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What's the most you've ever spent on a single comic?

murphy

02:44 / 14.03.07

This isn't a place to brag, necessarily, but I'm curious about how much all y'all have ever been willing to shell out in a single instance for any single issue of any single comic.

I'll go first:
$200 for a copy of Hulk #181.

Prior to that, probably $40, or so, for something or other.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

03:48 / 14.03.07

I think it was 11 bucks for the issue I was missing from the first Venom story arc in Spiderman.

I was 9 or 10 though, so $11 was about a weeks worth of cash for me.

I MIGHT have paid a bit more to fill the gaps in my Invisibles collection at Comicon 2000 but I don;t think so.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

04:00 / 14.03.07

I spent about twelve bucks on an Arnold Drake Doom Patrol comic, once. It had Niles Caulder on the cover, being attacked by a middle-aged man dressed up as a black vulture.

Benny the Ball

04:00 / 14.03.07

£70 - Justice League issue #3 test cover.

Janean Patience

07:46 / 14.03.07

Man, you people really shell some clams on comics. Searching my memory, the most I can remember paying is £8 for The Question #1. The Denny O'Neill & Denys Cowan series of the 80s. Now worth: nothing.

miss wonderstarr

08:47 / 14.03.07

£20 for Doom Patrol #19 I think, which was quite a lot for me back in the early 90s. Probably worth 20p now.

miss wonderstarr

08:49 / 14.03.07

But I also spent between around £6 and £8 per copy on back issues of DP, Hellblazer and Sandman, and I have a complete run of their early years, from #1 onwards... so that must total up.

Miss K

09:20 / 14.03.07

I paid about £30 for the fantastic Jack Kirby 2001: A Space Odyssey Marvel Treasury Edition, which is a HUGE FORMAT and TOTALLY BONKERS adaptation of the movie in the King's inimitable style.

Mistoffelees

09:29 / 14.03.07

I once bought Amazing Spiderman 100 at an auction, but I don´t remember what I paid for it.

Anyone ever paid more than, say, 5$ for anything... valiant?

The Falcon

09:50 / 14.03.07

£4 on Hellblazer #41(? the John Smith issue, anyway.) Although, thinking about it, some prestige formats are probably more expensive - DK2 or something.

yawn - thing's buddy

09:54 / 14.03.07

Miss K - I have wanted that 2001 kirby comic for a looooooooooooooooooong time.

you lucky lucky reader.

Tom Coates

09:55 / 14.03.07

I think I've spent about $40/£25 on a comic. Possibly an X-men comic in the Alan Davis / Wolverine / Sabretooth / Marauders period. Not enormously edifying. I spent a fair amount of Authority and Planetary #1s as well, having missed them at the time.

Janean Patience

10:03 / 14.03.07

Possibly an X-men comic in the Alan Davis / Wolverine / Sabretooth / Marauders period.

If only I'd known. I left a box of comics, including X-Men from about #210 to #226, rotting in a collapsing and abandoned outbuilding in a small Northern town ten years ago. I've no reason to believe they're not still waiting there if you want the address.

In among them was the entire New Teen Titans Judas Contract run, which probably cost me about £4 an issue so may count as the most I ever paid for back issues. I kinda wish I had them now. Pick them up for me while you're there?

Fraser C

10:51 / 14.03.07

For a back issue I think its a tenner for Daredevil #169. Well worth it.

Fraser C

10:59 / 14.03.07

I paid about £30 for the fantastic Jack Kirby 2001: A Space Odyssey Marvel Treasury Edition, which is a HUGE FORMAT and TOTALLY BONKERS adaptation of the movie in the King's inimitable style.

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This sounds amazing - I never even knew it existed.

semioticrobotic

11:30 / 14.03.07

$75 for a first printing of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 1 #2. That was a huge deal for me at the time, but I've never regretted it.

DavidXBrunt

11:56 / 14.03.07

Well I bought the Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and a couple of D.C. Archive Editions, do they count?

