Pop culture gift guide 2012 - music, movies, comics, books, more!

For pop culture fans -- lovers of music, comics, movies and more -- here are some highlights from the past year that will make great gifts.

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Music

Harvest Years 1969 - 1974 by Kevin Ayers

Greatest Hits: 50 Big Ones by the Beach Boys

Completely Cilla 1963 - 1973 by Cilla Black

The Complete Beat (5 CDs) by the English Beat

TheGift (deluxe edition) by The Jam

At the BBC by the Kinks

Return of the Stuff That Dreams Are Made of by Various Artists

Charlie is my Darling, Ireland 1965, Limited Edition by the Rolling Stones

Hearts in Their Eyes by the Searchers

Never Mind the Bollocks...: Deluxe Edition by the Sex Pistols

I Hear a Symphony (Expanded Edition) by the Supremes

Surf Age Nuggets

The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary [Super Deluxe]

Live at Hull 1970 by The Who

Comic book and comic strip reprints

Archie Archives
Now up to seven volumes of vintage Archie Comics collected in color, hardcover form.

Complete Flash Gordon Library
A new series from Titan Book reprinting Alex Raymond's Sunday strips in great reproduction. Very reasonably priced, too. The second volume will be out Dec. 18.

DC Archives
DC continues to collect classic runs of Golden and Silver Age Comics in these beautiful, full-color hardcover volumes. 2012 volumes featured Sgt. Rock, Wonder Woman, Batman and others.

DC Showcase Presents
Still offering great bang-for-the-buck, these phonebook-size, black-and-white collections of DC Comics series featuring Batman, Superman, the Flash and more and tremendous fun, providing fans of classic comics hundreds of pages of entertainment at a very reasonable price.

EC Comics Library
Fantagraphics' new series of hardcover collections, each focusing on a particular artist's work from the classic EC era. Great stories of suspense, war, horror and more from some of America's best and most infuential comics artists, including Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood and others.

Legends of the Dark Knight / Tales of the Batman
A new series of color hardcovers focusing on the work of some of Batman's best artists, featuring volumes dedicated to Jim Aparo, Marshall Rogers, Alan Davis, Gene Colan and Don Newton.

Marvel Masterworks
You can get these in full-color hardcovers or trade paperbacks and they look great. These books feature classic 60s and 70s Marvel Comics featuring the X-Men, Avengers, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and others.

Marvel Omnibus Collections
Ginormous books collected 30 or more issues of classic Marvel Comics, complete with letters pages, pin-ups and other features from the originals. Larger format, too. They take up a lot of shelf space, but they are a great way to re-enjoy these stories and art. 2012 saw great volumes dedicated to the Avengers and early Lee/Romita Spider-Man.

Mort Meskin: Out of the Shadows
A lovely collection of tales illustrated by this artist who might have been a key creator of the Marvel Age had he not died far too early.

The Phantom Charlton, Gold Key and King Years
Reprints of the purple-suited Ghost Who Walks' comic book adventures. The first volume features art by the great Jim Aparo.

Prince Valiant
Big, brilliant reprints of Hal Foster's gorgeously illustrated Sunday strips.

Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge (Carl Barks Library)
Loving, colorful collections of Carl Barks stories and art from classic Walt Disney comic books. These volumes are collecting the complete Barks in beautiful, durable books featuring a wealth of historical background in addition to all the stories.

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse
Published by Fantagraphics, these are excellent collections of black-and-white daily comic strips from the 30 and 40s -- four volumes to date -- featuring the delightful stories and art by Floyd Gottfredson.

Sandman Slipcase Set
All of Neil Gaimin's class Sandman comics in collected form.

Spirit World
A nice, hardcover reproduction of Kirby's oddball suspense/horror mag created in the 1970s.

Steve Canyon reprints from IDW Publishing
There are now two volumes available of this complete reprinting of Milt Caniff's classic adventure strip. Nicely packaged and reproduced in hefty books.

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