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I have a huge bookcase. It’s stacked with trinkets and framed photos, Photoshop reference books and tons of O’Reilly guides. There are books I’ve read and ones I’m planning on getting to … one day. But the bulk of my bookcase is devoted to my true love: comics.

In the center, are five first editions from some of my most favorite comics, which I’ve had bound in different colors of soft, Corinthian leather. (What can I say? I’m obsessive.) Assigning each book a letter to identify them, the books are of two different heights, with three standing a little shorter - books B, C & E. Then, books A &D are taller than the others. These books are placed in the following order on my shelf: A, B, C, D, E. Need some more info?

1. Y: The Last Man is taller than the one in the red leather, which is next to and left of The Walking Dead.

2. The book in the black leather is farther left than Northlanders, but farther right than Preacher.

3. Punisher has green leather and is a different size than the book in blue leather, which is farther right than Punisher, but farther left than the book with brown leather.

With these hints, can you identify - from A to E - the color and title of each comic book? Email your solution by Friday at 10:00 pm EST for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate from ThinkGeek!

Cover Image from captaincanuck.com

Eddy Smet was a professor at UWO’s Huron college for 30 years as well as owning the Comic Book Collector, a London, Ontario comic store.  Smet has been actively hoarding classics for over 40 years and the donated collection, which approaches 10,000 items, was recently appraised at roughly $100,000 (Canadian) -or roughly $94,000 US- making it the largest and most valuable collection of this nature ever donated to a Canadian university.  According to the Western News, UWO will be receiving Alan Moore’s complete Watchmen and Swamp Thing, along with the first 14 issues of Canadian icon Captain Canuck, among thousands of other treasures.  Congratulations to my alma mater, UWO (sounds like I should have waited a decade or two and pursued a degree in pop culture instead) and kudos to Eddy Smet for his generosity.