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JasonF 09-22-05 11:59 PM

Post a picture of your comic books (lots of images)
 
Rather than clutter up the one and only thread with pictures, I thought I'd start a separate thread.

So we're all talking about our shelves filled with TPBs -- let's see 'em

Here's shelf one: my DC Archives. I collect Legion of Superheroes, Plastic Man, Shazam, and Spirit. I'm dreadfully behind in all of them, particularly Spirit:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0168.jpg

Shelfs two through four (the ones you can see the whole shelves) -- Marvel Essentials. This is every single Essential except the three Wovlerine ones (don't have 'em), the latest Daredevil (haven't read it yet, so it's not shelved), and the Ghost Rider that came out last week (haven't been to the shop yet):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0169.jpg

Below the Essentials we start with the rest of the TPBs, alphabetical by character/team, more or less. Here we have things like Age of Bronze, Alien Legion, Avengers, and Batman:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0170.jpg

Moving over to bookcase two, we take a break from the alphabetical TPBs for some odds and ends like some of my oversized books (Paradox Press Big Books, Tintin, some of the Alan Moore 2000AD reprints) on the top shelf and various series (Marvel Star Wars, Marvel GI Joe, Akira, and the DC 80 Page Giant replicas):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0164.jpg

Back to the alphabetical stuff. Here are two more shelves. Captain America through Fallen Angel on top; Fantastic Four through Infinity Gauntlet on the second shelf:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0165.jpg

Shelves four and five of the alphabetical stuff. Judgment Day is with the "S" section because I shelved it with Supreme.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0166.jpg

Finishing off the alphabetical stuff with T through Z (except I have no Zs, so it's just T through Y):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0167.jpg

More odd sized stuff on top and most of my strip collections:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0163.jpg

Finally, starting on the bottom, we have the rest of the strips and some more odd-sized stuff like Adolf and Battle Royale. You cna also see the start of my prose fiction collection. The top shelf here has some really cool stuff. Batman from the 30s through the 70s and Superman from the 30s through the 70s are two extremely cool collections. I borrowe them from my uncle when I was growing up and read them over and over and over. I finally tracked down my own copies a few years ago. JLA/Avengers is the greatest thing my geeky inner fanboy ever read or ever will read, so of course I had to spring for the hardback collection. The Complete Far Side will soon be joined by the Complete Calvin and Hobbes. And then there's Captain Marvel vs. the Monster Society of Evil -- a great Golden Age tale that deserves to be brought into print in a more accessible version. The blue binder contains the looseleaf version of DC's Who's Who.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...l/100_0162.jpg

I also have 20 short boxes of comics, but I didn't take pictures of those because you all know what a short box looks like.

So ... I showed you mine; let's see yours!

Chew 09-23-05 06:30 AM

:eek: Yeah, I can't compete with that.

reverie 09-23-05 08:56 AM

And people say I have too many books.. damn! At best, I've got maybe a book shelf and a half full, nothing quite like that!

lukewarmwater 09-23-05 03:09 PM

You son of a bitch. my comics couldnt fill a freaking row of yours.

So in your opinion which is your favorite alan moore comic? Since you seem to have every fucking one.

Dmacsg1 09-23-05 03:44 PM

Awesome collection dude! And I thought I had alot!

Nice to see someone else with a copy of Superman: From the 30's to the 70's. I remember seeing the Batman in that series as well as one with Captain Marvel or Shazam for those who don't know! Not sure if there was a Wonder Woman in the series or not.

Take care all!!

JasonF 09-23-05 03:58 PM

Will nobody step up to my challenge? EVen if you have fewer comics than me, we'd still like to see your collection!

lukewarmwater, it's hard to pick a single favorite Moore comic. Watchmen is a classic and really holds up well. I also like Moore's Supreme -- it's a great throwback to Weisinger-era Superman, but still manages to be very smart.

Dmacsg -- there was not a Wonder Woman volume in that series, but at about the same time as the three "30s to the 70s" volumes, Ms. Magazine published a collection of Wonder Woman reprints in a similar format. So it's sort of the unofficial fourth volume of that series.

Mondo Kane 09-23-05 07:24 PM

I've only got room for 1 pic
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...e/MVC-002S.jpg
See if you can spot which one is fake!

kevin75 09-23-05 08:30 PM

ok, here goes. keep in mind this is not all of what i have. i probably have about 20-30 more books that aren't shelved due to the fact that i am out or room right now and need more bookcases. but here's what i have:

a view of the entire case:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0647.jpg

and here are some close ups. the dc shelf:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0671.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0670.jpg

the marvel shelf:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0669.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0668.jpg

misc. hardcovers:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0667.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0666.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0665.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0664.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0663.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0662.jpg

more trades:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0661.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0660.jpg

marvel hardcovers:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0656.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0657.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0658.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...5/DSCN0659.jpg

JasonF 09-23-05 10:26 PM

Nice stuff, Kevin! Where our collections overlap, may I say that you have impeccable taste, and where they don't, may I say that I'm jealous? :)

Did you bind those Titans, Next Men, etc. yourself, or did you have someone do it for you? I know there's somebody on the Marvel Masterworks message board who binds collections for people -- I've been toying with having my collection of Simonson's Orion bound.

kevin75 09-23-05 11:02 PM

thanks jason. the books i had bound by the same david banks over at the MM boards. the iron man ones though, i picked up from an ebay auction though. if you want to get them bound, it's a great thing. he and the company he represents do a great job.

dadaluholla 09-24-05 09:32 AM

i only have about 1 shelf of tpbs/graphic novels. Ummm I guess I could take a pic of my 35 longboxes but they are not really as pretty as seeing shelves of colorful stuff..

movieguru 09-24-05 10:32 AM


Originally Posted by kevin75
thanks jason. the books i had bound by the same david banks over at the MM boards. the iron man ones though, i picked up from an ebay auction though. if you want to get them bound, it's a great thing. he and the company he represents do a great job.

