How much do you spend on comics?

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How much do you usually spend on comics each month?

  1. Less than $10

  2. Between $10-$20

  3. Between $20-$30

  4. Between $30-$40

  5. Between $40-$50

  6. At least $50

  7. I don't buy any comics.

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  1. Cosmic Mystic

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    How much money do you spend on comics?
     
  2. Manic User title? USER TITLE?!

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    Wow. You're going to find a lot of people who spend way more than $50 a month on comics.

    I buy roughly 5 comics per week. At maybe $2.99 each (let's round that to $3) that's $15 per week. With four Wednesdays in a month, that's $60 per month. $60 for reading only 5 comics per week.

    You'd have to read an average of 4 titles per week to spend $48 per month. Let's check March 5th's Diamond List thread...
    http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=296756
    I get the distinct impression there are very few of us who spend less than $50 each month on comics.
     
  3. GNR Registered

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    no more than 15 to 20 a week

    a month?I'd say 30 to 40
     
  4. Midnyte_Sun Medianoche de Sol

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    Some months only 3 bucks...some months 40 bucks or more. It just depends as to what is being offerred that month. The only regular comic I read is Ghost Rider.
     
  5. SLVRSR4 Registered

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    Get around 3 comics a month. Buy a trade about once a month so I'd say around 25.
     
  6. DBM Mad Scientist

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    I usually buy $30-50 a week.
     
  7. SuGarRush The praetor of prattle

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    I was bleeding money out at the comic book store (Invincible and UFF trades killed me, but then I bought them all) so now I'm down to about $30 a month, maybe a little more.

    Ironically, last semester, I spent the most I ever have on comics, and my girlfriend was in town, so I was going broke every week between dates and comics. This semester she's studying abroad, and I don't have to pay for dates or anything, and yet I don't really have any books I want to spend more money on...
     
  8. TheCorpulent1 SHAZAM!

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    I was spending about $50 to $70 on comics a week until my car broke down a couple weeks ago. Since then, I've pared my pull list down considerably. My haul last week was $35.
     
  9. Cosmic Mystic

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    Damn, Corp. Where do you put all those comics?
     
  10. TheCorpulent1 SHAZAM!

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    Whatever patch of my room is uncovered, at this point. I gotta start looking into long-term storage for them.
     
  11. Cosmic Mystic

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    This month's list is going to cost me about $50. It's way more than what I'm used to spending, but I currently really like the stuff I'm reading, and can afford it, so that's how it is. But then again, I don't spend nearly as much money on things I used to spend on, like clothes, gas, and nightclubs.
     
  12. Tron Bonne All Ass, No Sass

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    Usually around $30-40 per month, sometimes 50 a month
     
  13. Max J Power Trash Boat

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    $10-20 per month. I only collect 5 series, and one of them doesn't come out every month.
     
  14. Steve Rogers Registered

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    Depends. I've dropped a few hundred bucks in one store before. If I pick up something new and love, I'll go back and buy up the whole run. That gets pricey. I would say I spend at least $20-24 each month, but sometimes I could spend up to $300-$400 in one week.
     
  15. film_geek Joker fanatic.

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    It depends on what you mean by comics. if you mean monthly issues, then it fluxes, There's about four or five titles I get each month.

    but if you mean trades... yeah. it's well over 50 a month. I read a lot of trades.

    I have a pile of nine trades sitting next to my computer, all purchased in the last two weeks.
     
  16. Ash J. Williams Hail to the king

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    When I buy my comics, it's usually between 10-20 for me. Today I spent a little bit more because I got seven comics instead of five or so and with tax, it was about 27 bucks.
     
  17. Psykoelf Registered

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    The minimum that I spend is roughly $70 - $120 per week at the moment (standing order), pending if any series finishes or whatnot. Damn all those variants, and that's also not including back issues.
     
  18. shadowforce420 Registered

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    Usually around $200, I go months without buying anything so when I get the chance I get alot of issues I missed and some trades.
     
  19. Cosmic Mystic

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    Take that cost and spread it out as an average monthly expense. About how much would that be?

    I do like to hear about people's spending habits, but for the sake of this thread, I'm more specifically looking for the amount that people devote to buying comics on average...like how much of it comes out of your monthly pay?
     
  20. shadowforce420 Registered

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    It's about $17 a month.
     
  21. Andy C. Repent, Harlequin!

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    On average, I drop a good $12 every two weeks on comics, then another $30 a month on tpbs.
     
  22. Ash J. Williams Hail to the king

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    10-20.
     
  23. TheCorpulent1 SHAZAM!

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    You, sir, have impressed even me with your comic spending. :)
     
  24. Psykoelf Registered

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    Cheers, it does cut down the spare space in my house square inch by square inch every month, but thats the price to pay. Sometimes I think that I should cut back .... but every time I see something new I want and must have.
     
  25. Anubis Sup?

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    How much do I spend? Too damn much.
     

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