have you tried trade paperbacks like immortal ironfist, silver surfer requiem, or dark knight returns?
Comic Book Collecting.
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have you tried trade paperbacks like immortal ironfist, silver surfer requiem, or dark knight returns?
I've got:
*Complete unless volumes are noted*
Ai Yori Aoshi
Black Bird
Black God 1-7
Black Lagoon 1-10
Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh
Boogiepop Dual
Bunny Drop
Chobits
Claymore 1-26
Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally
Crescent Moon
D.Gray-man 1-24
Darker Than Black
Dogs: Bullets and Carnage 0-10
Fate/Stay Night 1-11
Full Metal Panic
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost Talker's Daydream 1-6
Gunslinger Girl
Gunsmith Cats
Hellsing
Highschool of the Dead 1-7
Higurashi-When They Cry 1-26
Higurashi-When They Cry: Demon Exposing
Kare Kano
King of Thorn
Midori Days
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
Monster 1-3
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
Oh My Goddess 1-47
Omamori Himari
Paradise Kiss
Planetes
Princess Resurrection 1-7
Remote
Scryed
Seikai Trilogy (Crest of the Stars, Banner of the Stars 1&2)
Silent Mobius
Suzuka 1-15
Star Wars: Episode 1
Ultimate X-Men
Welcome to the NHK
Like 3/4 of it was acquired at the fire sale of a big bookstore chain that went out of business about 3 years ago and I really went overboard since everything was so insanely cheap. There's a lot of things in it I still haven't read yet...
Dang that's quite a list. Well at least if you ever get bored you have plenty to read.
After the fire, and I had no power for a week, I tried reading all my old comics by candle light, that I had been collecting since childhood, and they were all pretty shite.
I've got:
*Complete unless volumes are noted*
Ai Yori Aoshi
Black Bird
Black God 1-7
Black Lagoon 1-10
Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh
Boogiepop Dual
Bunny Drop
Chobits
Claymore 1-26
Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally
Crescent Moon
D.Gray-man 1-24
Darker Than Black
Dogs: Bullets and Carnage 0-10
Fate/Stay Night 1-11
Full Metal Panic
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost Talker's Daydream 1-6
Gunslinger Girl
Gunsmith Cats
Hellsing
Highschool of the Dead 1-7
Higurashi-When They Cry 1-26
Higurashi-When They Cry: Demon Exposing
Kare Kano
King of Thorn
Midori Days
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
Monster 1-3
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
Oh My Goddess 1-47
Omamori Himari
Paradise Kiss
Planetes
Princess Resurrection 1-7
Remote
Scryed
Seikai Trilogy (Crest of the Stars, Banner of the Stars 1&2)
Silent Mobius
Suzuka 1-15
Star Wars: Episode 1
Ultimate X-Men
Welcome to the NHK
Like 3/4 of it was acquired at the fire sale of a big bookstore chain that went out of business about 3 years ago and I really went overboard since everything was so insanely cheap. There's a lot of things in it I still haven't read yet...
Dang that's quite a list. Well at least if you ever get bored you have plenty to read.
True, there are at least 15 series from there I can read on a rainy day. I've been trying to pick away at the pile in between the novels I read regularly and all the shows I watch, but nothing ever seems to get done on the backlog front...
I've got:
*Complete unless volumes are noted*
Ai Yori Aoshi
Black Bird
Black God 1-7
Black Lagoon 1-10
Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh
Boogiepop Dual
Bunny Drop
Chobits
Claymore 1-26
Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally
Crescent Moon
D.Gray-man 1-24
Darker Than Black
Dogs: Bullets and Carnage 0-10
Fate/Stay Night 1-11
Full Metal Panic
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost Talker's Daydream 1-6
Gunslinger Girl
Gunsmith Cats
Hellsing
Highschool of the Dead 1-7
Higurashi-When They Cry 1-26
Higurashi-When They Cry: Demon Exposing
Kare Kano
King of Thorn
Midori Days
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
Monster 1-3
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
Oh My Goddess 1-47
Omamori Himari
Paradise Kiss
Planetes
Princess Resurrection 1-7
Remote
Scryed
Seikai Trilogy (Crest of the Stars, Banner of the Stars 1&2)
Silent Mobius
Suzuka 1-15
Star Wars: Episode 1
Ultimate X-Men
Welcome to the NHK
Like 3/4 of it was acquired at the fire sale of a big bookstore chain that went out of business about 3 years ago and I really went overboard since everything was so insanely cheap. There's a lot of things in it I still haven't read yet...
Dang that's quite a list. Well at least if you ever get bored you have plenty to read.
