Yeah, that's a Bowen (and one of the ones actually sculpted by Randy). I got really into collecting those for a bit, still have a good number. Many of these are really amazing and to me some of the best representations from the classic eras of my favorite characters.

You could almost say that it's...busted. 

As part of my "staycation" this week, in addition to some great reading, I'm also going through some of my stuff in storage and pulled out some statues today for a quick photo shoot. I used to have these all on display, but we were thinking of moving at one point and I packed them away. Still not sure if we are committed to staying where we are or if we are going to eventually move in the next year or two, so for now I'm not getting too elaborate with display spaces.

DC theme for this wave...

Some Golden Age goodness (these are some of my favorite, but Aquaman wins it for me...that grin, and those yellow gloves!):



Next, a recreation of the first Kara Supergirl appearance. These had a really high shipping breakage rate but I wanted this one so badly and could only find online. The first one I got came shattered, so I had to send back for a refund. The second one had the spaceship door broken off, but otherwise in great shape. It was a very clean break so I decided to glue and keep because I didn't want to roll the dice, and you can't even see the seam so I'm happy I kept it.



I bought this Catwoman and Harley from the old WB store in the downtown mall where I lived back in the 90's. It was DC heaven back then between signed art and statues and whatnot and at retail versus after market prices. And with the animated DC shows bringing a ton of old school fun back, I have really good memories of this era. The Supergirl I picked up a little later online, it also had a high breakage rate so I got lucky this one came with no problems!



Finally a few random busts...classic Atom on Hawkman's shoulder is my favorite here!

Changing up the comic on display above my workspace to get into the Halloween season. I can fit 6 comics on the V channel, but can only get 5 in the spread pick, but all 6 are shown below...



the two on the left...



the two center books...



and the right two books...



-M

The last several months I've been working on getting the room in the basement organized as well as organizing comics and OGN/collected editions, purging stuff I no longer need to own as I will not reread it or just decided it's not for me any more. Finally got to a point where it is starting to come together. Here's a glimpse at the bookshelves in the basement. Marvel trades/OGN on the left shelf, "indy" (i.e. anything not part of the shared DC/Marvel Universe, so some ICON or Vertigo stuff is mixed in), fills the center shelf and the lower part of the right shelf. The top of the right shelf is a mix of Star Trek/Star Wars stuff (novels, trades, etc.). The DC stuff, and the rest of the indy stuff (stuff by creators whose names begin S-Z) is still on the shelves upstairs in the finished attic. I organize the indy stuff beginning with anthologies and stuff by diverse hands, then alphabetical by the primary creator (if there are two creators, I usually, but not always, file it with the writer, but there are exceptions that have reasons that are only meaningful to me.

Here's a glimpse at the shelves as a whole...



and a peek at the top 2 shelves of indy books (roughly anthology/diverse hands books and A-B)

top shelf l-r



and second shelf...


I try to leave a little room on each shelf for future acquisitions.

I'll get more pics taken in the coming weeks...

-M

So I finally have the basement gaming room reorganized and set up the way we want it (well about 90% still working on some fine details). Since we didn't play this past Sunday (yesterday) because two of our players are on their honeymoon, I had time to take some pics. So here's bit of a guided room tour (I'll do the reading room and the other comic storage area when I finish the organization projects underway in those areas)

The game room is a finished room in the basement. During spring thaws, we occasionally have some water issues if there's a lot of snow to melt and the the ground is still too frozen to absorb the water, so most thing downstairs are elevated or on paving stones to keep them off the ground.

As you descend the stairs before you get to the room you pass some art on the wall



and a shelf of D&D minis and books outside the room between it and our laundry room



This is the door that greets you...


with some jazz greats hiding on the back


Rotating around the room, starting on the wall to the left of the door where we have installed shelves...


going round the corner from there is the wall where most of the comics int he room are stored...


everything in those short boxes are DC comics (Marvel and Indy are stored in other areas of the house)

Some close ups from that wall...

The racks o short boxes


finally have the boxes organized, there's a label with a box number on top (except for the graphic boxes) and a small tab in the lower left corner that gives the alphabetical range in the box. I have a master document in googledocs that lists contents by box that I update as I add books. I try to keep each box to only 80-90% full so there is room for additions.

And the D&D book spinner...

We got this from a bookstore going out of business in the early 2000s (can't remember if it was B. Dalton, Waldens or Borders) at a local mall when they were selling off fixtures. The red dragon is the colossal dragon that was part of the D&D minis line in the late oughts, the blue from the recent Nanometal D&D line. The skulls are fishtank props and the pewter dragon and Fantasy figs were birthday gifts to me form friends way back in the mid-90s that I have had on display somewhere since then.

Lastly in the corner of that wall is a shelf that features things of interest to Mrs.MRP, mostly Wonder Woman and Star Wars here...


Moving around the corner, we get to a spinner rack and more bookshelves, and see part of the gaming table set up (we played on Saturday so some of the materials for that game are still stacked on the table)


The Spinner Rack has 4 sides and has mostly Megos and McFaralne Super Powers figures on it, plus a few odds and ends (some New Frontier bendies, a Hellboy figure set, some of the Jose Garcia-Lopez model sheet variant covers DC recently did and a Toth model sheet variant cover from the current Space Ghost series




We'll continue the tour in the next post...

-M

Ok, going around the corner from that short box rack, we get a wall of fantasy art and D&D minis and play aid.



This is a very old case with sliding glass doors that Mrs.MRP owned long before we met. We have used it to display D&D minis forever and a day...



atop a book shelf that has scatter terrain and other play aids is a small assortment of toys, figures, and tchotchkes, You can see some Frazetta trading cards on display behind them...


and next to it you can see one of the Tolkien prints we have (it was a set of 4 the others are displayed elsewhere) and more Frazetta cards...


and that takes us to the corner that has my desk and work area...



some of the art displayed above my work area..



and then moving to the right of my workspace to complete the circuit of the room, our big low vertical file cabinet (used to store comics, now has D&D play accessories organized in it (tiles, scatter terrain, frequently used minis etc.)


You can see a lot of the Marvel Legends Retro 3 3/4 Marvel figs on display there...




at the end of the file cabinet is a small corner rack that holds more D&D minis and snacks for players, plus the JLGL model sheet turnaround Wonder Woman variant on display


There is one more feature to the room with art displays. It's a drop down ceiling, and there is a heating duct that drops lower, which is covered in sheet rock. It created about an 15 inch row, just big enough to hang some framed pieces in landscape orientation, which was perfect to display the Darwyn Cooke variants DC did circa 2013ish? (2012-204 I don't remember exactly when it was during the period befoe the shop here in town closed when I was helping him sort and price back issues he got it). So here are the Darwyn covers framed on display...




and that completes the game room tour. Hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I'll get to the other spaces eventually, but it might be a bit before they're ready.

-M