Omnibus/OHC Graphic Novel Collectors discussion
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What have you added to your collection recently?
Joseph wrote: "So does anyone know if IST and others have a hard time getting new copies of books that sell out? They have not had that Green Lantern/Green Arrow book since the week it came out which has been a c..."Doesn’t directly answer your question, but I’d suggest checking out eBay before turning to Amazon. I now consider amazon to be my last ditch, avoid at all costs option. But there’s some good eBay sellers out there that still offer fair prices even after sites like IST sell out.
I'll do that. Amazon doesn't offer much in the way of discounts plus no need to feed the beast.
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No idea if any of these will come back in stock in the future or not. Selling out at the initial sale like this doesn't mean it won't come back in stock unless the distributor (Diamond) is sold out.
For those that missed the Wolverine Omni on IST, it’s currently in stock at mycomicshop.com, $80 for the Frank Miller cover and $100 for the DM variant.
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I buy from them occasionally, and have bought a few omnis. I’d say the grades they assign for items they list are very accurate, and I’ve never had a complaint.Edit: I’d say prices are reasonable, don’t expect to find killer deals, but a few times I’ve found items on their site for a fair price and the same item is blowing up on eBay. I’ve never had any problems with their shipping, seems sturdy, but I can only recall what it looks like for floppies. None of my omnis came damaged, though.
I have a weekly pull list with them that I have shipped every two weeks. Have never had any issues whatsoever, great packaging, etc. Their comics always come in pristine condition, and if they aren’t, they let you know before purchase and lower the cost. I have never bought an Omnibus from them but I have nothing but great things to say about all the purchases I have made. I will suggest paying the additional 4 bucks to ship via UPS, as my stuff comes way faster that way. Sometimes the free shipping gets caught up in the USPS web of craziness after they ship your order.
Ryan wrote: "I have a weekly pull list with them that I have shipped every two weeks. Have never had any issues whatsoever, great packaging, etc. Their comics always come in pristine condition, and if they aren..."Good call on shipping Ryan. Their default option is called “Lone Star Shipping” (and coincidentally they started as Lone Star Comics). I never trust shipping outside the big 3, despite current issues.
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Got lots of comics added to my collection mostly Batman & Nightwing.Nightmask: New Universen
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Century 21 classic comic strip from the world of Gerry Anderson comic: Menace From Space comic
Batman: The Black Mirrormirror
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Elseworlds: Batman Volume One
Grayson, Volume 3: Nemesis
Nightwing Guardian of Gotham by Peter J. Tomasi
Nightwing Volume 2: Rough Justice
Nightwing A Knight in Blühaven by Chuck Dixon, Scott McDaniel, Karl Story.
Batman & Robin Batman Reborn by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Philip Tan.
Batman Death and the Maidens by Greg Rucka, Klaus Janson.
Batman Volume 1&2 by Ed Brubaker
Batman Battle for the cowl by Tony S. Daniel
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Lots of good Bat titles in there!
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Animal Man DLX vol 2 by Grant Morrison
Atlas at War HC
Basket Full of Heads HC (same author as Lock and Key)
Clover Omnibus HC (manga)
Five Years Omnibus HC
God of War Lore and Legends HC
Heroes Reborn Omnibus
Legend of Korra Ruins of Empire Library Edition
Star Wars Age of Resistance OHC
Witch Hat Atelier TPB vol 6 (manga)
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Amazon has more copies of the Batman Knightfall Omnibus vol 3 for $50 (50% off cover). This has been out of stock for a few months and I looked for an inexpensive copy a couple weeks ago and couldn't find anything cheaper than $80 +shipping.
https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Knightf...
FWIW, that'd be the Heroes Reborn Return Omnibus, the follow up. I debated on the first one and it's gone OOP interestingly, lots of people must have liked that 90s event.
John wrote: "FWIW, that'd be the Heroes Reborn Return Omnibus, the follow up. I debated on the first one and it's gone OOP interestingly, lots of people must have liked that 90s event."I heard that what’s collected in the first one sort of tanked due to various reasons back in the day, so I skipped the omni, but I’ve always wanted to know what happened to get the sacrificed heroes back after that final battle with Onslaught. This follow up is on my radar even though the TPB version doesn’t have the greatest reviews, but it’s a 90’s event, come on!
noelbeast wrote: "I heard that what’s collected in the first one sort of tanked due to various reasons back in the day, so I skipped the omni.."Right, doesn't seem the first one is popping up on eBay as often as I would have thought at this point.
