Honest to God I can’t even remember how long ago
did I last talk about printed materials here on The Rebel Page. The family and
I hit a local book fair the other day and we obviously didn’t come back
empty-handed. I think sometime back I made myself a promise that I would also
talk about books and stuff apart from the usual toy rants…you know, just to
balance stuff and not to talk ONLY on toys! (Haha…yea right).
Anyway, the real reason for me wanting to share my
spoils of war this time around was that I got these excellent pop culture
materials at astounding prices. And when I say ‘astounding’ it means that I do
not think that they will go down any lower than they already are. These were brand new still inside its plastic wrapping
dirt-cheap books ladies and gentlemen… and I just love great deals!
Tintin character series : Captain
Haddock – I’m sure there are more from where
this came from. From what I’ve discovered, Egmont (that’s the publishing house
that did those Tintin books) published a whole lot of these ‘character-focused’
books but somehow only Haddock’s appeared at this particular book fair.
Nevertheless for a mere 2 American bucks no one can really give this a miss now
could we? I love Tintin and this was an instant addition into my Tintin
library.
Simpson’s World: The Ultimate Episode
Guide Season 1 – 20 – This is a massive and heavy hardcover
book that even has its own protective slipcase. Now how about that for a very
regal-looking coffee-table book? Let’s not start about all the wonderful Matt
Groening art and the endless info/trivia within. Weighing in at 4kg (or
8.8lbs), this must not be confused as a blunt weapon of destruction. I think
currently The Simpsons is on their 28th season so far. Fans who want to know more about their earlier seasons up
till 20 shouldn’t give this a miss. This beauty of a book originally came out
in 2010 at a staggering retail price of USD150 (or 95 pounds in the UK) but I’m
happy to have snagged it for just 20 bucks.
DK Books Spiderman Chronicle:
Celebrating 50 years of Webslinging – Another heavy book (although not as ‘killer’ as the Simpsons’ above) to
have entered my pop-culture library this week is the excellent ‘anthology’
hardcover book on our favorite Spider dude. Comes in with its own slipcase and
weighing in at 2.5 kg (or 5.5 lbs), this book shows us Spidey’s origin, his
villains and whole lot of other stuff right from his very beginning in Amazing
Fantasy #15. I gave up 15 bucks of my hard-earned money to bring this home with
me. This was a steal considering that it has only just been released a couple
of years back at 35 bucks.
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