{"id":5843,"date":"2008-04-12T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T00:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/5843\/"},"modified":"2008-04-12T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T00:51:45","slug":"single-issues-to-graphic-novel-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5843","title":{"rendered":"Single Issues To Graphic Novel Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=1569711615%26tag=ghosthouse01-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/1569711615%253FSubscriptionId=1N9AHEAQ2F6SVD97BE02\" title=\"Click and drag this image to the post editor\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/21DBPDNM33L.jpg\" width=\"91\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 This may turn out to be a terrible idea, but I&#8217;m going to try binding my complete run of DC&#8217;s 1988 series of Doc Savage into a book.<\/p>\n<p>The comics aren&#8217;t worth anything, and it&#8217;s a pain to keep them in the plastic baggies.  I&#8217;d prefer to have them all in one place.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few series of comics which I enjoyed, but pretty much everyone else hated (for example, &#8220;Harley Quinn&#8221;), so they will never be collected into a trade paperback.<\/p>\n<p>I also have some comics where I&#8217;d like the trades, but can&#8217;t justify buying the entire thing again (for example, &#8220;Outlanders&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>There are two separate Instructables on this: one with just glue, and one with stitching, like I learned through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcb.org\/\">San Francisco Center for the Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-bind-your-own-Hardback-Book\/\">using glue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Handbound-Book\/\">stitching version<\/a> (they bound their issues of Make magazine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 This may turn out to be a terrible idea, but I&#8217;m going to try binding my complete run of DC&#8217;s 1988 series of Doc Savage into a book. The comics aren&#8217;t worth anything, and it&#8217;s a pain to keep them in the plastic baggies. I&#8217;d prefer to have them all in one place. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}