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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2016 10:57:07 GMT -5
If you tried to acquire that entire run it might run you 10 grand. I have that entire run, and every issue since. It cost me considerably less than that, though admittedly it took a lot of years. Of course if you get reprint issues, its a lot less but a few years ago I added up how much the first 200 issues were and it was pretty pricey. |
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 29, 2016 11:06:32 GMT -5
I have that entire run, and every issue since. It cost me considerably less than that, though admittedly it took a lot of years. Of course if you get reprint issues, its a lot less but a few years ago I added up how much the first 200 issues were and it was pretty pricey. All of mine are the originals. The most expensive single issue was #1, at just over a hundred quid. Everything from around #150 I bought as they came out, so cover price. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2016 12:37:57 GMT -5
Of course if you get reprint issues, its a lot less but a few years ago I added up how much the first 200 issues were and it was pretty pricey. All of mine are the originals. The most expensive single issue was #1, at just over a hundred quid. Everything from around #150 I bought as they came out, so cover price. Of course that's the best way to buy them. I thought the thread was meant to be for people to buy the issues as if they were getting them starting today. Try to price your Avengers collection right now. It will be a different story. I have the entire Avengers run except # 1 and #4. I doubt I'll ever get those 2 to complete the entire run. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 29, 2016 13:43:18 GMT -5
Jonah Hex Vol 2 # 1-70 2005-2011
A western genre series should be part of a collection. Consistently a quality run in both writing and art. Should be quite affordable too
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Post by shaxper on Dec 29, 2016 13:59:27 GMT -5
If you tried to acquire that entire run it might run you 10 grand. If you haunt the comic shops and used bookstores it might be doable if you seek only cost affordable and lower priced reading and not worry over condition. I have to agree with Icc on this one. I assembled a run of #80 through 300 over the past three years, and it cost me a small fortune. Going back to #1? Not possible for most people these days. You can take issue with my rules on this one, but the idea is original printings, not reprint editions. Theoretically, your choice could be a complete run of Marvel Tales, as the scope of that series is, in itself, unique, but not as a means of acquiring a full Avengers run. And besides, even with a handful of issues from the Lee Kirby era acquired inexpensively through reprints, acquiring the rest still falls out of the realm of possibility for most collectors' budgets. Maybe we need to do a sister thread to this: what otherwise-out-of-your-price-range runs should every collector own as tpbs or digital collections? |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 29, 2016 14:07:26 GMT -5
Included all qualifying entries thus far in the OP. Will continue to update.
Anyone else notice that almost none of the mainstream stuff is making the list yet? Surely we need some Spidey, Batman, Superman, and X-Men on this thing.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2016 14:20:23 GMT -5
I forgot about my passion, Thor.
The most I've paid for an issue from 140- 502 has been 5 dollars for issue # 225( first Firelord).
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Post by shaxper on Dec 29, 2016 14:23:30 GMT -5
I forgot about my passion, Thor. The most I've paid for an issue from 140- 502 has been 5 dollars for issue # 225( first Firelord). Are you replacing Hitman with Thor #140-502? |
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Post by DubipR on Dec 29, 2016 14:25:37 GMT -5
A very tough choice to pick just one run. As much as I love Love & Rockets 1-50 (vol 1), I'm going to go with Silver Surfer (1968) 1-18. Might be the best less than 25 issue run ever put to paper. Stan probably at his apex in writing and John Buscema drawing the best superhero issues ever made.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 29, 2016 14:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2016 14:28:20 GMT -5
I forgot about my passion, Thor. The most I've paid for an issue from 140- 502 has been 5 dollars for issue # 225( first Firelord). Are you replacing Hitman with Thor #140-502? Ooops, didn't realize it was one per person.  |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 29, 2016 14:33:48 GMT -5
Solar Man of the Atom # 1-10 by Jim Shooter, Bob Layton, and Barry Windsor-Smith Excellent choice. I personally prefer Magnus, Harbinger, and Rai, but Solar was definitely BIGGER. |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 29, 2016 14:34:11 GMT -5
Are you replacing Hitman with Thor #140-502? Ooops, didn't realize it was one per person. No worries. So you're sticking with Hitman? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2016 14:40:19 GMT -5
Yes. Hitman for the win.  |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 29, 2016 15:05:25 GMT -5
I get what you are saying about cost. There is also the argument for sake of discussion that collecting isn't about price because i know some of you folks here have paid far higher prices than i would ever consider for any comics. And youngsters of today think nothing about spending gigantic sums of money for a new video game only to toss it aside once played through. So to me the cost/affordability is kind of all relative to the mindset of the collector.
As you did say though it should be in the affordable range then i rescind my Avengers thought and suggest of a more recent vintage with cost effective prices of collecting: from DC i offer you The Demon volume 3: issues 1-58 printed roughly from 1990 through 1995. A flavorful hellish rhyming delight for those inclined for something different. Creative writing and splendid artwork come together to provide a fun and interesting tour de force with Etrigan and his pals in and out of Hell.
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