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Post by grubcubman on Jan 14, 2022 16:47:44 GMT
I lost an auction last night for Sunday Press's first volume of Little Nemo in Slumberland -- it was a west coast auction and it ended way past my bedtime -- and I got to thinking about the comics I've passed on or missed out on over the years -- the ones that got away.
The collected Eightball seems like an obvious one because I saw it about 500 times after it came out and more recently it's been impossible to find for anything close to reasonable -- but Fantagraphics also has the new paperback edition coming out this year, so that'll settle that.
Maybe the biggest one I think about it a print: At TCAF 2017, I got to meet Jesse Jacobs (a total sweetheart based on five minutes of talking to him), and he was selling these slick prints. I had already spent a mint at the show and so I passed, but here I am still thinking about it five years later.
Unrelated but on topic: For years, I went to Wolff's Flea Market outside the Rosemont Horizon with my dad, and one time we found a vintage, 1960s-era vending machine, complete with the original cigarettes. He passed on it and lamented the decision for decades.
How about for you all? Any missed comic connections that you especially regret?
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Post by papersnail on Jan 14, 2022 18:05:39 GMT
For a long time it was Mould Map 3. It was way too expensive for me back then. Finally scored a copy (at original pricing!) last year.
Now it's Schrauwen's The Man Who Grew His Beard, Andres Magan's Is Your Journey Really Necessary?, a couple Noel Freibert things I kept passing on: the anthology The Tortured Page and Weird 6 (someone, please!), Dylan Jones's 32 Drawings, Connor Willumsen's Treasure Island #1*, a bunch of Tommi Parrish minis they were selling directly years ago, and of course, various expensive old CF things on eBay over the last few years.
I didn't know about it at the time so it's not quite the same, but I'll forever dream of a copy of Lagon Revue #1. I'd be very surprised if it ever even turned up on eBay and if it did I'm sure it would be $$$$.
* I used to have jpgs saved from his Tumblr where you could read the entire thing. The drive died and only some of it is accessible now using the Wayback Machine. Anyone else happen to save the jpegs?
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Post by teemcgee on Jan 14, 2022 18:33:17 GMT
Recent ebay auctions I've missed: * A copy of Comix 2000, with some spine damage but at a much cheaper price than any other listing I've seen. It sat on my watch list for months, constantly being relisted as I hummed and hawed, and then as soon as someone else bought it I wished I had. * The issue of Raw that had a flexidisc going with a really low reserve that I told myself I couldn't bid on because I was moving house - it went for the reserve uncontested...
As expensive as out of print English language comics can get, certain French language books can get positively stratasphoric. Generally second hand prices on the whole are higher than English - I've always wondered whether this is a function of the fact that France still has the equivalent of a net book agreement (stores can't discount new books below a certain percentage), meaning a small discount on second hand is still attractive. In any case, I'd love to get volume three and four of the French translation of Kamui Den, but whenever these come up for sale they are consistently £300-400. Youch.
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Post by awfulquiet on Jan 14, 2022 19:11:43 GMT
Yowamushi Pedal volume 3. Finally got my wife reading manga and we haven't been able to find volume 3. I almost bought it alongside volume 2, but chose not to. And now it's been out of print for over a year and going for $200 on the secondary market.
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Post by skoden on Jan 14, 2022 19:12:48 GMT
I once saw a copy of L'Association Comix 2000 in Strand sometime around 2008 for only $50! I was visiting NYC and traveling light at the time and didn't want to fly back home with a massive stack of books and stupidly thought I would find another copy one day. I think about that often...
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Post by dominocorp on Jan 14, 2022 19:29:22 GMT
I used to work at Forbidden Planet when all the Phoenix tezuka books were coming out. Employees got a 40% discount and I still regret not buying those books at the time for what would be $12 a pop, but I just didn't have the money at the time to spare. Read em all in the store during break time, at least. Possibly the greatest comic ever by a wide margin
The books are all at least $60-400 now
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Post by BubblesZine on Jan 14, 2022 20:54:28 GMT
Oh man this thread is going to break my heart
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Post by ely on Jan 15, 2022 1:33:51 GMT
when i was in high school i worked at my mom’s bookstore & ordered in the underground men and most of black jack but rather than buying them I read them on break and bought the entire run of dragon ball and dragon ball z instead (which are now in various shoe boxes thru her house, i can never seem to find them all at once). i try to avoid letting things get away anymore but then spend too much $$ on comics, it’s a weird cycle. i think a lot abt the sense of urgency to own a book that comes from knowing it may go out of print or the press is too small for a library to get copies.. its sort of w bad feeling ha
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Post by mikesheawright on Jan 16, 2022 6:10:30 GMT
i was going to Bergen St. all the time when the Yokoyama books were coming out at a rapid pace. I remember fliping through New Engineering and Plaza and not quite "getting it" at the time. Now I love that shit so much, I've tracked down a few of his books in different places but can't quite pull the trigger on those two via ebay or wherever else.
