Whats your longest Marvel comic run?

[GNR]

I am too. But I have come to the realization that a book I drop will eventually get a writer that will start to write good stories again, so wtf.... might as well keep the run going....

That's not always the case true?

 

[Phaedrus45]

I've got all four issues of MegaMorphs!

 

[Deathlok2001]

aaahahahahhahahahahahhahahaha

 

[Deathlok2001]

That's not always the case true?

Its true for Batman,Detective, FF, Spiderman, etc. The stories go in cycles.

 

[Kool-Aid]

Cool runs guys.

And I have long runs of DC comics as well

What do you have?

 

[Phaedrus45]

To be serious, though...I have pretty much everything Marvel's put out from 1990 to today. Plus, of course, I've been filling up on back issues, so, the main titles, like Captain America and Thor have a run from the 80's to today. The only problems I have is when my old comic shop would miss an issue here or there. I use Mile High to fill in the blanks. The odd comics, like Pinhead, I find are missing a couple issues, because of it's lack of popularity. At least those crappy series that lasted for only about 9 issues aren't too expensive. Heck, I didn't know about What The? until recently. My comic shop back in the early 90's never carried it.

 

[KingOfDreams]

I've got all four issues of MegaMorphs!

Haha!

 

[Elijya]

I am too. But I have come to the realization that a book I drop will eventually get a writer that will start to write good stories again, so wtf.... might as well keep the run going....

oh, I wasted ALOOOT of money when I was a teenager with this mentality. Yeah, SOMETIMES that's true, especially with a long-running book like Detective or Uncanny. But that's just a law of averages - a series goes on for hundreds of issues under dozens of creators, of course some are going to be better and some will be worse. But unless you, like, masterbate nightly while thinking about Wolverine, what is really the value of owning all 6 gagillion of the comics he's appeared in if some of them are just really not worth the paper they're printed on? Especially when that money can go towards better books, instead of being sucked into the mentality of spending money every time they shovel out another pile of crap with the X-Men logo on it? All this really says to a company is "We don't have to worry about the quality of a product, because we just have to throw the letter "X" onto the title and sales will triple because X-Men fans are so loyal they'll bend over and take it."

 

[Phaedrus45]

oh, I wasted ALOOOT of money when I was a teenager with this mentality. Yeah, SOMETIMES that's true, especially with a long-running book like Detective or Uncanny. But that's just a law of averages - a series goes on for hundreds of issues under dozens of creators, of course some are going to be better and some will be worse. But unless you, like, masterbate nightly while thinking about Wolverine, what is really the value of owning all 6 gagillion of the comics he's appeared in if some of them are just really not worth the paper they're printed on? Especially when that money can go towards better books, instead of being sucked into the mentality of spending money every time they shovel out another pile of crap with the X-Men logo on it? All this really says to a company is "We don't have to worry about the quality of a product, because we just have to throw the letter "X" onto the title and sales will triple because X-Men fans are so loyal they'll bend over and take it."

I understand your point, Elijya. But, I love it when someone is loyal to something they like.

Case in point, for the first time in years, I was able to afford season tickets to go to the Seahawks...but, for the first time in years, all tickets are sold out because of the excellent season they had last year. Now, I've been a loyal fan of the seahawks since 1983. Never have I not watched their games on television if I had the chance. And, never did I falter in over 20 years of them not winning a playoff game. To me, loyalty and dedication sometimes means more than someone who sticks with something only in the best of times.

Second case in point. I've been a Prince fan since he came out with the "1999" album. Now, some believe he hasn't made a decent album since the early 90's. I will agree that his latest stuff hasn't been my favorite by him, but to me, his crap would be other's gold. He's just that good. Just because some people don't like the current stuff or critics call it rubbish doesn't necessarily make it so to others, especially a true fan of his music. Same with Marvel comics and certain runs that people purchase. Heck, I would argue if someone put out some Fantastic Four stories they wrote in the 60's, most people would call it garbage today. Many crappy stories of today are really better than the classics of yesterday.

 

[Themanofbat]

Cool runs guys.

What do you have?

I have Batman #330 to 520
Detective Comics #500 to 704
Superman #1 (the Byrne revamp) to 100, along with the 3 other Supes books at the time
Flash #1 to current
Swamp Thing #1 to 171, as well as all the last volume, all the original volume, and all of the current volume.
HellBlazer #1 to current (223 I think?)
Sandman #1 to 75
Justice League #1 to 77, along with JLEurope...
Green Arrow #1 to 80
Teen Titans (the Marv Wolfman/George Perez run) #1 to 59 (it became a reprint book with #60)
Teen Titans (the 1984 Baxter paper release) #1 to 102
Vigilante #1 to 50
Preacher #1 to 66

That's just from the top of my head...

