Okay, so what's in your collection?

[shaxper]

Now that it's been discussed in the "Neighborhood Collections" threads, why don't we do some sharing? Use this as you will -- for comparison, curiosity, or what have you. It's not the final product I had in mind in the other thread, but it's still a fun thing to do.

Shaxper's Collection

Overview: My collection consists mostly of favorite runs, though I do have some key issues that I'm particularly proud of. Collection focuses are Batman, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, X-Men, and Usagi Yojimbo. I also have some unremarkable modern age runs of Superman and Spiderman. Conditions on older books tend to be mid-grade (rarely lower than 2.5 or higher than 6.5). I am not a condition collector.

Size: Approximately 4000 comics.

Age: I would venture to guess that roughly 50% are modern age, 30% are bronze age, 15% are silver age, 5% are atom age, and less than 1% are true golden age.

Publishers/genres: Largely superhero with some anthropomorphics. 35% DC, 35% Marvel, 10% Valiant, 10% Usagi Yojimbo (various publishers), 5% Disney Ducks (various publishers), 2% Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (various publishers), 1% Dell/Gold Key, 1% Wildstorm, 1% other.

Notable Key Issues:


Batman #9 (classic Batman/Robin cover)
Batman #10 (classic Batman/Robin cover)
Showcase #22 (1st Silver Age Green Lantern)
Fantastic Four #5 (1st Doctor Doom)
Green Lantern (Silver Age) #1
Four Color #178 (1st Uncle Scrooge)
Uncle Scrooge #1
Incredible Hulk #180-182 (1st Wolverine)
Giant Size X-Men 1 (1st Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird)
Albedo #2 (1st Usagi Yojimbo)
More Fun Comics #74 (2nd Aquaman, 1st Percival Pop)
Fantastic Four #48-50 (1st Silver Surfer and Galactus)
Avengers #4 (1st Captain America in Silver Age)
Strange Tales #110 (1st Doctor Strange)
Brave and the Bold #34 (1st Hawkman)
Brave and the Bold #54 (1st Teen Titans)
Brave and the Bold #60 (1st Donna Troy)
Iron Man #1
Silver Surfer #1
Hawkman #1
X-Men #94 (series resumes with new team)
Star Spangled Comics #66 (2nd Robin solo story)
Detective Comics #359 (1st Silver Age Batgirl)
Sensation Comics #50 (classic Golden Age Wonder Woman cover)
X-Men #4 (1st Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, 1st Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver)
World's Finest Comics #29 (classic Golden Age Batman/Robin/Superman cover)
All-American Comics #31 (classic Golden Age Green Lantern cover)
Warrior #1 (1st V for Vendetta)
Magnus Robot Fighter (Gold Key) #1 (1st Magnus)
Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom #1 (1st Solar)


Notable Runs and collections


Batman: Batman 245-669 (current). I also have most of #100-243, but it's not complete yet. I have roughly four hundred issues of Detective Comics from the 1950s to current, but these are not complete runs either. This run takes up more than a third of my entire collection.
The Authority/u]: Every issue of every series including the full Warren Ellis Stormwatch run.
[u]Blue Beetle (Silver Age): first appearance in Captain Atom and Blue Beetle #1-5 (complete run)
Captain Marvel (Silver Age) Every appearance up to Captain Marvel #10 (not that impressive, but it's a start)
The Demon Full run of volume 1 (1-16) plus a Spanish variant of #1 with the Batman title/logo on it.
Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom (Gold Key): 1-10
Doctor Strange: Every adventure up until vol. 2 #1 (Strange Tales, Doctor Strange vol. 1, and Marvel Premiere).
Green Lantern (Silver Age): 1st appearance and 1-10 plus at least half of the rest of the run. Still trying to complete this one.
House of Mystery/House of Secrets: Very cool but severely incomplete collection of Silver Age issues including HOM #178 (restarts the horror genre).
Kamandi: #1-38 (the full Kirby run)
Legion of Superheroes: Adventure Comics 347-380 (the complete Jim Shooter run)
Magnus Robot Fighter (Gold Key): 1-21 (the full Russ Manning run)
Marvel Premiere: #1-25
Marvel Tales 1-10
Mighty Samson: 1-15
Planetary Near-complete run. Still missing a few filler issues.
Silver Surfer Every appearance ever made in the Silver and Bronze age.
The Spectre: Every appearance from the Silver Age up to Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Star Trek Full Marvel run (1-18).
Sub-Mariner Sub-Mariner & Iron-Man #1, Sub-Mariner (Silver Age) 1-10
Swamp Thing: 1st appearance and vol. 1 #1-25. I also have Man-Thing vol. 1 #1-20, which I consider to be part of the same collection.
Teen Titans every story from their first appearance in the 1960s up to the beginning of their fourth title in the 1990s (The Titans).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: vol. 1 1-62 (complete series). #1 is 3rd print and #2 is 2nd print.
Uncle Scrooge First appearance and full Carl Barks run (1-72), plus a big chunk of Four Color issues and Gemstone/Gladstone issues.
Wonder Woman (Modern Age): 1-22. I used to own the entire Perez run, but I decided the run was only enjoyable up to #22, so I got rid of the rest.
Usagi Yojimbo: Nearly every appearance ever made (1984 to current). Still missing five obscure appearances in nearly impossible to find independent titles.
Valiant: Nearly the entire output covering the original Valiant universe, including dealer incentives and variants. I have a few minor gaps in the later issues, but all the first appearances, pre-unity issues, and final issues are here.
X-Men: Every X-Men related story ever published from 1965 to 1995, including all spin-off titles, mini-series, guest appearances, first appearances, etc. I only own X-Men 1-29 as reprints (with the exceptions of a few isolated issues). This collection takes up more than a third of my entire comic book collection.


