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X-tremely X-cellent X-Men Shelf Porn
Happy Saturday and welcome to Shelf Porn, where fans show us their collections. Today’s shelves come from Nicholas in Illinois, who shows us his comics, action figures, statues and other collectibles.
If you’d like to submit your collection, find all the details on how to do that here.
And now let’s turn things over to Nicholas …
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My name is Nicholas. I started collecting comics in 1990. My first issue was G.I.Joe #28: Unmasked. And ever since then I’ve been utterly hooked. I’m a huge X-Men fan, so most of what you see here is going to be X-Men related. But I do also have many other items from other franchises that I cherish. As you can see from the pictures, my main focus has always been single issues. There’s nothing like reading a great comic and paging through it over and over. I have many statues I’ve collected over the years (Mostly Bowen) but I’ve certainly seen other collections larger, and while others may be larger, my collection is close to my heart. A lot of the figure are ones from my childhood, or newer versions of them. I have boxes of boarded and loose figures, but I can’t display them all at one time due to clutter, ever though I have a pretty large house, I try not to let my love of comics slip out of my art studio (of course I’m not perfect so things do escape)! I hope you all enjoy my collection, I know I do! I love sitting in there and reading some old issues and just enjoy all the artwork!!!!!!















27 Comments
(Another) Josh
March 23, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Nice!
demoncat4
March 23, 2013 at 1:00 pm
nice collection espically love dark phoenix standing on that little turrent blazing. plus love how you have some of the x-men movie cast autographs.
Jenjen4280
March 23, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Nice collection. Very eclectic. I love the collection of x-men busts.
UncannyDerek
March 23, 2013 at 3:13 pm
You were doing so well until the Bon Jovi action figures appeared.
That’s one helluvan awesome collection though. I love how organized the shelves are. I love the Cyclops visor.
Grant
March 23, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Cool collection!
Love the Mickey Mouse framed poster.
Where did you get the fists poster of the avengers?
exedotdmg
March 23, 2013 at 4:46 pm
Is that a marijuana plant on page two? Awesome.
thejohnscarff
March 23, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Thats a good looking room!
Funny things to note (both Jean Grey related)
1. Eh is that weed in the background of the movie Jean door poster?
2. Is it me or is the Ultimate Jean Grey bust cross eyed?
momaw
March 23, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Why does He-man have anorexia?
thennarynak
March 23, 2013 at 6:00 pm
@ Grant
Probably the same place I got mine, if you bought The Avengers BD/DVD you could send away for the poster and just pay shipping and handling for it.
ReverseFlash
March 23, 2013 at 10:02 pm
@UncannyDerek
i thought the same thing too. wtf is bon jovi doing there?!
JK Parkin
March 23, 2013 at 10:40 pm
I think he’s livin’ on a prayer.
fearitself
March 24, 2013 at 12:31 am
*sigh* Movie posters. Never understood why a geeks put them on the wall. Even if they are good(which in this case doesn’t apply), I’m sure there’d be hundreds, thousands even millions of better comic book art or drawings or aynthing. Not to mention they may not even be representative of their true self. And the shots from the movie with aan autograph is a little too much for me.
Your collection anyway is great. I love Cyclops, Wolverine and the others with those big heads.
Mac
March 24, 2013 at 2:13 am
Another very fine collections.
Every collection including the Masters of the Universe is cool in my book.
If it would be the originals instead of the 200x series it would be even cooler.
Awesome collection.
Simon
March 24, 2013 at 5:55 am
@exedotdmg and thejohnscarff
Not sure if you were joking or not, but that’s not what a marijuana plant looks like. A simple googling will reveal that.
Paul Garcia
March 24, 2013 at 10:56 am
Superb collection!
Phoenix
March 24, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Thanks everyone for the comments. I love and appreciate my whole collection. It’s a 22 year old collection now, and it’s hard to believe it’s been that long since I’ve read my first comic book, and I can remember it like it was yesterday~
@Grant, thennarynak is correct, I got my Avengers poster from the Blu-ray purchase. And I love that Mickey framed art too. My mom bought that for me many years ago and it’s a great quote as well. “Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive!”
