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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 30, 2014 11:01:36 GMT -5
I am frugal. I mean, I would love to snag me a key issue of ASM like #121 or #129 but that is a easily $300 or more on one book! I recently started keeping track of my buying. Since June is ending, here is how I did.
I bought over 60 comics, some of which I flipped or sold because I did not need them. I also sold some other stuff form "the pile" which is basically a small pile of extras that came with other stuff I have purchased. Anything sold from "the pile" is consider comic profit and is spent back on comics.
Anyway, I added 50 issues to my collection this month and it cost be a grand total of $133.45 or around $2.67 per book bought. Below is my buys. I feel that happier with that and find it hard spending much more than $3-4 a book. I will splurge every so often but because I do really want a few missing keys, I think it might be time to really start saving up and going for it.
X-Men #141
Amazing Spider-Man #430
World War Hulk #3
23 Daredevil comics from second volume
3 Thor comics #337, 370, 375
Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #1
Detective Comics #1000000
Captain America #249-251
MTU #71
X-Factor #25
Moon Knight #59
Outlaws #12
Amazing Spider-Man #306
Thanos Rising Blank Variant #1
Captain America #184
Amazing Adventures #5, 7, 8
New 52 Swamp Thing #6
Action Comics #485, 598
Swamp Thing #5
Captain American #286
Power Man & Iron Fist #78
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 30, 2014 12:18:20 GMT -5
$5
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 30, 2014 13:00:18 GMT -5
I paid $50 for Iron Man #1 about 15 years ago... that was the only time I've ever paid more than $10 for a single comic.
I've bought a couple Omnibuses (omnibi?), but for 1/2 off cover (so $50).
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 30, 2014 13:33:01 GMT -5
I think the most I've spent on a single issue would be around $15 (on Ebay, including shipping). As a matter of practice, I really prefer to spend $5 or less. I can understand spending more for investing, but that's just not my interest and I don't have the money anyway.
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Post by MatthewP on Jun 30, 2014 14:59:18 GMT -5
I have no set limit on how much I will spend on a comic book, other than my current comic book budget, which varies depending on the health of my bank account.
Much of what I'm buying these days are older books, and I want decent condition, so I have to accept that they are not often going to be cheap. But I generally keep to the attractive mid-grades to avoid the big premium on high grade books, and then try to make sure I'm getting a reasonable deal relative to the current market prices.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jun 30, 2014 16:02:55 GMT -5
I paid $3,000 for Human Torch #3 (#2) in CGC 8.0 back in 2003. It's since appreciated. That purchase was an anomaly due mainly to a bonus I received in addition to an unexpectedly large tax return. I'm glad I have it now, but I recognize that it was irresponsible to drop that kind of coin on a single, non-key book. I don't expect to do that again, thus three large is by default my "cap."
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 30, 2014 19:54:40 GMT -5
I spent around 50 for a mid grade Avengers #57. A few years ago I got a JLA/Avengers Omnibus for around 50 also. I have every Avengers issue from #40 until whatever issue of New Avengers I quit on. Not one for over $20. And only a handful for over $10. That one in particular my F/VF copy of was definitely under $10. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 30, 2014 21:08:16 GMT -5
I spent around 50 for a mid grade Avengers #57. A few years ago I got a JLA/Avengers Omnibus for around 50 also. I have every Avengers issue from #40 until whatever issue of New Avengers I quit on. Not one for over $20. And only a handful for over $10. That one in particular my F/VF copy of was definitely under $10. I bought most of my Avengers run for cover or a couple of bucks. All the issues under 16 cost me between 10-25 dollars. Unfortunately, i had Avengers 90-100, 16 and 57 stolen from my attic by my sons" friends". It cost me 195 dollars to replace those books. |
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Post by sacorn on Jun 30, 2014 23:57:36 GMT -5
I don't have a set limit for comics, as trying to complete a run of Amazing Spider-man presents difficulties when that special issue you need pops up somewhere (and particularly when you've only been collecting the run within the past 8 years). I do try to get everything as cheap as possible though.
