Your comic book reading goals

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Your comic book reading goals Mar 29, 2017 1:57:14 GMT -5

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Post by Spike-X on Mar 29, 2017 1:57:14 GMT -5

Mar 28, 2017 17:48:57 GMT -5 @mrp said:

Mar 28, 2017 17:21:22 GMT -5 Spike-X said:

I'm about 2/3 through 1965.

I am in March of 1965 currently.

I am reading most of it on Unlimited (though I have a good chunk of it collected in print somewhere, with the house room projects most of my stuff is packed away until I get the new comic room set up.

As for reading order, I use the release calendar function of Unlimited and set it to the month and year I want. It lists the books in order of release that month.

If you are trying to decide what you want to invest money into in terms of getting Masterworks, etc. you could look at trying Unlimited for a month (they often do a 1 month free trial, one such offer just ended) and sample a few issues of the serious you are curious about digitally, and then you can prioritize what you want to spend your money on acquiring Masterworks for, etc. Pretty much all the early Marvel Age stuff is available except some of the Millie type titles and some of the westerns. There are gaps though as you move forward (only 20 some odd issues of Sgt. Fury are available for instance, and chunks of late Silver/early Bronze DD are not available, but FF, Spidey, X-Men, Avengers, Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish, Strange Tales, etc. are all there in their entirety for the Silver Age and in some cases beyond. If you don't like the digital format, I understand, but if its a free month it's a tool available to you for free to make the decisions about what you want to get based on your actually sampling/previewing the material.

-M

Yeah, I've had Unlimited since the start of the year, and that's how I've been doing it. I imagine I'll be buying very little in print from Marvel going forward, although I do jump on every new Slott/Allred Silver Surfer tpb that comes out. I also bought the tpbs of the recent Vision series. Basically, it's going to have to be stuff of that calibre to earn my hard-earned from now on, especially as there are so many great titles from other publishers competing for that precious cash.

Confessor CCF Mod Squad Not Bucky O'Hare! Posts: 9,584	Your comic book reading goals Mar 29, 2017 4:49:21 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Confessor on Mar 29, 2017 4:49:21 GMT -5 Mar 28, 2017 17:10:34 GMT -5 Slam_Bradley said: My goal is to read some funnybooks now and then. And crack on with your Marvel review thread, right?

MDG Fortress of Solitude member Posts: 9,861	Your comic book reading goals Mar 29, 2017 8:57:30 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2017 8:57:30 GMT -5 Mar 28, 2017 17:06:39 GMT -5 Spike-X said: I've slowed down a little with my goal of reading every Marvel comic from FF #1 onwards (except the crappy ones), ..... I'd love to see the rubric you're using to ferret those out.