Showing posts with label Heavy Metal Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heavy Metal Magazine. Show all posts

HARDCOVER HEROES Presents: Adventures in Comic Book Binding!

About a year ago while downsizing my collection, I was bitten by the radioactive-binding-bug giving me powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men... I realized that I had the power to transform my comic book collection into big, beautiful, custom designed hardcover volumes bursting with all of my favorite four-color adventures and thus was the Origin Story a new hobby that combined my favorite things: Comics, Art & Design 


Not only is it amazingly fun but it's allowed me to reduce my collection, get the rest out of the long-boxes onto the bookshelf and have them at arms reach easily accessible in the event of a those frequent comics withdrawal emergencies.


Custom Bound Comics, Conan the Barbarian, SPECTRE, ROM Spaceknight, #customboundcomics

I just love designing these books and the freedom to choose the comics I want in them and adding extras like Cover galleries is just awesome. I'm not a "collector", I'm a fan and I would never sell these comics anyway, so their "monetary value" is irrelevant. Having a unique, one-of-a-kind custom bound volume of my favorite comics is worth much more to me than a box of comics in bags in the basement.


I realize many "collectors" will gasp in horror feeling the comics have been "destroyed" but they've just been transformed into a different format complete with Letters Pages, Ads and Back Covers (most of the time), and are on the original newsprint and not glossy paper or garishly re-colored.


Hopefully, Comic Binding Fans will enjoy viewing them and Comic Collector's won't pass out after witnessing all the carnage of precious collectibles.
I'm currently working on a few binds so check back once in a while as I'll add more when I can.



Thanks for visiting!!!




HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE

I took my favorite issues if HEAVY METAL and bound them into this 9-Volume set. It's not a complete set, it's just my favorite issues from my collection. Not all of the issues are complete either. I removed a lot of Ads and stories that I didn't like. So, it's really the Best of the Best of my favorite issues of The World's Greatest Illustrated Fantasy Magazine


SPINES

THE SPINES HAVE THE YEARS THAT ARE COVERED IN THAT VOLUME AND AN IMAGE THAT REPRESENTS THE MAGAZINES OF THAT ERA.

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COVERS

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BACK COVERS

INSTEAD OF DOING AN INDEX OR A TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR EACH BOOK, I DECIDED TO  JUST LIST THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM EACH VOLUME ON THE BACK AS A QUICK REFERENCE OF WHAT'S IN THAT BOOK 


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VOLUME 1







CHAYKIN





SIMONSON


SIMONSON




NEAL ADAMS / MIKE HINGE




BRUNNER









VOLUME 2 

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BRUNNER

















THIS WAS THE ONLY EXTRA I ADDED TO THE ENTIRE BIND. 
I HAVE A BOOK OF  HAJIME SORAYAMA'S ART AND SCANNED IN THIS 
SECTION ON HOW TO DRAW THE SEXY ROBOT AND CREATED AN 
ADDITIONAL ARTIST BIO PAGE









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VOLUME 3 

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CHAYKIN


CHAYKIN







CHAYKIN















MOEBIUS









CRUMB





DRUILLIET



DRUILLET

KALUTA

WRIGHTSON


WRIGHTSON


WRIGHTSON

WRIGHTSON




KALUTA















      VOLUME 4     












































 




      VOLUME 5      




















































      VOLUME 6    



































































      VOLUME 7     


















































































      VOLUME 8   


































PULL-OUT POSTER


  VOLUME 9  

CUSTOM BOUND HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE




























































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