This auction is 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 8:30 AM EST on June 6, 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.
NOTE: The proceeds of this auction will be donated to the winner’s choice of either the Hero Initiative or an organization listed here as a Black Lives Matter-friendly entity.
I send out the bind.
Everyone wins.
30 weekdays. 34 binds. All proceeds going to charity. Sound good? Let’s get to it!
SHOWCASE: DC’S STRANGE SCI-FI ADVENTURES
Written by: Tim Truman, John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, John Francis Moore
Drawn by: Tim Truman, John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Inked by: Alcatena, John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, P. Craig Russell, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Colored by: Sam Parsons, Liz Berube, Richmond Lewis, Steve Oliff
Lettered by: Tim Harkins, John Byrne, Walt Simonson, Bob Lappan, Ken BruzenakPublished by: DC Comics
Collecting:
- Hawkworld #1-3 (Mar 1989 – May 1989)
- O.M.A.C.: One Man Army Corps #1-4 (Jan 1991 – Apr 1991)
- Ironwolf OS (Jun 1986)
- Ironwolf: Fires of the Revolution OGN (Apr 1993)
- Twilight #1-3 (Jan 1991 – Mar 1991)
Additional Material:
- Cover gallery,
- Garcia-Lopez sketch section, and
- Several contemporaneous fanzine articles pertaining to included material.
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Gray Arrestox cover material
- Black/white headbands
- DC stamp used
- White endpapers
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: Chaykin, Truman, Gold, Mignola, Garcia-Lopez
Sketches: None
Here’s the first of two DC auctions this week: an anthology of DC science fiction stories updating characters to the late 80’s/early 90’s. I *think* that’s the theme I built this book around; to be honest, this one came about more from feeling like certain books should go together than from hard criteria. But I think (and hopefully you will agree) it worked out pretty well.
(Incidentally, I was going to use “SHOWCASE” as my umbrella term for DC anthology binds like “I IS FOR IMAGE” and “FANFARE” for Marvel. I ended up making a SHOWCASE volume two collecting Barr & Bolland’s Camelot 3000 and Miller’s RONIN under a kinda similar theme, but that book isn’t in my collection anymore so there’s no way it’s ending up on the auction block. Sorry. But as an idea, it also turned out rather well . . . )
Kicking things off is Tim Truman’s Hawkworld miniseries that gave us Katar Hol. The fact it ended up causing continuity headaches galore shouldn’t take away from the fact the book itself is very enjoyable!
Then John Byrne’s O.M.A.C.: One Man Army Corps take on the Kirby character. I don’t know if I’d call this a revamp per se because IIRC it actually works with and around the original Kirby material. So even if you’re someone put off by Byrne’s reputation (earned or not) of bludgeoning other people’s characters with his own stamp, I think you would be pleasantly surprised at its ultimate faithfulness to the source material.
Next up is the complete Ironwolf saga. If you’ve never heard of Ironwolf . . . I can’t say I blame you. I only ran across it doing research for something else. It was the lead story in the last three issues of DC’s 70’s scifi anthology Weird Worlds about a typical Chaykin rogue a la Cody Starbuck written & drawn by Chaykin. These stories are reprinted in the included one-shot before Chaykin got to finish Ironwolf’s story in the included graphic novella co-written by John Francis Moore and drawn by the Gotham by Gaslight team of a pre-Hellboy Mike Mignola & P. Craig Russell.
Continued below
Then we come to the last and certainly best-looking story of the book, hands down: Chaykin & Garcia-Lopez’s Twilight. This story has Chaykin taking several disparate characters from DC’s scifi books of the 50’s and 60’s like Mystery in Space or Strange Adventures and weaving them into a story that tells you the ‘truth’ behind those original tales and what happened next. Some of the best work either creator has ever done.
This one’s got a bunch of signatures:
I also packed some backmatter in here as well. There’s a cover gallery for all the cardstock covers I pulled from the comics, a Garcia-Lopez gallery of sketchwork getting ready for Twilight, and some creator interviews pulled from Comic Scene magazines contemporaneous to the release of the comics.
So you COULD take the time & effort to track down all the original comics & supplemental material 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: June 6, 2020 at 8:30 am
Proceeds Benefit: The Hero Initiative or a Black Lives Matter-supporting organization listed here (winner’s choice)
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!