The most I've sold a comic for was £300 which covered my chunk of the money needed for my parents to go to my cousins wedding. D.C. Elseworlds 80 Page Giant.

grant

14:09 / 14.03.07

I spent $20 on an Alan Moore Swamp Thing by accident. There was a sale on at the shop, and I was picking up a bunch of $3-$5 Swamp Things (including the one with the underwater vampires), and didn't notice that one of the issues I picked up had the first appearance of John Constantine (ever!) in it until I got to the cash register.
I had enough in my pocket at the time, and it was discounted (I think marked $25), so what the hell, I bought it.

Pretty good story, but I can't really remember it as much as the one with the vampires.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

14:52 / 14.03.07

£50 for Issue 50 of Wolverine, back at the start of the nineties, signed by the artist I think. Probably chucked away by now...

Essential Dazzler

15:05 / 14.03.07

£40 for a set of Flex Mentallo, never regretted it (or considered a similar expenditure) since.

Robert B

16:07 / 14.03.07

$60 for a set of Flex Mentallo. I haven't regretted the purchase either.

Aha! I am Klarion

16:36 / 14.03.07

$20 for Godzilla king of the monsters no.1 when I was 10

50$ for Punisher #1

Not considering weighty one-shots, like Miller's 'Family Values'? Eight bucks and some change for a fairly good-looking copy of 'Fantastic Four' #52, because my cover-price copy was just barely holding on for dear life (and still is) and it had two of my all-time favorite comics characters in it: Black Panther and Wyatt Wingfoot!

The eight dollars and such and such was actually all I had on me, at the time, and as a kid that was quite a bit, actually. It's amazing when someone doesn't try to rip off a kid, but actually does something decent for them.

Lysander Stark

21:37 / 14.03.07

It is kind of the opposite from the rest of this thread, and I am loath to brag (well... okay), but I once found a copy of Alan Moore's Miracleman: A Dream of Flying (in paperback) for five British pounds, and nabbed it, knowing that it tends to go for a tad more than that. It was worth it as a read: I rest happy knowing that if the copyright issues are ever sorted out and its value plunges, I shall still have had more than five pounds of pleasure from it!

Probably makes up for all the times I have allowed myself to pay far more than that for comics anyhoo. That said, if anyone has the Red King Syndrome for five pounds, or even ten dollars, please pipe up. I'll pay shipping?

$20 for Miracleman #24. That's the most I've paid for a floppy comic. I have paid thousands of dollars over the past year for all the fancy Archives and Absolute editions that I just can't seem to get enough of. And I'll have to buy a bigger house soon. All of which makes that $20 for a Miracleman issue seem quite insignificant.

Alex's Grandma

23:58 / 14.03.07

I can beat that - I picked up the same grapicnovel for the princely sum of £1.50 as did each of three volumes of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright while the TMNT phone book collection cost me £3. All bought from the same shop/market stall on the same day...

Indeed. Well I bought 'Flex Mentallo', the full run, for £1.50, or thereabouts, a copy when it was originally published.

Because I was no fairweather fan.

I just wish I knew what happened though; because of the lock on the time capsule and so on, I won't find out until 2012.

When it'll probably be too late.

matthew.

01:08 / 15.03.07

10 bucks Cdn for Promethea 32 (the last issue - 32 or 37? I can't remember). Anyway, I own the trades, but I wanted the issue so I could take it apart.

matthew.

01:09 / 15.03.07

I also spent over 400 bucks to get the complete Cerebus on eBay. Yay!

doctorbeck

16:14 / 16.03.07

i paid a fiver for book 3 of the miracleman apocrapha, it wasn't even very good but just not having it gave me some sort of a fanboy itch for 7 years, so worth it to scratch that alone.

Rachel Evil McCall

21:45 / 18.03.07

Uhm.. five bucks or so for the first issue of Void Indigo, and slightly less for the second.

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