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 18, 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!
OK, folks, we’re gonna do something a little different to cap off Week 3. Today’s auction is for TWO binds instead of one. I hadn’t originally intended for these to go up as a set because I didn’t make them as a Volume 1/Volume 2 but rather two thematically linked but separate books. But as I got closer to putting them on here, it just made sense to have them together.
THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF CAPTAIN MARVEL & WARLOCK
Written by: Jim Starlin
Drawn by: Jim Starlin, John Byrne
Inked by: Al Milgrom, Dave Hunt
Colored by: Glynis Wein
Lettered by: Tom Orzechowski, Jim NovakPublished by: Marvel Comics
Collecting:
- The Life of Captain Marvel #1-5 (Aug 1985 – Dec 1985)
- Warlock #1-5 (Dec 1982 – May 1983)
- The Death of Captain Marvel OGN (Apr 1982)
Additional Material: None
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Black Arrestox cover material
- Black/white headbands
- White endpapers
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: None
Sketches: None
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.
THE REBIRTH & RETURN OF THANOS, THE MAD TITAN
Written by: Jim Starlin
Drawn by: Ron Lim, George Perez
Inked by: Tom Christopher, Joe Rubinstein
Colored by: Ian Laughlin
Lettered by: Ken Bruzenak, Jack MorelliPublished by: Marvel Comics
Collecting:
- The Silver Surfer #34-38, 40-50 (Feb 1990 – Jun 1991)
- The Thanos Quest #1-2 (Jul 1990 – Aug 1990)
- The Infinity Gauntlet #1-6 (Jul 1991 – Dec 1991)
Additional Material: None
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Black Arrestox cover material
- Black/white headbands
- White endpapers
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: None
Sketches: None
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.
So what we have here is basically Jim Starlin’s initial Marvel cosmic stories, from day one up through the end of The Infinity Gauntlet. You get to see the seeds from which mighty comic oaks grow planted here.
The Mar-vell/Warlock Book was put together from the Baxter-paper Special Edition reprint minis Marvel put out in the early 1980s.
As a rule I will usually use this version of a comic for binding if it’s warranted and available. The paper is good quality but not overly slick or heavy and the color reproduction of these earlier era comics isn’t overly garish like modern reprints.
Plus these had cool wraparound covers I could flip for double-page spreads.
The Life of Captain Marvel, unsurprisingly, didn’t include the Death of Captain Marvel OGN. I was not about to go to all this trouble and NOT include one of the few deaths in mainstream superhero comics (differing trim sizes be damned!), so I tracked down a copy of the Life and Death of Captain Marvel TPB and snatched the OGN material from that.
As you can see above, even though he doesn’t get top billing on the spine, Thanos does show up a fair amount in this first book, so having it on hand will make sure you’re up to speed when he makes his grand return in:
Continued below
This bad boy of a bind was pieced together from three different sources. First off was the Silver Surfer: The Rebirth of Thanos TPB.
Next came original issues for the Silver Surfer Stories leading into the big crossover.
And then an Infinity Gauntlet TPB to finish things off.
Why You Should Bid
This material is available elsewhere but not in the all killer/no filler combination you see here. The only book that goes from Thanos’s return to the end of IG Is the 2014 oversized HC reprint of the miniseries, and that has a ton of other superfluous crossover issues for completeness sake.
The events of the SS #44-50 leading up to IG are summarized pretty well in the mini, but considering how simpatico Starlin & Lim were as a team by this point, it’s nice to have the actual issues here as a kind of IG extended cut for folks who’ve only read the mini proper.
So you COULD take the time & effort to track down the original issues or reprints and turn them into your own books via a binder using the techniques & approaches we cover every month in Shelf Bound . . .
OR
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: $50
Auction Ends: May 18, 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!
