Thursday, August 1, 2013

From My Collection Round 1: Ranking Paperbacks and Comics

Escape From New York paperback!
Starts with the original bank robbery scene that was deleted from the film

Taxi Driver paperback
Picked this up in near mint condition for $3 at a Lakeview used book store a few years back. Sweet

 Welcome Back Kotter comics (DC; 1976-1978)
10 issues- full run 

I was born in the 1970's and raised in southern Brooklyn.
Here we were, represented for the world.
Kotter was coming back to the old neighborhood to school us!
Welcome back! 
As good as it got!

You thought classic literature was Tolstoy and shit
It's not
"Up your nose with a rubber hose"

Paperbacks from largely forgotten AWESOME 80's TV show
Ex-spy uses his contacts to help solve everyday people's problems
In crack cocaine late 1980's NYC
Is that the most total bullshit TV show concept ever? Haha
And yet Ed Woodward pulls it off
So many awesome guest stars and amazing NYC location shots!