So, I have had to splash out on a few though being:
#3 - $360, #4 - $230, #5 - $500 All in the G-VG range,
#14 - $140 VG, #28 - $250 Fine and #129 VF $300 (my only over $100 buys)
In saying that though, I have managed to take advantage of various opportunities as they arose eg #121 & #122 for $5 a piece, #50 for $45, #300 - $15.
Down to a dozen left to go now and I doubt I'll be able to get anything for less than $100.
Still haven't bought a single comic book this year yet!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 10:22:53 GMT -5
Back when I started getting back into comics circa 2003 after a 25-year hiatus, I had two holy grails in particular -- acquiring every DC 80-Page Giant (I don't think I really knew about the annuals that preceded them) & every non-reprint Sgt. Fury (luckily, I'd kept a few early issues when I sold my collection back in the summer of '81, most notably #13).
In accomplishing that goal, I paid $10+ each for, I dunno, maybe a half-dozen of the DC giants (including the annuals when I realized they were out there), topping out at $29 & change for a copy of 80-Page Giant #1 -- a definite overpay on my part, motivated mainly by my mistaking it for Superman Annual #1 (obviously, I'm a lot less intelligent than I like to tell myself). I have no idea what I paid for my copy of the real Superman Annual #1, but it was definitely less than that, which remains the most I've ever paid for a comic.
With Sgt. Fury, I bought #s 2-9 or -10 (can't remember at this late date) for, IIRC, around $161 in one eBay lot, which obviously translates to a per-copy price in the teens.
Otherwise, I'm pretty sure the only comic I've paid double digits for in the last decade or so was DC Comics Presents #47, which for years was the only issue I lacked from having a complete run of that title. When the guy who wrote it, Paul Kupperberg, ended up offering it on eBay 3 or 4 years ago at $10 Buy It Now, I forcibly tamped down my inner cheapskate & pulled the trigger.
These days, I rarely go above something like $1.50 an issue. If it's something I really want, & particularly if it's something I need to complete a long run, I'd probably go twice that ... maybe.*
As for books, I paid $45 for so for the Women of Marvel Comics omnibus a couple of years back. (For non-comics related books, the most I've ever shelled out was $150 for the 3-volume UFO Encyclopedia, first printings, about a decade ago.)
*For Brother Power the Geek #3, I think it's safe to say that all bets are off.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 1, 2014 10:52:33 GMT -5
The most I've ever spent on a comic was $50 for a ragged but complete Amazing Fantasy #15 back in the late '70s. You'd never catch me spending that much nowadays (on my curent budget, even $10 for one comic seems recklessly extragavant). I did just spend $32 on a Doctor Fate Archives, though, so for the right deal I will take a crowbar to the ol' wallet.
Cei-U!
I summon the exception that proves the rule!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 11:24:45 GMT -5
Uh-oh. Speaking of exceeding one's normal spending standards, I somehow just now realized that a new printing of the first X-Men Omnibus came out last year & can be found in the $50s ...
Hmmmm.
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Post by ironchimp on Jul 1, 2014 14:00:35 GMT -5
i think most i ever paid was $5 for fantastic 4 #44 but no more than $1 - i end up using my comics as coasters and fly swotters or writing telephone numbers on and when i move they are all going to get dumped somewhere. most of the series i like are so cheap that its less hassle jsut to rebuy them that move them (fish police apart which i will be embalmed in)
spending on an omnibus is totally legal and guilt free tho as you get a lot of issues for the $.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 14:28:17 GMT -5
spending on an omnibus is totally legal and guilt free tho as you get a lot of issues for the $. And $50 & change later, I've bought a used X-Men Omnibus vol. 1. Ironchimp is clearly to blame for my extravagance. |
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Post by ironchimp on Jul 1, 2014 16:27:37 GMT -5
we need you back in the game dan b.
i just looked - 31 issues - $50 - thats $1 and a sniff an issue - and a perfect way to relax after work for a whole week with room over at the weekend.
completely and utterly legal. there's not a court in the land who'd convict you of flagrant indulgence.
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