MEANWHILE... Essential Marvel: Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spider Man Volume 1

As fans of the site will know, I'm a big fan of the Essential Marvel line. Yes, they're black and white, the paper is cheap and they're pretty bare-bones compilations but given each includes about 500 pages of hard-to-find reprints for a very reasonable sub-$20 price, you can see why I like them so much.

Today it's the turn of Volume One of the Essential Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spider-Man.

MEANWHILE... The Walking Dead Compendium One

The Walking Dead Compendium One | Published by Image Comics

 Released May 2009

Welcome to another edition of Meanwhile... our irregular look at the world of comics and toy-related books. Today - as you've probably gathered - we're looking at Compendium One of The Walking Dead.

MEANWHILE... Essential Marvel: The Incredible Hulk Volume 1

It's time once again to put down the plastic and pick-up some reading material, as we present a MEANWHILE... feature you'll be talking about for YEARS to come! All in the Thrilling That Figures Fashion!

MEANWHILE... Essential Marvel: The Avengers Volume 1

MEANWHILE... Is our new feature, in which we look at a comicbook or toy-related publication that's not an Internet site!

Our inaugural entry is - as the title may suggest - Essential Marvel: The Avengers Volume 1, a 500+ page collection that focuses on Earth's Mightiest Heroes, The Avengers!