More rare Dr. Strange stuff

Got these in the mail recently. Superaventuras Marvel #2 and #6 from Brazil. Love the weird re-drawing of Frank Brunner's Dr. Strange Vol. 2 #1 on the first one. The second comic is in bad shape on the spine, but both of these are reprints of the classic Marvel Premiere Dr. Strange run from the early 70's and the covers were too neat to resist... Gotta love how they call him Dr. Estranho there!

Superaventuras Marvel #2

Superaventuras Marvel #6

Also a recent arrival is this issue of Spider-Man Weekly from the UK that reprints the classic Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 story, illustrated by Steve Ditko with a cover only printed in Britain:

Spider-Man Comics Weekly #23

Finally, my wife's Valentine's Day gift to me was an unopened box of Spider-Man The Animated Series Valentines from 1998! These are actually quite rare, and I've been looking for a set for years.

Front of box

Back of box

My wife Jesse on Conan O'Brien

The sketch she was in aired last Monday (episode with Ewan McGregor). She played Conan's mom in a flashback...

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is the 7th Valentine's I've spent with my wife Jessica Blair. I love you baby!

Photo booth at Satellite in Silverlake, last Sunday

My Sandman collection

The Sandman was a DC/Vertigo comic book that ran for 75 issues. It was written by Neil Gaiman and featured personifications of Dream, Death, Delerium (formerly Delight), Despair, Destiny, Desire and Destruction. These 7 "Endless" were siblings and the oldest things that exist in the universe. It's a fantastic series, and rather than tracking down the original comic books, I decided to collect something much rarer: the hardcover first printings of the graphic novels. These books are much harder to track down than the individual issues, especially the Seasons of Mist one and the 2 Death miniseries hardcovers. Included with the Sandman books are a few more softcover trades (all first printings) which were never released as hardcover editions. These include other books either by Neil Gaiman or within the Sandman mythos:

I have the collection on display surrounded by a giant reproduction of Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights". (Thanks go out to my pals Erich Orser and Rebecca Roka for helping me convert a dart board cabinet into a beautiful reproduction of that amazing work!) 

The books are flanked by the ultra-rare large sized Sandman bookends and two porcelain mini figures of Dream and Death:

To finish off this post, here's a photo of me, Jesse, and Sandman author Neil Gaiman at Sundance back in 2005:

My beautiful wife, Jessica Blair