Comic Books

[Mr. Eye]

Hey guys. I was just wondering how many of us here collect and read comics. What you could do is post all the titles you currently get, and how many comics you have in total, plus what your collection consists of.


Mr. Eye

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

I go in fits and spurts. And my comic book buying is mostly of reprints and back issues, whether they be really old issues or comics from a few months ago.

Most recent purchase was:

Essential Fantastic Four #3
Conan Saga 92
Ghost World

I've got hundreds of comics. Last I checked it was 300. I used to have almost 1000, but some of them I donated to daycares or gave away (1993 Image comics). I bought about 100 comics this year, so I probably have about 400 now.

[Nightwing]

I've started to leap into the knowledge of the comics I wanted to get into finaly. As of right now, I've started with Ultimate Spiderman and it's incredible!!! Absolutely incredible.

But it's just that they took forever to deliver my subscription's first issue so they started me off at #10. I guess I gotta find a comic shop nearby cuz I REALLY wanna get those other issues.

Oh, and I plan on getting in on that 10 cent Batman book in a year (or 2?) or so when it comes out, as well as Gotham Adventures.

Might start on Ultimate X-Men too, cuz the back of the cardboard on the Spidey comix have offers of like 5 bucks off a lot of their subscriptions. I like subscriptions, they're so easy for the lazy man that is me. ;)

[James Harvey]

Let's see...

I am subscribed to:

Batman
Detective Comics
Gotham Knights
Gotham Adventures
Batman Beyond
Superman Adventures
New X-Men
Uncanny X-Men

I subscribe to those, but I still pick up other books. I'm currently going through a trade paperback phase. I got my grubby mits on MARVEL, KINGDOM COME, KNIGHTFALL, WOLVERINE/NICK FURY: SCORPIO CONNECTION, and I want to get WOLVERINE: BLOODHUNT, THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA, BATMAN IN THE SEVENTIES, BATAMN: STRANGE APPARITIONS, and whatever else I can get. I also pick up WOLVERINE occasionally, as well as a few DC titles here and there. I recently dropped JLA and SPIDER-MAN.

[Joe Tully]

I only post here sporadically, but I used to love comics. I have been collecting them less lately due to high prices, but I also bought the Essential FF 3 a few weeks back. I am also keeping my eyes open for the 1st or 2nd FF essential, I am a huge FF fan.

I also used to collect a lot of Marvel such as X-Men and Spider-Man, and some DC such as Flash and TEC when Chuck Dixon was writing around issue 700.

[Mr. Eye]

I have a bunch of comics. Around 2K. Anyway here's what I currently buy, along with some comments

Spider-Girl (the most consistent and entertaining Spidey title of the past 3 years)

Amazing Spider-Man (I'm curious as to where JMS is going with this)

Peter Parker:Spider-Man (the 3 part Fusion story line was great, as was the latest Uncle Ben issue, but I hope Paul Jenkins starts some subplots cuz it's really going in circles)

Ultimate Spidey (currently my favourite title right now. I don't care what anyone says. IT"S GOOD!)

Tangled Web (enh.......)

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up (h8 the first 3 issues, but loved the last 2)

Daredevil
Ultimate X-Men
Punisher
Battle Chasers (lol!)
Green Arrow

And here's what I've been picking up the last few months on a trial basis:

New X-Men
Uncanny X-Men
X-Force
X-treme X-Men
Elektra
X-Force

I think i'm only going to keep New X-men out of this pack. Also, looking forward to the 10 cent adventure :):):)

Mr. Eye

[James Harvey]

I am thinking about jumping back on Spidey possibly soon. I will pick up the MOVIE adapation, especially with thew ggood creative team. I recommend DETECTIVE COMICS for sure. Amazing stuff. NEW X-MEN is great, but UNCANNY has been dissapointing. One of the upcoming UNCANNY stories is about a mutant brothel. I may get SPidey if I can fit it into my budget in the near future.

[Mr. Eye]

I've been wanting to get back to buying the bat titles, but there's too much too chose from. I can't just get one. It's one or all of them for me. I just don't have enough cash.

Mr. Eye

[James Harvey]

Actually, I've been thinking of ddropping the mainstream Batbooks becuase they're starting to bore me. No offense to the writers, but I've just read so much Batman it's becoming stagnant. If I drop them, Spidey is on the top of my list to reaqquire and check out. I heard AMAZING has been good. Plus, the DC Can prices are just getting ridiculous. I'd save money jumping over to Spidey. I'll still read the animated books, but the mainstream...?

[Clayface]

I couldn't even begin to list all the comics I collect - I frankly can't remember them all!

My current collection? Let's see, just going by memory, I'd say I have about 25 long boxes completely filled, as well as a few stacks here and there.

