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 🙂
Originally posted by Whirlysplatt
yes I only spend about £80 a month on comics now, committments prevent me spending more, of that about £50 is on comics and I buy 2 to 3 trades or graphics on average a month, usually the trades are from orbital comics in New Oxford street but sometimes from Amazon and Ebay if something I want is available I got a really cool Trigon Empire hardback for £20 last month its going for £50 in the shops. 🙂
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. 😛
i use this to stack my comics...
http://www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/detail.asp?cat=3&subcat=93&product_id=xcc100cp
hope it helps
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 I am so out of date with the comics universes I am too embarrassed to tell you how old my most recent comic is.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
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.