Sunday, March 14, 2010

My Inventory of the Middle Brow Medium

It took me a while to comprise this list but I finished it and wanted to share it on my blog. It's my inventory of Super Hero graphic novels (what else do you expect from a guy who wrote his Eng 123 Intro to Lit Paper for Sexson about Superman?)

Spider-Man: Visionaries-John Romita; Death of the Stacy's; Son of the Goblin; Birth of Venom; The Death of Jean DeWolfe; Spider-Man vs Silver Sable; Kraven's Last Hunt; Visionaries-Todd McFarlane I-III; Maximum Carnage; Marvel Weddings; Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane I-IV; Mary Jane I and II; Visionaries-Kurt Busiek; Marvels; Spider-Man/ Doctor Octopus- Negative Exposure; Venom vs Carnage; Toxin- The Devil You Know; Spider-Man- Breakout; Spider-Man/ Red Sonja; Spider-Man- Blue; Venom- Dark Origin; Spider-Man and the Black Cat- The Evil That Men Do; Coming Home; Spider-Man- Reign; Carnage; Marvel Knights Spider-Man I-IV; The Other- Evolve or Die; Feral; Civil War- Peter Parker, Spider-Man; Peter Parker- Back in Black; Essential Spider-Man I-IX; Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man I-III;

Spawn I-VI

Daredevil: Visionaries- Frank Miller I-III; Elektra by Frank Miller Omnibus; Love's Labors Lost; Legends- Typhoid Mary; Legends- The Man With Out Fear; Legends- Daredevil Yellow; Born Again; Elektra and Wolverine- The Redeemer; Gaurdian Devil; Parts of a Hole; Wake Up; Underboss; Out; Lowlife; Hardcore; King of Hells Kitchen; The Widow; Golden Age; Decalogue; The Murdock Papers; The Devil, Inside and Out I-II; Hell to Pay

(More Science Fiction Than Super Heroes, But still Graphic Novels) Star Wars:Tales of the Jedi Omnibus I-II; Early Victories; Tales of the Jedi- The Sith War; Star Wars Visionaries; Honor and Duty; General Grievous; Star Wars The Clone Wars I-IX; Empire- Betrayal; Empire- The Imperial Perspective; Crimson Empire I-II; Mara Jade- By the Emperor's Hand

Superman: The Death of Superman; World Without a Superman; The Return of Superman; Superman/ Doomsday; Superman- Our Worlds at War

Batman: Batman/ Grendel; Haunted Knight; The Long Halloween; Dark Victory; Catwoman- When in Rome; Batman vs Two Face; The Joker- The Greatest Stories Ever Told; The Dark Knight Returns

Watchmen

New Avengers: Breakout; Sentry; Secrets and Lies; The Collective; New Avengers- Civil War; Revolution; The Trust; New Avengers- Illuminati; New Avengers- The Reunion

Mighty Avengers: The Ultron Initiative; Venom Bomb

Avengers: Hawkeye; Kree/ Skrull War; Nights of Wundagore; Vision and The Scarlet Witch; Vision Quest; Darker Than Scarlet

Hulk: Heart of the Atom; World War Hulk- Frontline; Red Hulk; Red and Green; Hulk No More; Hulk vs X-Force; Son of Banner

The Immortal Iron Fist: The Last Iron Fist Story; The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven; The Book of the Iron Fist; The Mortal Iron Fist; Escape From the Eighth City

Ghost Rider: Vicious Cycle; The Life and Death of Johnny Blaze; Apocalpse Soon; Revelations; Hell Bent and Heaven Bound; The Last Stand; The Road to Damnation; Trail of Tears; Danny Ketch- Addict

TunderBolts: Faith In Monsters; Caged Angels; Secret Invasion

Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther?; Bad Mutha; The Bride; Civil War- Black Panther

Essential Tomb Of Dracula I-IV

Omega Flight- Alpha to Omega; Iron Man- The Inevitable; Iron Man- Hypervelocity; The Hood- Blood From Stones; Storm

Emma Frost: Higher Learning; Mind Games; Bloom

X-Men: Marvel Masterworks I and II; The Dark Phoenix Saga; Days of Future Past; From the Ashes; Phoenix Rising; Mutant Massacre; Inferno; Magneto- Rogue Nation; Messiah Complex

Wolverine: Origin; The End; Wolverine by Claremont and Miler; Kitty Pryde and Wolverine; Marvel Comics Presents- Wolverine vol's I-IV; Wolverine- Weapon X; Essential Wolverine I-IV; Return of the Native; Enemy of the State I and II; Blood and Sorrow; Civil War- Wolverine; Evolution; The Death of Wolverine; Get Mystique; Origins and Endings

Wolverine Origins: Born In Blood; Savior; Swift and Terrible; Our War; Deadpool; X-Men - Original Sin; Wolverine Origins- Dark Reign; Romulus; Seven the Hard Way

In Total their should be 215 items listed above (and sadly I have only read about half of them). Now that you have read (or at least skimmed) the list, you may completely disagree with me calling this middlebrow. Some might consider this below low brow but I see comic books and a middle ground between Star Trek and Finnegas Wake- (not quite so wordy or full of live action)Thus the term Middlebrow.

(PS: I bought one today and updated the list since I posted this, so enjoy)

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