 Hi, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel. Now what I'd like to do in this video is give you a rundown of the comic books that we're gonna read for the comic book reading set number four. And as you recall, we put out two videos as sort of the intro to that reading set. The first video was me going through the comic books that I pulled out of my collection when I was going through the collection. And it was basically 16 comic books that I picked. So the first video is my choice of 16 comic books that I came across that I really wanted to read or reread, right? And then in the second video what we did was because there was a box and a half of comic books left that would have been fun to read, right? We sort of put out another video where it was viewers' choice, right? Subscribers' choice. Whatever you wanted to read, you sort of, you know, I asked people to comment on that video and, you know, people voted up. And the top, the top 16 I went through and I read all the comments and I picked the top 16 from that, right? So for this reading set we have 32 books that we're going to read. 16 that I picked and 16 that you chose. And I sort of went into detail in the first video of why I picked the 16 that I did, my choice, right? For the 16 that you've chosen, I'm about to go through this right now, sort of organize it here. We'll leave the history and the why they're good books or who's behind them and stuff like this for the reading sets themselves. So I'm not going to go through commenting on all these comics, not too much anyway, because some of them I have to look up. Some of them I don't know the details that well. Some of them I do for sure, but I'd like to get, you know, do a little history. So this is sort of my little project as well, because every reading that we do, I read the history behind the comics and who did them and stuff like this. So it's sort of good exercise for me. It's a learning tool for me as well, right? So we leave the history for that. So let's take a look at what you guys chose to read. And basically this is the top 16 comments that people posted and the way it worked out as far as the vote tally goes. If people didn't vote for a specific issue, because we're people that were voting for specific character like Spiderman or Punisher or Valiant Comics and stuff like this, what I did is give those votes to the issue that from that character that had the highest number of votes. Okay. So and the votes range from, you know, nine down to three. Three was sort of a threshold. Okay. As far as one of the readings you guys chose, I offered up the Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol two copies, two issues. This is issue number 26, which is the first appearance of Brother of Dada and the first appearance of Mr. Nobody. And the first Doom Patrol, Grant Morrison Doom Patrol, you guys chose this one or Doom Patrol was a choice. And I think there were a couple of people that said, Grant Morrison, the first one. So we're gonna read through this one, the first Grant Morrison Doom Patrol. Another one that got, what were the vote tally's on this? I was surprised to see this actually. But it was Ren and Stimpy. And Ren and Stimpy got three votes. And this is issue number one. And we're gonna crack this open. This is Polly bagged. So we're gonna read Ren and Stimpy number one. And I have, you know, I have the early issues of Ren and Stimpy all the way up to at least 10 anyway. It was a serious phenomenon back in the 80s. And rightfully so was Magnificence. Very, if you've never watched Ren and Stimpy, definitely well worth watching. Let's take a look. Now there were people commenting about war comics. And specifically this one, which is US Tank Command number one. And we're gonna have a read through this. And this is, I believe this is golden age of comics. I bought this in last year anyway. I showed you guys one of the comic book haul videos. And this was part of it. Plus another one here as well. So US Tank Command number one. We're going to read, let me pull this one out. And one of the other ones we're going to read, as I mentioned, Amazing Spider-Man number 40. And I got two copies of this. This one is way better shaped than this one. So we're gonna read through the reader's copy. Okay. So Amazing Spider-Man number 40. Another one, which was up there. As you know, well, I'll show you the readings that I chose. But I chose XO Man of War number one. And I offered up Harbinger number one to read as well, right? And people picked Harbinger number one. And for sure we're going to read through this. And I got the first four issues here anyway. And I do have these, these comics into the either late teens or early 20s or so. Now I offered up Alan Moore comics. There was a choice for V for Vendetta, Watchman, Alan Moore Swamp Thing. And V for Vendetta number one got, got the votes. So we're definitely going to read through this. And as you know, if you're watching some of the comic book videos and ASMR videos, I did a, I had a request to do a whispering video. And I did whispering of Valerie's letter from V for Vendetta. If you're interested in that, and it was, it's a pretty important letter. It was a little different than the movie, which surprised me. I didn't, you know, I didn't realize the letter. We're a little different, both powerful, both powerful. Now another bunch of comics that were being uploaded were gaming comics, and they happened to be valiant. So what we're going to do here, let me show you which ones were the choices. It was Legend of Zelda, right? Captain and Super Mario Brothers. This is number one. And this is a later one. There's another one we have here, and Super Mario Brothers number two. And the other two were these two. Super Mario Brothers number one. It is shining on Super Mario Brothers number one. And Super Mario Brothers Special Edition number one. And I'm going to look into this a little bit more. I believe this is the first issue that Valiant put out, first Valiant comic book. But I've come