 

[juggster-rules]

mine is avengers

 

[Corporal]

Sadly, as I just recently got back into comics, my longest run is Ultimate Spider-Man, from TPB #7 to current (with 5 missing issues).

 

[Anubis]

I'd say the longest i've got would be either Amazing Spider-Man (Which I jumped on three issues into JMS's run or Fantastic Four (Which I jumped on about an arc and a half into Mark Waid's run. Either those or Avengers which I had been collecting since the end of Busiek's run. (Kang Dynasty) I've also been collecting Exiles for quite a bit.

My thing is that I don't keep a book if it sucks. As long as i'm enjoying it, i'll keep buying it.

 

[GNR]

I'd say the longest i've got would be either Amazing Spider-Man (Which I jumped on three issues into JMS's run or Fantastic Four (Which I jumped on about an arc and a half into Mark Waid's run. Either those or Avengers which I had been collecting since the end of Busiek's run. (Kang Dynasty) I've also been collecting Exiles for quite a bit.

My thing is that I don't keep a book if it sucks. As long as i'm enjoying it, i'll keep buying it.

Exactly.I'm not a loyalist or completist at all.When I first got my feet wet in comics last year,I spent my money on some pretty crappy books just because they were X-men or whatever.It's bad financially and you're really limiting yourself from alot of the good books out there.

 

[juggster-rules]

im only missing afew books of the ren and stimpy series

 

[Themanofbat]

Sadly, as I just recently got back into comics, my longest run is Ultimate Spider-Man, from TPB #7 to current (with 5 missing issues).

Don't be sad... we all started somewhere....

A few years down the road, and you'll have an impressive run.

 

[Harlekin]

- Avengers (1998) #1-56 (Full Busiek run)
- Fantastic Four (1998) #60-66, 496-502, 503-508 (TPB), 509-513 (TPB), 514-524 (Complete Waid run)
- X-Treme X-Men (2001) #1-32

 

[Sentry2005]

- Avengers (1998) #1-56 (Full Busiek run)

I envy you and hate you all at the same time

 

[martywest]

Thor volume 2 complete
FF volumes 2 and 3 complete
Captain America Volumes 2, 3, and 4 complete
Avengers volume 2 and 3 complete
Daredevil volume 2 complete
Amazing Spider-Man volume 2 complete
Ultimate Spider-Man complete
Ultimate X-Men Complete
Incredible Hulk volume 2 complete
Punisher volumes 2,3, and 4 complete
Plus a bunch others Electra, 4, Ultimates 1 & 2, New Avengers etc.

 

[martywest]

Also I forgot:

Iron Man volumes 1 & 2 complete
Currently working on every single issue of the clone saga (122 issues)
(I'm about 85% done)
I'd like to get a complete run of:
Web of Spider-Man
Spider-Man, the one that McFarlane started
Peter Parker, the one that started in the 70's

 

[hippy fascist]

15 issues of ultimate spiderman (weeps)

I only started collecting six months ago

 

[Iceman]

TMOB has the advantage over us of being born in the thirties.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Also I forgot:

Iron Man volumes 1 & 2 complete
Currently working on every single issue of the clone saga (122 issues)
(I'm about 85% done)
I'd like to get a complete run of:
Web of Spider-Man
Spider-Man, the one that McFarlane started
Peter Parker, the one that started in the 70's

The McFarlane one isn't too hard, now. Those early issues are cheaper than ever. I think I had about six of the early issues missing, and got them on mile high for about a dollar a piece a year ago.

I've been really enjoying getting the lesser known titles. I got the complete five issues of Dakota North when Mile High had their 50% off sale for about four dollars recently.

 

[Themanofbat]

TMOB has the advantage over us of being born in the thirties.

Man, if THAT were true, I'd have 800 issue runs of Batman & Superman, and full runs of everything else.

 

[Kool-Aid]

I have Batman #330 to 520
Detective Comics #500 to 704
Superman #1 (the Byrne revamp) to 100, along with the 3 other Supes books at the time
Flash #1 to current
Swamp Thing #1 to 171, as well as all the last volume, all the original volume, and all of the current volume.
HellBlazer #1 to current (223 I think?)
Sandman #1 to 75
Justice League #1 to 77, along with JLEurope...
Green Arrow #1 to 80
Teen Titans (the Marv Wolfman/George Perez run) #1 to 59 (it became a reprint book with #60)
Teen Titans (the 1984 Baxter paper release) #1 to 102
Vigilante #1 to 50
Preacher #1 to 66

That's just from the top of my head...

Damn, thats cool. Must be a pain storing all them.