Update: This giveaway is now closed and the winner is being notified.Â
Update 2: The winner has been announced!
Here’s the weekly giveaway!
The Flash: Blood Will Run giveaway is over and a winner will be announced soon.
Right now I’ve got something that might interest collectors.
Even though we’ve seen a new run of Justice League International trades, there were a couple printed previously.
This one is Justice League International: The Secret Gospel of Maxwell Lord. It’s a first printing from 1992, in nice shape with a tight binding.
Along with an introduction by Andy Helfer, it collects Justice League America (1987-1996) Annual #1 and Justice League America (1987-1996) #8-12, written by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis with art by Kevin Maguire, Bill Willingham, and Al Goron (and a bunch of other inkers.)
If you haven’t had a chance to check out any JLI yet, I highly recommended it. It’s my favorite thing that Giffen has worked on and features some very humorous interactions.
The roster here is excellent and this particular book includes the first major arc to focus on Maxwell Lord (who long time fans know plays a variety of interesting roles in DC continuity.)
The Rundown:
(1) JLI trade paperback: Justice League International: The Secret Gospel of Maxwell Lord
(1) Winner – Randomly selected from the comments on this post. You must be registered and logged in when you comment to be eligible. You must also be in the continental USA.
Deadline – You have until 11:59 on Friday, December 17th, 2010. The winner will be contacted that night or early the next morning, and the announcement will be made as soon as they are confirmed.
Aww maan…
these giveaways a really the only reason why I hate it not to live in the continental US. Can’t there be an exception, for example for people from germany? :)
Anyway, I’ve only caught a slight glimpse of Maxwell Lord through the Wonderwoman-Tie-ins from – yes, again Blackest Night – and I was excited about him. So, the winner of this giveaway already has my congrats!
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I wish I could, man! The unfortunate thing is that I’d have to have the winner pay shipping, which usually costs more than the book would, so it doesn’t make much sense.
In the USA, I can ship media mail, which is only a couple bucks.
Sometimes I do giveaways that are open to international (mainly the sponsored ones) and periodically I’ll throw out an international gift card to a site like Amazon. Those usually go to a random reviewer though.
If the site really takes off and we can get some sort of real sponsorship, I’d love to be able to extend the eligibility – we certainly seem to get a lot of international visitors, and I’m really thankful for them!
On a side note, where in Germany are you? I spent three weeks outside of Frankfurt once. I took German in highschool (and one of our roomates – a sequential art major! – last year was German!)
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Oh yes, I do understand that – these shipping cost are absolutely ludicrous. So let’s just hope that this site (btw: which is totally awesome!) gets a real sponsorship!
To your sidenote: If you mean Frankfurt am Main (and I think you do), I live near Würzburg, so an hour and a half away from Frankfurt…I don’t know when you spent your germany-time, but maybe we were regional neighbours for some time :D
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yeah, I think that’s it. It was when I was 16, so about 8 years ago. Damn, time flies.
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it does.
for germany’s sake, I hope it was quality-time ;)
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It’s been alright, but I’m starting to feel old ;)
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you have time for that in 6 years, so don’t worry! xD
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@Jonah_X: Hey good to meet someone from Germany on here. My better comes from Mainz and next year when her studies here (UK) are done will be back over there. I have been told that I will love that whole area of Germany when I come to visit it. Not that I doubt her but it’d be cool to hear someone else’s opinion.
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Ahoi there.
You really don’t have to doubt her, Germany’s great – but not everything is lovable here, just as not everything is loveable in the UK ;) I myself have never been to Mainz, as I have never been to Rheinland-Pfalz at all. But many of us germans are cool (especially the ones from Franconia – so visit us!) and I guess you will like it.
If not, please don’t blame me :D
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I am glad that the second opinion is in agreement, and I will look forward to coming over myself to visit. If I am over there for long enough I will tell her that I wish to see some of Franconia too from your advice. I just need to brush up on my German before then, I only know a little and I can never get the genders right (mein/e/en).
Have you ever been to the UK? You should, apparently from all the Germans I have met it is a nice place to visit! Don’t ask me though, I just live here.
