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Post by james on Jan 14, 2021 16:27:56 GMT -5
I was going through my comics and for some odd reason I have 4 copies of FF 202. What's the most copies of one issue does everyone else have and was it because it was your favorite issue or was the plan to corner the market and retire a multi-millionaire(think 1990's)?
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Post by brutalis on Jan 14, 2021 19:31:57 GMT -5
In ye olden days of yore sometimes I might grab a 2nd copy of something I truly liked and knew I might read til it fell apart. In the last 20 years I end up with duplicate issues because of all the dang variants so it's not knowing until after I have 2-3 copies of the same issues. I will double dip sometimes for having floppies and then buy again in TPB.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 14, 2021 19:38:52 GMT -5
Any duplicates I've had over the years were the result of not keeping my inventory up to date and thus entirely unintentional.
Cei-U! I summon the accidental additions!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 19:42:24 GMT -5
I have 7 of these left including one CGC 9.8 signed...it was limited to 1500 copies and many were dinged because they were handled by buffoons. I'm not going to say who went digging and pulled out the nicest copies. Keeping them, they make good trading material...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 21:07:03 GMT -5
it would have to be this one: it was the 1st Metal Men comic I'd ever seen - I was 9 in 1976 and tho had been reading comics for several years (and buying them at Foodarama or Woolworths where they had the spinner racks) I'd never seen THESE characters. I bought it coverless for 5cents at a flea market. I wasn't familiar with the characters, but was in love and read it over and over until it literally fell apart. I begged and begged my parents to take me to a used bookstore, or any place that sold comics, so I could get more of them. I think it may have been "Forbidden Planet" or "Roy's House of Memories" in Houston, where they finally took me and I not only found this issue - which turned out to have a Giordano cover, in addition to the fantastic Simonson art. Since I hadn't been familiar with the Metal Men I hadn't realized how often they "died". . . so I think that is a big part of why this particular issue hit (and stuck) with me so hard. I ended up buying a lot of back issues of the series (eventually, I got a complete run, and they remain my favorite Comic Group of characters - even have Tattoos of several of em). but this particular issue? I have at least 11 copies of it - I always buy it when I see it, especially if in a bad condition, as it reminds me so much of that 1st issue (coverless) where I discovered Gold, Iron, Lead, Mercury, Tin, and Palatinum (Tina) and Doc. Magnus. oh, and it took me YEARS to track down a nice image of Simonson's linework, for a tattoo I'd always planned on getting on my back left shoulder. (then a few years ago, a Simonson book came out ("Manhunter and other stories: artist's edition"). . so I've had this sitting and waiting until I have time to do it:
upper right panel on the right page (Lead going up like butter on a grille)
and eventually the middle left panel (Tin getting blasted)
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 14, 2021 22:21:38 GMT -5
Only time I ever had a duplicate copy was from buying the Whitman 3 comic bagged sets and getting a duplicate of something inside. I ended up with a couple of copies of Superboy & the Legion that way.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 14, 2021 23:04:45 GMT -5
I have two copies of Marvel Two-In-One #90 and Marvel Tales #142 (reprinting Amazing Spider-Man #5). These two comics were the first proper, colour American comics I ever bought (back in 1982) and I read and re-read them so many times as a kid that eventually the covers fell off. I still have my cherished coverless copies, but because of the sentimental attachment and significance they have for me, I did invest in two NM duplicates to sit alongside my battered originals in my long boxes. I also have multiple copies of some of Marvel's old Star Wars comics, just because I'm a bit of a completist when it comes to that series. I have four copies of the comic adaptations of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (the regular U.S comics, treasury-sized versions, paperback sized editions, and the UK hardcover annuals). I also have the UK originals and multiple U.S. reprints of the various issues that were initially exclusive to Marvel UK. However, it's frankly ridiculous that I have five different copies of the Roy Thomas/Howard Chaykin adaptation of the original SW movie and am looking to make it six! I have the six original U.S. comics, the standard six-issue U.S. reprints that came out later in 1977, the two-volume treasury-sized reprints, a hardcover UK annual edition, and a black and white paperback-sized reprint (which Icctrombone generously gave to me, when we met up in Hoboken, New Jersey in 2018). Thing is though, I'm still on the lookout for the single volume treasury reprint to take my total up to six versions of the adaptation. It's an illness, I tell you!