[Trent Lane]

yall are probably tired of hearing what books i have, but i'll list what my collection consist of anyway:

The Batman Adventures (all but about a dozen of them)
The Batman & Robin Adv. (missing about 6 books)
Lost Years TPB
Gotham Adventures (every issue)
-The Batgirl Adventures (one shot)
Batman Beyond (Mini-series)
Batman Beyond (every issue)
Superman Adventures (missing about a dozen from the beginning of it's run)
Aventures in the DCU (missing #18)
Harley Quinn (Paul Dini intro story)
Harley Quinn (every issue)
Batgirl (every issue)
Kingdom Come TPB
Various issues w/ Harley in them (for example Shadow of the Bat 93, some Superman issues, etc...)

in all, i'd say i've got about 300+ comics. my pride and joy is Batgirl #1....:D

[nightwing_38116]

I think that I'm sitting at a few hundred. Mostly Batman, Robin, and Nightwing. And tons of older stuff. I've been collecting for over ten years and even wrote a few comics for small publishers during the "Boom" time a few years ago.

[don Jaime]

It's pretty eclectic - the complete run of the not-very-good Animaniacs line (including the Red Cross issue), collections of Ranma 1/2 and Cardcaptor Sakura, and The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius, which is pretty sadistic and funny, too. I get Powerpuff Girls as well, to round out the collection. I'm an irritating completist.

[James Harvey]

Originally posted by flhero311
The Batman & Robin Adv. (missing about 6 books)


If you don't mind me asking, which issues?

[Flying Grayson]

I subscribe to Uncanny X-men.
Also I buy Peter Parker: Spider man off the shelves of my local Rite-aid(no comic book shops in my area).

[Calhoun07]

Ah, you don't want me to go there. TRUST ME! I have 3000 comics here, probably another 1500-2000 at my mom's house in Minnesota, and as to what I am currently buying, it runs about 25 titles a month, so forget it, I ain't listing them all!

Suffice to say, I've been dropping DC titles in favor for more Marvel titles. I also like the independents, such as Cerebus, Drawn and Quarterly, and Fantagraphics. I also buy the Strain graphic novels, and am an avid reader of Wrapped in Plastic. If you know what WIP is, then I will be impressed! If you read WIP, I will be even more impressed! I also get Simpsons and Futurama comics.

I sure hope DC doesn't start doing radical revisions to their titles anytime soon. I don't think my pocketbook could handle it if I suddenly felt the urge to start buying some of their comics again because they are getting better talent.

In the end, it's not the characters I like to collect, it's the talent. I don't buy Spider Man because it's Spider Man, or Batman because it's Batman. I have to like the creative team on the book. There's too much of a demand for my money as it is just to throw it away on books just for the characters.

[James Harvey]

Originally posted by Flying Grayson
I subscribe to Uncanny X-men.
Also I buy Peter Parker: Spider man off the shelves of my local Rite-aid(no comic book shops in my area).

You don't get NEW X-MEN, whichis the better title. Casey has been dissapointing me so far on UNCANNY, but Morrison picks up the slack fer sure!

[Trent Lane]

Originally posted by DickGrayson


If you don't mind me asking, which issues?

Well, I "lost" #3 & 6, which I thought were awesome stories. I never got #5, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, & 23. Now that I count, I guess that's 10 books I'm missing...

[icecold]

Hmmmmm...Lets see.........
Batman
Detective
Gotham Knights
LOTDK (only if the current arc interests me.)
Superman
AOS
MOS
Action
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Nightwing
Robin
Harley Quinn
Superboy
Young Justice
Gotham Adventures
Impulse
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate X-Men
Ultimate Team up
Uncanny X-Men
New X-Men
X-Treme X-Men
Peter Parker
Amz. Spidey
Daredevil
Punisher (I think that's all of 'em.)
I'd say I own about 200-250 comics.

[Calhoun07]

Anybody remember their first comic book? Mine was Dennis the Menace. I still have the comic book, too.

[icecold]

The first comic I ever read was an issue of Peter Parker: Spider-Man....I don't have it anymore though or remember the #. :(

[Mr. Eye]

I'\m not tooo sure what my first comic was. It was either an old Batman, or a Donald Duck/Disney comic. I forget which came first.

Mr. Eye

[James Harvey]

The first comic I read was WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #49, when MJs friend gets beat up becuase of her drug habit. I got that comic with a bunch others for Christmas in 1991. The animated books followed shortly after...:)

[Mr. Eye]

Hey cool. I have that issue. About the animted books, I started buying Batman advenutres with number 9 and 11 (Riddler and Man-Bat no?). I was obsessed with Batman thanks to the 1960's, which was on YTV at the time, and felt bad that I couldn't get the animted series. So i went out and bought the rest of them. Later though, in 1994, a french channel started airing the show on sunday mornings.

Mr. Eye

[James Harvey]

I thougth ATV/CTV aired them at 12 noon every weekday? Yeah, I was into the 60s show when it was on YTV, but when I saw that first promo for the BATMAN show, I was hooked.

[Mr. Eye]

I don't think CTV aired it. Not too sure. Anyway I had two CTV affiliates then, the Ottawa one and mine. Mine was completely different from the regular CTV. I'm almost sure it wasn't on, cuz I remember looking through the TV Guide real carefully.

Mr. Eye

[Mr. Eye]

Yeah it first premiered on YTV March on 1993. It was february and I saw a commercial saying Batman was coming. I was exicited as hell! I couldn't wait for it to come.