That should sum it up, me thinks.

[Cei-U!]

I'm gonna wait until next Monday to post, as I'm going to the Portland Con on Sunday where I plan to spend $100 or so prowling the dollar boxes. I'll also, with the aid of the lovely and talented Rob Allen, be continuing my purge of the deadweight in my collection. You want up-to-the-minute coverage, doncha?

Cei-U!
I love convention weekends!

[mrc1214]

I can do percentages since Im not very good at math but Ill try to sum up whats in my collection. Alltogether I have 7 short boxes and 1 long box. Some are just story arcs like the Great Darkness saga. Others are single issues like Spiderman vs Wolverine. But heres some of the runs i have and other maxi series etc.

Hulk-by Peter David
Thor-Simonson
FF-Byrne and Simonson Im eventully going to try for a long run
large chunks of Batman and Detective
Squadron Supreme
Camelot 3000
Amazing Adventures-Killraven all
Omega the Unknown
Defenders 20-58
Tomb of Dracula 20-end
Werewolf by Night 1-32
Jungle Action Black Panther 5-26

Now since all the trades are out Ive debated on narrowing my collection. Especially all the new stuff I have. Does anybody have any ideas on what I can look for in back issues?? Ive thought about trying for some independent books like Zot!,Southern Knights,Nexus etc. If I figure out more full runs ill edit my post.

[shaxper]

I'm gonna wait until next Monday to post, as I'm going to the Portland Con on Sunday where I plan to spend $100 or so prowling the dollar boxes. I'll also, with the aid of the lovely and talented Rob Allen, be continuing my purge of the deadweight in my collection. You want up-to-the-minute coverage, doncha?

Cei-U!
I love convention weekends!

Good luck, and yes I do!

[shaxper]

I can do percentages since Im not very good at math but Ill try to sum up whats in my collection. Alltogether I have 7 short boxes and 1 long box. Some are just story arcs like the Great Darkness saga. Others are single issues like Spiderman vs Wolverine. But heres some of the runs i have and other maxi series etc.

Hulk-by Peter David
Thor-Simonson
FF-Byrne and Simonson Im eventully going to try for a long run
large chunks of Batman and Detective
Squadron Supreme
Camelot 3000
Amazing Adventures-Killraven all
Omega the Unknown
Defenders 20-58
Tomb of Dracula 20-end
Werewolf by Night 1-32
Jungle Action Black Panther 5-26

Now since all the trades are out Ive debated on narrowing my collection. Especially all the new stuff I have. Does anybody have any ideas on what I can look for in back issues?? Ive thought about trying for some independent books like Zot!,Southern Knights,Nexus etc. If I figure out more full runs ill edit my post.

Great assortment there, as well as a few runs I've been hoping to obtain, myself. Thanks for sharing!

[mrc1214]

Great assortment there, as well as a few runs I've been hoping to obtain, myself. Thanks for sharing!

I was going to ask you how did you get your Batman books?? Through the internet, cons or a bit of both.

[Rob Allen]

I don't have my book with me but here are some highlights off the top of my head:

- a scattering of Marvel, DC and Archie comics from 1963-65

- substantial but not full runs of Marvel 1966-71

- damn near everything in the superhero/adventure/horror genres by Marvel, DC, Charlton, Atlas, Red Circle, Warren and Skywald 1972-78

- over 100 underground comix

- a substantial run of Mad acquired from a friend

- some 60s Flash, Batman and Green Lanterns acquired from a college classmate

- fanzines and convention ephemera from cons in New York in the 70s

[MWGallaher]

My collection is too big by my standards--probably 40 or 50 long boxes, heavy on Bronze Age and later, with about 5% Silver Age, and a handful of earlier comics (20-40 issues).
Highlights include:
Approximately 95% of everything Jim Aparo had published. Missing some of the Batman material he only did covers for, some of the rarest Charlton material (Teen Tunes and a couple of romance comics), and some of the work he did for fanzines and newszines, but I have most everything else.
All of Kirby's 4th World issues, including Hunger Dogs.
Complete run of Silver Age/Bronze Age Phantom Stranger.
Complete Defenders, Howard the Duck, and lots of lesser--and shorter-lived--Bronze Age Marvel runs.
Complete Bat Lash.
My collection has samples of just about every significant artist up to, say, 1990, I'd say. Some of the older artists only in reprint form, but I could probably dig up an example of just about any well-known person you could name, including underground artists and funny animal artists. I'm proud of the breadth of it.

[Red Oak Kid]

My collection as it exists today is pretty random. I'm got a nice selection of DCs from the 60s that are either original, like Green Lantern 30 or are replacements that I bought in the 80s at reasonable prices. The replacements are made up of issues of Superboy, Action and Jimmy Olsens that I remember buying as a child.

I have a fair chunk of comics left from the heyday of my newstand buying years of 71-75. I sold off a bunch of the Marvels from this period in the mid 80s(SOB).

But I still have most of the DC issues drawn by Adams, Wrightson and Chaykin.

I have a bunch of baxter paper reprints from the 80s by Steranko, Adams, Wrightson etc. to fill in the gaps of the ones that got away.

I've got a nice bunch of EC reprints that I picked up in quarter boxes.

I've got a nice bunch of MADs from the 60s that once belonged to my Uncle who bought them in the early 60s and the rest belonged to a girl cousin who bought hers in the late 60s.

Mainly I like having examples of the work of my favorite artists and/or specific issues that I have nostagic memories of, such as comics I read during car trips when my family went on vacation.

I haven't bought any new comics in the last few years.

[shaxper]

I was going to ask you how did you get your Batman books?? Through the internet, cons or a bit of both.

Batman #9 was an amazing stroke of luck at Lonestar Comics. It showed up in their inventory absurdly cheap one day. I still can't believe it happened.

Batman #10 was from ebay.

Generally speaking, I find cons are the best way to get these since you can inspect the condition before buying, but ebay's prices are almost always lower.

[shaxper]

- damn near everything in the superhero/adventure/horror genres by Marvel, DC, Charlton, Atlas, Red Circle, Warren and Skywald 1972-78


Damn. That's just awesome.

[Roquefort Raider]

A bit of this, a bit of that, mostly Marvel comics from the 70s to the early 90s; then a few Vertigo titles and a few independent books from the late 90s. I have something like a dozen long boxes.

My notable possessions are unfortunately few, as I tended to read a lot of crap when I was young and rarely got to collect the good stuff.

long runs:

- Every Kull appearance Marvel published (Kull was my favorite character for quite a while, thanks to the Severin siblings' work);

- an almost complete run of Savage sword of Conan, with the annual and the Marvel treasury editions; lots of Savage tales too.

- A near-complete run of Conan the barbarian, with the annuals and Giant-size issues;

- a complete run of Gaiman's Sandman, and of Hellblazer up to issue 120;

- The 20 first issues of Carla Speed McNeil's Finder, with a few issues signed;

- Almost a long box worth of Legion of super-heroes in many of its incarnations (Levitz era and later, mostly);

- a long run of uncanny X-men (115-310)... most of which is sadly pretty bad, in retrospect;

- Half of the Cerebus run in pamphlet form, the rest in phonebook format.

individual issues of note or darn lucky finds:

- Iron Fist #14, which I paid 50 cents in a used book store.

- Daredevil #158, which I bought at the newsstand even though it must be the only Daredevil issue to ever have made it to my neck of the woods in those days.

- The Demon #2, which was hidden deep, deep in the back of an old newspaper/tobacco store, and had probably been left there for ten years or so along with a Marvel western book with a Steranko cover. (I swear, that old and ill-lit shop could itself have been the scene of a pretty cool ghost story)!

- A long box full of Valiant comics that I got for about four bucks in a clearance sale.

miscellaneous:

- An illustrated supplement from the Boston Herald (as I recall), circa 1938, which I found in a trunk in my grandma's attic. It had Flash Gordon by Raymond, Prince Valiant by Foster, and a lot more of the greats.


Needless to say, I feel terribly envious of the splendid collections that are mentioned on this board! Well done, people. It is good that these treasures are preserved by folks who know and care about them.

[benday-dot]

My collection is too big by my standards--probably 40 or 50 long boxes, heavy on Bronze Age and later, with about 5% Silver Age, and a handful of earlier comics (20-40 issues).
Highlights include:
Approximately 95% of everything Jim Aparo had published. Missing some of the Batman material he only did covers for, some of the rarest Charlton material (Teen Tunes and a couple of romance comics), and some of the work he did for fanzines and newszines, but I have most everything else.
All of Kirby's 4th World issues, including Hunger Dogs.
Complete run of Silver Age/Bronze Age Phantom Stranger.
Complete Defenders, Howard the Duck, and lots of lesser--and shorter-lived--Bronze Age Marvel runs.
Complete Bat Lash.
My collection has samples of just about every significant artist up to, say, 1990, I'd say. Some of the older artists only in reprint form, but I could probably dig up an example of just about any well-known person you could name, including underground artists and funny animal artists. I'm proud of the breadth of it.

Mindblowing!

[MichikoS]

I started collecting Marvel Comics as a kid in the 1960's, and, as I've mentioned before in this forum, I'm one of the fortunate ones whose parents were very tolerant of my hobby. Therefore, I have pretty complete runs of anything Marvel from about 1966 on, with the exception of my Iron Man collection, #1-100, which I sold when I was in college. Not a big loss, since I picked up the few keys in that run later on. I left collecting entirely for twenty years in 1980, but when I started up again in 2000, I caught up with two decades of comic reading with a vengeance. So I have lots and lots of modern comics as well as Silver and Bronze titles in my collection. I've always liked the second- and third-tier oddball publishers, too, and so there are plenty of ACG, Dell, Gold Key and Tower in my boxes. And I love Hellboy.

