It’s the Annual podcast where I give my honest and humble opinion on all the collected edition news from San Diego, including the Eisner winners. If you’ve been following the blog all weekend then you’ll know what you’re in for. But for the other folks, it’s a nice, welcome chance to get caught up without all the pesky reading getting in the way.

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1. Something From The ACME Novelty Library
2. A Complete Run Of Arcade
3. Any Number Of Mini-Comics
4. At Least One Pogo Book From The 1950s
5. A Barnaby Collection
6. Binky Brown and the Holy Virgin Mary
7. As Many Issues of RAW as You Can Place Your Hands On
8. A Little Stack of Archie Comics
9. A Suite of Modern Literary Graphic Novels
10. Several Tintin Albums
11. A Smattering Of Treasury Editions Or Similarly Oversized Books
12. Several Significant Runs of Alternative Comic Book Series
13. A Few Early Comic Strip Collections To Your Taste
14. Several “Indy Comics” From Their Heyday
15. At Least One Comic Book From When You First Started Reading Comic Books
16. At Least One Comic That Failed to Finish The Way It Planned To
17. Some Osamu Tezuka
18. The Entire Run Of At Least One Manga Series
19. One Or Two 1970s Doonesbury Collections
20. At Least One Saul Steinberg Hardcover
21. One Run of A Comic Strip That You Yourself Have Clipped
22. A Selection of Comics That Interest You That You Can’t Explain To Anyone Else
23. At Least One Woodcut Novel
24. As Much Peanuts As You Can Stand
25. Maus
26. A Significant Sample of R. Crumb’s Sketchbooks
27. The original edition of Sick, Sick, Sick.
28. The Smithsonian Collection Of Newspaper Comics
29. Several copies of MAD
30. A stack of Jack Kirby 1970s Comic Books
31. More than a few Stan Lee/Jack Kirby 1960s Marvel Comic Books
32. A You’re-Too-High-To-Tell Amount of Underground Comix
33. Some Calvin and Hobbes
34. Some Love and Rockets
35. The Marvel Benefit Issue Of Coober Skeber
36. A Few Comics Not In Your Native Tongue
37. A Nice Stack of Jack Chick Comics
38. A Stack of Comics You Can Hand To Anybody’s Kid
39. At Least A Few Alan Moore Comics
40. A Comic You Made Yourself
41. A Few Comics About Comics
42. A Run Of Yummy Fur
43. Some Frank Miller Comics
44. Several Lee/Ditko/Romita Amazing Spider-Man Comic Books
45. A Few Great Comics Short Stories
46. A Tijuana Bible
47. Some Weirdo
48. An Array Of Comics In Various Non-Superhero Genres
49. An Editorial Cartoonist’s Collection or Two
50. A Few Collections From New Yorker Cartoonists

Not too bad, eh? But it looks like I need some work and some more cash. Thanks, Tom!

No messing around today, let’s get right to it:
• Apparently over $10,000 in CGC-slabbed comics were stolen from the Graham Crackers Comics booth at Motor City Comic Con on Sunday, May 18th. I’m guessing all of the plastic covers will be opened and sold E-Bay or some other market. One good note comes out of this: these books will now be read and not covered in iron-clad packaging just so people can look at the covers. Don’t agree with me? Go watch Toy Story 2.
• CBR is reporting that Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales will be collected in hardcover format (144 pages, $24.99, June 12). IDW Publishing is proud to present six standalone graphic stories adapted from Doctorow’s short stories into comic books, each featuring cover art by some of the industry’s top talent. IDW continues to grow and is slowly becoming one of the premiere comic book and collected edition publishers.
• CBR is also reporting that IDW has landed the license to GI Joe. I first heard this rumor back in November. I really hope it doesn’t spell doom for Devil’s Due Publishing, but I’m not sure what other big name property they have. Just looking at the Top 300 comics for April (thanks to John Mayo) no comic, not even GI Joe Elite cracked the top 100 (#116). In fact, only 3 of the eight books published cracked the Top 200. I still have yet to check out Golden Age Sheena: The Best of the Queen of the Jungle TPB, a book that I’m really looking forward to. On the flip side IDW promises to publish classic collected edition of GI Joe. Hopefully, they mean the old Marvel books. Cool news.
• ICv2.com is reporting that the first volume of IDW’s collection of Little Orphan Annie, due for release June 11th, will include a previously unpublished strip from the first month, found in the Harold Gray Archives at Boston University. I told my daughter, Erin, about this book and showed her pics of classic Annie strips on the internet. She wants me to buy this book the day it comes out. Oh, one more thing — have I mentioned what a kick-ass company IDW is?
• The Collected Editions Blog found this Dr. Fate book on Amazon.com. Check out the title. Perhaps Mr. T is under that helmet?!
• Heidi MacDonald, The Beat, is reporting that Titan Publishing Group Ltd. has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to a range of books celebrating the work of Golden Age comics legend, Joe Simon. The titles include: Joe Simon: The Man Behind The Comics, The Best Of Simon & Kirby, and The Simon & Kirby Superheroes.
• Remember the Marvel Vault book from 2007? Now publisher Running Press is going to do The DC Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book ($49.95) in October. This chronicle of America’s oldest comic publisher contains more than 25 plastic-encased archival pieces for readers to pull out and examine. Included in the collection are exact reproductions of early sketches, covers, memos, press materials, a working model of a 1942 Junior Justice Society of America Decoder, plus original pencils and inks from Wonder Woman #63.
• Review: Stephen Pakula, Sequart, on X-O Manowar: Birth (Valiant Entertainment)
• Review: John Hodgman, New York Times, on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volumes 1-4 (DC Comics).
• Review: Scott Cederlund, Pop Syndicate, Host of Wednesday’s Haul Podcast and overall good friend on Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight: No Future For You TPB (Dark Horse).