across some places saying this, this. So I'm going to look this up. But I'm going by memory. I'm going to say we're going to read this one, but we'll look it up during the video as well. And I'll get a chance to look it up online as well. Check a few other sources. And whichever one is the first Valiant comic, we're going to read that. Another comic book that got voted up was Teddy Roosevelt's and the Rough Riders, and his Rough Riders number one. And this is the other one I bought with Tight Commandos, I think in the same batch, comic book haul that I showed. So we'll have a read through this. And another one that surprised me, that got out voted was Samurai Jack. This was a good series, but they're really short reads. This is Samurai Jack number one. This is number one, just a variant cover I bought. And this is Samurai Jack number two. When we're doing the reading, if number one goes by too quick, we might have a read through number two as well. But there are very quick reads. Definitely X-Men got some love. And the one that got the highest number of votes for X-Men was First Appearance of Gambit and Candy X-Men 266. So we'll have a read through this. Some people mentioned Wolverine, I had Wolverine in there as well, and some old school X-Men as well. But we'll read through Candy X-Men 266. Can't go wrong with that. Now, another comic that or character that got voted up was Punisher. And I'm going to be doing a Punisher read that I'll show you in the second part of this video, what I chose from the first video we put out. But people were just mentioning Punisher. So what I ended up doing, the choices were Punisher, the continuing series, Punisher, Warzone, Punisher Armory, which goes through his arsenal, what he gets in Punisher War Journal. But I decided to go and I showed these two as well, which is Daredevil 257. And Punisher number 10. And I've had this for a while, and I read them long, long time ago. And I always assumed this was a two-parter. But after looking it up, it's not a two-parter. What it is, is it's a crossover where this one tells what happens based on Daredevil's perspective. And this one tells you is the story of what happens from Punisher's perspective. So we'll have a read through this one, Punisher number 10. It should be a good read. I love the cover, the cover is fantastic. Beautiful cover. So that one we're going to read. Another character for sure that was getting a lot of attention was Batman, Batman the Cult. So this is Jim Starlin, Bernie Riteson. You can't go wrong with this. Now we're not going to read all four. What we're going to do is we're going to read Batman the Cult number one. I've read this a long time ago when it came out. Fantastic, fantastic little mini. Beautifully, beautifully illustrated. Fantastic story. Now on that note, on the Batman note, people specifically chose Batman the Cult. But they also chose Batman. And I didn't want to send the votes to Batman the Cult because Batman got enough votes to stand alone itself. So I guess you guys left it up to me to choose which issue because there wasn't any specific issue. So I was going between Batman 221, Silver Age Batman, Batman Adventures number one, a polybag that was thinking about cracking this open. But I decided to go with this one, Star Spangled Comics number 99, 98. I can't remember. I showed you guys this in one of the comic book calls that I did in the last year. And this one has one of the early appearances of Robin. So what we're going to do, we're going to read through the Robin storyline. It's not specifically Batman, but it's Batman related. So I thought that'd be fun to do. And definitely look at a golden age story. It would be fantastic. Okay, so we're going to do that. Now, one series that I was surprised that got a lot of love was Excalibur. So what we're going to do, we're going to read Excalibur number one. And I love this series from the 1990s. I kept on reading this into the 40s I believe. Yeah, at least the 40s anyway. Because I have the choice was, so this is Excalibur number one. This is the one we're going to read. I sort of got exposed to Excalibur through this. But this is the first appearance of Excalibur. This is Excalibur special edition. Okay, so this predates number one. And then, you know, it was two and three. And the covers of Excalibur are fantastic. Look at this. Fantastic series. Just pure fun. This is number three. And this one was another one. I might read this one off camera. I remember I had fallen memories from this. So I'm curious to see if it's, you know, stood the test of time, I guess, right? So let's see. Another, I guess a bunch of comic books that were getting a fair bit of love were valiant. So people were just stating valiant specifically. And I, you know, I didn't move the votes up to Harbinger or the comic book or the gaming videos because gaming videos are just gaming videos. This just happens to be valiant that published though, right? But I didn't move the votes up to Harbinger because Harbinger got enough votes to go sort of above the threshold. So I decided to pick a valiant comic to read. And we had a few different choices. Magnus robot fighter number 64, the last issue of the first series, the acclaim in the late 90s, I believe. I haven't read any of these yet. That was number one and two. Magnus number 12, first appearance of Turok. Magnus number zero, as you can tell, I really like Magnus. Magnus number one. Magnus is the only one from the early valiants that I actually have a complete set. Okay. We had Solar number three, it's the first appearance of Toyo Harada, right? And Shadowman number one. But in previous videos that I put out, people were mentioning that I should read a newer valiant title from a relaunch other than the Legend of the Geo Mastering that we did. I got my hands on it. So we read the whole story art because it's exclusive, you know, not available to retail, right? So I narrowed it down to Divinity number one. Okay. Fantastic series. Divinity number two was actually better than