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Post by kevinfong on Jan 18, 2022 1:34:05 GMT
i was going to Bergen St. all the time when the Yokoyama books were coming out at a rapid pace. I remember fliping through New Engineering and Plaza and not quite "getting it" at the time. Now I love that shit so much, I've tracked down a few of his books in different places but can't quite pull the trigger on those two via ebay or wherever else. 50 Watts Books in Philly recently had Plaza and Baby Boom in stock (from French publisher Éditions Matière). Although currently sold out, on IG they mentioned they're restocking soon! 50wattsbooks.com/products/plaza
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Post by whitecomics on Jan 18, 2022 15:07:16 GMT
I came across a copy of Coober Skeeber 2, the Marvel benefit issue, pretty recently. Maybe within the past three or four years? Should have grabbed that one.
I bought an Eleanor Davis drawing for $30 (a small one, but still) as a gift for a friend at a show. Always wish I'd grabbed another piece or two for myself.
I also have the opposite problem sometimes, where I'll buy a book not because I necessarily want to read it but because I know I'll never come across it again.
Yokoyama is one of the few I've gotten right, bought them all at once during the Pbox going-out-of-business sale.
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Post by whitecomics on Jan 18, 2022 15:10:38 GMT
Ha also, a fun tangentially related topic is the books that you seem to stumble across all the time. Like, am I the only one who sees copies of Jordan Crane's The Last Lonely Saturday with strange regularity?? I love love love Jordan's work but I'd guess he (edit: or Devlin, since I now remember this was a Highwater book) might have been too ambitious on the print run for that one.
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Post by grubcubman on Jan 18, 2022 16:05:47 GMT
Ha also, a fun tangentially related topic is the books that you seem to stumble across all the time. Like, am I the only one who sees copies of Jordan Crane's The Last Lonely Saturday with strange regularity?? I love love love Jordan's work but I'd guess he (edit: or Devlin, since I now remember this was a Highwater book) might have been too ambitious on the print run for that one. Yes! The first time I saw this book I thought I had gotten soooo lucky -- Crane is terrific (and I'm really glad to be getting his new Smoke Signal issue soon). But it's everywhere! I sometimes think it's the same with Paul Hornschemeier's books, which have terrific illustration and are nicely published and some of them seem like they're everywhere.
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Post by mikesheawright on Jan 18, 2022 21:20:42 GMT
i was going to Bergen St. all the time when the Yokoyama books were coming out at a rapid pace. I remember fliping through New Engineering and Plaza and not quite "getting it" at the time. Now I love that shit so much, I've tracked down a few of his books in different places but can't quite pull the trigger on those two via ebay or wherever else. 50 Watts Books in Philly recently had Plaza and Baby Boom in stock (from French publisher Éditions Matière). Although currently sold out, on IG they mentioned they're restocking soon! 50wattsbooks.com/products/plazaYOOOOO good lookin out!!
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Post by BubblesZine on Feb 1, 2022 13:43:33 GMT
50 Watts Books in Philly recently had Plaza and Baby Boom in stock (from French publisher Éditions Matière). Although currently sold out, on IG they mentioned they're restocking soon! 50wattsbooks.com/products/plazaYOOOOO good lookin out!! Ey also just get the japanese editions: order.mandarake.co.jp/order/listPage/list?keyword=yuichi%20yokoyama&lang=en they're sold out now but they'll come back in stock I'm sure. If you need help ordering from mandarake, read my article in bubbles #3 lol I have most of them, got them all cheap. I feel like you don't miss out on too much without any translation in his work. Also my copy of New Engineering came with this scrap piece of paper that looks like a piece of his mock up drawings? I'm not 100% sure though, it was folded up and tucked inside.
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