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Im not going through all that... My collection is good sized, few hundred comics... however my close friend Brian has nearly as many longboxes as a well stocked comic shop. In fact, one near me closed about a year and a half ago, and he bought nearly half the store. He is much of my reading material.

My collection starts in 1974 and goes to the present, I have comics from the 60's. At my worst I was buying 60 + comics a month in 1996 I have at last estimate 20,000 + comics.

thats scary

highlights of my collection

the entire Alan Moore miracleman run and giant size Xmen 1.

Check out how much they go for

you wanna trade it for my watchmen 1-12 all in NM/VG condition?

you know u want to

Originally posted by Pointinel
you wanna trade it for my watchmen 1-12 all in NM/VG condition?

you know u want to

Thats there already pointy my friend I have everything of Alan Moores including A1's and Warrior

hehehehe

1 question, alan moore or gaiman?

and who carries the torch right now?

Alan Moore is producing better work at the moment with Strong and the LXG, I think really Moore has created "more", although I have the entire Sandman run and pretty much everything else Gaiman has done including his Miracleman run, I even have Mr Hero

wow

i only have them in trades, and only gaiman's sandman.

Originally posted by Pointinel
wow

i only have them in trades, and only gaiman's sandman.

My collection has some pretty fun things in it like Omega Men 3 Lobo's first appearance. I even have Wolverines first appearance in Incredible Hulk

lol whirrly thats nutzo. I guess thats why you usually seem to know exactly what I'm talking about when I refer to DC characters.

Originally posted by Juntai
lol whirrly thats nutzo. I guess thats why you usually seem to know exactly what I'm talking about when I refer to DC characters.

I think so my friend

"At my worst I was buying 60 + comics "



"1 question, alan moore or gaiman?"

Gaiman for me. And not just his Sandman work.

Originally posted by olympian
"At my worst I was buying 60 + comics "



"1 question, alan moore or gaiman?"

Gaiman for me. And not just his Sandman work.

have you read any of his novels, neverland or american gods both are good.

I want to get American Gods! I heard wonders about it and still didnt managed to get it. I order it tho.

Whatever he writes about Sandman, or Books of Magic or works that -seem- targeted to a younger audience its always something good.

Originally posted by olympian
I want to get American Gods! I heard wonders about it and still didnt managed to get it. I order it tho.

Whatever he writes about Sandman, or Books of Magic or works that -seem- targeted to a younger audience its always something good.

American Gods is really good, very Clive Barker, Neverland was good, it did not work as a TV show in the mid nineties, its crazy its that long ago

If I were WHirly, i'd put it up on Ebay just to see what kind of bites I would get. Of course there would be a ridiculous reserve

Originally posted by 8bitChris
If I were WHirly, i'd put it up on Ebay just to see what kind of bites I would get. Of course there would be a ridiculous reserve

I earn a reasonable wedge and despite still having a large mortgage am solvent and have a job I enjoy, despite having to share a house I had to sells sale money with an X chris. I really collect for the sake of collecting and not money, I am not a completist really and I collect runs I enjoy. I have a lot of obscure, snobby and low print run stuff though by accident like, Nexus, Grendel, Concrete etc and these are if your collecting for financial reasons the type of things to go for. The rareity makes them obscure.

You still collect?

One of the coolest things its looking for some back issues and getting something you never heard about before.

On the rest i prefer trades too. I like all in one package.

Originally posted by olympian
One of the coolest things its looking for some back issues and getting something you never heard about before.

On the rest i prefer trades too. I like all in one package.

The single run I have perhaps worth most is 2000AD 1 - 150

I hate to thing what that is worth although they are well loved and faded as I was about ten when 1 came out and collecting was the lasst thing on my mine I still have the original toy though which I reattached

" The single run I have perhaps worth most is 2000AD 1 - 150 "

Isnt it still running tho? I bought three of the issues that i think are recent.

Originally posted by olympian
" The single run I have perhaps worth most is 2000AD 1 - 150 "

Isnt it still running tho? I bought three of the issues that i think are recent.

yes it is. I stopped collecting it though with 150, however, I have bought things like the Slaine trades

Originally posted by 8bitChris
Good man.

I thought I was bad because I was currently spend $100+ on comics each month. And that's still not getting everything I want to read. :P

Its crazy isn't it? You never will get everything you want though, sadly with comics

Slaine its great especially from Basley. The guys art its crazy and thats quite an appeal.

Originally posted by olympian
Slaine its great especially from Basley. The guys art its crazy and thats quite an appeal.

Slaine kicks Conans arse, although I love Conan.

i've got a few thousand myself.. (not nearly 20,000 though) i've been collecting solidly for about 12 years now (with one year off when i lived in Australia)

no way am i listing them all

so how do you guys store your comics i have a shelf .... thats it a shelf comics go right next to the slug gun i used to have about 100 more but my dad threw them out when i came home a wee bit drunk all those years ago

how do i store them.... probably not well enough... they're all in fairly good nick... but i could do better

i use this to stack my comics...

http://www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/detail.asp?cat=3&subcat=93&product_id=xcc100cp

hope it helps

Yeah thats a good way. I store some like that and others in the shelf.

