According to a recent Radiolab Podcast, in order to get a 5.2-percent tax cut on Marvel’s imported action figures, the company’s lawyers successfully argued the toys represent “animals or other non-human creatures (for example, robots and monsters)” as defined by the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, a tome that determines tariff classifications for all goods imported into the United States.

Confused? There’s a lot of legalese involved, so here’s the way it breaks down: There’s a distinction between two categories of products imported into the U.S. “Dolls” are toys representing humans, whereas “toys” represent non-humans. While dolls are taxed at 12.8 percent, toys are taxed at just 6.8 percent. Two shrewd trade attorneys noticed the distinction and successfully argued to U.S. Customs officials that Marvel’s licensed products don’t represent human beings.

“We actually went down there. We had a meeting and brought samples of all the figures,” trade lawyer Sherry Singer told Radiolab. “We had 60 or 80 figures. We tried to convince them that these figures [did not represent human beings].”

The court cases, which began in 1993, went on for 10 years. Apparently a large part of the legal argument had to do with the X-Men not being, strictly by tariff classification, human. Oddly, the fictional governments of the Marvel Universe are usually the ones to claim mutants aren’t human — but in the real world, the government was the one defending the humanity of mutants while Marvel was opposed to the idea.

Even X-Men director Bryan Singer weighed in on the mutants versus humans issue during the podcast. “In the X-Men universe, humans are very often out to get the mutants, dismissive of mutants, fearful of the mutants, liquidating them, experimenting on them,” he said.

The judge’s ruling actually stated that all Marvel heroes were actually classified as non-human, not just the X-Men. I guess that means Super-Soldiers, gamma-irradiated scientists, billionaire philanthropists/playboys and thunder gods will all get a tax break when the bulk of The Avengers merchandise hits the U.S.

Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn! It’s been awhile since we had someone’s shelves to feature, and what a great way to end 2011 by posting someone’s collection.

Today’s shelves come to us from, simply, “The Dork,” who blogs regularly over at The Dork Review. “This is a collection of my stuff (minus the Yoda stuff; which is my wife’s) that I have been collecting since I was a kid,” he told me via email. He had previously posted it on his own site, and you can see that post right here.

If you would like to contribute some shelves, it’s easy — just send pictures and a brief description to jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now, onto the shelves!

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Toyota has teamed with Marvel for “The Incredible Drive,” a four-part stop-motion animated adventure promoting the car manufacturer’s Yaris model. Created by the crew behind “Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?!” — Ben Morse, Jesse Falcon, Alex Kropinak and others — the first short features a Yaris-driving Bruce Banner forced into therapy with Doctor Strange, who suggests all he needs for his anger-control issues is a road trip. With him.

Yes, the guy who transforms into a 7 1/2-foot-tall monster drives a subcompact car — but, hey, it’s no weirder than him rooming with the Red Hulk or seeking mental-health advice from a magic-wielding neurosurgeon (apparently Doc Samson isn’t covered by Banner’s HMO). Strange’s Monarch-esque voice is a little much, but it’s definitely worth sitting through for the Marvel Universe-themed destination billboards and the late addition to the unlikely road-trip crew.

(via Autoblog)

Blackest Friday

ComiXology has a bunch of digital comics for 99 cents today. DC Comics is holding a Blackest Friday sale, allowing you to buy each issue of the Blackest Night crossover for 99 cents each. Marvel has Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four issues on sale for 99 cents, while IDW has their Star Trek comics on sale.

Dark Horse is running a pretty amazing digital comics sale for Black Friday only: A megabundle of all the single-issue Star Wars comics available in their digital comics store, over 130 issues altogether, for $100. That’s 3,274 pages of Star Wars comics, in case you’re counting, and it’s $166 less than you would pay if you bought them all separately.

They have also figured out how to run a doorbuster special digitally: On Cyber Monday (Nov. 28), the first 500 customers through their checkout will get a 50% discount. There’s a $20 minimum, and the deal runs for 24 hours beginning at midnight PST on Nov. 28; you’ll also need a coupon code, which is provided at the link.

