This auction is now closed.
The bookcase purge for charity continues! You can see a complete list of all auctions here, in chronological order starting with the latest, here. Full auction details are included at the end of the article, but to bring the new folks up to speed real quick:
Every weekday until Friday, June 5th, we publish a new Shelf Bound article announcing a bind or bound set up for auction.
Each bind auction’s bidding starts when its article is published and ends 72 hours later, so today’s auction will close at 3 PM EST on May 10, 2020.
Bids must be posted in an item’s comment section to be considered for that item; highest bid posted before close of auction wins.
Bids from outside the U.S. are welcome, although shipping outside the U.S. may incur additional fee.
The winning bidder emails me (greg at multiversity comics dot com) to verify donation particulars, then makes the donation and send me verification.
I send out the bind.
Everyone wins.
30 weekdays. 34 binds. All proceeds going to charity. Sound good? Let’s get to it!
SHE-HULK
Written by: Dan Slott
Drawn by: Juan Bobillo, Paul Pelletier, Rick Burchett, Paul Smith, Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema
Inked by: Rick Magyar, Marcelo Sosa, Mark Nelson
Colored by: Dave Kemp
Lettered by: Dave SharpePublished by: Marvel Comics
Collecting:
- She-Hulk (v1) #1-12 (May 2004 – Apr 2005)
- She-Hulk (v2) #1-21 (Dec 2005 – Oct 2007)
Additional Material: None
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Purple & Green Buckram cover material
- Green/white headbands
- White endpapers
- MARVEL stamp used
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: None
Sketches: None
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.
She-Hulk is the book that made me a Dan Slott fan. His take on Jen Walters was great, and like his run on The Thing prior to it, used her connection to multiple parts of the Marvel Universe to keep the book fresh. You never knew who was going to show up! And his use of in-616 Marvel comics as case-law records was inspired and fit right in with the 4th-wall breaking of the earlier Byrne run while not completely rehashing it beat for beat. This She-Hulk is fun, funny, and more than a little heart-breaking at times; all things I want in a straight-up superhero title.
Partnered up with Slott is a bevy of supertalented artists. From leadoff Juan Bobillo to Paul Pelletier to the always underrated Rick Burchett . . . even the reclusive Paul Smith shows up for some of the fun!
Why You Should Bid
This isn’t a bind that’s heavy on the extras. As a matter of fact, there aren’t really any extras in it at all. As you can see from the first open picture above, at least part of this book was built out of TPBs. The back half was put together from single issues, so you will run into the occasional ad. What you won’t see in that section are the covers, because I’m not the world’s biggest Greg Horn fan. I honestly find them distracting, so this book is one of the few times where I actually left things out intentionally.
At said, this book does have something to offer besides the content. It was the first half-bind I’d ever had done, where two different types of cover material are used. In this case, I went with purple & green buckram instead of the usual Arrestox we’ve seen for this binds up until now (the Arrestox colors were too off-model for this project).
You may or may not be able to tell from the picture, but buckram is treated to make it tougher and more resilient to spills & other mishaps. Think old-school library books; that plastic-y fabric-y material? That’s buckram. And personally, I think H&R did a really great job with it.
So you COULD take the time & effort to track down the issues or the trades and turn them into your own book via a binder using the techniques & approaches we cover every month in Shelf Bound . . .
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you could bid on the bind we’re auctioning today, get the benefit of someone else doing all that work for you, AND do some good for the comics community we all love in the process!
Starting Bid: $25
Auction Ends: May 10, 2020 at 3 pm
Proceeds Benefit: The Hero Initiative
AUCTION FINE PRINT
- This auction ends 72 hours after the date & time of this article’s posting.
- Bids MUST be placed as comments below to be valid.
- DO NOT TRY BIDDING FOR THE BOOK BY REPLYING TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT TWEET!!!!! BIDS SENT IN THIS MANNER WILL BE IGNORED!!!!!
- Highest bid posted before the end of the auction wins. The winning bidder has 24 hours to contact me via twitter or email (see below) to set up payment. If contact is not made in this timeframe, the winning bid is invalidated and the next highest bid will be the winner.
- Winning bidder will make the donation in the amount of the winning bid to the agreed-upon charity. Upon successful donation and receipt of receipt (hehe) by me, the bind will be mailed out via Media Mail on the following Saturday unless an alternate schedule is agreed upon by all parties.
- Feel free to post any additional questions you may have prior to the end of the auction below; I will do my best to answer them ASAP. Additional and/or specific pictures of the bind are available on request.
- Thanks in advance to anyone bidding on these binds. Good luck!
