DenysH.com >> Fandom

 

My comics collection, November 2002

This list provides a snapshot of my comic book collection.

Like most collectors, I started compiling a checklist early on in my addiction. Unlike some collectors, I suspect, I also have an avid, arguably obsessive, interest in indexing and cataloging. (My non-fiction books are sorted by Library of Congress call number and my fiction books are sorted alphabetically by author, then by title.) This has lead to a comic book "checklist" that is 300+ pages long and is comb-bound.

Various rivulets combined to form this torrent. First, I'm no good at telling just by looking at a particular comic whether it looks familiar because I already own it or it looks familiar simply because I have seen it at dealers' tables far too often. So the first thing that made my list longer than some was that it's truly a checklist rather than solely a want list - it includes the books I already have as well as those I know I want.

The next thing I decided to track was whether a certain story I want to collect is reprinted somewhere, because the reprint is typically cheaper and more quickly purchased. So I reworked the checklist to give myself more room and started writing in features and story titles.

And finally, when I moved the list to the computer (yeah, I used to type it up every couple of years; it was shorter then, but still...), I decided to go through Overstreet and add in every title I would be interested in buying if I ever won the lottery.

Anyway, as I said the list is quite long now. As in a dictionary or encyclopedia, there are footers that help me locate titles quickly. The left-aligned left page footer has the name of the first title on a two-page spread and the right-aligned right page footer has the name of the final title.

The list on this page shows all of those footer titles from the November 2002 printing of my list/book. Since the footers change with every printing, this list gives an amusing look, IMHO, at both the breadth and the depth of my interest in graphic storytelling at a particular moment in time.

I've included all of the footers, so when a title is repeated here it usually indicates multiple pages of data in the list. The items that are not italicized are an artist's name, or a character's name, or a theme -- these are all points at which I shelve some comics rather than at their strictly-alphabetical locations.

-- Denys Howard

 

Reference   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z

 

Reference: Alter Ego

Reference: Comic Book Marketplace

Reference: Comic Book Marketplace Special

Reference: Comics: the Golden Age

Reference: Les Daniels, Comix: A History of Comic Books in America

Reference: Charles Wooley, Wooley's History of the Comic Book

Index | Top

AARGH!

AC Comics

AC Comics

AC Comics

ACE Comics Presents

ACG, A-Plus, Avalon

ACG, A-Plus, Avalon

ACG, A-Plus, Avalon

ACG, A-Plus, Avalon

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Comics

Action Girl Comics

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventure Comics [1938 series]

Adventures of...

All-Atomic Comics

All Canadian Beaver Comics

All Star Comics

All Stars

America's Best Comics (Better/Nedor/Standard)

America's Best Comics (Homage Comics)

A-1 Comics

A-1 Comics

A-1 Comics

A-1 Comics

Archie Comics

Arctic Comics

Atlas-Seaboard

The Atom (Silver Age)

Index | Top

Badger's Comics and Computers

Badmen of the West

Batman

Batman

Batman books

Batman Adventures

...for Beginners

Behind Prison Bars

The Best of DC [digest]

The Best of DC [digest]

The Best of DC [digest]

The Best of DC [digest]

The Best of DC [digest]

The Best of Horror and Science Fiction Comics

Best of the West [1998 series]

Best of the West [1998 series]

Bizarre Sex

Bizarro Comics!

Blood of Dracula

Blood of the Innocent

Bone

B-1 in a Nutshell

The Brave and the Bold [1955 series]

The Brave and the Bold [1955 series]

The Brave and the Bold [1955 series]

The Brave and the Bold [1955 series]

The Brave and the Bold [1955 series]

The Brave and the Bold [1955 series]

Index | Top

Calvin and Hobbes

Camelot 3000

Castle Waiting

Casual Heroes

Christmas comics and stories

Christmas Parade

Conan the Barbarian

Concrete

Index | Top

Dalton Boys

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future

DC Archive Editions

DC Archive Editions

DC Comics Presents

DC First

DC 100-Page Super Spectacular

DC One Million

DC Special

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest

DC Special Series

DC 2000

DCU Heroes Secret Files

Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics Annual

Disney Comics Hits

Disneyland Birthday Party

Doonesbury

Doorway to Nightmare

The Durango Kid [1949 series]

Dusty Star

Index | Top

Eclipse Graphic Album Series

Eclipse Monthly

80 Page Giant Magazine

80 Page Giant Magazine

Eisner, Will

Elektra: Assassin

Elseworlds

Elseworlds

Ethan Green, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of

Exile Into Consciousness

Index | Top

Fantasy Masterpieces

Fargo Kid

Firestorm, the Nuclear Man

1st Folio

The Flash

The Flash

Flash Comics

Flash Gordon

Forbidden Worlds [1951 series]

Foreign Comics

From Beyond the Unknown

From Beyond the Unknown

Index | Top

Geary, Rick

Genesis

Girl Genius

Girlhero

Golden-Age Men of Mystery

Golden Age Secret Files

The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told

Green Lantern [1960 series]

Green Lantern [1960 sseries]

Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

The Green Lantern Corps

Index | Top

Hawk & Windblade

Hawkman

Heroes Convention

Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men

The House of Mystery

House of Secrets

Hyper-Classic Reprint Editions

Index | Top

Iconografix Special

Index | Top

Jerry Iger's...

