Adam Graham's Blog: Christians and Superheroes - Posts Tagged "library"

Over the years, I've begun less and less disposed to hoard books I've read. I rarely ever reread books.

In the case of the graphic novel collections, I've realized that there's a real great chance to pass them on to the local libraries, so that others could get a chance to read them.

I tried this once before with the Boise Library but nothing I donated went into circulation. There were books like the Essential Marvel Team Up Volume 1 with Spider-man as well as the hard-bount Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives, a Justice League Adventures book, and a few others I don't even remember now. Apparently, they went to the book sale or four months later, they're still not in circulation.

That's okay, because I understand that they need to sell books in the book store, but I'd like to see a donated book go into circulation.

So, this time I made my donation to the Ada Community Library which has one of the best graphic novel collections of anyone in the valley.

The donation included:

Essential Spider-man vol. 1
Essential Iron Man vol. 1
Essential Avengers vol. 1
Essential Fantastic Four Vol. 2
Showcase Presents Superman Vol. 1
Showcase Presents Batgirl Vol. 1

In addition, we had material from the All Winners Club, Spider-girl, Daredevil, Fantastic Five, and others.

I should be honest that there were some books I didn't give away because they were just too cool:

The Brave and the Bold Team-Up Archives, Vol. 1 really featured some cool silver age team ups at DC that were really rare.
The Superman Chronicles, Vol. 1: The very first Superman stories from 1938-39, not going to part with that.
The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told: These are really wonderful and include just some fantastic stories.
book:Showcase Presents: World's Finest, Vol. 1|2103280]: Superman and Batamn together in fun 1950s adventures.
And then there were Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1,Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 3: The first 30 issues of Amazing Spider-man in color. As the great Stan Lee would say, 'Nuff said.

On that same token, I also retained the limited edition Condorman Comic book series (all 3 issues) I picked up cheap, as well as the 3 issue Amazing Fantasy series from 1995 which imagined three stories between the events of Amazing Fantasy #15 (where Spider-man is introduced) and Amazing Spider-man #1.

These are books I'll treasure, and if God gives me kids, it'd be cool to share with them. The rest are fun and while I don't think every one of them will end up in circulation, I hope that other people will have as much fun with those as I did.


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