Khepri Comics is putting comics on sale and helping to save the cheetahs, with different sales all weekend and into Cyber Monday:

Fri 25 Nov – Black Friday – Please Enjoy 40% OFF HARDCOVERS with coupon CHEETAH40FRI
Sat 26 Nov – Small Biz Saturday – Enjoy 50% OFF SELF-PUBLISHED with coupon CHEETAH50SAT
Sun 27 Nov – Adjectiveless Sunday – Enjoy 40% OFF CREATOR-OWNED with coupon CHEETAH40SUN
Mon 28 Nov – Cyber Monday – Please Enjoy 40% OFF EVERYTHING with coupon CHEETAH40MON

Midtown Comics has comics, graphic novels and statues on sale.

Things from Another World has steep discounts going right now for selected items, plus $10, $5 and $1 doorbusters.

Chuck BB is holding a Black Metal Black Friday Super Brutal Blind Art Sale, where you can buy pages from Black Metal and get a sketch for $50.

Top Cow will have stuff in their online store discounted all weekend …

…as will Aspen Comics.

Jeff Smith’s Boneville site is holding a signature sale through mid-December, where every book ordered will be signed by Smith.

Fantagraphics minicomics

Don’t forget about Fantagraphics special mini-comics offer through their online store.

Mimoco has all their designer flash drives for 25 percent off, which include drives based on Batman, Green Lantern, Star Wars and more.

Threadless is holding a $10 T-shirt sale this weekend, so you can get those cool robot shirts by Ethan Nicolle, Becky Cloonan, JR Goldberg and Jhonen Vasquez for cheap.

MattyCollector has a ton of action figures on sale, including some of their past San Diego Comic Con exclusives and several Justice League Unlimited packs. Plus, the Rockers!

For more deals and bargains, check out the lists at The Beat and ComicsAlliance. And if you’ve seen any that I’ve missed, please post them in our comments section. Happy shopping!

Batman Blox

Funko, the company whose Pop Vinyl figure line includes everyone from Mickey Mouse to Yoda to Spider-Man to the Ramones, has a new line called BLOX that features “2D-image ‘thickened’ into a boxy 3D-figure.” The figures stand seven inches tall and feature Batman, Joker, Gene Simmons and several cereal mascots.

You can see all of them in all their glory over on the Funko site, or head to Entertainment Earth to pre-order them.

Jaxxon ain't no rodent

Back in the 1970s Marvel Comics was saved by a little film called Star Wars, according to Jim Shooter. As Marvel’s editor-in-chief at the time notes, Marvel’s adaptation of the film “sold and sold and sold” no matter what format they released it in.

And after Marvel adapted the film into six-issue series, they continued to tell tales set in the Star Wars universe. Issue #7 sported a cover promising new stories about Han Solo and Chewbacca, as the duo appeared in a “Seven Samurai” style tale with a whole bunch of new characters, including a big green rabbit named Jaxxon. While Jaxxon only appeared in a handful of Star Wars comics at the time, he made enough of an impression to achieve a sort of cult status with some folks. IGN ranked him as #97 in their top 100 Stars Wars characters, while Bully the stuffed little bull advocated that they should have replaced Jar Jar Binks with Jaxxon in the prequel films. And he even appeared in a webcomic at TheForce.net.

And now the Bugs Bunny tribute character is up for the ultimate form of recognition, as Hasbro and Star Wars Insider magazine are holding a “Fans’ Choice Poll” where fans can vote on which action figure Hasbro will make next. Jaxxon is going up against some other “expanded universe” characters and the expected “Hey, weren’t they on the screen for five seconds? Make a figure!” characters from the films.

The polls close Dec. 1, so head over there and show your support for the rodent, er, rabbit.

Age of Apocalypse

News and reports from the New York Comic Con rolled out even after the lights were turned off on Sunday; here are a few of them, as well as some tidbits we missed the first time around:

• Marvel announced an ongoing Age of Apocalypse series by David Lapham and Roberto De La Torre, spinning out of the current “Dark Angel Saga” storyline in Uncanny X-Force. [CBR]

• Designer Chip Kidd is writing a Batman book called Batman: Death by Design with art by Dave Taylor. It’s due out next summer. [ComicsAlliance]

• USA Today spotlighted Captain Brooklyn, due next May from Jimmy Palmiotti, Frank Tieri and Amanda Conner. The three-issue miniseries will be published by Image Comics. [USA Today]

• Following the convention, Marvel has released pages from the Prep & Landing story that will appear in a few of their upcoming November comics. [CBR]

• Marvel also released the fiery Phoenix teaser image that made the rounds at the show. [CBR]