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Post by berkley on Jan 14, 2021 23:37:44 GMT -5
The one that comes to mind right now is Doctor Strange #4, very special for me in that it pretty much got me back into reading comics after having given them up for 2 or 3 years in the early 70s. I came across a coverless copy of it in our neighbour's trash and I was so blown away after reading it that I wanted to go out right then and there and find whatever Doctor Strange comics were on the racks. Of course, looking for Doctor Strange led me to see all the other titles on the stands and very soon I was reading all the old favourites and discovering new ones.
Anyway, years later I was able to find a better-preserved copy of Doctor Strange #4, cover and all. But I've never gotten rid of the old coverless one, battered and faded as it is,
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 23:59:11 GMT -5
Any duplicates I've had over the years were the result of not keeping my inventory up to date and thus entirely unintentional. Cei-U! I summon the accidental additions! That's usually the case with me as well. Or if I buy a lot of books to finish off a series that has several issues I need plus a few I already have. I have intentionally bought additional copies of a couple of books I had signed because I framed the signed copy for display and wanted a reading copy on hand (I know Secret Origins #10 and Conan the Barbarian #82 are two that come to mind that I have done what with). I've also bought an extra copy of a book I had if someone I knew was looking for it, but a few times they had acquired one already and I wound up keeping the extra copy temporarily. I currently have a plastic storage tote full of accidental duplicates I need to find a home for. -M
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 15, 2021 0:03:17 GMT -5
I have 8 copies of Just Married #104. I love the cover and buy it any time I see it.
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Post by foxley on Jan 15, 2021 2:58:13 GMT -5
I've ended up with 3 or 4 copies of The New Teen Titans #33 for no other reason than the story is fairly forgettable (it's a filler issue falling between two major story arcs), and could honestly not remember if I had it or not when I saw it and didn't have my want list with me.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 15, 2021 4:03:21 GMT -5
I only had a few duplicates back in the day, and they were all unintentional: X-men #137, because that's when my subscription (which I bought some time after missing issue #130) finally kicked in. Same with Ka-Zar the Savage, so I had two copies of #17. And yeah, I believe I did end up with a few duplicates when buying those Whitman bagged three-packs.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 15, 2021 4:14:54 GMT -5
it would have to be this one: (...) I didn't have multiple copies, but I did have this whole run of the revived series (i.e. #s 45-56) after buying it blind from Lone Star's catalog back in 1981 (probably paid $3 for the whole set). Unlike a lot of the stuff I picked up in similar fashion at around that time, I thoroughly loved it all - the first few issues illustrated by Simonson, and then the rest by Joe Staton. Afterward I read some of the earlier, classic material from the 1960s, but these are 'my' Metal Men. Since I don't have any of my original collection any more, I'd love it if DC published a tpb collecting this run.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 15, 2021 4:23:14 GMT -5
Like some others, my only duplicates are from having another copy with a different cover that I thought was the next issue.
Or occassionally getting confused which exact number I was missing on a series with covers that all followed a similar style.
I also have "duplicates" in that I've bought stuff in trade or gotten issues in Digital that I already had in another format (usually because I missed an issue and the trade was the easiest way to get that missing issue or in case of digital, because they were part of a Humble Bundle.)
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Post by DubipR on Jan 15, 2021 7:45:44 GMT -5
The one that comes to mind is Showcase #79 (first Dolphin). I have two copies; most likely to upgrade the quality. I'm sure I have more but that one sticks out. Honestly I'd upgrade one last time to get a NM.
-R
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