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Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

It's Wednesday again and here we are for another edition of Send Us Your Shelf Porn. Our guest this week is Batman devotee Julian Smoger, who has accumulated quite the caped crusader collection and wanted to share some of his more interesting finds with Robot 6 readers.

Once again, let me encourage any and all of you who'd like to submit your collection to please do so. Just send any pictures and commentary to cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet and I'll try to get it up on the site in a few weeks time.

In the meantime, I'll hand the virtual mic over to Julian ...

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OMG, I think I might squee

Little Mouse Doll

As part of their ongoing promotion of Jeff Smith's first children's book, Little Mouse Gets Ready, publisher Toon Books has made an exclusive plush doll, created by dollmaker Sabrina Cho. It retails for $75 and comes with a certificate of authenticity and a copy of the book signed by Jeff Smith. Also: It's too cute for words.

Found via Comics Worth Reading

Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

Time once again for Send Us Your Shelf Porn, the only Internet blog post (that I know of) that lets you, the reader, be the nerd king (or queen, or regent) for a day. This week we're featuring the collection of Jeff Keller from New Berlin, Wisconsin, whose got quite the set-up in his basement.

Remember, Shelf Porn can only continue with your help. Got a collection you'd like to share? Let the world see it by emailing photos and commentary to me at cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet.

And how here's Jeff:

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Hulk smash puny human with submission hold

Muttpop is calling this figure the "Incredible Tequila Edition" but we know who that green-skinned wrestler really is, right?

(via Comics Alliance)

Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

Is it time once again for shelf porn? You better believe it is!

Our guest of the week is John Kovaleski, who is not only a collector but also a fine cartoonist in his own right, having authored the (now sadly defunct) Bo Nanas comic strip for a number of years, as well as been a regular contributor to Mad magazine. He's also got a new comic out, Great Scott, which you can learn more about here (he's also going to be selling it at SPX if you happen to be down that way and feel like sending some money his way).

With that introduction out of the way, let's get right to it and have John take us on a tour of his shelves ...

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Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

Welcome to Send Us Your Shelf Porn, where the collections are shared and the eyes are dazzled. Our guest this week is Steve Flack of Brooklyn, NY. Steve recently moved into a new apartment, and just finished refurbishing it, comics collection and all. He's eager to take us on a tour of the place, so get your guidebooks and click on the link ...

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Arby's unleashes JLA paper toys on humanity

JLA bobbleheads

And the papercraft kits just keep on comin'. This time it's a set of JLA-themed bobblehead dolls, created by Matt Hawkings of Custom Paper Toys. Better yet, these will be available in Arby's restaurants this week for a limited time with the purchase of a kid's meal. The dolls include Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl and Bizarro (not pictured). You can see more detailed pictures of the figures on Matt's Flickr page.

(found via the Ephemerist)

Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

Before we get started, a couple of links. First, our own Stephanie Chan found a great Japanese shelf porn site called Otacool, which appears to being trying to answer the question "How much Gundam is too much?"

On a similar topic, Chris Butcher posted pics of the manga section at Kinokuniya’s flagship store in Shinjuku. If you've got a hankerin' for manga-flavored bookstore shelf porn, you'll want to click on that link.

Moving on, our guest this week is Alice W. Lynch of Jonesboro, Arkansas, who goes by the handle DareDiva, for reasons that will become all too apparent as you read the rest of this post. In addition to making Braille T-Shirts, Alice is quite the craftsperson, having made a number of Daredevil-related quilts and other items.

Remember: to send pics of your own shelf porn, all you have to do is email me at cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet.

But enough of that. Let's let Alice take us on a tour of her collection ...

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Because Legos are for wussies

Hellboy Playmobil

Swedish artist Jakob Westerman has created a set of custom-made Hellboy toys using Playmobil characters. Above are the bad guys — Ilsa, Rasputin, dr. Krönen and Leopold — but there's lots more in the link (go to the "Misc" section). Westerman even made a swell carrying case to hold them all.

(found via The Ephemerist)

Great snakes, it's a papercraft Tintin!

Watch out for that Loch Lochmond

Have some free time on your hands today? Why not download and try putting together this swell papercraft version of Herge's Tintin. It would look great on your shelf. Myself, I'm waiting for the Bianca Castafiore version. (via the Ephemerist, once again. Photo courtesy of Cleber Machado)

Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

We've had Batman, Superman and a host of lesser DC heroes featured here at SP Central, but Wonder Woman hasn't really gotten her due, shelf porn-wise, ... until today.

Today we're featuring the extensive WW collection of Elizabeth Reeves, a self-described Princess Diana fangirl who has got quite the collection to prove it. And how. Click on the link to see the evidence for yourself and let Reeves take you on a guided tour ...

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Send Us Your Shelf Porn

It had to happen eventually. Eventually I knew someone would send in a collection too huge, too shocking, too mind-blowingly audacious to be contained in one simple Shelf Porn post.

It happened this week with one Will Morelli. Will has, shall we say, a rather vast collection of toys and action figures that he described rather succinctly:

I just recently finished getting my study set-up after my wife and I moved into our new house. I have been collecting both comics and figures since I was a kid. The black file cabinets that you can see in some of the pictures have my comics collection.

There's simply no way I can feature all of Will's collection here (well, and not be up all night and have the resulting post take one hour for you to load on your computer). All I can do is provide a tantalizing sample. To get the full effect of Mr. Morelli's shelf porn. you'll have to see his PhotoBucket slide show here. It's ... well, just go look at the pics and then click on the link. I think you'll be stunned.

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Man burns down house after mother tosses out Gundam models

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Leave it to Japan to one-up the World of Warcraft-freakout kid.

Anime News Network reports that police near Kobe have arrested a 29-year-old factory worker suspected of burning down his own home ... because his mother got rid of his "valuable" Gundam models.

Authorities say the man doused his room, and himself, with kerosene Sunday afternoon and, with a lighter, sparked the fire that engulfed his two-story house.

“My precious Gundam plamo were all thrown out by my mother," Sankaku Complex quotes the man as saying. "I thought I’d die, too.”

The man and his 55-year-old mother both escaped unharmed.

Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

Welcome to Send Us Your Shelf Porn, where its not the size of the shelf, but what you've got on it. Our guest this week is Alex Swindle, who, as you can tell by the photo above, is quite the Batman fan.

Remember, we're always on the lookout for awesome collections. Whether you're devoted to manga, Batman or the Golden Age v ersion of the Red Tornado, we want to hear (and see) about it. Send any and all photos and tour descriptions to cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet.

In the meantime, click on the link below to see more of Swindle's Batman-inspired shelves and here his thoughts on them.

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SDCC Aftermath | Justin Aclin talks Hero House, toys and more

Hero House

As he said last month, Justin Aclin went to the San Diego Comic-Con both to promote his new graphic novel from Arcana, Hero House, and to cover the con for his day job with ToyFare Magazine. I caught back up with Justin after the show to see how everything went on both fronts.

JK: Unfortunately I was already on my way home when you were doing your signing on Sunday for Hero House. How did the signing go?

Justin: The signing was great! Obviously no one had the chance to read Hero House yet, but I was able to meet a bunch of really nice ToyFare fans who were willing to pick up the book and give it a shot. At one point I had one Twisted ToyFare fan standing at the table while I signed his book, and another walked up and started talking about his favorite Twisted ToyFare moments, and it just became a conversation between the two of them, quoting their favorite jokes. As a comedy writer who never gets to see an audience react to what he writes, it was a very gratifying moment. We also had our artist, Mike Dimayuga, sketching at the signing, which brought in even more curious onlookers.

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