{"id":413,"date":"2008-09-28T21:15:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=413"},"modified":"2008-09-28T21:15:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:15:01","slug":"the-50-things-that-every-comics-collection-truly-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/413","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Things That Every Comics Collection Truly Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Comics Reporter<\/a> spins off a variation on a meme:<\/p>\n

Leave Plain = Things I don’t have
\nMake Bold = Things I do have
\nItalics = I have some but probably not enough (optional)
\nUnderline = I don’t agree I need this (optional)<\/p>\n

1. Something From The ACME Novelty Library<\/strong>
\n2. A Complete Run Of Arcade
\n3. Any Number Of Mini-Comics<\/strong>
\n4. At Least One Pogo Book From The 1950s
\n5. A Barnaby Collection
\n6. Binky Brown and the Holy Virgin Mary
\n7. As Many Issues of RAW as You Can Place Your Hands On<\/strong>
\n8. A Little Stack of Archie Comics
\n9. A Suite of Modern Literary Graphic Novels<\/em><\/strong>
\n10. Several Tintin Albums<\/em><\/strong>
\n11. A Smattering Of Treasury Editions Or Similarly Oversized Books
\n12. Several Significant Runs of Alternative Comic Book Series<\/em><\/strong>
\n13. A Few Early Comic Strip Collections To Your Taste<\/strong><\/em>
\n14. Several “Indy Comics” From Their Heyday<\/strong>
\n15. At Least One Comic Book From When You First Started Reading Comic Books
\n16. At Least One Comic That Failed to Finish The Way It Planned To
\n17. Some Osamu Tezuka
\n18. The Entire Run Of At Least One Manga Series
\n19. One Or Two 1970s Doonesbury Collections
\n20. At Least One Saul Steinberg Hardcover
\n21. One Run of A Comic Strip That You Yourself Have Clipped
\n22. A Selection of Comics That Interest You That You Can’t Explain To Anyone Else
\n23. At Least One Woodcut Novel
\n24. As Much Peanuts As You Can Stand
\n25. Maus<\/strong>
\n26. A Significant Sample of R. Crumb’s Sketchbooks
\n27. The original edition of Sick, Sick, Sick.
\n28. The Smithsonian Collection Of Newspaper Comics
\n29. Several copies of MAD
\n30. A stack of Jack Kirby 1970s Comic Books
\n31. More than a few Stan Lee\/Jack Kirby 1960s Marvel Comic Books
\n32. A You’re-Too-High-To-Tell Amount of Underground Comix<\/strong>
\n33. Some Calvin and Hobbes
\n34. Some Love and Rockets<\/strong>
\n35. The Marvel Benefit Issue Of Coober Skeber
\n36. A Few Comics Not In Your Native Tongue
\n37. A Nice Stack of Jack Chick Comics
\n38. A Stack of Comics You Can Hand To Anybody’s Kid
\n39. At Least A Few Alan Moore Comics<\/strong>
\n40. A Comic You Made Yourself
\n41. A Few Comics About Comics<\/strong>
\n42. A Run Of Yummy Fur
\n43. Some Frank Miller Comics<\/strong>
\n44. Several Lee\/Ditko\/Romita Amazing Spider-Man Comic Books
\n45. A Few Great Comics Short Stories
\n46. A Tijuana Bible
\n47. Some Weirdo<\/strong>
\n48. An Array Of Comics In Various Non-Superhero Genres
\n49. An Editorial Cartoonist’s Collection or Two
\n50. A Few Collections From New Yorker Cartoonists<\/p>\n

Guess I just never recovered from my first encounter with Cooch Cooty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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