Shelf Bound Auction: Day 16 – STERANKO!

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 5 PM EST on May 21, 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!

STERANKO: A SEQUENTIAL COLLECTION

Written by: Jim Steranko
Drawn by: Jim Steranko
Inked by: Jim Steranko
Colored by: Jim Steranko, Dave Stewart
Lettered by: Sam Rosen, Jim Steranko

Published by: Marvel Comics | DC Comics | Dark Horse Comics

Collecting:

• Strange Tales #151-168 (Dec 1966 – May 1968)
• Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1-3, 5 (Jun 1968 – Oct 1968)
• Captain America Special Edition #1-2 (Mar 1984 – Apr 1984)
• Dark Horse Presents #3 (Aug 2011)
• Superman #400 (Oct 1984)

Additional Material: Pinups

Bind Details:

• Oversewn binding
• Black Arrestox cover material
• Black/white headbands
• White endpapers
• Page edges trimmed

Signatures: Steranko

Sketches: None (although his signature looks pretty artistic . . . )

Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.

If someone wanted to run a Dos Equus-inspired “Most Interesting Man in the World” ad campaign centered around a comics creator, picking someone other than Jim Steranko would take a pretty strong argument. The man inspired one of Jack Kirby’s New Gods, gave Indiana Jones his bullwhip & leather jacket, wrote a history of the medium, ran a magazine, popped in & out of mainstream comics to drop innovations like the coolest Santa ever . . . and gave Bob Kane the slap in the face we all wish we could have.

The problem with getting a one-stop-shop of Steranko goodness is that he never stayed in one place all that long, in or out of comics. So his works are scattered over a variety of publishers, and in a plethora of different sizes.

So for every Nick Fury or Captain America you see here, there’s an unfinished magazine-sized “Outland” adaptation in Heavy Metal or the cover to Palladium’s Heroes Unlimited RPG or his Graphic Prince of Darkness collection that’s so tightly designed I couldn’t think of a way to include it without losing too much to gutter loss or edge trimming.

That said, I was able to find some additional b&w pinups to scan & print out, including additional images from Steranko’s Chandler graphic novel. He’s promised/teased/threatened a recolored version featuring Dave Stewart on hues for at least a decade, but so far only the few pages printed in Dark Horse Presents (below) have seen the light of day.

So while there are definitely some Steranko highlights not included in this book, I do think it serves as an interesting primer to his work and approach to comics. Plus there’s this beauty:

So you COULD take the time & effort to track down issues and turn them into your own book 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: $25
Auction Ends: May 21, 2020 at 5 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!