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Don’t worry about the language, here in the Lower Franconia and Bavaria as a whole we’ve got so many dialects that it’s hard to believe it’s all to be german – that’s sometimes a little irritating.
But I’ve been to the UK before, twice. The first time only to an airport on my way to the US, and the second time to actually see the city of London in a half-maddening sightseeing-trip. A little exhausting, but at least I’ve come to say “I’ve set my feet on British soil”. Hussa!
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Huh, I don’t think I’d ever heard of this one until this site, but what a good way to learn more about Maxwell Lord!
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You’ve probably seen the numbered JLI trades, though, right? It’s the same series, this is just an earlier collection.
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The Giffen/DeMatteis league was the first incarnation of the league I ever read and still ranks as my personal favorite. This stuff was pure gold.
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While this is what was going on while I was growing up, I always thought of the league with a more classic 60s line up. Maybe because of toys or something.
But I finally got into these with the recent re-release of trades and loved the run.
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Now that I’ve gotten into Booster Gold and his series, I am looking forward to the Blackest Night/Brightest Day stuff dealing with the resurrected Maxwell Lord; I just have to work my way up to those story lines! So much reading!!!
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Booster was a main player in that short (and not so amazing) miniseries, Millennium, which actually crosses over with this storyline as well. Did you read his Showcase?
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Alas, I have not. I picked up with Booster’s story with 52 Pick-up following his starring role in 52. It helped that I was getting into Green Lantern at the time, so I was on a definite Geoff Johns kick.
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yeah, I think you commented on the review a little bit back. It also has some JLI tie in towards the end. The continuity isn’t heavy (like you don’t miss anything except the Millennium tie ins) but they’re fun to read together. And Giffen really ran with Booster here, probably cementing his role in modern continuity.
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Almost all of Justice League International are great stories. Keith Giffen did some great work on JLI.
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What I would really like to see is a Justice League Semi-Regional but what can you do?
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I want to win! I LOVE THE JLI!
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Justice league international is the coming together of some of my favorite hero. I love Booster Gold, the Blue Beetle, and Guy Gardner.
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I would really like to read this as well!
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What a great choice, and someone’s going to get an absolutely incredible book (even if volume one is better!) I was thrilled – THRILLED when this got updated to the hardcover series. I was hoping against hope that it would continue reprinting the entire series along with JLE (and yes, I know how bad JL/JLI/JLA got, but I want it, dammit. And I really really really want JLE). It’s bittersweet these days, sure, but what wonderful stories.
(And as before, please take me out of the running for this giveaway!)
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It was nice for me to finally read these, because I remember how it crosses over with Animal Man, which is one of my favorite series of that era.
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Well this is quite timely.
JLI was one of the first books i ever read and bought regularly from the grocery store in junior high.
Great memories of Booster, Beetle, fire, ice bloodwynd, rocket red and even guy gardner
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It really is my favorite Guy Gardner here. Even the constant “What’s wrong with guy?” jokes don’t get old.
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Max Lord is one of the better villains I’ve read in a while.
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What all comes in between Justice League: A New Beginning and this?
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technically:
Superman: The Man of Steel – Volume 4
Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
Superman: The Man of Steel – Volume 5
Superman: The Man of Steel – Volume 6
The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 2
The Question: Poisoned Ground
Showcase Presents: Booster Gold
Millennium
But you could probably just read Booster Gold and Millennium. I’m not sure the others tie in (maybe the superman books a little bit. But they’re worth reading too)
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I’ve been MIA for two weeks or so. Looks like I’ve returned just in time for this giveaway!
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zaryzykowalam dokladnie przeczytałam umowę zaś w tej chwili śpię
bez nerwów dlatego że płace o 1000 zł mniejszą stawkę
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Howdy! I could have sworn I’ve visited your blog before but
after looking at many of the posts I realized it’s new to me.
Regardless, I’m certainly happy I discovered it and I’ll be
book-marking it and checking back frequently!
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Hi! I’ve been following your blog for some time now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give
you a shout out from Houston Tx! Just wanted to tell you keep up the good job!
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