John wrote: "noelbeast wrote: "I heard that what’s collected in the first one sort of tanked due to various reasons back in the day, so I skipped the omni.."Right, doesn't seem the first one is popping up on ..."
I shouldn’t have said tanked, looked up the history of Heroes Reborn and that was inaccurate. Rob Liefeld’s issues weren’t too popular, but Jim Lee’s work was very well received. Just something that didn’t catch my eye, so I’ll let my imagination paint what happened in the pocket universe and pick back up where they’re brought back to 616 continuity.
Maybe if the first volume contained the 13th issues of each Reborn run with the WildStorm/WWIII event I’d pick it up out of curiosity, but apparently it doesn’t (licensing nightmare I’m sure) so it seems like an incomplete book to me.
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it was originally an omnibus with this listing (and still shows that on the Amazon listing):
ACTION 584-593
ACTION ANNUAL 1
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN 424-435
ADVENTURES ANNUAL 1
LEGION OF SUPERHEROS 37-38
SUPERMAN 1-11
SUPERMAN ANNUAL 1
MAN OF STEEL 1-6
But now it's a standard sized hardcover with these issues:
MAN OF STEEL 1-6
SUPERMAN 1-4
ACTION COMICS 584-587
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN 424-428
WHO's WHO: Update '87 1, 3-4
this is based off a picture someone posted on Amazon. If someone can confirm the contents of the standard sized hardcover that would be helpful. There is a second volume coming out in a few months, that presumably will have the remainder of the issues listed on the omnibus.
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Blindzider wrote: "How is that Grayson book? I didn’t realize it was by Tomasi. Lots of good Bat titles in there!"
Hi!
I think I need find & read back issues leading up to Grayson. Do you or anyone else know which issues to get?
Relstuart wrote: "Nice Batman additions to the collection Alicia. =) Amazon has more copies of the Batman Knightfall Omnibus vol 3 for $50 (50% off cover). This has been out of stock for a few months and I looke..."
Thanks.
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Lots of good Bat titles in there!"
Hi!
I think I need find & read back issues leading up to Grayson. Do you or an..."
Looks like Wikipedia has a list of published Nightwing comics listed in publication order that might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwing
I often check the Captain America publication history list to ensure I'm on point with which volume we're on for my custom Cap binds.
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Here’s their page for Nightwing/Grayson:
https://crushingkrisis.com/crushing-c...
Relstuart wrote: "Alicia wrote: "Blindzider wrote: "How is that Grayson book? I didn’t realize it was by Tomasi. Lots of good Bat titles in there!"
Hi!
I think I need find & read back issues leading up to Grayso..."
Thank you.
Blindzider wrote: "For reading orders I tend to go to crushingkrisis.comHere’s their page for Nightwing/Grayson:
https://crushingkrisis.com/crushing-c......"
Thank you.
I’m up in Canada, indigo had a buy 2 get 1 free... that along with two stacked 10% off coupons worked out to about 45% off. I bought way too many comics.
Andrew wrote: "I’m up in Canada, indigo had a buy 2 get 1 free... that along with two stacked 10% off coupons worked out to about 45% off. I bought way too many comics."Andrew that doesn’t make any sense. There’s no such thing as buying too many comics.
What’d you get? Share more details!
I typically collect more indie stuff (think drawn+quarterly, Fanta graphics) but read a ton of marvel/dc digitally. So I took the opportunity to buy all my favs in absolute or omnibus. All of Sandman, Preacher, day tripper, dark knight returns, transmetropolitan, watchmen, fourth world, swamp thing in absolute. Ex machina, Y the last man, azzarellos Wonder Woman, bendis’s daredevil, kamandi, Bronze Age swamp thing.
Pretty much all the favorites throughout the years of reading comics. I’ve got a ton of re-reading to do now! I started on Preacher and it’s as good or better than I remember.
I love the longer format books. Reading y the last man in a single volume rather than (what ever it was) 12 paper backs is much more satisfying and binge-worthy.
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Andrew wrote: "I typically collect more indie stuff (think drawn+quarterly, Fanta graphics) but read a ton of marvel/dc digitally. So I took the opportunity to buy all my favs in absolute or omnibus. All of San..."
Very cool Andrew, love big hauls like that! Also agree with you about having a larger format than dozens of smaller books to change out as you progress through reading. Might be easier to grab and go with many smaller books, but I don’t mind the big books and enjoy the aesthetics of them on my shelves. Enjoy!
Thanks guys for the help! I order and now waiting for my books to get caught up to Grayson! 😘
Andrew wrote: "I’m up in Canada, indigo had a buy 2 get 1 free... that along with two stacked 10% off coupons worked out to about 45% off. I bought way too many comics."😂
Same!
