Shelf Bound Auction: Day 19 – PAUL POPE PULP HOPE!

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 4 PM EST on May 24, 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!

PAUL POPE: PULP HOPE

Written by: Paul Pope, Peter Milligan
Drawn by: Paul Pope
Inked by: Paul Pope
Colored by: Lee Loughridge, Jose Villarubia, Dave Stewart, Laura Allred, James Jean
Lettered by: Paul Pope, John Workman, Jared K. Fletcher, Richard Starkings, Ken Lopez
Published by: Oni Press | DC/Vertigo | Marvel Comics | First Second
Collecting:
Oni Double Feature #2-3 (Feb 1998 – Mar 1998)
Heavy Liquid #1-5 (Oct 1999 – Feb 2000)
100% #1-5 (Aug 2002 – Jul 2003)
Batman: Year 100 #1-4 (Feb 2006 – May 2006)
The Batman Chronicles #11 (Jan 1998)
Solo #3 (Apr 2005)
Spider-Man’s Tangled Web #15 (Aug 2002)
X-Statix #5 (Jan 2003)
The Invincible Haggard West #101 OS (Jul 2013)
Additional Material: None
Bind Details:
Oversewn binding
Black Arrestox cover material
Black/white headbands
White endpapers
Page edges trimmed
Signatures: Pope, Workman
Sketches: None
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.

A lot of the binds you’ve already seen on here, and will see before we’re through, started with a notion to do the impossible. Or nearly impossible. This bind is certainly one of those. A proof of concept for how awesome a collection like this COULD be, even if it can never happen.

The reason you won’t see this book solicited in Previews is not even the fact it contains material from different publishers. We see material originating from one publisher move to another all the time. Even in the specific case of Pope: his “One-Trick Ripoff” now collected from Image Comics first appeared in Dark Horse Presents, obviously not published by Image.

No, the reason you won’t see this book pop up anywhere other than here is it combines material OWNED by different publishers. Pope can move his Heavy Liquid and 100% over from DC/Vertigo to Image Comics (and has done so), but he has zero say over Batman: Year 100 and “The Collaborator” (his Tangled Web story). That material can end up on the same bookshelf, but not between the same covers.

Except here.

The lead-in to Pope’s Battling Boy OGN series with J.T. Petty and art by David Rubin, Haggard West was a limited edition single issue at a different trim size than the subsequent OGN releases and a nice way to include that chapter of Pope’s career in the book without too many logistical gymnastics. I’m also not 100% sure (pun slightly intended) the issue’s material has been collected elsewhere; I believe there were a few pages from it that didn’t end up in the beginning of Battling Boy. So you’ve got THAT going for you with this bind.

You’ve also got not only a John Workman signature at the start of the 100% chapter, but a Paul Pope signature on the first page that one can see from space.

So you COULD take the time & effort to track down these issues or their collections 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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and get it all signed by Pope whenever we get back to a non-socially distance reality . . .

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 24, 2020 at 4 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!