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 15, 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!
SPIDER-MAN 2099 BY DAVID & LEONARDI
Written by: Peter David, Ian Edgington
Drawn by: Rick Leonardi, Tom Grindberg, Chris Batista, Kelley Jones, Ron Lim, Jim Fern
Inked by: Al Williamson, Mark McKenna, Ralph Cabrera, Don Hudson, Greg Adams, John Nyberg
Colored by: Steve Buccellato, Noelle Giddings, Kevin Tinsley, George Roussos, Eva Grindberg, Petra Scotese
Lettered by: Rick Parker, Ken Lopez, L. Lois BuhalisPublished by: Marvel Comics
Collecting:
- Spider-Man 2099 #1-25 (Nov 1992 – Nov 1994)
- Spider-Man 2099 Annual #1 (Jan 1994)
- Spider-Man Meets Spider-Man 2099 OS (Nov 1995)
Additional Material: Peter David interview, March 2009, newsarama.com
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Blue Arrestox cover material
- Blue/white headbands
- White endpapers
- SPIDER-LOGO and MARVEL stamps used
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: Peter David (on title sheet)
Sketches: None
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.
I’m pretty sure I can point out 2099 reasons I love this run.
I’m a big fan of Peter David (PAD), as evidenced by the fact this MIGHT not be the only one of his books to appear in this auction. He’d already established himself by this point as a good Spider-Man writer, but would he be able to carry all that over to a new character? Uhhhhh yeah, I’d say so.
Miguel O’Hara was the first non-ham Spider-Man spinoff character and like Miles Morales after him, came from a mixed-heritage background. O’Hara had the Spider-sarcasm in spades, but David starts him off from a different place than his Parker ancestor, and gives him a journey that shows him worthy of the webs without being a clone of Peter (pardon the pun).
Having Rick Leonardi & Al Williamson drawing that journey doesn’t hurt at all.
Leonardi himself is a creator with a Spider-history prior to 2099, having drawn several one-offs and fill-in issues featuring the character. But Spider-Man 2099 sees him cut loose not only on a new Spider-design (somewhat echoing the Spidey Black Costume he originally designed) but a whole new future setting. But while the setting has changed, Leonardi’s trademark fluidity with his character acting and movement is still the same.
Bringing longtime inker (and comics legend) Al Williamson along makes sure that work isn’t weighted down with excess noodling or hatching for “kewlness” sake. Williamson elevates Leonardi’s final product here just like he did with John Romita Jr. on Daredevil and every other penciler he would ever work with.
Why You Should Bid
Everything contained here has been reprinted, but over five separate TPBs. The chances of getting it in one manageable chunk aren’t great – if we didn’t see a PAD Spider-Man 2099 omnibus when Miguel got his own series again a few years ago, then we might have missed the window for one ever coming out.
I also included a three-part Newsarama interview with PAD from 2009 that looks back at his time on the original series (thanks to Uncollected Editions boardmember Canaryfarmer for the awesome formatting job).
So you COULD take the time & effort to track down the original comics or the reprints, format/design/print the interview, turn all that into your own book via a binder using the techniques & approaches we cover every month in Shelf Bound, AND get Peter David to sign it at a convention . . .
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 15, 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.
- 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!