How much does it cost to get them bound like that. Is there any link to the person that does it. it may be worthwhile for the comics that aren't or will never be published in hardback or tpb's.

Patman 09-24-05 05:14 PM

At an employee auction, I picked up 5 bookcases from an old work site, so I'll finally have the means to put up all my HC's on shelves, instead have having stacks all over the place. Paid about $3/bookcase, and they have 5 or 6 shelves each, so I should have plenty of bookshelf space now.

Mondo Kane 09-24-05 06:55 PM

Maybe it's because I don't visit this board often (And since I stopped collecting) I'm a little confused here. If the stuff that I posted in my pic aren't comic books then what are they?

Everything else posted here looks like graphic novels and books (With comic-reprints in them) to me.

Help me out, anyone?

kevin75 09-24-05 10:09 PM


Originally Posted by movieguru
How much does it cost to get them bound like that. Is there any link to the person that does it. it may be worthwhile for the comics that aren't or will never be published in hardback or tpb's.

the cost starts at around $50 per book and goes up depending on what you want done as far as extras. they will bind just about any amount of issues up to about 25 per book. his website is www.dpbanks.com. go there and check everything out, it's neat. :)

JasonF 09-24-05 11:35 PM

You can also check out this thread:

http://p206.ezboard.com/fmarvelmaste...cID=4310.topic

On the Masterworks Message Board to see step-by-step photos of David Banks' binding process.

reverie 09-26-05 09:37 AM


Originally Posted by JasonF
Will nobody step up to my challenge? EVen if you have fewer comics than me, we'd still like to see your collection!

I'd love to post, but half of mine are packed up and awaiting our move next month! Then I'll have my comic closet! (closest I've had to a dedicated space)

Chew 09-26-05 10:07 AM

About the only picture I would have to share is my comic closet.

Where can I find a host for free (that's good)?

cultshock 09-26-05 10:50 AM

Wow, nice collections. :up:

I forgot about those Superman and Batman "from the 30's to 70's" books. When I was a kid, my local library had them, and I must have checked them out dozens of times. I'd love to get them, how much do they tend to go for on ebay now?

It's interesting that both of you seem to just have Cerebus up to "Church and State". I have "Jaka's Story" and "Melmoth" in addition, but always thought that the series started to go downhill after "Church and State"

JasonF 09-26-05 02:04 PM


Originally Posted by Chew
About the only picture I would have to share is my comic closet.

Where can I find a host for free (that's good)?

I use http://www.photobucket.com/

A lot of people seem to like http://www.imageshack.us/

Note that the second URL has a .us domain, not a .com domain.

JasonF 09-26-05 02:11 PM


Originally Posted by cultshock
Wow, nice collections. :up:

I forgot about those Superman and Batman "from the 30's to 70's" books. When I was a kid, my local library had them, and I must have checked them out dozens of times. I'd love to get them, how much do they tend to go for on ebay now?

I didn't check eBay, but abeBooks (they've got a good selection of used books from a bunch of sellers) has copies of the Batman volume ranging from $35 to $80. (There's also a copy for $18,800, but I can only presume that copy comes with the crack that the seller must be smoking if he thinks he can get $18,000 for this book). The Superman book has a slightly wider range -- $10 to $150.

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/...n+from+the+30s

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/...n+from+the+30s


It's interesting that both of you seem to just have Cerebus up to "Church and State". I have "Jaka's Story" and "Melmoth" in addition, but always thought that the series started to go downhill after "Church and State"
I had always heard that after Church & State, Sim really went off the deep end. That, coupled with the fact that I thought Church & State was about 25-50% longer than it needed to be, have kept me from reading any further.

kevin75 09-26-05 08:57 PM

cultshock,

go to http://www.talesofwonder.com/ and do a search for the superman and batman books. they are about $15 each and tales of wonder is the best run source for trades on the net. really. as for cerebus, i bought those for half price and i actually haven't gotten around to reading them yet.

Chew 09-27-05 06:21 AM


Originally Posted by JasonF
I use http://www.photobucket.com/

A lot of people seem to like http://www.imageshack.us/

Note that the second URL has a .us domain, not a .com domain.

Thanks :up:

Just out of the sense of completing the story, I kept with Cerebus. The book seemed to follow a typical human life because it got more and more senile as it went along.

cultshock 09-27-05 10:13 AM

Thanks for the tips about finding those books, guys. :up:


Originally Posted by JasonF
I had always heard that after Church & State, Sim really went off the deep end. That, coupled with the fact that I thought Church & State was about 25-50% longer than it needed to be, have kept me from reading any further.

Yep, you're right on both counts. "Jaka's Story" was just ok, and I thought "Melmoth" was a waste of time. I picked up some single issues after that, but saw that it wasn't getting any better and finally gave up on the series. Too bad, as "High Society" is one of my favourite comics stories. If the series retained that quality for the rest of its 300 issue run, I would have been very happy.


the book seemed to follow a typical human life because it got more and more senile as it went along.
:lol: What the hell happened to Sim?

grunter 09-27-05 11:57 AM


Originally Posted by Mondo Kane
Maybe it's because I don't visit this board often (And since I stopped collecting) I'm a little confused here. If the stuff that I posted in my pic aren't comic books then what are they?

Everything else posted here looks like graphic novels and books (With comic-reprints in them) to me.

Help me out, anyone?

No, I agree with you Kane.

You're the only one who posted actual comic books.

All these other collections are just reprint trades.


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