Christmas gifts for pop culture fans 2014: Books, video, music, comics and more!

Our roundup of recommend gifts for pop culture fans. Click the links to order discounted items from Amazon.

Pop Culture Books

The Art of Robert E McGinnis


The Secret History of Wonder Woman


Star Wars Costumes

 
LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded


Magic Color Flair: The World of Mary Blair


Rolling Stones Gear: All the Stones' Instruments from Stage to Studio

Music

The Beatles in Mono Vinyl Box Set (Limited Edition)


Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11(Deluxe Edition)


Here Come the Nice by the Small Faces


Complete Albums Collection by Simon and Garfunkel


Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection: Mary Poppins



Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection: Sleeping Beauty


The Monkees In Mono (180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl/Limited Edition/5 LP Box Set)


Batman - TV O.S.T.


Monty Python's Total Rubbish - The Complete Collection (9CD)


The Apple Years by George Harrison


Offering: Live At Temple University by John Coltrane


The Stand-Up Years 1964 - 1968 by Woody Allen

Video

Batman: Season 1-3  (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]


Batman: Season 1-3


Sgt. Bilko - The Phil Silvers Show: The Complete Series


Steven Spielberg Director's Collection (Jaws / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial / Jurassic Park / The Lost World: Jurassic Park / Duel / The Sugarland Express / 1941 / Always)



A Hard Day's Night (Criterion Collection)


The Adventures of Batman: The Complete Series


The New Adventures of Superman: Season 2 & 3


Sensation - The Story of The Who's Tommy


DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures Vol. 1

Comics Collections and Comic Book Art

Superman: The Golden Age Sundays 1943-1946


Superman: The Golden Age Sundays 1946-1949


Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies Volume 2: 1961-1963


Superman The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies Volume 3: 1963-1966



Wonder Woman: The Complete Newspaper Comics


Batman: The Silver Age Newspaper Comics Volume 1 (1966-1967)



The Flash Omnibus Vol. 1


Justice League of America Omnibus Vol. 1



Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga Vol. 1


Marvel 75th Anniversary Omnibus


The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio


The Simon and Kirby Library: Horror


Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth


Ditko's Shorts



Marvel Comics Epic Collections


75 Years of Marvel Comics: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen


EC Comics Library Collections


Carl Barks Library Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge Collections


Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Collections


Complete Peanuts Paperbacks


Herge and the Treasures of Tintin


The Complete Elfquest Volume 1: The Original Quest


Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips Volume 3 (1971-1974)


Tarzan: Burne Hogarth's Lord of the Jungle


Tarzan - In The City of Gold (Vol. 1): The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library



Seconds: A Graphic Novel


Barnaby Volume Two (Vol. 2)  (Barnaby)

Pop culture roundup: Thing; Bing; Fudd

What a non-revoltin' development this is! Longbox Graveyard undertakes the epic task of reviewing every issue of Marvel Two-In-One, starring the Thing!

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PBS airs a new documentary on Bing Crosby next week. Via Rolling Stone,  here's an excerpt, featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the famed Bing-Bowie Christmas duet on "Little Drummer Boy."



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Via Tom Heintjes:

"Wow, two speech impediments in one panel! You don't see THAT much anymore"

Fab Friday: Vintage Beatles pics

Video find: Laurie London performs "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"

Behind the scenes: The Adventures of Superman

Happy Thanksgiving!

Vintage Squirt soft drink ad

Video find: Mel Torme sings "Comin' Home Baby"

Today's best picture ever: The Beach Boys

Pop artifact: Vintage Captain America coloring book

Vintage Juicy Fruit gum ad

Pic and details for Doctor Who 2014 Christmas special

Via the BBC:

The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas.

Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!’ Will this really be the Last Christmas for the Doctor and Clara? And what exactly are these terrifying creatures?

It’s not the first time the Doctor has visited the Arctic of course. It’s previously been home to an Ice Warrior in Cold War - and the Cybermen!

Perhaps there are clues to be found if you watch the teaser for the Christmas episode.

The episode will star Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Nick Frost, Michael Troughton and Nathan McMullen – along with a host of guest stars.

New trailer for Marvel's Agent Carter

New pic from upcoming Sherlock special

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are looking like old school Holmes and Watson in this new pic teasing a one-off "Sherlock" special to air in January.

New trailer for "Pan" - live-action Peter Pan flick

Pop artifact: DC Comics Colorforms set

New comics Nov. 26, 2014: Madman 3-D, Captain America Epic Collection, Golden Age All-Winners 2, Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio

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Madman In Your Face 3D Special
MADMAN IN YOUR FACE 3D SPECIAL IMAGE COMICS (W) Mike Allred (A/CA) Laura Allred, Mike Allred This super-sized special-effects spectacular features an all-new Madman story by MICHAEL ALLRED, plus an exclusive 3D gallery of superstar talent: PAOLO RIVERA, MARCOS MARTIN, JAE LEE, EDUARDO RISSO, EMMA RIOS, NICK DRAGOTTA, ANDREW ROBINSON, SEAN MURPHY, MARIS WICKS, AARON CONLEY, JENNY FRISON, DECLAN SHALVEY, BECKY CLOONAN, JOE QUINONES, MING DOYLE, NICK BRADSHAW, and more! Plus newly converted 3D versions of the acclaimed "Swiped From Dimension X," where Allred drew almost every panel in the style of a different artist, and "The World's Biggest Comic Book Panel." Also includes a cut-out 3D cube and surprises galore! Custom MADMAN 3D glasses included!

Captain America Epic Collection: Captain America Lives Again
Transformed by the Super Soldier Serum from a 97-pound weakling into Captain America, Steve Rogers led the charge to liberate the world from the Axis powers. But before World War II's end an accident left him frozen in suspended animati on and his sidekick Bucky dead. The world turned on for decades. When the Avengers finally resuscitated him, Steve Rogers was greeted by a world vastly changed. He was a man out of time tormented by the death of his partner, but no less committed to the cause of fighting evil in all its forms.

COLLECTING: TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) 58-96, AVENGERS (1963) 4, STRANGE TALES (1951) 114 (CAPTAIN AMERICA EPIC COLLECTION VOL. 1)

Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Volume 2

You've been conscripted into the Golden Age in all its glory with All-Winners Comics. Captain America stops a plot against General Douglas MacArthur! The Human Torch foils a plan to freeze the English Channel! The Destroyer fi ghts the forces of the Devil himself! Plus the Sub-Mariner, the Whizzer, and more! With such warti me villains as the Stone-Man Slayer, Doctor Togu the Vampire, the Mock Mikado and Doctor Crime. 

COLLECTING: ALL-WINNERS COMICS (1941) 5-8

The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio

The names Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are synony­mous with comic books, and their partnership ush­ered in the Golden Age of comics starting in the 1940s. Together they created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman, invented romance com­ics, and raised the standard for the genres of western, crime, and horror comic books. Over the course of three decades they wrote and illustrated several hundred comics, many of which are reproduced in this oversized volume covering all aspects of their amazing career. Selected and with an introduction by Mark Evanier, the foremost authority on the work of Simon and Kirby, the book includes artwork photographed from the original art in Joe Simon’s private archive and showcases the seminal work of Simon and Kirby and their artistry as it has never been seen before.

Today's best picture ever: Mr. Rogers