this. Very much looking forward to Divinity number three. But I decided to read this Book of Death Fall of Harbinger. And Book of Death Fall of Harbinger and Book of Death Fall of Bloodshot. In my opinion, they're two of the most, two of the best standalone issues that have come around in a very, very long time. Both issues blew me away. Fall of Harbinger was more epic. So I decided to pick this one. I hope I'm not building it too much. But I really enjoyed it. And I've read it twice and I'll look forward to reading it again. And is this the last one? Let's take a look at Death's Recovered, Spider-Man, Doom Patrol, V, Excalibur, Harbinger, Batman, Alcohol Valley, Gaming Comics, Samurai Jack, Tank Commandos, Punisher, Rennan Stimpy, Batman, X-Men, X-Men 266, Teddy Roosevelt. And this is the other one that got chosen. And I'm very, very happy that one of these got chosen. And he's ordered this, right? So the one we're going to read is New God's Number One, right? And I have two issues, two copies of this. One is slightly better than the other one. So we're going to read the Reader's Copy, which is this one. So we're going to read New God's Number One. And this is the first appearance of Orion. And this is Jack Kirby. And some people consider his work on New Gods, New Gods, I'll show you. I do have all the New Gods, these ones. So New God's Number One we're going to read. This is New God's Number Two. That is the second full appearance of Darkseid. And then, you know, the Rester here, and I have the Rustin boxes. In my opinion, as well, Kirby's amazing, amazing mind firing on all cylinders, right? With New God's and Forever People, right? And this is Forever People Number One. And then Number Two, Number Three, Number Four. And I have a full set. And this one is the first full appearance of Darkseid. And Jimmy Olsen, Number 134, is the first full appearance of Darkseid, or first appearance of Darkseid as cameo. But it's in more than one panel, I think, if I recall correctly. So I think it's on a couple of pages, possibly, or it could be shadow. I can't remember how my memory serves me, right? And this is the first appearance of Darkseid. And this is Jimmy Olsen, Number 133, and Number 135 sandwiching that. So if one of these got picked, I was going to, you know, we're going to flip through. But what we're going to do is read New God's Number One, which should be very, very good. Now, those are the comics that you guys chose. Thank you for your selections and fantastic choices. Okay. As far as just the recap of what I chose. If you want to, you know, a little bit more detail on why I chose these, you can take a look at the first video we'll put out, the introductory video we'll put out, which I do talk about a little bit of these. I just want to go through them. So we have one video with a list of everything that we're going to read. And that way, you know, everything's in one place. And what I'm going to do is in the past, what I've done is for each reading set, towards the end of the video, I sort of have little images of the covers coming up. And I annotate those. And if you click on those covers, it'll take you to those comics where you can take a look at them. You know, we talk about the history a little bit usually, you know, either have a flip through them, read through them, or, you know, go from cover, front cover to back cover, right? But for this reading set, I don't think I'm going to be able to put on those images in at the end of each video. So what I'm going to do is provide the links in the description of all the videos. And when we get done, you know, I'll keep on adding the links in the description of this video. And when we get down all, you know, copy and paste all that info to all the other videos, okay? So that's the way we're going to keep track of what's been read, you know, what's coming up and stuff like this. So as far as my choices were concerned, I chose Sandman number eight, Neil Gaiman, first appearance of death, important character, important character, great character, great character. We're going to read the tick special edition number one, first appearance of the tick, right? Fantastic. Been looking forward to reading this very much so. As far as my valiant, valiant read is concerned, XO Man of War number one, first appearance of XO Man of War, right? This was a recommendation from someone else that, you know, this would be a good book to read. And I ended up getting at it a convention. GI Joe number one and number two is behind it. Okay. Thank you for your recommendation. After reading upon this, reading the history and some of the stories behind GI Joe number one, wow, I'm looking forward to reading this. I can't believe I didn't collect it the right off the get go. I guess I missed it on my radar, right? One comic book we're going to read is one of my favorite comic books from 1980s that really got me hooked into the mature nature of comic books to a certain degree and, you know, the different flavors they can have was flash number one, right? And this one is 1987. I think this is considered to be the second volume two. If I recall correctly, we're a volume note. It's probably volume three. So we're going to read through this. Fun stuff, fun stuff. We're going to read The World of Jughead. And this is Neil Adams. I don't know if he did the work for all of it, but this is Archie Giant series number nine. It's The World of Jughead. The other choice I was thinking about reading was Archie and pals and gals, but I went with this one because this is Neil Adams and I definitely want to take a look at this. Another book I chose to read that I haven't read yet was All Star Western number 10. First appearance of John Hacks, right? Can't go wrong with this. It's a, you know, it's not in good shape this issue, but the stories in fact should be anyway. I'm making math videos. I came across this in my collection. How could I not not read it? Donald Duck in math magic land. And if you've watched the animation, I'm pretty sure this is the animation