• Matt Fraction and Nathan Fox are working on a comic about Osama bin Laden’s capture and death for the December issue of GQ magazine. [Multiversity Comics]

• Joe Keatinge and Andre Szymanowicz are teaming up on a new ongoing Image series called Hell Yeah. [CBR]

• Green Wake writer Kurtis Wiebe reveale dthe Image Comics series will run for 25 issues — “five arcs of five issues each.” [Multiversity Comics]

• Writing for MTV Geek, our own Brigid Alverson rounds up news from Viz Media at the show, including word that they’ve picked up the former Tokyopop title Loveless. [MTV Geek]

• Ross Campbell reports that Oni Press will release the upcoming sixth volume of Wet Moon in October 2012. “I was pretty devastated to hear that but I guess I’ve accepted it, what can you do,” he said on his blog. “The main reason is Oni’s post-production and scheduling processes have changed and been streamlined over the past year or so, in addition to their schedule being overbooked.” Campbell said he hopes to runa chunk fo the book on the web before it is released. [Ross Campbell]

• Gary Tyrell caught up with several webcomics creators about their various projects at the show. [Fleen]

• Michael Kupperman promoted the release of Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010 by cosplaying as Twain at the show. [Flog!]

• Gamers Digital (warning: annoying music at the link) is developing a “first-person mystery” game starring Dark Horse’s Ghost character. It’ll be downloadable for the PC, Macintosh and various Apple devices. [Kotaku]

• Galactus will be a playable character in a special mode in the upcoming video game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. [CBR]

• ComicsAlliance rounds up pictures of a lot of great action figures that were displayed at the show, from Marvel, DC, Earthworm Jim and more. [ComicsAlliance]

Welcome to another edition of Shelf Porn, where Robot 6 proudly shares the shelves and collections of fans around the world. Today’s collection comes from across the pond, as Robert Menzies shares his statues, comics and even a Marvel No-Prize with us.

If you’d like to see your collection here, send a write-up and some jpg images to jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now let’s hear from Robert …

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Hi. This is my loft. It’s got a 1970s thing going, as you’ll see…

My reading chair is a Papasan chair. The smaller cushions and beanbag were custom-made and have some of my favourite covers. For anyone curious, the cushions have Avengers #122 and The Incredible Hulk #179. The four sides of the beanbag have Daredevil #114, Captain America and the Falcon #154, Iron Man #256 and The Mighty Thor #262 (which you can see). Behind the seat is a John Cassaday Captain America scroll.

On the small unit, you can see Mjolnir. I made it with a friend around 1994 and weighted the shaft so that it would balance on its corners. I saw that in a Thor comic book once and thought it was really cool. It’s made entirely of recycled materials, including a part of an old floorboard, and is metal-plated wood.

A complete set of variant Masterworks and some of my comic books. A few years ago the Masterworks caught up with my originals, so I can read every issue of Avengers, Cap, FF, Hulk and Thor. I also have most issues of Daredevil and the Spider-Man titles up till that appalling “Sins Past” storyline forced me to stop.

I mounted runners so that I can display comics and other items on all four sides of the sloped roof. I rotate those on display every so often. These are above the Masterworks and most are from the 1970s.

From the reading chair, looking up toward my desk.

A panoramic view from the chair.

My desk. The Hulk is a modification. It started life as a poseable figure but some glue, clay, filler and paint turned it into a statue.

A few repaints of some CMFC figures, with a Marvel Figure factory classic shellhead. I post on the CMFC blog a lot, so a big hi to Bagman, Ted, Bob, Thor8, John, Mighty Marvel, Leigh, Sinister Venom, Pirate Adam, Jacadoo, Mad Thinker, Larry S, mgf, CBR Beast, Ken, Tino, Blake, Grim, Jinx, Toon, Max, Gremlin, Dan, Rich, um, memory now failing me.. and anyone else I have argued with…

My favourite artist almost since my very first comic book back in 1976 is Sal Buscema. In the 1990s I wrote to him and he very kindly replied with a note and head sketch of the Hulk. If that’s not a class act, I don’t know what is. A wonderful artist and a lovely man. One of the my favourite possessions.

Stan Lee’s autograph. Dad bought me this as he knows that Stan Lee is my god.

Some of the favourite Marvel Treasuries from the 1970s. John Romita, take a bow.

Romita art for a model kit from the 1970s that I owned as a kid and then bought as a reissue a while back.

