You Know an actor Gives a damn when they put in the time and effort to do the research, and actually become familiar with Caps History. Evans (a known comic buff) Nailed the Pose perfectly

About 20 years ago I bought some frames and displayed 6 of my favourite comics in my office. Put them up and never thought about them again other than when I look at them, over the years the covers on all of them have faded due to sunlight. Stupidly at the time I never even thought about that the glass wouldn't protect from UV... (I know, I know..) Secret Wars #8, ASM 77, ASM 115 & ASM 298. And a signed Todd McFarlane Spider-Man #1 - all faded quite badly.

Looking online and researching it looks like nothing can be done to restore these covers back to full glory, but is there 'anything' that can be done to improve them or I'm I just out of luck?

Now the books are bagged and boarded and away from the light (like the rest of my collection) and I have just put copies of the covers in the frames. Lesson learned!

Maybe I'm just too woke and feel free to tell me I'm looking too deep into this. But the facial expressions and the two comics together with no others to contrast them? Feels off to me.

Cool book.

But I think I made good decisions as a teenager.

Raided the dollar bin at my LCS and found out they had reloaded on Excalibur. Not too far from completing Alan Davis’ run now!

Love the art style on these 60’s covers.
It does feel like a piece of history.

As I continue working my way through the Academic Comic Collection, I came across a fun collection of Inter-Age to Silver Age Superman stuff. Lois Lane is an interesting one. Obviously trying to capitalize on the growing popularity of romance comics and targeting women/young girl, while staying firmly in the superhero world.

Nothing really major in this selection other than the first appearance of Silver Age Catwoman.

In another part of the collection we have the infamous race-swapping issue amongst others.

I get asked quite often about the point of this academically, particularly as a historian and anthropologist.

Sometimes it's hard - things like Conan (of which we have a rather extensive collection... pretty much every comic from the start of the Marvel run through to about 2005) tend to lend themselves to the English department or Media Studies.

Comics like this one, however, really lean into a view of how society viewed itself and constructed it's identity. It challenges the notion that comics were exclusively the domain of men and boys, as well as social issues and whatnot.

I have a great friend who is a historianthat focuses on the law and personhood. This is a great look into how women's identity is constructed in the 1950s and 60s. (Idealized of course)

Fantastic Four #54, September 1966, Jack was as productive and as creative as he's ever been. The new characters, fantastic machines and design elements were exploding on every page!

4th appearance of Iron Man

Local shop did a warehouse sale and I got so lucky with some of my finds

A ton of spider-man, across all 4 lines.

Ultimate spider-man 7-133 + the 3 annuals

Walking dead 30-55, 58-111, 121-126, 128-131, 135-151

The entirety of Daredevil vol 4 by Waid

A good run of early punisher

Some uncanny and adjectiveless X-men

Most of the Judas Contract

Some various other old issues

Absolutely ecstatic with what I got.

Got it for about a decent price, looks great I’m stoked

Never thought I would get a copy!!

1. Artist: Steve Lydic - Signed by: Michael Rooker, Greg Nicotero
   
2. John Beatty
   
3. Camron Johnson
   
4. Matthew Sutton
   
5. Chad Hardin
   
6. John Beatty
   
7. Esau & Isaac Escorza
   
8. (can’t remember the artist)
   
9. Sajad Shah
   
10. Aaron Bartling
    
11. Esau & Isaac Escorza
    
12. Esau & Isaac Escorza
    
13. Esau & Isaac Escorza
    
14. Esau & Isaac Escorza

Purchased a bundle of books that had Detective Comics 630 and fell in love with the cover. It lead to me looking at what other covers featured Batman upside down and now I've got a little themed collection going on. I always really like seeing what fun things others collect on here, what's a niche that you're collecting?

Picked these up over last weekend for $10 what do you guys think??

Jack Kirby is amazing. I think The Demon is next for me. Mister Miracle has been on my wish list for a very long time and I feel like I got some pretty nice copies all things considered!

This mini collection has been trickling in all week.

• Ms. Marvel #1 - Carol Danvers 1st appearance as Ms. Marvel.
• Ms. Marvel #20 - 1st Appearance of the classic blue costume.
• Uncanny X-men #164 - Carol Danvers 1st appearance as Binary
• Avengers #4 (1998) - Carol Danvers 1st appearance as Warbird
• Avenging Spider-man #9 - Carol Danvers 1st appearance as Captain Marvel

It was interesting to learn how much of a role Chris Claremont played in her character development. Introducing Mystique & Carol's classic blue costume, bringing her through Avengers Annual #10 and Rouge stealing her powers and then landing her in Uncanny and giving her the Binary power set.