Comic Collecting: What comics do you collect? How many do you have, and do you buy single copies or by subscription?

2015-06-25T01:12:20-04:00

I've been collecting comics since the mid 1980's and now have almost 3000 comics bagged boarded and boxed in my "Man-Cave". I collect mostly Marvel comics, but I am very much attracted to any comic with great cover art. I have several subscriptions but I always buy about 10 to 15 additional titles a month, always two copies of each.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Jun 25 at 2015 1:23 AM

2015-06-25T01:23:52-04:00

Not a collector, but I loved SGT Rock, Nam, and all those other great military ones. If Jeb would have been on a better track than the Stuart, the war would have ended 6 months earlier in Europe.

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Jun 25 at 2015 6:39 AM

2015-06-25T06:39:38-04:00

I recently went to online subscription with the Marvel Unlimited ($10/month). It puts me about 6 months in arrears of issue date, but it lets me keep up.

I used to have several hundred comics including a complete run of Wolverine, near 200 issues of Uncanny X-man (200 on), and lots of Spiderman. At it's height my collection was probably a little over 1000~.

Response by SGT Roberto Mendoza-Diaz made Jul 6 at 2015 4:18 AM

2015-07-06T04:18:32-04:00

I have an interesting collection divided between DC, Marvel, Image and other indie books. My favorite publisher is the new Image not the Image from the 90's of course.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 1 at 2015 2:34 PM

2015-08-01T14:34:46-04:00

I have 14 long boxes of comics, half of which are old DC war books. Love them. Still collect, and went to the Boston Comic Con this weekend.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 7 at 2019 12:26 PM

2019-11-07T12:26:37-05:00

I have somewhere between 8-9000. Mostly Marvel and DC. I have a large focus on Silver age books, but have a bunch of Golden age books too. I started back in the 70s, but really got into it in the 80s and 90s. Now I am back into it again.

I also have a gun rack that was built into my house and decided to turn it into a comic display case. Currently I made it into exclusively Marvel. Mostlely keys, but I could redo the whole thing with DC or even another completely different Marvel books.

The exception to this being all Marvels are the posters on the sides of the case, which are signed by Neal Adams.

PDG

Response by Capt Dwayne Conyers made Nov 22 at 2019 3:58 PM

2019-11-22T15:58:56-05:00

I collected comics for years. Sadly, my mother would find them and throw them away. To think, I could have paid for college AND grad school with the money those would have earned...