If you tthink this is bad then you should check out how much The Mighty Thor: The Fall of Asgard epic collection is going for on ebay $300 anons I kid you not. Marvel really needs to get around to do doing reprints of OOP books.
Boy there not asking for much are they, but seriously screw marvel for not doing reprints of epics.
>>154712361It's astounding how bad Marvel is at keeping stuff in stock. At the very least their big characters should be evergreen.
>>154712064They should reprint all Epics where Osborn appears.
>>154712427They do it on purpose to give people FOMO. Standard Disney manipulation tactics
>>154712464That seems awfully short sighted is the problem. They might go through their initial batch but they'd sell more books over time if people could actually buy them. Marvel is not helping themselves by supplying a second hand market.
>>154712493Marvel hasn't made a good business decision since the 80s
>>154712064real currencies are crashing, bitcoin is too unstable, resource assets are too trackable and taxable, and blackrock has bought up all the real estate, so now people with big money are parking it in whatever pseudo-currency they can lay their hands on. old cars, yugioh cards, out of print comic books. out of print shit is good for currency because, just like gold, there will never be any more (not even reprints will change that, the originals will hold the price), yet it's not a one-off with no set price, there's a market of that currency with relatively predictable worth assigned to each. on a long enough timeline, every hobby that doesn't explicitly involve creating something of your own from scratch (e.g. blacksmithing) will serve a higher economic purpose, while actual hobbyists will be priced out of anything that isn't a digital subscription, a physical rental, or at best a disposable comic-of-the-day mag that will be assigned a 1 cent price for the next decade to create scarcity for when it's their turn to become rich man currency. welcome to 21st century.
My nephew wants to read Spider-man from the beginning, and after the early Ditko years he hits a rock with the rest of the 60s and 70s. He’s 12, he’s not able to afford half of this. So I just showed him how to use free comic reading websites.
>>154712801based
>>154712064I own Fall of Asgard. But it on a whim when I was wanting to get into the Kirby Thor but never did because the Kirby Thor epics were opp and expensive as fuck.is it really a $300 book?
>>154713088>I own Fall of Asgard. But it on a whim when I was wanting to get into the Kirby Thor but never did because the Kirby Thor epics were opp and expensive as fuck.is it really a $300 book?Unfortunately yes see this pic for proof
What I find the most annoying is that some books will go for a song while others require a mortgage.
>>154712064That shit isn't worth reading or owning.
>>154714415Sure thing, unc
I want to take this chance to bitch about the mapping on some of these since there's a thread. One book guys like Thor or Daredevil are fine but later 90s era volumes of X-titles and and Spidey are a complete shit show. Both X-men and X-factor and an X-cutioner song epic and they both cover almost entirely the same books except with each title getting a handful of additional titles of its own. Meaning if you want all of X-force and X-men you need to buy two books that are barely that different
>>154712493But then there would be a period of time where books they have printed are not actively selling. This way, they constantly make 100 percent profit on everything they print. It's fucking retarded to you and me, but it looks good on a p&l sheet. It's more executive brain shit.What really pisses me off is that they won't do compendiums like every other company does. If they did big fucking x-men, wolverine, deadpool or spiderman compendiums, they would sell out. But they're completely in on their fucking stupid epic collection bullshit.
>>154714447Yeah, this shit is what I'm talking about. Why not release X-cutioners song as a compendium instead this epic collection bullshit.
>>154714646The only issue with Xcutioner's Song is that the fycjers should have included all of it in all three books, fuck IAD's corpse with a razor dildo.People want everything and maggot brains like you would rather people suffer incompete crap trades, which leads to shit like the dog shit AWC and Avengers epics being incomplete with how they botched shit like OGS, Crossing, Bloodlines, Acts of Vengeance, SW2, and Contest of the Champions
>>154714422How does disliking old comics from the 70s make you unc? Retard.
>>154714811No one said anything about an incomplete trade. Just map it better.
>>154714878Cause washed uncs keep going on about old comics bad, unc
I want to buy some of the anarchy books but some are 200+ dollars
There are a few trades where it was cheaper to hunt down the individual floppies. Over a 100 bucks for 90s fantastic four is asinine.
>>154712064This is highway robbery what the hell
>>154712689This is the type of shit that makes me think perhaps I was too harsh on communism
>>154715989No, you aren't. WW3 is for feminists and minorities.
>>154712801That's basically what you have to do to read it. Marvel wonders why its losing business when there is no legal way to read its most famous comic
>>154716797>>154712801I'm in the same boat. I lent out what books I can but I don't have everything and it's much easier to give them a DC Finest or a Compact.
>>154715724I'm there with Simonson's Orion run. The early 2000s trades are going for 150 for the pair, but I can find the entire run in singles for about a third of that.
>>154717333Yeah. Unless you're chasing after obvious keys or slabbed bullshit a lot of back issues won't really break you. If I'm going to spend this much I think I'd rather build a collection.
>>154715724>>154717333It's insane to me that the volume 1 trade of Punisher Warzone has been out of print for over 20 years and is now going for over $100 on the aftermarket, it's a seminal Punisher run and some of the best JRJR Punisher art. Getting the single issues of every book in the volume one trade might set you back 20 bucks, at most.It's kind of insane to me how bad Marvel is at keeping their collected books in print compared to DC.
>>154718901I wouldn't give DC too much credit. They've really upped their game lately but they're still like a DECADE behind marvel. I love them, but God I wish we had the DC Finests started sooner. We could be well on our way to rounding out a Legion or Titans line now.
>>154712064Why do you hate capitalism?
Comic books have been free for decades now.
>>154719079Nobody tell him
>>154712064I think what I hate more than the low turnover for reprints, is having to wait for a character to get a movie/TV show appearance before Marvel decides to print/reprint anything, and even that's not a guarantee.