Highlights and Big Runs
Avengers V1 (complete, #1-402 + Annuals etc.)
Captain America V1 (#100-285 + most through #454, Annuals etc.)
Daredevil V1 and V2 (complete #1-380 + Annuals etc. + all V2 inc. variants)
Doctor Strange V1,2 (complete #169-183, #1-81 + Annuals, most of V3 #1-90)
Fantastic Four V1 (#6-11, 15, 18-20. 24-416 + Annuals, etc)
Incredible Hulk (#5 first series; #102-474, with small gaps 140-210. Alas, I don't have #180-1! + Annuals etc.)
Sgt. Fury (complete, #1-167 + Annuals)
Spider-Man V1 (#25-441, except for 298-300, + Annuals etc.)
Sub-Mariner V1 (#1-72 + Annuals)
Strange Tales (#103-4, 112-188 + Annuals)
Tales of Suspense (#53-99)
Tales to Astonish (#35, 45, 49-101)
Thor V1 (#104-317 + most from 335-502 + Annuals etc.)
X-Men V1 (#2-300 + most from 304-461 variant + Annuals etc.)

All Bronze Age Marvel runs, including Conan, complete 1970-1979 except for b&w mags and kiddie titles.

All Tower titles, Dynamo, THUNDER Agents, NoMan, Fight the Enemy, etc. complete except for Tippy Teen

All Atlas Seabord titles, including mags

Archie Superhero
Adventures of the Fly #21-30 (becomes Mighty Comics, #40-50 complete)
Adventures of the Jaguar #1-15 complete
Fly Man #31-39 complete
Mighty Crusaders #1-7
The Shadow #1-8
All 1980's Archie/Red Circle titles

Authority - everything, just everything

Black Lightning, Black Goliath, Black Widow, Black Panther -- all series, everything

Charlton
All the Action Heroes titles, lots of horror and space titles, a smattering of romance, plenty of war

Captain Marvel -- all Marvel Comics series, beginning with Marvel Super-Heroes #12

Doc Savage -- all non-DC series. Couldn't stand the DC incarnation

Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom (Gold Key/Whitman #1-31 complete)

Earth X, Universe X, Paradise X, all variants, including Spidey Harras slam

All 1970's Marvel Horror reprint titles.

Hellboy -- all, everything

Howard the Duck -- all series, mags, one-shots, etc.

Jonny Quest -- Comics series + spinoffs, Dark Horse series

Nocturnals -- all, everything Brereton

Star Comics (1980's Marvel kiddie titles) Almost all, with a few holes here and there in Care Bears, Heathcliff, Masters of the Universe, Muppet Babies, and Star Digests

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Kingdom Come, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen I, II -- all, everything with one exception

Lethargic Lad -- almost all except for a few holes and missing tpbs

Marvel Comics Presents (#1-175)
Marvel Two-In-One (#1-100)
Marvel Team-Up (#1-150
Marvel Feature, Fanfare, Presents, Premier, Spotlight, Super-Heroes etc. alll, everything

Master of Kung Fu (#1-125 + Annuals, etc)
Moon Knight -- all, everything
Silver Surfer -- all, everything

Warlock (Marvel) -- all, everything

I haven't gotten to old stuff, westerns, romance, DC titles and miscellaneous publishers yet. Maybe later.

Michi

[Roquefort Raider]

I started collecting Marvel Comics as a kid in the 1960's, and, as I've mentioned before in this forum, I'm one of the fortunate ones whose parents were very tolerant of my hobby. Therefore, I have pretty complete runs of anything Marvel from about 1966 on, with the exception of my Iron Man collection, #1-100, which I sold when I was in college. Not a big loss, since I picked up the few keys in that run later on. I left collecting entirely for twenty years in 1980, but when I started up again in 2000, I caught up with two decades of comic reading with a vengeance. So I have lots and lots of modern comics as well as Silver and Bronze titles in my collection. I've always liked the second- and third-tier oddball publishers, too, and so there are plenty of ACG, Dell, Gold Key and Tower in my boxes. And I love Hellboy.

Highlights and Big Runs
Avengers V1 (complete, #1-402 + Annuals etc.)
Captain America V1 (#100-285 + most through #454, Annuals etc.)
Daredevil V1 and V2 (complete #1-380 + Annuals etc. + all V2 inc. variants)
Doctor Strange V1,2 (complete #169-183, #1-81 + Annuals, most of V3 #1-90)
Fantastic Four V1 (#6-11, 15, 18-20. 24-416 + Annuals, etc)
Incredible Hulk (#5 first series; #102-474, with small gaps 140-210. Alas, I don't have #180-1! + Annuals etc.)
Sgt. Fury (complete, #1-167 + Annuals)
Spider-Man V1 (#25-441, except for 298-300, + Annuals etc.)
Sub-Mariner V1 (#1-72 + Annuals)
Strange Tales (#103-4, 112-188 + Annuals)
Tales of Suspense (#53-99)
Tales to Astonish (#35, 45, 49-101)
Thor V1 (#104-317 + most from 335-502 + Annuals etc.)
X-Men V1 (#2-300 + most from 304-461 variant + Annuals etc.)

All Bronze Age Marvel runs, including Conan, complete 1970-1979 except for b&w mags and kiddie titles.

