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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 8, 2024 14:37:28 GMT -5
Welcome to the second week of Top Shelf Friday. This is a way to feature comics you love innovated by a fellow collector I interact with over on bluesky-Vinsonlovescomics and I have enjoyed participating in it and seeing lots of wonderful comics. Each Friday I'll ask you to post a comic that you own that you believe belongs on the "Top Shelf" whether it's a key, just a beautiful comic, or just a comic that you love for whatever reason. In a sea of negativity, it's a chance to share something comic-related that you love with the community. Here's my entry this week... Brave & The Bold #35 2md appearance of the Silver Age Hawkman with some gorgeous work by Joe Kubert...  -M |
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Post by Rags on Mar 8, 2024 14:58:46 GMT -5
It's the one that's almost guaranteed to start a conversation, even if you have to correct (curious) first impressions 95% of the time. Wonder if Al Hartley knew he had a winner with this Christian comic book?
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Post by Kal on Mar 8, 2024 15:18:17 GMT -5
This is my replacement copy of a book I got in early 1983 in my youth, and I can't tell you how many times I re-read it. Previously I had only had a few small exposure points to Golden Age material, and this book is premoninantly that despite the name. It is overwhelmingly weighted towards 40's reprints, with a smattering of 50's issues, and a very tiny amount of 60's and beyond. The 70's and early 80's material I had been reading on the newsstand previously couldn't compare overall, I was quickly hooked on the older material. The 1st appearance of "Mr. Mxyztplk" (as the spelling was then) was worth the price of admission alone.  |
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Post by Rags on Mar 8, 2024 15:24:47 GMT -5
This is my replacement copy of a book I got in early 1983 in my youth, and I can't tell you how many times I re-read it. Previously I had only had a few small exposure points to Golden Age material, and this book is premoninantly that despite the name. It is overwhelmingly weighted towards 40's reprints, with a smattering of 50's issues, and a very tiny amount of 60's and beyond. The 70's and early 80's material I had been reading on the newsstand previously couldn't compare overall, I was quickly hooked on the older material. The 1st appearance of "Mr. Mxyztplk" (as the spelling was then) was worth the price of admission alone.
I didn't get this one because I was told there was very little added to the previous 30s to the 70s collection. And when I upgraded that copy to a 'new' one that was never opened, I left it that way because the other volume had lousy binding, pages began to detach quite easily. If the binding in the 30s to 80s collection is superior, let me know.....
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 8, 2024 15:25:07 GMT -5
Thank you for doing this, after posting you were under the weather. Sometimes it feels hard to type/concentrate while ill, I know. Hachette are a company who, among other things, publish DC trades via subscription (other than the first few issues, they may not be available in shops). They did this Joker collection a year or so ago:   |
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Post by Kal on Mar 8, 2024 15:43:23 GMT -5
I didn't get this one because I was told there was very little added to the previous 30s to the 70s collection. And when I upgraded that copy to a 'new' one that was never opened, I left it that way because the other volume had lousy binding, pages began to detach quite easily. If the binding in the 30s to 80s collection is superior, let me know..... I've never had the earlier version, but I do recall from comparing content in the past that's correct, not a big difference in material. The page count is almost the same so for the few stories that were added, some other stuff was swapped out. I don't remember much in the way of binding issues with my old copy, and I was just flipping through my newer one now (which seems only lightly used) and it feels pretty solid. I can fully open the binding throughout and nothing seems off best I can tell. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 9, 2024 20:11:52 GMT -5
Shouldn’t this be top shelf 3-8-24 ?
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 9, 2024 20:42:15 GMT -5
This is one of my favorite books that DC ever produced.  This New interpretation of the Flash was a refreshing change for me and Mike Baron and Jackson Guice produced an exciting story to introduce him. Former Kid Flash becomes the Flash following the events of COIE bringing new villains and fun soap opera to the Dc universe. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 10, 2024 1:44:55 GMT -5
Shouldn’t this be top shelf 3-8-24 ? yes fixed, sorry, like I said elsewhere I was under the weather for a large chunk of the week. -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 10, 2024 4:35:11 GMT -5
I've probably mentioned elsewhere on this board before that I've been a big fan of digests, and one of my favorites, if not very favorite digest is Archie’s Super-hero Comics Digest Magazine:  Published in the summer of 1979, it collects an eclectic mix of stories: a few with the Archie characters as costumed heroes, like Pureheart and Superteen, but mainly 'serious' super-hero stories, which consists of either reprints of MLJ hero stories (i.e., the Fly, the Web, the Shield, Steel Sterling) from the late '50s/'60s and a few all-new stories featuring the Black Hood - with art by Gray Morrow and Neal Adams! And there's even a few horror(ish) stories thrown in for good measure, one drawn by Wally Wood and another by Jesse Santos. I first bought it at a newsstand in downtown LA with a few other comics on a hot, hazy day during a family trip. It was the centerpiece of my reading in the back seat the car during the long drive back to Oregon. I just loved it back then and read it many times over. My original copy is long gone, but when I got back into comics again in the mid-'00s, I made it a point to track that one down and reacquire it. It's just a little gem of a book. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 10, 2024 6:44:25 GMT -5
I could get carried away and post all Avengers covers, but I will mix it up as much as I can. The hard part( and good part) is waiting a week between books.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 10, 2024 6:45:08 GMT -5
It's the one that's almost guaranteed to start a conversation, even if you have to correct (curious) first impressions 95% of the time. Wonder if Al Hartley knew he had a winner with this Christian comic book?
I have to find somewhere that I can read this book. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 10, 2024 7:06:48 GMT -5
It's the one that's almost guaranteed to start a conversation, even if you have to correct (curious) first impressions 95% of the time. Wonder if Al Hartley knew he had a winner with this Christian comic book?
In today's knee jerk society, I'm sure they would have called for this book to be burned. |
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Post by Rags on Mar 10, 2024 11:01:24 GMT -5
In today's knee jerk society, I'm sure they would have called for this book to be burned.
For almost one month, the Hansi comic was being removed from ebay within 24-48 hours of being listed and there were none around...but now it's a cat and mouse game with a few listings springing up ever so often. A couple of them have been there for over a week so I'm hoping the idiot who orchestrated this 'ban' has gotten a life and moved on....
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