Belated Happy Halloween!

While other blogs are posting Veterans Day-related art, I'm finally sharing this Jack-o-lantern I drew for Halloween! It was Megan's idea to save money on Halloween decorations this year by drawing our own and this was my favorite that I did.

Golden Age Reprint Checklist

Expanding on a 2007 post, this is my dream collection of Golden Age reprint volumes, limited to those deluxe Archives or Masterworks series from DC and Marvel. In making the checklist, I was amazed at how little from the late '40s is still reprinted. Superman reprints inexplicably end in '45.

1938
Superman: the Action Comics Archives Vol. 1 (own!)
1939
Batman Archives Vol. 1 (own!)
Golden Age Sandman Archives Vol. 1
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 1
Superman Archives Vol. 1
1940
Batman: the Dark Knight Archives Vol. 1
Golden Age Flash Archives Vol. 1
JSA All-Star Archives Vol. 1
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 2-3
Shazam! Archives Vol. 1
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Archives Vol. 1
Superman: the Action Comics Archives Vol. 2
Superman Archives Vol. 2
1941
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 1-2
All-Winners Masterworks Vol. 1
Batman Archives Vol. 2 (own!)
Batman: the Dark Knight Archives Vol. 2
Golden Age Sub-Mariner Vol. 1
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 4
Shazam! Archives Vol. 2-4
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Archives Vol. 2-3
Superman: the Action Comics Archives Vol. 3-4
Superman Archives Vol. 3-4
1942
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 3
All-Winners Masterworks Vol. 2
Batman: the Dark Knight Archives Vol. 3-4
Golden Age Sub-Mariner Masterworks Vol. 2
Shazam! Family Archives Vol. 1
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Archives Vol. 4-5 (own #4!)
Superman Archives Vol. 5
1943
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 4-5
All-Winners Masterworks Vol. 3
Batman Archives Vol. 3
Batman: the Dark Knight Archives Vol. 5
Golden Age Sub-Mariner Masterworks Vol. 3
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Archives Vol. 6-7
Superman Archives Vol. 6-7
1944
Batman Archives Vol. 4
Batman: the Dark Knight Archives Vol. 6
Plastic Man Archives Vol. 3
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Archives Vol. 8-9
Superman: the Action Comics Archives Vol. 5
Superman Archives Vol. 8
1945
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 6
Batman Archives Vol. 5
Batman: the Dark Knight Archives Vol. 7
Batman: the World’s Finest Comics Archives Vol. 2
Plastic Man Archives Vol. 4
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Archives Vol. 10-11
1946
Plastic Man Archives Vol. 5-6
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Archives Vol. 12-13
1947
Batman Archives Vol. 6
Plastic Man Archives Vol. 7-8
1948
Batman Archives Vol. 7
1949
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 10

Top 15 Favorite Books

After reading Kage Baker's The Bird of the River, I decided it was time to revisit a project I'd last posted here back in 2007. This time around, I expanded the list to 15 and allowed myself up to two titles by the same author. This is still leaving off all graphic novels. I also realized, to my shock, that I had left off Jules Verne completely from my past list. What was I thinking?

1. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
2. With a Single Spell (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
3. Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
4. Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)
5. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Graeme)
6. The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
7. Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
8. True Names (Vernor Vinge)
9. Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
10. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
11. Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)
12. The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)
13. Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)
14. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
15. The Bird of the River (Kage Baker)