All Tower titles, Dynamo, THUNDER Agents, NoMan, Fight the Enemy, etc. complete except for Tippy Teen

All Atlas Seabord titles, including mags

Archie Superhero
Adventures of the Fly #21-30 (becomes Mighty Comics, #40-50 complete)
Adventures of the Jaguar #1-15 complete
Fly Man #31-39 complete
Mighty Crusaders #1-7
The Shadow #1-8
All 1980's Archie/Red Circle titles

Authority - everything, just everything

Black Lightning, Black Goliath, Black Widow, Black Panther -- all series, everything

Charlton
All the Action Heroes titles, lots of horror and space titles, a smattering of romance, plenty of war

Captain Marvel -- all Marvel Comics series, beginning with Marvel Super-Heroes #12

Doc Savage -- all non-DC series. Couldn't stand the DC incarnation

Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom (Gold Key/Whitman #1-31 complete)

Earth X, Universe X, Paradise X, all variants, including Spidey Harras slam

All 1970's Marvel Horror reprint titles.

Hellboy -- all, everything

Howard the Duck -- all series, mags, one-shots, etc.

Jonny Quest -- Comics series + spinoffs, Dark Horse series

Nocturnals -- all, everything Brereton

Star Comics (1980's Marvel kiddie titles) Almost all, with a few holes here and there in Care Bears, Heathcliff, Masters of the Universe, Muppet Babies, and Star Digests

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Kingdom Come, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen I, II -- all, everything with one exception

Lethargic Lad -- almost all except for a few holes and missing tpbs

Marvel Comics Presents (#1-175)
Marvel Two-In-One (#1-100)
Marvel Team-Up (#1-150
Marvel Feature, Fanfare, Presents, Premier, Spotlight, Super-Heroes etc. alll, everything

Master of Kung Fu (#1-125 + Annuals, etc)
Moon Knight -- all, everything
Silver Surfer -- all, everything

Warlock (Marvel) -- all, everything

I haven't gotten to old stuff, westerns, romance, DC titles and miscellaneous publishers yet. Maybe later.

Michi

But there's one thing you probably don't have: elbow room!!! ;)

Great collection, MichikoS!

[tony ingram]

I started collecting in 1978 or thereabouts, and still have most of the stuff i've bought, so...83 short boxes, 4 long boxes, plus 44 magazine size boxes containg Marvel B/W mags and assorted graphic novels (2) and a whole load of assorted old British comics (42). How many that is, i have no idea, but i'd guess it's over 20,000. Notable stuff includes: Avengers 1-402 plus all the newer stuff and the annuals, GS issues, West Coast series Etc, Uncanny X Men 25-50 and 55-66, complete runs of Defenders, Nova, Ms Marvel, MTIO and a lot of short run 70s titles (my favourite era), a near complete set of Charlton action heroes stuff, a small floor safe containg a small amount of GA stuff including Worlds Finest 13 and 14, Batman 13, Superman 13 & 27, Human Torch 35, Flash Comics 24 and Green Lantern 14, plus my two treasured No-Prize's. I basically have a room, our second bedroom in theory, with nothing in it but comic boxes, my computer and a chair. My wife refuses to enter it, even to clean, and i'm not allowed to leave comics anywhere else in the house.:)

[Aaron King]

My collection only boasts about 2500 comics and there's not a lot of scholarly note; maybe my refusal to spend more than three dollars on any comic has something to do with that. Most of my truly classic comics are in trade form.

Some favorite runs (complete or nearly so):
-Walt Simonson's Thor & Orion
-Peter David's first run on X-Factor
-Nexus
-Usagi Yojimbo
-Sandman Mystery Theatre
-James Robinson's Starman
-Wasteland (a great DC horror title by John Ostrander, Del Close, and friends)
-Claremont's New Mutants
-L.E.G.I.O.N. (did anyone else read this 80s/90s DC space adventure?)
-Hard Time

Great things that I have a big smattering of:
-the various incarnations of the Doom Patrol
-DC's "animated" titles (Batman Aventures, Superman Adventures, Adventures in the DCU, Justice League Adventures and Unlimited)
-Kirby titles (handfuls of his war comics, Captain Victory, Fourth World, "Fifth World" (Kamandi, Demon, Omac), Eternals, 2001)

The one thing I rabidly collect is Mike Mignola comics. I have all of Hellboy and BPRD and, looking through my collection, there are 79 instances of his name (not counting books where he pulled double duty like writer/penciller or penciller/cover artist); everything from Action Comics to Xena: Warrior Princess.

[dupersuper]

I'm not at home right now, but off the top of my head I have all the post-crisis Superman and supprting chacter series except Superman 202 and Superboy 28, I have Watchmen, Camelot 3000, Kree-Skrull War, The Last Christmas, Kingdom Come, the 1st big Bone trade, several scattered Cerebus issues, Red Son, JLA: The Nail 1&2. Dark Knight Returns 1 & 2, Batman Year1, Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Man of Steel, Birthright, Superman for all Seasons, both Bizzaro World books, All Giffen JL, All Morrison and post Morrison JL, most of silver-age/Detroit era JL, Jurgens/Jones JL, some early 90's JL, all but a few Morisson Animal Man, all but a few Moore Swamp Thing, most Robinson Starman, most Will Payton Starman, most Hitman, most Preacher, first 4 or 5 Walking Dead trades, first 2 Transmet trades, Atmospherics, 1st issue of Golden Age, Kanes' Ring of the Niebulong (sp?), Marvels, 2 Astro City trades, the 1st Sin City trade, Ronin, All-Star Bats, All-Star Supes, 1st Ultimate Spidey trade, Punisher:Born, 1st Punisher Max Trade, The Boys, complete Sandman, Books of Magic Trade, most Secret Origins, Understandin Comics, Reinventing Comecs, Civil War, Marvel 1702, several Eisner graphic novels, 1st Amethyst maxi, Crisis, Ultimate DC New Frontier, most Perez Wonder Woman, a crapload of titles from cheap bins...several thousand altogether; no idea how many.

