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Post by james on Jan 13, 2022 16:55:40 GMT -5
So I’ve begun working on my X-men collection and it occurred to me that 67-93 are reprints of earlier issues. So here is the question: Would you collect 67-93, the original issues, or both? My OCD in me says get every issue but the frugal part of me says there is no point in buying a story twice. Only problem is that would leave a chunk of issues missing. 🤔 The things I think about when it’s slow at work.
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Post by Rags on Jan 13, 2022 17:13:11 GMT -5
I didn't make the reprints a priority and only picked several of them up when there was a good deal. I got a VF copies of #69 and #85 for about 3 bucks each in a brick and mortar bookstore run by an indifferent family who didn't care about guides.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 13, 2022 17:22:33 GMT -5
I wouldn't buy both, unless there was some kind of new addition to the contents.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 13, 2022 17:41:36 GMT -5
If you have the original 66, there's no point in buying the reprint issues. Just skip ahead to #94. That's what I did, back when I collected X-Men, and I never had a nanosecond of regret.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 13, 2022 18:33:48 GMT -5
I had a good number of the reprint issues for years, but eventually sold them because they were redundant.
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Post by Rags on Jan 13, 2022 19:56:44 GMT -5
Still boggles the mind that the series was 'struggling' back then....then came the 90s and the X-books were like confetti....still are...
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Post by shaxper on Jan 13, 2022 19:57:01 GMT -5
Considering that #94 essentially begins a whole new series, I don't see the merit in owning the complete run, myself.
In my own situation, I decided a long while back that I was never going to be able to justify the cost of acquiring the first thirty issues, so I bought those in Masterwork format, collected #32-66, and then skipped to GS #1 and #94+.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 13, 2022 20:15:39 GMT -5
Considering that #94 essentially begins a whole new series, I don't see the merit in owning the complete run, myself. In my own situation, I decided a long while back that I was never going to be able to justify the cost of acquiring the first thirty issues, so I bought those in Masterwork format, collected #32-66, and then skipped to GS #1 and #94+. Similar situation here. I own the first 66 issues in Omnibus format (along with 10, 13, and 51 in floppie) Giant-Size #1 as a Milestone issue (the ones they did with the silver cover borders), and then own 94 up in floppies. |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 13, 2022 21:46:52 GMT -5
Personally, my "frugal gland" is much better developed than my "OCD gland", so I would have very little problem with missing them out. It seems redundant to me to own the same comics twice. I mean, just think of all the other great comics you could buy with the money you would've spent on those reprint issues.
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Post by spoon on Jan 13, 2022 22:47:40 GMT -5
I wouldn't buy both, unless there was some kind of new addition to the contents. Some of the reprint issues are actually missing content from the original issues. When the reprints reach the issues that have Origins of the X-Men backup stories, they reprint other stories unrelated to X-Men as the backups instead. The only new content is the new cover art on some issues. All of those cover are reprinting in the X-Men Epic Collection TPB that cover the post #66 period. |
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Post by Mormel on Jan 13, 2022 23:13:01 GMT -5
What's pretty wild about some of those reprint covers, is how much more frantic they appear for having speech bubbles printed on them with very tense dialogue. Mimic boasting "Your precious mutants are finished, Xavier... now it's YOUR turn to die" or Red Raven saying "The day you met Red Raven is the day you met your DOOM!" Sometimes it's a bit out-of-character but I can see how it would get kids excited to pick up the book.  even if maybe the contents didn't quite live up to it  |
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Post by Rags on Jan 14, 2022 19:40:51 GMT -5
Personally, my "frugal gland" is much better developed than my "OCD gland", so I would have very little problem with missing them out. It seems redundant to me to own the same comics twice. I mean, just think of all the other great comics you could buy with the money you would've spent on those reprint issues. My one exception to this....sometimes a 'collected' edition looks cool, like those DC Pocketbook editions produced by Egmont in the UK in the late 70s which reprinted Superman and Batman stories, or modern day Hardcovers like that huge Amazing Spidey Hardcover that's about 15 inches long and weighs almost 11 pounds. I am so getting that even if I own 3/4s of the original comics  |
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Post by jason on Jan 15, 2022 1:02:56 GMT -5
Yeah, it would be like collecting all of Spider-Man and including Marvel Tales (though some issues DO have exclusive back-up stories, which cant be said about the X-Men reprints).
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Post by tolworthy on Jan 15, 2022 5:40:31 GMT -5
Plot twist. In 2023, some nerd discovers a tiny, unnoticed edit that changes a vital detail of the reprinted stories. Hot new writer uses that detail as the basis for a new relaunched X-men. Movies result. Collectors to their horror realise that almost nobody kept the reprints. Non comics speculators star buying remaining reprints for a million dollars a piece.
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Post by commond on Jan 15, 2022 6:05:07 GMT -5
I would be interested in the letters pages.
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even if maybe the contents didn't quite live up to it 