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Your welcome Alicia. Hopefully that gets you caught up.
Does anyone here know if the copies of Silver Surfer omni that are back in stock on IST have the corrected issue with the out of order pages? I believe Marvel said they were fixing it but I don’t want to buy an error copy.
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Ryan wrote: "Does anyone here know if the copies of Silver Surfer omni that are back in stock on IST have the corrected issue with the out of order pages? I believe Marvel said they were fixing it but I don’t w..."I think the fixed version is not out until October.
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I didn’t know they’re producing a fix. I opened my copy up, printed off the missing panels on card stock and called it a day. Now the annoying part of my mind is going to bug me about a replacement...
Lol Noel, I’ll take blame for planting it in your brain. As a collector, I should have known better.
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Ryan wrote: "Lol Noel, I’ll take blame for planting it in your brain. As a collector, I should have known better."Ha! Nah, you’re fine Ryan. I’d rather know than not, and if I hadn’t have known, I would’ve been perfectly fine with how I’ve got things now. And there’s my answer about whether or not to buy the fixed version!
I sent my copy of SS back a month ago. After sending an email they gave me a prepaid label for free. It took a few days to get to them, and another two weeks of waiting before I received confirmation that the refund was processing. But all in all I got my money back and they were very professional about it. The reprint with corrections is slated to come out the first week of October according to Omar of NMC and his marvel contact. No official announcement though. The copies currently available for sale at IST are confirmed to not have the updates. Supposedly the corrected edition will have a different ISBN, but that’s not official as of yet!
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Aqualantic HC (Fantagraphics)
Batman Curse of the White Knight HC (standard size)
Batman the Golden Age Omnibus vol 8
Blade Runner 2019 TPB vol 2
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 12 Library Ed vol 1
Dark Knight Returns The Golden Child DLX
Dementia 21 HC Box Set (Fantagraphics)
Hells Paradise TPB vol 4 (manga)
James Bond Reflections of Death HC (standard size)
Johnny Hazard Dailies HC vol 8 1956-1957
Joker Killer Smile HC
Levius TPB vol 6 (manga)
Marvel Portfolio: Stanly Artgerm Lau HC
Marvel Masterworks Spider-Man vol 22
No Guns Life TPB vol 7 (manga)
Old Guard TPB vol 2 (Image, Netlix movie came out a while back covering the contents of vol 1)
Robin, 80 Years of the Boy Wonder HC (standard size)
Royal City The Complete Collection HC (Image)
Slaughterhouse Five HC
Sonata TPB vol 2 (Image)
X-men Grand Design Omnibus
I'm not a huge X-men person but that Grand Design omni is on my buy list this week.
Nothing to do with books, but a few weeks ago I was searching for some original artwork by Mike Allred (my favorite comic artist) and found this signed original pin-up of Spider-Man he created. Just finished a fresh framing: https://imgur.com/a/XiVsL66Now, I’m not one to chase movie memorabilia, but cool additional info: the image was used for a final composition that’s buried in disc 2 of the 2002 SE DVD release of Spider-Man (screenshot included in the link above). Wasn’t ever glimpsed in theaters, but it’s still a nice bonus story to go along with this great piece. Hoping to chase the Allreds down someday, get extra sigs, and maybe even see if Laura would color it for me.
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Just a heads up, Omar from Near Mint Condition just announced some dates (direct market) for restocks of some of the Marvel omnibus collections that are out of stock currently:* Annihilation: Nov 18
* JMS Spider-Man vol 2: November
* Silver Surfer (should be a fixed version): Mid November
* Uncanny X-Men: Dec 9
* Morbius: December
* She-Hulk: December
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmY8...
Blindzider wrote: "Oh nice! I don’t think I’ve ever seen him draw Spider-Man and the movie connection is a definite bonus."Thanks! Seems like Marvel commissioned a number of artists at that time to produce artwork for the DVD: Frank Quitely, John Cassaday, Alex Maleev, etc.
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Last night one of the Wolverine omnis was still available, and I grappled with getting it but I'm not an enthusiastic Wolverine fan so ended up not. The only omni I got got was the Black Widow one and some assorted tpbs, mostly catching up with the Dawn of the X-Men books and some older Avengers material.
Last month I did get the last volume of IDW's Corto Maltese series. This has been a great publishing success, IMO, as these book, even though in paper, are some of the most beautifully designed books I've seen in a while. Plus the stories are top notch, with Hugo Pratt's style a strange but mesmerizing mix of hard nosed adventure realism and mystic surrealism. Really worth checking out.