[shaxper]

-Usagi Yojimbo


Rock on in the most rocking of ways!

[benday-dot]

Nice thread you started here Shax. The collections represented here astound me. Mine is much more modest, but still one that represents my tastes rather well I suppose. One based on a gathering not of the magnificent runs others have accumulated here, but of those storylines, arcs and individual books by artists and writers I've over the years sought out.

I have 13 long boxes of monthlies and maybe 4 more short boxes of trades and graphic novels, and magazines (fanzines, trade publications, and actual comic book material).

The split is about 60% Marvel, 30% DC and 10% Other (mostly Charlton, Gold Key, ACG and Dell)

Probably 80% of my collection belongs to the years 1967-1977. The rest is split between early Silver Age and Modern. I have just a few Golden Age books.

I think I have representation (usually at least 2 issues where possible) of almost ever series published by the Big Two during that wonderful late Silver to early/mid-Bronze decade of years.

Of note, I suppose, with the recent purchase of "The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus" I now finally have every Kirby comic or story in monthly (or floppy) format published between his 1970 move to DC and his death. A bunch of earlier Marvel Kirby stuff too of course. My fantasy is to get every Kirby comic ever published period, but first I will need to realize my millionaire fantasy.

[devildinosaur]

I last counted my collection when I was in my late teens (I'm 36 now)...I distinctly remember getting up in the 19,000 area. I collected for about 6 or 7 years after that.

I've got X-Men Giant-Sized #1 through 400 or so. I've got about 300 issues of Fantastic Four dating back to the late sixties/early seventies. I recently came across about 50 or so issues of Wonder Woman (Don Heck!) from the seventies. I just read through Jim Aparo's entire run on Batman-related books. I know I've got a ton of Robert Kanigher stuff. Ditto for Steve Ditko. I've got Frank Miller's entire Daredevil run. I've got John Byrne's entire Charlton run on "Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch", "Space: 1999", and "Emergency!", not to mention his runs on X-Men, Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, Hulk, Iron Fist, and Captain America. I was just looking through my entire Luke McDonnell run on Justice League of America and Iron Man. I've got every issue of Suicide Squad, not to mention just about everything John Ostrander's ever written. I've got First Comic's entire run of Badger, Nexus, and Sable.

I'm stopping there. I'm suddenly realizing I've got quite a few books.

[schwamp]

Great stuff in here people. I was born a poor, Marvel fan in the 70's. My existing collection is about 60% Marvel. X-men 94-300 something, Giant Size #1, FF#48 & #5, Iron Fist #14, MTU 1-130 or so, Iron Man #55. These are probably some of my cherries in the whole lot. There is an awful lot of 60's thru 90's Marvel in my garage.
I later fell in love with the Vertigo titles like Preacher and Constantine. Starman, Resurrection man, Flinch, Major Bummer... etc. I have pretty much sought out more obscure stuff lately like I Am Legend, various titles from Verotik, like Sunglasses After Dark, Desolation Jones , The Authority, complete run ofStrangers in Paradise, anything by Frank Miller.
I have a fair assortment of Undergroung books from the 70's, as well as offbeat stuff like Eightball, Deadline, Mayhem and Mask series, Black Hole, misc. Caliber and other Indy titles. The quality of some comics these days is awesome. Collecting is still a lot of fun.

[Hintermann]

As mentioned before, I was never 'into' the traditional superhero comics, but have a massive collection of others. They are mostly Silver Age.

Harvey Comics: Most titles, including Sad Sack, Little Dot, Little Lotta, Richie Rich, Casper, Spooky, Hot Stuff, Stumbo and so on. Each of these main titles has other branch-off titles and I have a lot of them, mainly from Silver Age. I do not collect Harvey Comics published after 1975.

Dell / Gold Key: My largest collection, comprising of almost all the main "funny animal" series like Donald Duck, Uncle $crooge, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Yogi Bear, Little Lulu etc etc along with the branch-offs. I also have lots of sci-fi & occult comics like Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff, Magnus, Dr Solar and so on. This group also includes TV & movie spin-offs, adventure stories etc. I stopped collecting this group when Gold Key handed over to Whitman in 1980.

Archie Series: I have a huge Archie comics collection; a few from the Golden Age, but mostly from the Silver Age and spilling over to Bronze Age. The collection includes all the Archie subtitles. But I do not generally buy any Archie comics published after 1982 (with very few exceptions).

Phantom Comics: I have a big collection of Australian b/w Frew comics that includes all the stories published by the character's creator, Lee Falk but very few non-Falk stories. One difference here is that I preferred to collect post-1992 reprints of all the classic Phantom stories published between 1936 & 1983; the reason is that the earlier editions were heavily edited but Frew later undertook a mission to have complete, unedited versions published. I do not buy the crappy Phantom comics published by King Features, which is nothing more than severely shortened and badly scripted versions of many classics with poor Bill Lignate art.