True, there are at least 15 series from there I can read on a rainy day. I've been trying to pick away at the pile in between the novels I read regularly and all the shows I watch, but nothing ever seems to get done on the backlog front...
I have a few comics that I bought a while ago but haven't yet read. They are late silver and bronze age(Iron Man, The Eternals). Will probably save them for when I am bored.
No time to read the thread tonight, but I just wanna jump in with a comment on collecting - don't bother.
I had 21 long boxes with 50 years worth of comics in them. Maybe 9,000 issues. All those years people told me how valuable my collection would be some day. At 58, I simultaneously got tired of collecting, and needed the room that 21 long boxes took up. I contacted a few comic shops and collectors. I wanted to sell the whole collection at once, and everyone was up front that I wouldn't get as much as if I sold individual titles, or one at a time. Well, I had no care to do that, I just wanted them gone.
$1,000.
I'm pretty disgusted.
I had 21 long boxes with 50 years worth of comics in them. Maybe 9,000 issues. All those years people told me how valuable my collection would be some day. At 58, I simultaneously got tired of collecting, and needed the room that 21 long boxes took up. I contacted a few comic shops and collectors. I wanted to sell the whole collection at once, and everyone was up front that I wouldn't get as much as if I sold individual titles, or one at a time. Well, I had no care to do that, I just wanted them gone.
$1,000.
I'm pretty disgusted.
No time to read the thread tonight, but I just wanna jump in with a comment on collecting - don't bother.
I had 21 long boxes with 50 years worth of comics in them. Maybe 9,000 issues. All those years people told me how valuable my collection would be some day. At 58, I simultaneously got tired of collecting, and needed the room that 21 long boxes took up. I contacted a few comic shops and collectors. I wanted to sell the whole collection at once, and everyone was up front that I wouldn't get as much as if I sold individual titles, or one at a time. Well, I had no care to do that, I just wanted them gone.
$1,000.
I'm pretty disgusted.
If you had comics from the early 60s and 70s in those boxes and sold them for a $1000 the buyer got a deal. There were plenty of Key issues during those 2 decades and you could have made a lot of money. Did you go through them before you sold to check on key comics?
Mile High Comics, doesn't care. They only buy comics by the pound.
At this moment I'm "only" collecting Disney comics (in finnish). And at them just concentrating on completing couple of series with first editions. Mainly pocket books.
I do still buy weekly comics, but stopped actively collecting them. They are all available digitally so market for older paper versions has pretty much gone except for some collectors.
I do still buy weekly comics, but stopped actively collecting them. They are all available digitally so market for older paper versions has pretty much gone except for some collectors.
No time to read the thread tonight, but I just wanna jump in with a comment on collecting - don't bother.
I had 21 long boxes with 50 years worth of comics in them. Maybe 9,000 issues. All those years people told me how valuable my collection would be some day. At 58, I simultaneously got tired of collecting, and needed the room that 21 long boxes took up. I contacted a few comic shops and collectors. I wanted to sell the whole collection at once, and everyone was up front that I wouldn't get as much as if I sold individual titles, or one at a time. Well, I had no care to do that, I just wanted them gone.
$1,000.
I'm pretty disgusted.
Digital >>>>>>>>Paper
That's subjective. I prefer hardcovers/trade paperbacks over digital.
I also prefer real books to ereaders. If it's reasonable, I often buy 1st editions of books I really want. I love the smell of old books.
One fried hard drive and you've lost the lot.
I've been Schroedingering it for a couple years now.
My dvd burner clapped out without expressing any obvious signs of disharmony, so it took me about 6 months to notice that some (most?) of the dvds I'd been burning were %20 code salad.
So maybe I have a lot less digital comics than I think I do, and maybe I don't.
I don't have to strive to replace anything, until I know for sure, which I have no plans on doing.
I've been Schroedingering it for a couple years now.
My dvd burner clapped out without expressing any obvious signs of disharmony, so it took me about 6 months to notice that some (most?) of the dvds I'd been burning were %20 code salad.
So maybe I have a lot less digital comics than I think I do, and maybe I don't.
I don't have to strive to replace anything, until I know for sure, which I have no plans on doing.
Digital points to paper?
So did you have any key comics in your long boxes? Were you able to separate them before you sold?
Not true. Most of the sites keep all of the stuff you buy on your account online, even if you don't download them. I have 99 comics on my account right now on my Comixology account, but the only one I actually have downloaded to my tablet is Fantastic Four: World's Greatest.
Of the 99 comics, I only paid for 30 of them.
You and I collect comics very differently.
If you wait a year, they fall under the digital subscription plan for Marvel's back catalogue, which is 10 bucks a month or 69 dollars for a full year.
http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited
http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited
