Shelf Porn for Meatwad's Ghost (spinoff of DCBS thread)

[MBoyd]

Thought this would be fun. And I have been wanting to brag about this bookshelf I picked up recently for less than $300.



This has all the Omnis and DC/Vertigo Absolutes currently released. The Bendis Daredevil lying sideways is just the extra corrected cover sent out by DCBS. Haven't decided what to do with it.

Bottom shelf holds the two Walking Dead "Absolutes" (but they aren't pictured, but they are on the right), Complete Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Maudlin's Willie And Joe WWII years, and The Art Of Ralph McQuarrie. The bottom shelf will be relocated when Marvel gets some more Omnis out.

Have some other stuff upstairs, but my main focus is anything in these oversized comprehensive formats.

And yes my wife lets me keep them in the bedroom.

[Mhepburn20]

Those omnis look amazing - I'm now wishing I got them all.

[MBoyd]

Thanks!

Hopefully Sessa17 will come in here and post what he has. Looks like he has a pretty amazing collection.

[stingermck]

I created a smiliar thread to this a while back, but it died

Post pics of your Comics and Collectibles

I cant see your pic here at work MBoyd cause it is blocked, but will check it when I get home. I need to take new pics of my trades/HC/etc.

[MBoyd]

Those DC Directs you have stingermck are sweet. I keep thinking of picking up a few more but always stop myself. The Kingdom Come Superman I have I go free at a comic store when I bought two of those Star Trek retro Mego figures.

[stingermck]

Originally Posted by MBoyd

Those DC Directs you have stingermck are sweet. I keep thinking of picking up a few more but always stop myself. The Kingdom Come Superman I have I go free at a comic store when I bought two of those Star Trek retro Mego figures.

Thanks! Those pics are pretty old, I need to update those also, since 25th Anniversary GI Joe has invaded.

[kevin75]

mboyd, do you just have the absolutes that are in print or all of them? that shelf looks great!

[MBoyd]

Originally Posted by kevin75

mboyd, do you just have the absolutes that are in print or all of them? that shelf looks great!

Thanks! I have the 1st printings of every DC/Vertigo Absolute released so far. I got into when I got back into comics through DCBS back in 2005. Batman: Hush was a really cheap pre-order at around $30 and I thought why the hell not. About the same time The World's Greatest Superheroes came out too, and while not an official Absolute, I ordered that one too. So every single one of them is a DCBS pre-order. I couldn't afford them otherwise! The increased release schedule between these and the Omnis have made me decrease my floppies.

Pretty much the same story on the Omnis. Pre-ordered The FF Vol 1 and picked up Ultimate Spider-Man at Barnes and Noble. And not an official Omni, but I guess it was a test run for the format. Pre-ordered every single one after that, but I did skip pre-ordering Alias because I think I thought it had something to do with the TV show. Ended up ordering it late in 2006 and I'm glad I did. Excellent series and now OOP in the Omni format.

So I complain about too many Daredevil Omnis or the Superman For Tomorrow Absolute in other threads, but I am totally the big two's bitch when it comes to these monstrosities!

[slop101]

ooh ooh, here's the section of my book shelves that's committed to comics:

[MBoyd]

Slop, great shelf! what's the deal with your Superman For Tomorrow and the red dust Jacket? looks different than mine. I see you have JLA/Avengers too. Forgot about that one. I guess it's not an official Avsolute, but maybe I should pick it up for completeness.

[slop101]

The red Supes spine is outer slip-cover and not the dust-jacket. And yeah, they don't call the JLA/Avengers book an Absolute, but it pretty much is - Perez's art looks fantastic in the format. It's similar to the Crisis Absolute in how it has the series in one book and the extra material all in it's own book, both stuffed into the slip-cover. My favorite Absolutes have to be the two Authorities - the format works with that book better than any other. But the most valuable thing in that picture is the Vox amp - only 400 of those were made

[Meatwad's Ghost]

I work late the last couple of nights because of the holiday and during that time I get my name in a post title.

Excellent collections MBoyd and slop101, like the looks of your shelves and jealous of most of the books.

MBoyd that's the type of bookcase I would like to get, was this purchased at a national store? The doors would be great to keep people from just looking through them, especially the nieces/nephews.

I would post a pic of my collection but to give you an idea it's about 4-5 staples paper boxes stacked in a cheap cardboard file cabinet holder.

[MBoyd]

Well the bookshelf was purchased in January at Nieman-Marcus Last Call which is in an outlet mall north of Dallas. Original tagged price was a ridiculous $1299. It was marked down to around $699 which was crossed out, then $450 for the outlet store. The sales lady strolled over as I was looking at it and told me it was an additional percentage off that weekend and it was around $260. I jumped on it at that price. Always wanted something with glass to reduce the dust accumulation. The doors don't lock or anything.

I think what you need is barrister bookcase. I've been cruising consignment shops here in Austin looking at a few. A friend of mine has all his DVDs in a really nice one.

[Meatwad's Ghost]

Originally Posted by MBoyd

I think what you need is barrister bookcase. I've been cruising consignment shops here in Austin looking at a few. A friend of mine has all his DVDs in a really nice one.

Thanks, I thought that price sounded a little too good to be true. I'll have to look into the barristers.

[Cathepsin]

There's a fine selection of shelf porn at comicbookresources:

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/tag/shelf-porn/

[superfro]

I'll have to update since I don't have any current pics, but in the meantime here's our Gaiman section, which probably hasn't changed too much since this pic was taken.

Spoiler:

[stingermck]

OK here is mine. 2 $29 cases from Wal-Mart. The 2nd one isn't completely put together, cause of the window, and haven't needed the space yet.

Spoiler:

[Patman]

That Fred Benes is getting better by the sketch.

[stingermck]

Originally Posted by Patman

That Fred Benes is getting better by the sketch.

Yup. And Ed is getting worse.

[Patman]

I picked up a 4-character Top Cow piece by Mariah Benes (inked by some dude, JP something) for $51 plus shipping via ebay. I was surprised. Some artist won't even do a head sketch for less than $50 these days. I really need to scan in the recent pieces of art I've picked up of late. But I digress.

[stingermck]

Fred, Maria and their studio do commission sketches here. Really good prices:

http://www.comiconart.com/