Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
As anyone who reads this site can attest I love oversized hardcovers. I want my serving of comic art extra-large if you please. There is a size in the comic industry that companies are using, about 9×16″. DC absolute editions,…
Was shopping a sale earlier this year and picked up a bunch of Marvel Premiere hardcovers including Black Widow: Web Of Intrigue. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: It’s been a long lively life for Natasha Romanova – in the Avengers, the…
Word on the street is that the DC Archives program is in peril, or at least that’s what the Collected Editions blog is saying and I agree. The brouhaha started last week on Robot 6 when two DC Omnibus collections…
A book with two versions listed and a different ship date from every online bookseller: exactly what and when is Fantagraphics offering? A few days ago I was perusing the Fantagraphics website and noticed a solicitation for Usagi Yojimbo: The…
As I mentioned in my latest Jiminy Christmas rant I picked up The Green Lantern Omnibus Volume 1 at a discount bookseller in Toronto for $38. It collects material previously collected in DC Archives Green Lantern volumes 1-3 if you can…
Why are publishers still producing dust jackets? The technology has been around for a good century or so to print whatever you want right on the book cover. In fact the dust jacket was meant as a protection for the…
Dan Brereton has been pigeon-holed as an artist of horror and horror comics. Image has published Dan Brereton: The Goddess & The Monster, a hardcover art book collecting various horror illustrations. Let the pigeon-holing continue. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: After…
Whosoever Holds This Hammer appears every Tuesday exclusively on Comic Book Daily. Here at the Comic Book Daily offices we often get into heated conversations about comic books, and there is no one who enjoys furious debate more than Scott…
I’m a big Mike Mignola fan, admiring his work since Marvel Fanfare. The Amazing Screw-On Head was a one shot comic published in 2002 but somehow I missed it so I was anxious to pick up The Amazing Screw-On Head…
This one was a long time coming from its original French issues. I picked up the first DC Humanoids imprint issue in 2004, but that cross publishing deal collapsed. Devil’s Due Publishing picked up the series and published it as…
During a flip through Previews a few months back I noticed a solicitation for The Marvel Art Of Joe Quesada: 240 pages dedicated to Quesada’s work at Marvel. Since all his early work that I enjoyed happened at DC with…
The title says it all. Fables: Covers By James Jean is a 9×12″ hardcover collection of James Jean’s covers of seventy-four monthly issues, ten trade paperbacks, one on-shot and one graphic novel. If you enjoy Jean’s work then pick up…
DC Comics announced yesterday in its retailer newsletter Direct Channel #104 that it will stop shrink wrapping most hardcovers beginning in December. Here’s the blurb: Please note that starting with books arriving in stores in December, DC Comics will no…
Before I dive into this fascinating and edge-of-your-seat topic a little background information may be in order. Welcome to the first column of Bound Together: collecting the collected, a look at comic book trade paperbacks and graphic novels in all…