Originally posted by olympian
Yeah thats a good way. I store some like that and others in the shelf.

Plastic boxes with lids in my parents loft for every thing but the last few years and graphic novels I have to many to access, not all are boarded and mylared. They keep pretty well like this suprisingly, I think its the UK climate that helps.

Man, you guys are so lucky, do you even know how lucky you are? I remember, when I did two years in London, how I loved to go to the Forbidden Planet and just spend hours there, trying to get through as many comics as possible, knowing I would never see them again.

Living where I live is awesome, I wouldn't change it for anything, but unfortunately everything is imported, and the tight-arses that import the comics won't let you check them out first, to see if they're worthwhile. I am so out of date with the comics universes I am too embarrassed to tell you how old my most recent comic is.

So to make it worth my while I stick to the graphic novels, at least you're usually safe there, but I wish, sometimes, that I lived in the UK or the USA, just for that immediate availability that you guys have.

But then I think of everything we have here, and I don't feel so sorry for myself.

But damn, it would be nice to just buy comics whenever I feel like it, without having to deliberate for days beforehand about it whether it would really be worth my while.

To give you an example, when the Marvel universe changed (when Xavier got killed) it was IMPOSSIBLE to get those comics here! The comics that WERE imported were grabbed up so fast, I didn't find out what happened until a year later! Even now, I still don't have the complete story, I've had to fill in most of the gaps myself. . .

However, I am a voracious reader, so I spend most of my money on books, so at least I am a little ahead of you guys in that respect, collecting everything by Gaiman and everybody else in the fantasy world else that I can get my my hands on

Just so you know this, I WORSHIP David Gemmell. . .

Originally posted by Dreampanther
Man, you guys are so lucky, do you even know how lucky you are? I remember, when I did two years in London, how I loved to go to the Forbidden Planet and just spend hours there, trying to get through as many comics as possible, knowing I would never see them again.


I don't live in London but there is a Forbidden planet where I live, it is a good shop.

Originally posted by Dreampanther
Man, you guys are so lucky, do you even know how lucky you are? I remember, when I did two years in London, how I loved to go to the Forbidden Planet and just spend hours there, trying to get through as many comics as possible, knowing I would never see them again.

Living where I live is awesome, I wouldn't change it for anything, but unfortunately everything is imported, and the tight-arses that import the comics won't let you check them out first, to see if they're worthwhile. I am so out of date with the comics universes I am too embarrassed to tell you how old my most recent comic is.

So to make it worth my while I stick to the graphic novels, at least you're usually safe there, but I wish, sometimes, that I lived in the UK or the USA, just for that immediate availability that you guys have.

But then I think of everything we have here, and I don't feel so sorry for myself.

But damn, it would be nice to just buy comics whenever I feel like it, without having to deliberate for days beforehand about it whether it would really be worth my while.

To give you an example, when the Marvel universe changed (when Xavier got killed) it was IMPOSSIBLE to get those comics here! The comics that WERE imported were grabbed up so fast, I didn't find out what happened until a year later! Even now, I still don't have the complete story, I've had to fill in most of the gaps myself. . .

However, I am a voracious reader, so I spend most of my money on books, so at least I am a little ahead of you guys in that respect, collecting everything by Gaiman and everybody else in the fantasy world else that I can get my my hands on

Just so you know this, I WORSHIP David Gemmell. . .


well the nearet comic store to me is about 2 hours drive i buy all my comics online and go in once amonth 2 pick them up and buy some interesting lookin ones

im a poor black guy, can people send me anything they can spare?, i read just about anything.

I must have one of the smaller collections here...

Amazing SM 1-500 (on CDs...I own about 30 of them as TPB's). Nearly everything about The Authority (just the regular run, not special stuff like "Kev" or Lobo vs. Authority). The original 12-issue Crisis. Secret Wars (also 12 issues I think). Maximum Carnage. Random Uncanny X-Men issues from the early '90s. That's about it. I only started collecting seriously when I started coming to this forum (about a year ago) so I'm playing catch-up at the moment.

Oh, and on the Moore/Gaiman question, Sandman is awesome. I'll own as many as possible very soon. Haven't read anything else by Gaiman, but the Sandman series is quite possibly the best comic run I've ever read.

If you count ALL my comics, I have about 6000 of them.

i got about 2000 more or less

and to be perfectly honest i got about 5000+ more in my hard drive (50gb worth of disk space)

...not let's keep that between us.LOL! hush hush

@ whirly

is giant size x-men 1 the highest valued comic to come out in the 80's?