was made after this must have been, right? So the animation is fantastic and I haven't flipped through this. So very much looking forward to flip through this or reading it anyway. This one I recently got this year and it's been eluding me for a long time and I ended up getting it on eBay for pretty good price and it's in pretty good shape. Kona and the Barbarian number one. And I have the earliest shoes. I just didn't have number one for some reason, right? I think it was just too expensive for me. And back then when I was going buying back issues in the late 80s, early 90s, I pretty much paid the same price as I did now as I would have back then, right? This is Barry Windsor Smith and I know the history of this a little bit. Important comic, very important comic. One thing I mentioned I would read because I start picking up some of these books was love books. So we're going to lead, you know, love stories, romance stuff. So we're going to read Love Diary. I forget what the issue number this is, but we'll take a look at it. You know, there's a few that I, you know, that was in the selection. There was this one too. Or anyway, new romances. But we'll read this one. I love the cover of this. Beautiful. Love Diaries. Now, one comic, one thing that was being upvoted, but it just didn't get enough votes to be in the top 16 of your choices was Crime Comics. But I did pick one, you know, there was a few that I were up for, right? There's a whole bunch here. And maybe we'll take a look at the covers of these definitely. But what we're going to do, we're going to read Crime Does Not Pay, number 116. And I chose this one because of this is Dillinger, right? John Herbert Dillinger. Take a look at this. How could you turn down a John Dillinger Wanted comic? Crime Does Not Pay. Now there is four other, I think four other books that I have, I chose for my choices for this reading set. One of them, Impact Number 3. And this is EC Comics, and I mentioned this before. Guaranteed we're going to do one EC comic book read per reading set. And this is more on the humor side. So far we've done mainly sci-fi, I think it was a couple of horror short stories in there as well. But they're basically sci-fi for reading, so at some point we're going to start reading horror as well. Another one that I chose was Marvel Preview Presents, number 2. And this is, I believe, first solo Punisher story. I'll look it up again and we'll flip it through it. And I believe this is the first appearance of Mockingbird, or I forget the characters, name the character, becoming Mockingbird. My memory might not be serving me well. It could be in this one that Mockingbird appears in. Not obviously sure, but this is the one we're going to read. Another book that we're going to read is we're going to read something from Slain the Horned God. And I have all three comics here, three trades or prestige format, whatever you want to call it. And I have, for some reason, I have a single issue one. I think I got this at a US bookstore or something. But we're going to read a few pages from Slain the Horned God, or we're going to flip through it and read one or two pages here and there, mix it up. I haven't decided which pages yet, or which arc, which part of it. This series is absolutely brilliant. It's Pat Mills and Simon Bisley. Another book we're going to read is, we're going to read Daredevil number 1. That was for my choice. And we have a video of this, I put a video of this framing this comic, right? It was one of the first comic book videos I put out. So we're going to pop this out and have a read through it. And what I'm going to put in, in its place is, I'm going to put this in its place, Ruti Kazuti, right? I love this cover. It's a fun cover, right? So when we take this out and replace it with Ruti Kazuti, we're going to read Daredevil number 1, first appearance of Daredevil. And the last book in my selection is the book that we're going to start off with. And as far as I'm concerned, these few pages, I think there's like six, five, six, seven pages, are five, six, seven pages, are some of the best five, seven, six, seven. I don't want to say the best, but they're extremely powerful. And they sort of show you the power of this medium, right? They blew me away when I read them. Okay. And what we're going to do, we're going to read, I believe, is chapter six. I mean, if you have the book, if you want to look it up. Yeah, it's chapter six from a life force by Will Eisner. And the reason I'm starting with this is it's going to be very short, but it is, it is beautiful. And I hope I'm not building this up too much. I get a little excited with some of this stuff, right? So that's going to be mine. That was my last choice. So that should be all 32 books that we're going to read for this reading set. Hopefully I didn't miss anything. And if I did, I'm going to put it in. Okay. I want to thank everyone for, you know, participating in the second video and voting up the comics and putting out your recommendations. It was awesome going through the comments and seeing what got voted up. And I'm pretty sure we're going to do this again for every reading set. I'll choose some, you guys choose some, right? And just a heads up, it might take a little bit of time to get the ball rolling on this, because there's a few other videos that I still hang it around that I want to get done. But once we get into the flow of things, we're probably going to do between, you know, probably have a reading done, uploaded one every two to three days. Okay. So basically means we're going to be doing, you know, favorite comic book readings for the next three to four months. Right. So the stuff coming up on the channel is going to be very comic book-centric as well. And I'm going to mix in there some ASMR mass stuff and some other, just a couple other random things that have been hanging around that I wanted to get done. I hope you enjoy. It should be a lot of fun. It should be a lot of fun. That's it for now. I'll see you guys in the next video.