Here we post our comic collections, including single issues, trades or anything comic related that is in or a part of some sort of colllection.
To start off, these are my trades and hardcovers (Warning: Shitty Cell Phone Camera Quality)
The Batman Archives, Batman In World's Finest Archives, The Dark Knight, The Golden Age Green Lantern and The Superman Archives Vol 1
Showcase Presents: Batman Vol. 1, Superman Vol. 1
Batman Chronicles Vol. 1-5
Superman Chronicles Vol. 1
Batman Year One
The Man Who Laughs
The Long Halloween
Dark Victory
The Killing Joke
A Death In The Family
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
Knightfall Vol. 1-2
Hush Vol. 1-2
Face The Face
Batman: Detective and Death And The City
Batman And Son HC
The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul HC
All Star Batman Vol. 1 HC
The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Crisis On Infinite Earths
Green Arrow Vol. 1
Green Lantern Rebirth
Green Lantern Corps. Recharge
Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1-2
Identity Crisis
Infinite Crisis
The Greatest Stories Ever Told: The Joker
Justice Vol. 1
JLA Volume 1-2
Justice Society Of America: Volume 1-2
Kingdom Come
Robin: Year One
All Star Superman Volume 1
Watchmen
Marvel Essentials: Daredevil Vol. 1, Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1-2
New Avengers Vol. 1
Marvel Visionaries: Daredevil: Frank Miller Vol. 1
Spider-Man: Back In Black
Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Collection
Sin City Vol 1, 4
And of course the longbox:
And finally my two favorite comics that I own:
So that's all I have...What about you? Do you collect only Trades, only Hardcovers, only issues? Do you have a massive library of back issues dating back years? What about that one comic that you own that you value more than all the others?
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I'm not really big on the collector mentality though; I keep full runs of stuff that aren't available in TPB because I love reading the books, but the only things I really collect are first appearances of characters I really like. Though I do like owning quirky, weird shit that's not widely available. I'm still trying to get my hands on some original Stardust the Super Wizard comics.
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I don't read the script, the script reads me.
I have every Cerebus Phonebook
ummmm a solid run of Batman from about 390something to 550something as well as a 150+ run of Detective from the same time frame.
I'm working on finishing complete collections of Shadow of the Bat and Legends of The Dark Knight.
My favorite issues I own are Batman #93, #103, #108 (featuring the amazing Batman Jones), #126 and #166
-non Batman related-
Watchmen #'s 1-12
I actually own 12 copies of Watchmen #2 .... The Wonderbook and Video had 1 copy of Issues 1 and 3-12, but 12 copies of #2 .... for 10 cents each.
I figured what the heck
I have every issue of Warlord. #'s 1-133, all 6 Annuals, First Edition #8 (Warlord's First Appearance) the 6 Issue mini series, the 10 Issue (god fucking awful) reintro of the series, and Green Arrow #27 and #28 which are awesome. Also, I have the TPB of the first 10 (or was it 12) Issues.
I'll try and grab pictures tomorrow of my Dad's collection (I think 12 long boxes and about that many short).
He's got some really really cool stuff.
Full run of Micronauts, most of ROM, all 18 of the original Star Trek comics, the first appearance of Iron Fist in Marvel Premiere, and the first issue of Moon Knight
The rest of my stuff is newer, the only things in that that I really care about are my issues of The Tick
Here is my collection. The 4 long boxes are nothing but Batman Family titles (1.5 are Batman, 1 is Detective Comics, and the other 1.5 is Robin, Shadow of the Bat, Legends of The Dark Knight, Nightwing, and Huntress along with various one shots). The short box on the left is every issue of Warlord ever and the other short box is various Transmetropolitan, Watchmen, Flaming Carrot, and Fish Police, etc. etc.
Here are my favorite 6 comics in my collection. Batman #93, #103, #108, #126, #166 and #196
Close up of #93
Close up of #103
Close up of #108 (Best Batman story ever possibly)
Close up of #166 (one of my all time favorite covers)
On to my Father's Collection .... which is way cooler and more extensive than mine.
Lets see here, I see boxes devoted to Green Lantern, The Flash, Legion of Super Heros, and Teen Titans, The Phantom and Worlds Finest .... among other cool things.
Long Boxes for X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, Superman and Action Comics. Also 10 long boxes full of misc. stuff. Somewhere in there is every issue of Groo the Wanderer which are all awesome.
A couple of Bat Boxes
This is a Big Little Book .... but not just any Big Little Book. This is the first appearance of The Phantom in comic bookesque form. It was actually printed before the first Phantom sunday strip in 1936 (or 1937) (the Big Little Book is from 1936 though) and the printers got the color of his costume wrong. I got this for my Dad 4 years ago for Christmas (haven't been able to top it yet).
My Dad really really likes the Phantom
A Klingon Warbird on top of Outdoor Life on top of Full Batman and Worlds Finest Comics surrounded by Mark Twain paperbacks. I could sit in this room and be happy for years.
Flash #123
Various flashes, Barry Allen
#175, 177
OMAC 1-8
I also have almost every Wally West comic- missing about 5.
Wouldn't mind picking up a Spider-box, since that's the only exclusive box I have
Do you have all of Wally West in the Teen Titans?
my Dad made em all
The series where Dick Grayson became Nightwing.
edit: Tales of the New Teen Titans
hehe
Tell him I want a Spidey box
I've got Robin #1 somewhere as well.
Here are some pictures of most of my trades/graphic novels/whatever: