This auction is now closed.
The 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 14, 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. Bids posted in currencies other than US dollars will be valued at their USD equivalent.
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!
SEVEN SOLDIERS
Written by: Grant Morrison
Drawn by: J.H. Williams III, Ryan Sook, Frazier Irving, Simone Bianchi, Doug Mahnke, Pascal Ferry, Yanick Pacquette, Freddie E. Williams II, Billy Dallas Patton
Inked by: Mick Gray, Michael Bair, Serge LaPointe
Colored by: Dave Stewart, Moose Baumann, Nathan Eyring, Alex Sinclair, Dave McCaig, John Kalisz
Lettered by: Pat Brosseau, Rob Leigh, Todd Klein, Phil Balsman, Travis Lanham,Published by: DC Comics
Collecting:
- Seven Soldiers #0 (April 2005)
- Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight #1-4 (Apr 2005 – Jul 2005)
- Seven Soldiers: Guardian #1-4 (May 2005 – Nov 2005)
- Seven Soldiers: Zatanna (Jun 2005 – Dec 2005)
- Seven Soldiers: Klarion #1-4 (Jun 2005 – Dec 2005)
- Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #1-4 (Nov 2005 – May 2006)
- Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #1-4 (Jan 2006 – May 2006)
- Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein #1-4 (Feb 2006 – May 2006)
- Seven Soldiers #1 (Dec 2006)
Additional Material: None
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Black Arrestox cover material
- Black/red headbands
- Black endpapers
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: None
Sketches: None
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.
This bind is probably the simplest of all the ones up for auction, being a straight-forward collection of all four previous TPBs of Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers story. So it’s ironic that the material INSIDE the book has so many different potential reading orders.
Seven Soldiers, the story, shows us the non-team of the Seven Soldiers of Victory fighting against the Sheeda, a civilization-razing threat that once laid waste to Camelot & other kingdoms and is returning in this new century.
Seven Soldiers, the publishing event, was seven 4-issue minis bookended by two oversized oneshot specials. All written by Grant Morrison and featuring a different superstar artist, the minis were planned out to be simultaneously interconnected AND standalone.
Just want to catch-up with JLA mainstay Zatanna without having to plow through four issues of Klarion? No problem. Feeling like reading in alphabetical rather than chronological order? Go for it.
I’ve mentioned infinite binding possibilities when I covered Crisis on Infinite Earths, but one could do a smaller version of that with Seven Soldiers. Not only having the minis themselves in any particular order, but put all four issues of each mini together, or have all the first issues then second issues and so on. Since I used the first round of TPBs for this, the minis are interwoven and staggered in publication order, but you don’t have to read them that way if you don’t want to. This book gives you all the issues in your hand at one time. The choice is yours!
Another benefit to this bind is its size. Yeah, the story has been collected before this and even been collected in one volume before this. But that book is oversized. And heavy. There hasn’t been a regular-sized one-volume collection of this material until now.
So you COULD take the time & effort to track down all 30 issues and turn them into your own book in your own order via a binder using the techniques & approaches we cover every month in Shelf Bound . . .
Continued belowOR
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 14, 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.
- Bids order is set by the timestamp given by Disqus. I subscribe to every comment section and receive an email notification simultaneous to the posting of every new comment. That email’s timestamp is what I use to determine bid order & the final bid cutoff time.
- Bids placed anywhere other than the auction article’s comment section (i.e. replying to the announcement tweet) will be ignored.
- Bids posted in currencies other than US dollars will be valued at their USD equivalent.
- 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!