Jerry the Polar Bear

The Journal of Popular Culture

JSA

Justice League of America

Justice League of America

Justice League of America

Justice Society of America

Index | Top

Killraven, Warrior of the Worlds

Kim, Sanho

Kurtzman, Harvey

Index | Top

The Land of Nod

The Legion of Super-Heroes

The Legion of Super-Heroes

Limited Collector's Edition

Linda Carter, Student Nurse

Lovecraft, H.P.

Love Fantasy

Index | Top

Marge's Little Lulu

Marge's Tubby

Marvel Fanfare [1982 series]

Marvel Fanfare [1982 series]

Marvel Masterworks

Marvel Mystery Comics

Marvel Super Action [1970 series]

Marvel Super-Action [1977 series]

MC2 (Marvel Comics 2)

Measles

The Microbots

Micronauts Special Edition

Mr. Monster's Super-Duper Special

Mr. Mxyzptlk (Villains)

Morgan Calabrese: the Movie

Morning Glory

Movie Comics: Four Color Comics

Movie Comics: Movie Classics

Movie Comics: Movie Comics [1962 series]

My Greatest Adventures

Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics

Mystery in Space

Mystery in Space

Mystery Men Comics

Mythography

Index | Top

The New Teen Titans

New Year's Evil

Index | Top

Our Army at War

Our Fighting Forces

Index | Top

Paradise Too!

Parobeck, Mike

Planet Comics [1940 series]

Planet Terry

Pulp Fiction Library: Mystery in Space

Index | Top

Quack!

Index | Top

Red Mask

Red Raiders

The Rocketeer

Rocky and His Fiendish Friends

Russell, P. Craig

The Russian Revolution: What Actually Happened?

Index | Top

The Sandman Presents

Sandwalk Adventures

Secret Origins [1986 series]

Secret Origins [1986 series]

Sensation Comics [1942 series]

Sensation Comics [1999 series]

Sgt. Rock Special

Sgt. Rock Special

Showcase

Showcase

Sideshow

Siegel and Shuster: Dateline 1930s

Space Adventures [1952 series]

Space Adventures [1958 series]

SPX...

SpyBoy: The Deadly Gourmet Affair

Star Spangled War Stories

Starstream

Star Wars

Star Wars

Straight Arrow

Strange Adventures [1950 series]

Strange Adventures [1950 series]

Strange Adventures [1950 series]

Strange Adventures [1950 series]

Strange Adventures [1950 series]

Strange Adventures [1950 series]

Strange Adventures [1950 series]

Street Comix

The STreet Enterprises Benefit Portfolio

Sugar and Spike

Sugar and Spike

Super Baloney

Superboy [1949 series]

Superboy [1949 series]

Superboy [1949 series]

Superboy [1949 series]

Superboy [1949 series]

Superman [1939 series]

Superman [1939 series]

Superman [1939 series]

Superman [1939 series]

Superman [1939 series]

Superman [1939 series]

Superman [1987 series]

Superman Adventures

The Superman Family

The Superman Poem

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen

Superman: the Man of Steel

Superman: the Man of Tomorrow

Index | Top

Tales of the Kung-Fu Warriors

Tales of the Legion

Tarzan [4th sequence] (Dark Horse Comics)

Team Superman

3-D Comics

3-D Comics

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents

Tim Holt

Tomahawk

Tom and Jerry...

Tome Press

Tomorrow, Tom

The Tupamaros

Turok, Son of Stone

Index | Top

Usagi Yojimbo

Uther, the Half-Dead King

Index | Top

Video Classics

Vietnam

Index | Top

Weird Comics

Weird Comics

Weird Wonder Tales

Weird Worlds

Windsor-Smith, Barry

Winging It: A Graphic Novel for the 'Nineties

Wonder Woman [1942 series]

Wonder Woman (Randy Crawford sex parody)

World's Finest Comics

World's Finest Comics

World's Finest Comics

World's Finest Comics Digest

Index | Top

X-Men: X-Men Visionaries

X-Men Featuring Captain Britain

Index | Top

Zot!

Index | Top