The bench under the Treasuries. This is a mess but has a Factory X Iron Man helmet, an old Wolverine model, a Bowen Dr. Doom, a Galactus from the old Surfer animated series, etc. It also has the Spidey model I spoke of, sitting on an obscure speaker. (Yes, there’s a CD player and speakers in there somewhere!)

This is the shelf under the Spider-Man artwork. It has all my FF and Hulk comic books, alongside a lot of Captain America items. There’s a few other items including 2000AD figures I modified into little statues.

My life-size busts with a Sal Buscema Spider-Man standee that I bought on Hollywood Blvd. You can’t really see from this, but the shelves below have many hundreds of UK Marvel reprint comic books from the 1970s, 2000AD c.1979-1982 and an assortment of other UK annuals, magazines and books. There’s a framed scroll of Spectacular Spider-Man #200 (Sal B again) to the right.

The 1975, ’76 and ’77 Marvel calendars and, beneath, some early issues of a British comic called Captain Britain, which first came out late 1976. I loved this comic book as a child and went right off the character when he had the costume change to his present outfit.

Some conversions I made years ago that sit on a shelf under the Cap Britain comic books.

And these last two photos show the busts sitting atop the UK comics/ annuals, etc.

I kept the best for last: my No-Prize from Stan!!!

You can’t see all the comic books. There are a couple of shelf units to the right of the reading chair I missed. Still, you get a good sense of the layout from the photos, I think. (Although it does seem messier in the photos, somehow!)

The Massive

Friday was a busy day in San Diego, with a full slate of announcements capped by the Eisner Awards in the evening.

• Image Comics will resurrect the classic television show MacGyver as a five-issue miniseries written by MacGyver creator Lee David Zlotoff and Doctor Who writer Tony Lee, and illustrated by Becky Cloonan.

• Brian Wood’s newest project was announced — The Massive, about environmentalists who survive the last environmental collapse. The comic will start its run in Dark Horse Presents #8 in January.

• Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger confirmed that Scalped will end with issue #60.

• Marvel teased the return of the Scarlet Spider.

• DC Comics released more interior art for several of their “New 52″ titles, including Aquaman, Mister Terrific and more.

Rascal Raccoon's Raging Revenge

• Oni Press announced a new book by Robot Chicken writer Brendan Hay and artist Justin Wagner called Rascal Raccoon’s Raging Revenge.

• Dark Horse’s Star Wars comics are being added to their digital app.

• Aspen Comics announced several new projects, including volume two of Shrugged; a new volume of Fathom: Kiani; Dead Man’s Run, a brand new series written by Greg Pak with art by Tony Parker; and Homecoming, a new project from Aspen designed by Michael Turner.

• Viz Media announced three new manga licenses: A Devil and Her Love Song, a romance; The Earl and the Fairy, a fantasy; and Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll, which is based on a cute mascot dog from Hello Kitty parent company Sanrio.

• Yen Press also had three manga licenses to announce: Durara!!, Kore wa Zombie desu ka? and Olimpos, as well as an iPhone/iPod Touch app that will sync with their iPad app. And yes, they are working on an Android version.

• Joshua Hale Fialkov and Rahsan Ekedal, who collaborated on Echoes, have another comic in the works for Top Cow’s Pilot Season, titled The Test. Writer Alan McElroy also talked to CBR about his Pilot Season entry, Anonymous.

• First Comics officially announced their return in San Diego and shared that their YA/submissions editor, Susannah Carson, is taking submissions.

• James O’Barr’s The Crow is returning at IDW, as is Popeye.

• IDW also announced another Artist’s Edition, this one featuring Will Eisner’s The Spirit.

• Abrams will publish The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist in the spring of 2012.

• Syfy will adapt Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun comic into a television show.

• AMC debuted a new trailer for the second season of The Walking Dead, which will premiere Oct. 16.

• Neil Gaiman will produce a movie based on Roman Dirge’s Lenore.

• A live-action Voltron feature film is in the works.

• Today’s strange-but-true announcement: Capcomm announced a Hello Kitty x Street Fighter crossover that will produce a line of merchandise bearing images of Kitty in various Street Fighter costumes.

• Conan O’Brien “crashed” Comic-Con to debut a new trailer starring his alter-ego, The Flaming C.

• Justice League action figures based on Jim Lee’s “New 52″ designs will debut next year.

Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn. Today’s submission comes from Neal Bishop from North Carolina, who shares his collection of toys, comics and more.

If you’d like to see your shelves featured here, just drop me an email at jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now here’s Neal …

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Hi, my name is Neal Bishop. I’ve been collecting comics since 1991, and toys since around 1998. The thing that really got me into toys was Marvel Legends; as you can see, that’s my primary collection. This is a bit of a bittersweet thing; I’ve been meaning to put my comic room on Shelf Porn for a while, and I took the pictures a few months ago; since then, I got a new job, and moved from Atlanta, GA to Charlotte, NC. So the room as it’s pictured doesn’t even exist any more. Still, I wanted to share my collection, as it was best displayed.

I have a ton of pictures that I took of the room, close ups of just about everything, if you’re interested, you can see them here:

http://s301.photobucket.com/albums/nn62/gl3600/Comic%20Book%20Room/

First of all, I’ve noticed a lot of people on here either have a huge trade and hardcover collection, or just say their collection is stuffed away in a closet somewhere. I’m a bagger and boarder, always have been, and I’m lucky enough to have the room to display my collection out in the room. I love putting my new comics in their place in the collection. You’ll also see some posters, signed by artists I’ve met at various cons.

Moving on to the shelves, you see the Marvel Legends and DC Universe Classics. I love the 6” scale; it’s by far my favorite.

One of my favorite things has to be my Captain America and the Avengers arcade game. I played this every time I went to the arcade when I was younger, and I searched ebay for years looking for a reasonably priced machine. I finally found it about two years ago, and I think it really brings that extra bit into the room.

More drawer boxes, with odds and ends, my Mighty Muggs collection, and some DC packaged figures.

I’m primarily a Marvel guy in my collecting, X-Men in particular, but I’m also a Green Lantern fan. I’ve built myself a little collection of various Green Lantern toys.

I do have a few trades & hardcovers in addition to the regular issues; I also have a weakness for the kid’s toys, the Spider-Man and Friends and DC Superfriends. They’re just too adorable!

The last bit of my collection is the smaller figures, particularly Superhero Squad and Minimates. I love the way they capture the essence of the characters in the small and cutesy versions.

And sadly, as I was saying earlier, I did have a move recently. Right now, this is how my collection looks, in a 4×14 storage unit……

But I’m sure the next place, it’ll be back, bigger than ever.

Now let’s take a look at more stuff coming to the con, including Professor Zoom, Supernatural Law, Marvel Mini Muggs and more

Zoom

Flashpoint‘s big villain, Professor Zoom, has San Diego on his schedule. Graphitti Designs will sell the above SDCC-exclusive action figure at their booth during the show, with a limit of one figure per customer.

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The Life-Partner of Frankenstein: A Supernatural Law Book

Exhibit A Press is publishing its first-ever full-color book: The Life-Partner of Frankenstein: A Supernatural Law Book by Batton Lash (60 pages, $10.95).

The plot: A descendent of the original Victor von Frankenstein, Colin von Frankenstein has created his own monster in his home laboratory in upstate New York. When Henry (the monster) yearns for a mate, Dr. Frankenstein creates Freda. The couple immediately bond and want to make their relationship official. Imagine their shock and disappointment when the county clerk denies their application for a marriage license—and has Freda arrested for possible public health violations! Dr. Frankenstein calls in attorneys Alanna Wolff & Jeff Byrd, who must deal not only with the case before them but an agitated townspeople who don’t want such an “unnatural” couple in their community.

This story originally appeared online in the Supernatural Law webcomic (www.supernaturallaw.com); the book is a limited edition primarily for Comic-Con.

The Exhibit A booth at Comic-Con is 1909, and Batton will be signing at the booth all four days. More information: www.exhibitapress.com

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Hasbro assembles the Avengers at their booth; Mini Muggs of Hulk, Thor, Iron Man and Captain America, as well as a Mighty Mugg-sized Giant Man, will be available at the show for $35.

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Dark Horse will sell an exclusive Peter Parker/Spider-Man Syroco statue at the show for $50, with a limit of four per customer.

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I mentioned the Thor Minimates collection a couple of weeks ago; here’s a picture:

Thor Minimates

These will only be available at the Action Figure Xpress booth, along with a Mumm-Ra figure that comes with his dog, Ma-Mutt. I never knew he was a dog lover. But it makes sense if you think about it.

Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn Saturday, where fans share their collections with us. Today’s adamantium-laced submission come from Eric Jaskolka, who shares a Juggernaut-sized collection of X-Men toys and merchandise. Seriously, it’s gotta be seen to be believed.

If you’d like to see your collection here, it’s easy — just send a brief write-up on your collection and some pictures to jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now here’s Eric …

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My name is Eric Jaskolka and I have been collecting comics since 1989 and then started collecting X-Men toys in 1991. As you can see I have a HUGE X-Men collection, unfortunately I don’t have enough room to display everything (I have variant figures, multi-packs, trading cards, posters, etc. packed away), but I think the pics are a great representation. I also have thousands of X-Men comics.

Items range from licensed, boot leg, prototypes, unreleased prototypes, items from many different countries. Categories include toys, food, food premiums, jewelry, sporting goods, costumes, statues.

I have been featured on local news stations and wrote an article for Tomart several years ago.

Enjoy the pics and let me know what you think.

Welcome to Shelf Porn, where fans show us their stuff. Today’s collection of statues, toys and other stuff comes courtesy of Ian Walker from Poole, England.

If you’d like to see your collection featured here, just send a brief write-ups and some jpgs to jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now here’s Ian …

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My name is Ian Walker and I live in Poole, England and I’ve been collecting comics since 1975 with a little break in between to get to know girls.

As you can see I have quite a few toys and statues and a ever growing comic collection that is unstoppable as I collect 81 ongoing titles and that doesn’t even bring into account how many mini series and one shots I buy every month as well plus all the other stuff I pick up from time to time.

I’d like to give a shout out to Andy who owns the comic shop I go to,it’s mostly his fault I have all this stuff [he has a good sales pitch and I always fall for it]. And as you can see it’s all housed in my comic room that my very understanding wife Lara let me have.

The Death-Ray

Daniel Clowes’ Death-Ray is not only getting the hardcover treatment this fall, he’s also getting three dimensions.

The creator’s site announced this weekend that the Oakland Toy Corp has designed a Death-Ray “action doll” that will be sold on Press Pop’s website beginning June 9. The 12″ doll is limited to 200 sets, costs $105 and comes with “the Ray Gun to erase all the people you would rather not see.” It will come in a box designed by Clowes.

Welcome once again to Shelf Porn, where we help fans show off their stuff. Today’s submission comes from Harold Yoingco from the Philippines.

If you’d like to have your collection featured here, email me a write-up and some pictures at jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now here’s Harold …

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Hi! Harold Yoingco here. I’m 21 from the Philippines. I usually do my browsing through the internet for some inspiring photos. Shelf porn is one amazing blog post that inspired me to.. Well collect more and make my own.

Here’s a view of my table where you can see I have a few figures Union Jack and Wolverine (Hammer files). These two are the most favorite figures of all time. I seldom collect figures. As you can see on the right side there’s an original sketch of Ken aka Gorilla man from Agents of Atlas. Sketched by the artist Carlo Pagulayan.

Here’s a closer look of my figure factory thing.

A closer look of the sketch.

A closer look of my shelf I only have a few books… Mostly Stephen king’s books.

A sketch from Harvey Tolibao. Weapon X baby.

Welcome to another edition of Shelf Porn. Today’s shelves comes from 17-year-old Grady Dixson in upstate New York, who shares a room I wish I’d had when I was 17.

If you’d like to show off your collection, it’s easy — just send a write-up and some jpgs to jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now here’s Grady …

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Hi, I’m Grady Dixson, I’m 17 and from upstate NY. I’ve officially been collecting since I was 12, and unofficially my entire life.

When you go upstairs in my house (or more accurately my Dad’s house) you admittedly know which rooms mine before you even open the door.

As you can see the inside of my room is just as cluttered and wild as the door would suggest.

DC universe character Origins, as well as my Light sabre.

A bunch of posters, and trophies from my journeys.

Some of my trades …

The following is a butt load of pictures of my Action Figure Collection………….

The majority of my favorite figures get crammed on this top shelf. I like it, I think it gives an overall view of all my interests, almost like what a movie poster would look like, if the movie had all my favorite characters in it.

My collection of all the rings in the spectrum. And look it’s the big 3!

The Justice Society of America!

Again very Random but don’t they look awesome together?

Shazam!

Some of my trades and hardcovers …

(as you can see I’m a big mountain dew fan).

