Today's photo is a small section of my closet. I suspect that many multi-collectors have an area like this where several different things end up together. We've got a Maleficent dragon beanie that used to be the mascot in my (also black) car, but somehow never made it back after one visit to the service station (I dutifully removed the beanie in fear a sticky fingered mechanic might cherish it and take it home. Yeah, right). The tin is a "Brady Bunch" tv. To the right are many comic books - some bagged and boarded, some not - on top of a guide to "The Simpsons" tv show. I love the Simpsons, but after the series started coming out on DVD, I realized I didn't need a book I never looked at taking up valuable shelf space in the living room. Now, that space (and more) is taken up by DVDs I rarely look at. An improvement.
The books in the back are fantastic (no pun intended). The Marvel "Essential" books reprint all their classic comics, in order, in black and white for about 15 bucks apiece. (Probably a little more now). I bought Thor volume 1 for half price and was delighted to read this classic Lee & Kirby comic's first 30 issues for cheap. These were the books that built Marvel comics, and I had only passing familiarity with most titles besides The Amazing Spider-man. The next time House of Secrets had a half price sale, I stocked up on a couple of dozen of these books, and proceeded to read my way through the early history of Marvel comics.
Very slowly.
Since each book contains 25 or 30 issues - over two years worth in the normal word of an issue a week - it took me a long time to get through those books, and in fact, I still haven't finished them all almost three (4?) years after I bought them. I'm not complaining - I'm happy to have them, they are great reading. DC also does their own version of them (And Sheldon Cooper has those in his room on "The Big Bang Theory..." but I digress).
Well, I like to put more than one photo on here, so I'm going to share this very odd little carousel I spotted outside more than one supermarket in Southern California. Notice two of the steeds are ordinary horses, but the third is a half bird / half elephant creature that defies explanation. The front half is clearly an unlicensed likeness of Disney's Dumbo, right down to
his hat - and the back is a bird's tail. Notice he's only got two elephant feet, two.Does this delight small children?
Posting more pretty soon: we've got some news about fancollectors impact across the globe, and a much-needed definition of the components of our name, too!