Mandrake Comics: Lee Falk's other famous comic-strip hero, Mandrake the Magician, was seldom seen on comic books, but I am trying to collect all the good ones that I can get. This includes a conglomeration of Indian Diamond Comics, a few from Frew, the hard-to-find Feature Comics from New Zealand, those published by Miller & Co of the UK in the 50s & 60s and more recent reprints by Phoenix publishers. Again, I would not touch King Comics with a bargepole.

Gilberton Classics: I have an almost full collection of Classics Illustrated from Gilberton, many in the lower HNNs; also most Classics Junior and a few Special issues. I prefer the American ones to the UK reprints.

Dennis the Menace: I refer to Hank Ketcham's lovable character and not the crappy Beano nonsense from the UK. Pines & Fawcett took turns in publishing DtM comics and I have a large collection, including most of the special Giant issues of Dennis' exploits at home and abroad.

Commando: The only British comics that I collect, these are digest sized books with b/w war stories almost entirely from WW2. I have about 200 of these.

Gladstone/Disney/Gemstone: I started subscribing to the re-run of Disney comics by Gladstone in 1985 and have continued to this day. I have every mainstream comic that they have so far released.

I also have all the Tintin & Asterix comics so far published.

Miscellaneous: This is just a motely collection of superhero comics that happened to come my way, stupid romance stories that my sis-in-law left behind and so on. I have not even looked at most of these for years.

[tony ingram]

Dennis the Menace: I refer to Hank Ketcham's lovable character and not the crappy Beano nonsense from the UK. Pines & Fawcett took turns in publishing DtM comics and I have a large collection, including most of the special Giant issues of Dennis' exploits at home and abroad.

Commando: The only British comics that I collect, these are digest sized books with b/w war stories almost entirely from WW2. I have about 200 of these.


I collect Commando, too-pretty much the last outpost of the traditional British boys comic, sadly, but it has lost none of its appeal. You're a bit harsh on Dennis, though, i think; Beano may be trash these days, but in the 50s and 60s it had real energy, and DTM was one of its better strips, certainly more appealing in my eyes than the US character. I buy old DC Thomson humour when i get the chance, but nothing after 1979, usually.

[Hintermann]

You're a bit harsh on Dennis, though, i think; Beano may be trash these days, but in the 50s and 60s it had real energy, and DTM was one of its better strips, certainly more appealing in my eyes than the US character. I buy old DC Thomson humour when i get the chance, but nothing after 1979, usually.

I apologise if I offended you, but outside the UK 'Dennis the Menace' means Hank Ketcham's character Dennis Mitchell and no one else. I am from India where the original (yes, he is senior by a matter of a few weeks to the Beano character) American version of DTM was very popular and a lot of us Asian immigrants in the UK could not help but unfavourably compare the Beano version with the Dennis Mitchell. The same is true of a lot of other 'neutral' countries.

[jesse_custer]

I have the Fight Man one-shot special.

[Chris CCL]

Every DC Archives
Every Marvel Masterworks
Every Dark Horse Archives
Every EC Archives (new run)

Over 50 combined Showcases and Essentials
Many DC Absolutes/Marvel Omnibuses and oversized collections like the Sin City Library

A couple hundred various trades and hardcovers

Full run of every Star Wars comic
Full run of every Punisher comic

[The Confessor]

Well, my collections nowhere near as impressive as some of you guys but since you asked...here goes...


The Confessor's Collection

Overview: My collection predominantly consists of Marvel Superhero stuff, especially Spider-Man titles. Although I have a copy of every story printed in Amazing Spider-Man between issues #1 - #170, most of the first 130 issues actually are 80s re-prints published in Marvel Tales. You see, generally I prefer single comics to trades and bying up Marvel Tales back-issues allows me to get all those Silver Age Amazing Spider-Man stories for a fraction of the price of the originals.

I haven't ignored DC totally though...I have a small sampling of random Batman and Superman comics & trades as well as some Jonah Hex too. There's also a fair number of comics from other companies in my collection, particularly Dark Horse's Star Wars comics.

I don't really have too many large complete runs, more like scattered groups of comics from periods when I was reading a particular title. The condition of my comics varies from NM down to VG. I'm not really too interested in the condition of a comic as long as it's a solid, readable copy.

Size: Approximately 2000 comics.

Notable Key Issues:
Marvel Tales #1 (classic superhero reprint anunal from 1964)
Strange Tales #130 (from 1965. The Thing & Human Torch meet The Beatles!)
Star Wars #1 (Marvel series - with the 35-cent price variant cover)
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #36 (9/11 tribute issue)
Spider-Man Comics Magazine (Digest) #12 (reprints 'The Goblin Lives' story originally found in the Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine #2 from 1968. This issue cost me a bomb for what it is!)

