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Collected Comics Library Podcast #169

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It’s that wonderful time of year again - Summer Blockbusters!

The 2008 season kicks off today with Iron Man - one of my favorite characters of all time. In fact if you take a listen you’ll find out how I first got acquainted with Tony Stark. Not only do I go over the publishing history of Iron Man and all the limited amount of his collected editions, but I also tell you how he has gotten screwed by Captain America throughout Marvel history.

Also on the show today, I go over some news regarding a new Marshal Law Omnibus from Top Shelf, a rundown of upcoming Marvel Essentials and DC Showcase Presents and Archives and I answer an e-mail from Denis from California.

All this, plus a rundown of The New Releases of the Week and my plans for the upcoming Motor City Comic Con (May 16-18).

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Chris

Links of Note:
Rob Helmerich’s List of Iron Man Collected Editions
Marvel.com: Required Reading Iron Man Collections
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Have you gotten enough of Bucky and Captain America today? I know I sure have. And. hell, I have the series on my pull list!. And really, is Captain America really dead? Not Steve Rogers, I mean Cap. Let’s face it, his title never went away after he died in #25 and you can find him in Marvel Adventures, The Chosen, The Ultimates, you’ll be able to see him in the upcoming Avengers/Invaders series and in a few panels of The Twelve, and he is even represented by Patriot of Young Avengers. And as far as collected editions go, since Cap took a bullet we have had no less then FIVE books with his name on it! So now Bucky is the new Captain America and by my count the 12th person to wear the “A”. Don’t get me wrong, this is the best comic book on the market, I just think people make too much of the whole “death” thing. At least we comic snobs, know that word death is an oxymoron. On with today’s links:

• More cool stuff from Pottery Barn Kids that is made for your children, but you know that YOU want to buy it for yourself — like the Vintage Spider-Man Printed Cork boards
• The Metabunker reports comics writer and historian Alfredo Castelli has a new incredible collection of all of his work on the early American newspaper strip, Eccoci ancora qui (Here We Are Again) and it is now available online in PDF format! Meticulously researched and chock-full of rarely-seen images, this is a must for everyone interested in the period, even if you don’t read Italian. The links only last until February 7. After that you’ll have to wait for the bound version, which is currently being printed in a limited collector’s edition and will be issued in a less adorned, “normal” edition in 2009.
• Thanks to Joe, FPI Blog, and Dirk, Journalista, for this one, Richard Sheaf looks at French imports of British adventure comics.
• Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading, has a cool article on a book collecting competition. I guess that last years second place winner was selected for his collection of “Daredevil comics and graphic novels”.