This is Comic Geekspeak, episode 493, Off the Racks.

Welcome to Comic Geek Speak. I'm Brian Deemer.

I'm Jamie D. I'm Peter Rios.

And this episode of Comic Geek Speak is brought to you by Library Binding.

So everybody who reads comics, most people, maybe Pants is the only exception.

They like to have some collection of comics.

You know, some people have got some trade paperback, some hard covers of maybe just stuff

they really like or whatever.

But there's always that elusive series that you just love that they're never going to make a hardcover of or some crossover event that you want everything all collected together and

you just can't get it. Well now you can. You go to library binding and they'll take any comics

you ship to them and they will have them bound

into a beautiful one-of-a-kind hardcover. You can have whatever you want put on the front cover

on the spine, whatever words, they have logos you can press into there. You can get ribbons.

You can do all kinds of cool stuff. And it changes the shape of comic collecting now. You can really go through your library,

pick out those issues that you just really, really love, and make a one-of-a-kind hardcover.

I've been doing a lot of it now. I have my whole Shade the Changing Man bound. I'm working

on binding a second run of Gru. I got my Simonson Fantastic Fours put into one nice volume

because, like, that's what I love and selling the rest of my FF stuff get it out and I just want the Simonson. It's just so much fun. It starts at only $15. In fact, every volume that I've gotten bound, I have paid only $15 for it. Matt, you know, goes for all kinds of bells and whistles with logos and stamps and all that stuff and he pays a little more. but I have gone the cheap route so you can do it. Matt goes for all kinds of bells and whistles with logos and stamps and all that stuff,

and he pays a little more. But I have gone the cheap route, so you can do it. A lot of places, you know, they have that lost leader that you can't really find. It says I can get this computer for $500. So I go to your website and I can't find anything for $500. That's not what this is. You can pay 15 bucks if you want to pay 15 bucks so check check it out, librarybinding.com, and go to the comic forums, and we have a whole binding forum where you can see pictures of people's stuff and getting the discussion about what to put in the same volume and what to put on the cover and what to do with this and how to do that, and the people are going crazy.'s the best part oh it is like all the different

possibilities corwin that we met down at megacom he just posted like he got a whole bunch of new

volumes done that guy has more comics bound than i think i own comics it's amazing he's really going

to town with it so some people have really it's become a whole hobby within a hobby for some people

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