But Waid also wrote the 2011 run – really, the 20 runs are the same series, artificially broken up by one of Marvel’s random renumberings – and by the time I got on board, Marvel was already putting out larger hardcover collections of the 2011 series. Or what about Daredevil? I got into him because of the Netflix show, and started collecting the then-ongoing 2014 Mark Waid run in trades. But it does mean that I’ve been staring down the barrel of this $75 omnibus for a year now.ĭo I buy the omnibus (and the second volume, which comes out in January)? Do I sell or give away the Showcases? What if there are issues in the Showcases that aren’t in the omniboo? Do I keep both? I live in Manhattan, you guys, I don’t have a lot of storage space! Now, I couldn’t be happier about this, or about the fact that DC is now reprinting reams and reams of her earlier adventures. You can’t beat that deal.īut then the show (the wonderful, wonderful show) happened, and Supergirl blew up as a character. Now, I love the Showcase collections, which reprinted 500 pages of comics in black and white, usually from the Silver Age, and kept the price points in the $10-$15 range by printing them on cheap newsprint. For ages and ages, the only Supergirl books available were trade collections of her early 2000s run, which was…uneven, to say the least, and two volumes from the DC Showcase collection.
Or consider Supergirl, my all-time favorite hero. (And if you don’t think it drives me nuts that the first spine doesn’t match the other five on my shelf, you don’t know me very well!) I couldn’t justify repurchasing Volume #1, but I bought #2-6.
COMIC BOOK COLLECTOR SERIES
…And then a few years later they re-released those issues in new trade dress, as part of a series that eventually went up to six volumes. My comic book collecting quickly got out of hand.
COMIC BOOK COLLECTOR PLUS
It took me years to track down the rest of the series, especially the last holdout, issue #69 ( nice), but now I own all 89 glorious issues – plus annuals and team-ups – bagged, boarded, and boxed alphabetically between Guy Gardner: Warrior and Justice League International.īut the years went by, and the boxes multiplied, and meanwhile I was starting new series and discovering new characters. One of my favorite memories in comics fandom is receiving over sixty back issues of Impulse from eBay and plowing through them over the course of one glorious week. I discovered a new character, I trawled the internet until I could get my hands on their entire back catalog. I tried a series, I liked that series, I went to my LCS and dug up as many back issues as I could find. Oh, when I first started reading them, things were fine.
Comic book collecting is not for the faint of heart. I’ve always been a collector by nature, which is a problem when you’re a comic book reader.
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