@exedotdmg: lol it’s in fact not a marijuana plant. That’s a tree I bought that I’ve had for about 13 years now.
@thejohnscarff: 1: see above, 2: They are and it’s really infuriating I tried to angle it right, but there was no good angle!
@momaw: that’s the 2001 (?) cartoon resculpt.
I wish I could keep all my figures out, and books. But I honestly have too much stuff! The mirrored closet holds about 25 boxes of comics and all my figures. I rotate, but it’s difficult. I’ve toyed around with the idea of selling or donating my collection of DC books.
The Bon Jovi figures… I love Bon Jovi. I’ve been listening to him since I was about 3 years old (I have 3 older sisters) so I’ve been exposed to him literally almost my entire life, and in fact his entire career. If they made Jesse Lacey figure, I’d have him too.
Thanks again for the comments~
Nicholas
gl3600
March 25, 2013 at 6:22 am
Very nice room! I dig the Captain America curtains. And I’ve got the same New Frontier and Avengers posters.
Phoenix
March 25, 2013 at 6:44 am
AAB,
I’m sorry you have a large chip on your shoulder, but you don’t know me, or anyone else here for that matter. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Simple as that. But I’ve learned long ago that someone who has to shit on other people to feel good about themselves, generally they aren’t very happy with themselves. I don’t have to explain the where, when, how or why to you. If you work hard for your money, you can spend it as you please.
Good day~
VibraniumSpork
March 25, 2013 at 7:12 am
AAB – Learn to disperse your text with the odd paragraph break. Broken down, your little soap-boxing moment would have been a little easier to consume. I mean, it’d still read like hilariously over-earnest bullsh%& but at least it wouldn’t have seemed like you were copy and pasting your info from Wikipedia…
Anyhoo…
Nicholas – Great collection! If I could recommend anything though it’s that it’s so worth trying to track down some of the NECA Turtles based on the original comics (all red bandanas etc.). Some of the best sculpts and articulation I’ve ever found in an action figure, even the big expensive 1/6 beasts.
Plus, don’t you wish Bandai would release the rest of the Thundercats in that awesome Classic line? Such lush figures. My 9 year-old self could only dream of toys that cool…
JK Parkin
March 25, 2013 at 7:38 am
AAB’s comment has been deleted. Thanks.
Phoenix
March 25, 2013 at 1:13 pm
@VibraniumSpork
YES! I want those Turtles pretty badly! I’ve been keeping an eye on them on Ebay recently. Just waiting for the right price to cross my eyes! As for the Thundercats, yes please! Firstly I don’t know how the new toon was canceled (I loved it) and secondly I have don’t understand why they wouldn’t produce more of the classics line! Of course the price points were a little high on those, but very worth it. I wish at least they would have produced a Cheetara figure! That would have been killer!
Nicholas~
Phoenix
March 25, 2013 at 1:16 pm
@gl3600
Thanks! I made those curtains!!! I also recently bought a new drafting chair and covered the cushion with some retro Batman material! It’s pretty awesome, I love being crafty.
carlos
March 28, 2013 at 12:35 am
Nice! We have something in common…the bookshelves!
HiThere
April 1, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Look at all that plastic in effect -thank god for oil companies, right? Consumerism at its finest. I mean not just in the sense of collecting things that are made from entities like oil companies >>which keep us scrambling in debt ridden fast food car culture running around every day in traffic, sitting in a cubicle having our dignity chipped away at, then back in traffic again, so we can go home and sit in front of our motivation to be a consumer: advertisements disguised at entertainment (which are constantly interrupted with -or if using the Internet then scattered with- commercials). I mean also in the sense that to top it off, like the typical consumer that we are, we build shrines to repetitive predictable plot lines, to stereo type characterization, and things that are only able to wear clothing mainly made up of the three primary colors.
TED
May 20, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Again I’m amazed at how much control the collector has over his collection compaired to myself.
nice job!
TED
May 20, 2013 at 2:08 pm
do you think the government controls our minds?
Daniel
May 25, 2013 at 9:26 am
Great room! Your passion for Hot Rod is very relatable! Keep it up!