More trades as well as some of my star wars figures……

Some of my DVD’s as well as my DeLorean………..

Some more of my DVD’s …

The entertainment system, not exactly state of the art but it gets the job done …

My favorite ninja turtle action figures, as well as my collection of classic NES games……..oh and Ash is just hanging out up there, protecting my room, from any armies, dark or otherwise.

More proof of just how random my setup is……….

And this is where I put my comics from the current month….. The rest of my comic collection is in storage, Dads orders :/

Two of my favorite comics, Blue Beetle #1 (Charlton series Vol. 2) the first solo issue of Ted Kord, as well as the first appearance of The Question, and Booster Gold (DC Vol. 2) Signed by Geoff Johns.

And that’s my collection, hope you guys enjoyed checking out what this Jr. Geek had hidden away.

Patrick Boivin, the filmmaker behind last spring’s Internet sensation “Iron Baby,” is back, this time with an incredible stop-motion short called “Black Widow Gone Wild” that asks the age-old question “What if Black Widow were War Machine?” Also, “What’s the quickest way to stop a Michael Jackson doll from dancing?” and “Should you tug on Superman’s cape?”

Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn, where, like on Valentine’s Day, love is always in the air … love for pictures of people’s comic stuff, anyway. Today’s Shelf Porn comes from James Parmenter, who shows us pictures of his comic and toy-filled loft.

If you’d like to share the love, we always need more Shelf Porn. Send your write-up and pictures to jkparkin@yahoo.com.

And now let’s head up stairs to James and his loft …

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Having checked out the shelf porn blog for a while now, I thought i was time to send in some pictures of my loft. I don’t particularly collect anything specific just things that take my fancy.

I collected Comics as a 13 year old but sold them all when they started gathering dust. It was only when my wife gave me a copy of the Avengers’ Forever Trade one christmas that it opened the flood gates and I started collecting again! (this was about nine years ago.)

I have now stopped collecting single issues as they take up to much space. Trades and hard copies are much nicer. Powers, Invincible, the Walking Dead and anything by the Luna Brothers are favourites of mine

Some of my favourite figures are the Bucky O’Hare figures, the Hawkeye figure and the Mini-mates.

While it not as large as some of the collections featured on shelf porn at least I can get in the room and have space to read!

Flashpoint action figures

Following the icons and first issue cover reveal from earlier today, DC Comics has unveiled a look at four action figures from the upcoming Flashpoint event. The Flash looks unchanged, but as you can see Batman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg are a bit different.

Hello and welcome to the long-running-but-recently-moved Shelf Porn, now on Saturdays to help make your weekend more super. Today’s Super Shelf Porn comes from Jason George, who shares his collection of items featuring the Man of Steel — he’s got statues, toys and even a guitar.

If you’d like to share your collection with the world, please email a write-up and pictures to jkparkin@yahoo.com. We’re always looking for collections large or small, even if it’s just a picture or two … I’ve got a couple of single pictures I’ll group together into one post when I get a few more in. So send’em today!

And now here’s Jason …

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I have been a fan of your articles for a while now and always enjoy seeing other collections. I have a fairly large superman collection that we have always called the superman room in our house. My wife is due in four months and I will be boxing the collection in order to make room for the baby. But before I started putting it away, I decided to take pictures of my superman stuff and send them along to you.

I have been a superman fan since 1978 for the same reason like most fans. The movie just blew me away. I had the toys and stuff like that as a kid, but “my collection” really started taking of around 1990 when I started making some money I guess. I have collected comics and have over 14,000 DC titles and I believe I have every DCU title and comic since 1980. This in turn started my collecting of superman items.

My favorite parts of the collection are the statues and the watches. I have over 150 superman watches. Over 15 clocks. I also like the four WETA statues that I have although I am afraid to move them because they are so big, heavy and fragile. If I did this all over again the only thing I would change is buying every single superman and superman villain action figure, they take up a lot of space. I have boxes of them in the attic not on display. Another piece that I like is the life size bust I have of Brandon Routh, I wanted to get the full size statue but didn’t have the room. I won the superman guitar at a six flags park. I have a part of the room dedicated to just any movie, cartoon or TV show DVD and put them on in my superman DVD player TV. The room itself is yellow with red shelves. The ceiling is blue and has a fan in that has the planet earth. The blades have superman flying around it. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Thanks, Jason George