Mr. Eye

[James Harvey]

I thinkit was my affiliate then, ATV. I was lucky enough to have FOX as well, so I was able to get it right off. I remember being in awe when HEART OF ICE aired.

[Calhoun07]

One comic book I read to death when I was a kid, until the cover was literally falling off and it could hardly be kept together anymore, was an issue of Pink Panther where PP goes into a painting and has some cool adventures in the painting. That was probably one of the most influential stories I read in my life, and I am sure I have "borrowed" from the wild imagination in that story in my own writings from time to time.

[James Harvey]

A comic I wore the cover off of was BATMAN #491 - the beginning of KNIGHTFALL. If I knew it'd be worth so much I wouldn't have read it ovcer and over. Aparo's art was great - but seems so dated now.

[Calhoun07]

I think Apro's art is still great looking, even in today's world.

Other comics I wore to death...My old Dennis the Menace comics (tho I still have the first one I got) and my old Star Wars comics. Those are all quite valueable now, of course, because kids like me read them to death.

[Mr. Eye]

I have Sonic the Hedgehog, like numer 2 or 3 i think, and now they're worth at l;east 20 bucks each. My copies are worn to death though.

Mr. Eye

[Calhoun07]

The thing about these old comics we ruined as kids because we loved them so much, if you could, would you sell them today if you had them in mint condition anyway? There's no way if I had a mint copy still of that Pink Panther comic or of the Dennis the Menace comics would I sell them, so their value in Overstreet would mean little to me. The memories the dog eared comic can bring is more valueable than a mint copy anyway, especially when YOU are the one responsible for every crease, tear, and wear in the issue. I drew on some of my old Star Wars comics when I was a kid with a friend of mine, and I'd have to say the memories of the drawn on worn out comic book mean more than the mint copy in Mylar could mean.

It's kinda like Toy Story 2. The unplayed with toys were more valueable, but the true value of the toys was when they were loved and played with.

[Mr. Eye]

Yeah I know what you mean. Some comics that I have, I would never part with. However, I'd sell my Sonic in a heartbeat. I never even knew I had it till last year.

Mr. Eye

[James Harvey]

There are only a few books I'd never part with, MAD LOVE being one.

[Calhoun07]

Did you read comics as a kid, DG?

[James Harvey]

Yup. I can remember reading THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS by the now-defunct NOW COMICS.

[Calhoun07]

I wasn't collecting comics in the days of NOW comics , but it strikes me that they put out some cool stuff. I got some back issues of Twilight Zone, including the issue that featured Stracyznkys (OK, I am sure that is not spelled right) first writing gig for comics. I wonder if that will be worth anything?

[James Harvey]

NOW comics was in the late 80s, or when I was in gr. 2

[Calhoun07]

You pup! You're making me feel old.

[mxyzptlk]

1.8 harley quinns
2.37 superman and 5 superman trades first siries ever
3.3 green lanturns
4.3 star wars(marval)
5.9 batmans and 1 batman trade just started collecting
6. 2 xmen comics
7.1 superboy
8.1 rising stars trade
total comics=64
total trades=7
so i do but do not have many

[Calhoun07]

But that's a respectable start!

[mxyzptlk]

thank you sir.

[Trent Lane]

Originally posted by DickGrayson
There are only a few books I'd never part with, MAD LOVE being one.

That's a keeper, along with the Batgirl Adventures one shot. These are two of my favorite animated stories...

[Samhaine]

There are a bunch of comics I'd never part with. Every single issue of Batman I own, even the Hama issues.

Pretty much, everything that I own, except the Anne Rice and James Bond books.

Comics as a whole is a very special thing to me, introduced young by my father and the fire was stoked by an uncle who was very close. I think that's why I get so many titles a month.

I'll post my monthly list tomorrow, but today's my birthday and I have to go out!

[mxyzptlk]

i like comics and would not part with none of them unless i was trading for one evan better.

[mxyzptlk]

i have heard of preacher but never read it

[James Harvey]

Originally posted by flhero311


That's a keeper, along with the Batgirl Adventures one shot. These are two of my favorite animated stories...

Batman Adventures: Holiday Special is my favorite book after ML. Batgirl Adventures was good. Not great, but a good 20 minute read. The scene between Batgirl & Harley discussing the Bat/Supergirl relationship is the best scene.

[Trent Lane]

Yeah, I forgot all about the Holiday Special (Ho, Ho, Friggin' Ho...). A GREAT read... The scene in BA that you mentioned is probably the funniest scene in the animated Batman books...

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Preacher ended its run last year. You can find it in the back issue bin.

[Calhoun07]

Isn't the entire Preacher series available in a series of trade paperbacks, as well?

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Probably. Though TPB prices are getting so high these days sometimes it's cheaper to get the original issues. For example, I could buy the original issues of the recent Thor: Visionaries TPB for a cheaper price in back issue bins than paying for the actual TPB.

[Mr. Eye]

I really liked that Holiday Special too. It had that Mr. Freeze story no? Anyway good stufff. And I also like the annuals.

Mr. Eye