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What's the best deal you've ever gotten on a comic?

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The Natural Way

12:00 / 22.03.07

A bloke at work's selling his original runs of both Watchmen and V for £25 each. I can't work out if it's a deal or not. I mean, exactly how much should those books cost? It sounds like a bargain, but comics don't really fetch much, do they, Even the cahLAHsic ones?

12:20 / 22.03.07

Well, i guess they are worth whatever people re willing to pay for them.

Janean Patience

12:37 / 22.03.07

You could say: "That's not the original run of V For Vendetta. The original run was in Warrior, loser!"

It won't help. But you could say it.

Janean Patience

12:42 / 22.03.07

More usefully, any run of any comic which has been collected isn't worth much. Watchmen possibly, if the issues are in good condition and first printings and all that. But it sold a lot, and the speculation market's kinda dead, and you can get it in a nice collection for a wallet-sized price.

Flex Mentallo, Miracleman: these are the comics that fetch a good price. Because they're a) good and b) unavailable elsewhere so the owners don't want to sell them.

16:56 / 22.03.07

yeah - as the collected books are, what, £10 each, I'd say it isn't worth it if you are buying for the story - if you are a collector, then it really is what you are willing to pay.

Essential Dazzler

14:02 / 27.04.07

Is this thread now for comic collecting experiences in general?

On Monday I was flipping idly through the Forbidden Planet catalogue (Holy Hell is there a lot of shit for sale) towards the end they had a section advertising The forthcoming Rian Hughes Collection, which I was, probably stupidly, considering forking out for based solely on a burning desire to finally read Really and Truly.

In the feature they used 4 pages of his art, the first time I've seen it in my life..

Two days later I had drive the fiance to the Chiropractor in a small town 45 minutes away. I've got an hour and a half to kill.

First stop is obviously the Sci-fi memorobelia shop.

I've never really been the hugest 2000ad (And yes I do feel a slight twinge of shame when I admit that) so I normally walk right by piles of back issues, but the issue on top of the stack caught my eye, it looked familiar.

That looks like Rian Hughes.

It can't be really and Truly, I'm just not that lucky.

Callooh! Callay! It is Really and Truly!

Half an hour later I'd sorted through the pile and found 7 of it's 8 parts.

And it's not just Really and Truly either! It's Maniac 5 (Millar! YEOWELL!(!!!)) Judge Dredd (Morrison!) Slaughterbowl (Smith!) And Big Dave (Morrison! Millar! Parkhouse!)

So, not the best deal I've ever gotten on a comic, pound an issue, extortionate really, and an ebay visit for the missing issue, but it's made me astonishingly happy for a few days now. Good God am I pleased with myself.

20:12 / 01.05.07

I've gotten a ton of great deals over the years, but at a comic-con I just attended, I bought the New X-Men Omnibus (GM's entire run), for 60 dollars off the cover price.

I think I'm going to go and read it right now.

22:39 / 01.05.07

I found the entirety of Dare for sale in the back of a Fantagraphics catalog a few years ago. It was a close-out special and I got it all for about $2.00. I couldn't track it down for years, and yet Fantagraphics was trying to unload it on the cheap. A perfect match.

01:25 / 02.05.07

Somehow missed Moore's first few SUPERME issues and the kind geezer at LA's Golden Apple knocked down the $10 price tag on issue whateverthefirstonewas to cover price.

I also bought the first TOP TEN HC for cover price at SDCC last year but one, as the seller did not know what he had on his hands.

03:22 / 04.05.07

reverse topic: when i moved from UK to LA in 1996, I sold lots of comics & trades. I sold all the MIRACLEMAN collections, reasoning that I could always pick them up again in the USA. By the time I thought to look, the books were long OOP and expensive. Fuck!

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