Collected Comics Library Podcast #176

42,690Kb; 36m 12s

http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/

This week on the show I give a full rundown of the DC Comics January/1Q 2009 Collected Editions. I blogged about this a few days ago and I have yet to come up with a source for the list so take it with a grain (or chunk) of salt.

Also on the show I do a little eBay Sold Searching and you won’t believe just what are hot commodities and the final sold prices for the books.

Have an email question regarding what to do with damaged books that are bought at conventions; news on a brand new cool Prince Valiant retrospective; and is anyone buying the Marvel Illustrated books?

All this including the New Releases of the Week, what’s coming up on the next TwoMorrows Tune-In Podcast and a Kick-Ass (#1-2) giveaway – find out how to enter on the show.

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

Links of note:
DC 2009 – Collected Editions Blog
DC 2009 – Official DC Comics Forums
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #175

41,596Kb; 44m 06s

http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/

On this week’s show, I celebrate all things Hulk. I give a rundown of some of the essential collected editions you should read (or better yet – own). I even talk about the early days of Kirby and Lee, through the Peter David run and right up to Planet Hulk and WWH.

I also catch up on all the news of the past two weeks and if you are going to be at Wizard World Chicago be sure to stop be and see the podcasting panel, which I will be a part of.

Lastly, I rundown The New Releases of the Week and a few from last week, too.

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

Links of note:
Preview of Titans Companion Volume 2
Library Binding Company – Colored Sheets
Back Issue Spotlight #9 Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD
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• Top 100 Graphic Novels Actual–March 2008. The Killing Joke Special Edition HC came in at #1, I’m not surprised. John and I are working out our schedules and plan on recording sometime this week. As always, I’ll post when it is available for download.
• DC’s Paul Levitz doesn’t say much about Collected Editions; which leaves all of us to speculate.
• Another mini-collection from Marvel. This time it’s X-Force #1-#3 ($4.99 on sale 5/28/08). this is called “Wait for Half of the Trade”.
• Star Wars and Indiana Jones Mad Libs Books. Why wasn’t this put out sooner? Like in the 1982?!
• Download a free copy of Star Wars: Legacy Of The Force: Betrayal. Free as in: free digital PDF, free Audiobook, free Amazon Kindle e-book, and/or free Sony Reader e-book. Hurry, offer expires at midnight, May 13, 2008.
• PB Weekly has some hardcore information on the upcoming Jules Feiffer’s Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-66, the first of four dense hardcover books collecting the all of Feiffer’s strips, which contains roughly 500 strips from the series’ first decade. Initial printing is 5,000 copies.
• A collected edition of the first series of Cla$$war is coming out soon. I meant to blog about this weeks ago, but I lost the URL in my bookmarks and forgot about it. Thanks to an e-mail from listener Mark, I remembered.
• Now available Mome Vol. 1-10 Mega-Bundle and the beautiful The Complete Love and Rockets Library Vol. 1, both from Fantagraphics.
• Hermes Press to reprint entire Buck Rogers newspaper run. This is great news, but am I alone in thinking that this was announced before? Ah yes it was, by Dynamite Entertainment, who will be publishing anew series of Buck Rogers. The initial Press Release reads: Dynamite’s agreement with the Dille Estate allows for the creation of Buck Rogers comics, collections, including classic material, comics-based fine art prints, posters, action figures, trading cards, statues, and other high-end collectibles.
• Bob Greenberger’s work schedule. Damn! is he ever busy.
• Good friend of the CCL, Jeff from the Graphic Novel Archive revisits the Transformers graphic novels.
• A 20th anniversary Dilbert book is set to released in September according to E&P. The book will be about 600 pages, 4,000 strips and a CD that contains every ‘Dilbert’ strip and that can be updated as new comics are released. The cartoons were personally selected by Scott Adams and offers his comment and humorous asides throughout the book.
• Mark Anderson has released his first cartoon collection, Rub My Tummy and It’s a Deal. 109 pages of business related cartoons.
• Review: Randy Lander, Comic Pants, on Too Cool To Be Forgotten HC (Top Shelf)
• Reviews: Collected Editions Blog on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 2 (DC Comics), Bizarre New World: Population Explosion GN (Ape Entertainment) and the highly underrated series Manhunter: Unleashed TPB (DC Comics)

• Dark Horse’s Nexus Archives Volume 7 HC, which we we’re expecting in February has now been pushed to May 28. It will collect issues #40-46 (Vol. 2) from First Comics; 208 pages $49.95
• Johanna, Comics Worth Reading, reports that Archie Comics has announced that they’re going to do a second Sixties volume in their Archie Americana series. Book two will be out in June, 96 pages for $10.95
• Caleb, Every Day Is Like Wednesday, blogs on Eleven Things You Can Learn From Tales of The New Gods. If you are picking up the current Death of the New Gods storyline in Countdown of the Omnibus reprints of the Jack Kirby Fourth World books, this is an excellent article for you. And pretty funny, too.
• The Official new, premiere, magazine of Comic Con Magazine (formerly Update) is available for free download. Tons of useful information, but no word on podcasting, bummer.
• Review: Kevin P. Johnson, I Read Comic Books, on Hank Ketchum’s Complete Dennis The Menace 1951-1952, a book that will soon be out in softcover.