely on high end paper and gets reread plenty.  |
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Post by DubipR on Apr 19, 2024 16:21:12 GMT -5
This is my copy of the X-Men Asgardian Wars collection, a really nice deluxe style hardcover containing the mid-80's X-Men/Alpha Flight limited series 2-parter, New Mutants Special Edition, and Uncanny X-Men Annual #9. All connected stories, but for me the jewel is that New Mutants Special Edition, probably my favorite comic book of all time. I was already hooked on New Mutants due to the Claremont/Sienkiewicz team, but while I loved Bill's art on that run, I was probably ready for a bit of a change and something a little more mainstream but still nice. Art Adams with Terry Austin on inks was stunning to me, and the storyline was really quite a coming of age for the team in a fantastical setting. Asgard felt so big to me in that story, and definitely very magical. This collection reprints it really nicely on high end paper and gets reread plenty. Great book. But I hate the digital recoloring Marvel's been doing with these updated reprints. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2024 16:24:46 GMT -5
This is my copy of the X-Men Asgardian Wars collection, a really nice deluxe style hardcover containing the mid-80's X-Men/Alpha Flight limited series 2-parter, New Mutants Special Edition, and Uncanny X-Men Annual #9. All connected stories, but for me the jewel is that New Mutants Special Edition, probably my favorite comic book of all time. I was already hooked on New Mutants due to the Claremont/Sienkiewicz team, but while I loved Bill's art on that run, I was probably ready for a bit of a change and something a little more mainstream but still nice. Art Adams with Terry Austin on inks was stunning to me, and the storyline was really quite a coming of age for the team in a fantastical setting. Asgard felt so big to me in that story, and definitely very magical. This collection reprints it really nicely on high end paper and gets reread plenty. Great book. But I hate the digital recoloring Marvel's been doing with these updated reprints. Did this one get the digital treatment? I tend to dislike that with my Masterworks volumes and whatnot, didn't even catch that with this one. I have originals of those books, I need to pull out and compare. |
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Post by DubipR on Apr 19, 2024 16:33:43 GMT -5
The Private Files of the Shadow. A hard to find hardcover that reprints the Shadow #s 1-4 and #6. I love a good HC, especially when DC in the late 80s/early 90s weren't doing that many. I had to get this immediately back in 1989  |
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Post by DubipR on Apr 19, 2024 16:40:41 GMT -5
Great book. But I hate the digital recoloring Marvel's been doing with these updated reprints. Did this one get the digital treatment? I tend to dislike that with my Masterworks volumes and whatnot, didn't even catch that with this one. I have originals of those books, I need to pull out and compare. I believe so. Most of Marvels Epic collections and older stuff are getting that treatment. Just the cover you posted is a digital color job of the Adams original cover. I try to look for the out of print trades for that reason... |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 19, 2024 19:35:41 GMT -5
This book came out when Starlin was at the peak of his powers . He was doing it at the same time he was producing Captain marvel.  Just a great book. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 19, 2024 19:36:47 GMT -5
I have to pik a nit, MRP wanted us to post the Actual comic we own, not a scan from the internet.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 20, 2024 3:06:57 GMT -5
I have to pik a nit, MRP wanted us to post the Actual comic we own, not a scan from the internet. I've been doing that, but maybe some folks don't have easy access to the book in question (i.e., it's possibly in the bottom long-box in a big stack of long-boxes) and/or don't have time to snap a pic, so they're just going with an online image. As you can see, MRP himself used an image from mycomicshop this time around. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Apr 20, 2024 3:11:56 GMT -5
I have to pik a nit, MRP wanted us to post the Actual comic we own, not a scan from the internet. I've been doing that, but maybe some folks don't have easy access to the book in question (i.e., it's possibly in the bottom long-box in a big stack of long-boxes) and/or don't have time to snap a pic, so they're just going with an online image. As you can see, MRP himself used an image from mycomicshop this time around. Yeah, if possible use a pic of the actual copy you own, but if it's not accessible or you don't have a chance to get to it, use a placeholder, If you can chance to edit it later, cool, if not cool, don't let it be a reason not to participate. I may get a chance to dig mine out and snap a pic tomorrow, but if I had to wait to get an actual pic this week, the thread wasn't getting up and running on Friday. -M |
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Post by MDG on Apr 20, 2024 11:08:32 GMT -5
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