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Post by novastar6 on Jun 20, 2017 5:01:09 GMT
If you collect them, are you a die hard who collects every issue you can, or do you only go for certain issues?
Comics books are the ONE place where judging a book by its cover has merit, especially pre-internet, that was the only way you had any idea what was in them. And for me, just about every issue I ever bought WAS determined by if I thought the cover looked promising. If it had the Joker on it, I was especially interested. Hardest time I had getting one, the one where the court wants to take Dick away from Bruce and put him in an orphanage, and it doesn't even have the cover, but I got it. I've never been a serious collector, I have a small stack largely made up of Silver and Bronze age, but nothing substantial, nothing really rare or valuable, just fun to read.
How about everyone else?
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Post by chasallnut on Jun 21, 2017 8:45:27 GMT
If you collect them, are you a die hard who collects every issue you can, or do you only go for certain issues? Comics books are the ONE place where judging a book by its cover has merit, especially pre-internet, that was the only way you had any idea what was in them. And for me, just about every issue I ever bought WAS determined by if I thought the cover looked promising. If it had the Joker on it, I was especially interested. Hardest time I had getting one, the one where the court wants to take Dick away from Bruce and put him in an orphanage, and it doesn't even have the cover, but I got it. I've never been a serious collector, I have a small stack largely made up of Silver and Bronze age, but nothing substantial, nothing really rare or valuable, just fun to read. How about everyone else? I stopped collecting about 20 years ago, but before that used to frequent Odyssey collecting back issues of Batman and Detective Comics. I have many from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I started buying the graphic novels, but when the rebirth series came out I have been buying every issue of Batman, Detective Comics, All Star Batman, Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, Trinity, Justice League and a number of other titles. I can honestly say I am miles behind with the reading though. I collected The DK III, the Master Race and all the Darkseid Wars comics as well. I'm a little OCD, I hate having missing issues. Many of the batman graphic novels are one offs and are terrific reads such as Batman: Holy Terror Batman: The Last Angel Gotham BY Gaslight Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty Batman: Master of the Future Batman & Dracula: Red Rain Batman & Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jun 21, 2017 19:15:18 GMT
If you collect them, are you a die hard who collects every issue you can, or do you only go for certain issues? USUALLY, Usually that is... I buy comics based on the creative people working on that title, the writers and/or artists. For example: I like Jim Lee and I will buy any title he works on just because its him. So if he's on Flash then I will buy Flash. If he's on Green Lantern I will buy Green Lantern. When the creator on a book doesn't do anything I like then I don't like the book, no matter which character it is. So you could say I don't particularly follow a character or title, but rather the career of creators I like (usually the artist).
Also I try new titles, characters and creators, of course. And sometimes I change my mind about a title, character or creator.
HOWEVER, there are A FEW titles I will buy even when the creators are kinda sucky: X-Men, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Justice League are regular titles I will stick with through thick and thin just because of my irrational fondness.
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