Notable Runs and collections:
MARVEL
Amazing Spider-Man: #138-170/#192-212/#243-339/#365-389/#442-544(current) - I also have scattered issues between these runs and I'm working on filing in the gaps. I have most issues pre-#138 as re-prints in Marvel Tales (see below)
Spectacular Spider-Man (vol. 1): #69-100/#130-149 (also have lots of other scattered issues)
Spectacular Spider-Man (vol. 2): full run #1-27
Marvel Tales (Silver/Bronze Age): #1-12/#36-76/#80-97/#100-110/#137-222
Untold Tales Of Spider-Man: full run #1-25 + Annuals and one-shots
Marvel Knights Spider-Man: full run #1-22
Sensational Spider-Man: full run #1-40(current)
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: full run #1-24
Star Wars (Marvel): full run #1-#107 + Annuals and ROTJ mini-series
Justice (New Universe): full run of issues 1-32, plus the 'Untold Tales' Justice one-shot.
DC/WILDSTORM
Astro City: full run #1-6(vol. 1)/#1-22(vol. 2) + all mini-series and one-shots up to the present day
Jonah Hex (vol. 2): full run #1-24(current) + all 3 Vertigo mini-series.
DARK HORSE
Classic Star Wars: full run #1-20/#1-9(the early adventures) + mini-series & one-shots
Star Wars - Empire: full run #1-40
Star Wars - Republic: #51-83
Star Wars - X-Wing Rogue Squadron: full run #1-35
CALIBER
Oz: full run #1-20 + all one-shots & mini-series
Land Of Oz: full run #1-9 + Dark Oz: full run #1-5


Well, that just about sums it up. Of course, I have lots of other short mini-series and random issues from many other titles but the list above represents the bigest collections I have in my collection.

[shaxper]

Strange Tales #130 (from 1965. The Thing & Human Torch meet The Beatles!)

Oh, wow! I'd totally forgotten about that one!

[tony ingram]

I apologise if I offended you, but outside the UK 'Dennis the Menace' means Hank Ketcham's character Dennis Mitchell and no one else. I am from India where the original (yes, he is senior by a matter of a few weeks to the Beano character) American version of DTM was very popular and a lot of us Asian immigrants in the UK could not help but unfavourably compare the Beano version with the Dennis Mitchell. The same is true of a lot of other 'neutral' countries.

No offence taken! But there is a lot of affection for David Law's DTM in the UK, whereas Ketcham's version is largely unknown or considered a bit of a pale imitation (i know he's slightly senior, but most people don't). I think you need to have grown up with the Beano and Dandy characters to understand the nostalgiac hold they have over several generations in Britain. Personally, though i like DTM (the early stuff, anyway), i preferred his devious stablemate, Roger The Dodger.

[Hintermann]

But there is a lot of affection for David Law's DTM in the UK, whereas Ketcham's version is largely unknown or considered a bit of a pale imitation (i know he's slightly senior, but most people don't. Back in 1979 - curiously after Margo Thatcher was elected as PM and her other half was dubbed "Dennis the Menace" by the media - the debate between the two comical DtM's came to the ofre. I recall following this very carefully, but in the end researchers on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere agreed that Hank Ketcham's DtM was unquestionably the "original". Like most others outside the UK, I had never even seen any comic of the 'other' DtM till I came to this country in 1985. I tried to read some Beano comics, but found them terrible....I'm sorry, but that's the truth.

[tony ingram]

Back in 1979 - curiously after Margo Thatcher was elected as PM and her other half was dubbed "Dennis the Menace" by the media - the debate between the two comical DtM's came to the ofre. I recall following this very carefully, but in the end researchers on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere agreed that Hank Ketcham's DtM was unquestionably the "original". Like most others outside the UK, I had never even seen any comic of the 'other' DtM till I came to this country in 1985. I tried to read some Beano comics, but found them terrible....I'm sorry, but that's the truth.

Well, to be fair, they are aimed at a very young age group-but yeah, they have been going steadily downhill since the early 80s. The mid 60s-late 70s stuff was far superior. I don't know how much of an impact Ketcham's Dennis has had elsewhere because i know next to nothing about him, but i suspect Beano's Dennis is rather more of an iconic figure in Britain than Ketcham's is elsewhere (along with Desperate Dan). I don't think Ketcham's Dennis has ever really made an impact in the public consciousness here.

[Jolly Mon]

Well, to be fair, they are aimed at a very young age group-but yeah, they have been going steadily downhill since the early 80s. The mid 60s-late 70s stuff was far superior. I don't know how much of an impact Ketcham's Dennis has had elsewhere because i know next to nothing about him, but i suspect Beano's Dennis is rather more of an iconic figure in Britain than Ketcham's is elsewhere (along with Desperate Dan). I don't think Ketcham's Dennis has ever really made an impact in the public consciousness here.

I can't speak for anywhere else in the world, but living in the USA and being named "Dennis", I feel especially qualified to comment on Mr. Ketcham's Dennis the Menace. He is unquestionably iconic here, in that everyone knows of and can recognize his name and appearance. I can personally vouch for that based on the number of times I have been called "Dennis the Menace", generally by people who think they are the first to have thought of that bit of humor. Plus he has been used for years as the "spokesperson" for the Dairy Queen ice cream shop chain.

On a more personal note, I discovered in my teenage years that people calling me "Dennis the Menace" was less coincidental than they thought. My father finally told me that I was, in fact, named after the comic strip character. On many occasions I have wished my parents would have had just a bit more imagination...

[Hintermann]

I can't speak for anywhere else in the world, but living in the USA and being named "Dennis", I feel especially qualified to comment on Mr. Ketcham's Dennis the Menace. He is unquestionably iconic here, in that everyone knows of and can recognize his name and appearance. I come from India and Ketcham's DtM is well recognised among schoolkids there as well. We used to use images of confrontations Dennis and Mr Wilson in placards for putting comical messages across. I understand that dennis is also popular in France and many other countries.

[tony ingram]

On a more personal note, I discovered in my teenage years that people calling me "Dennis the Menace" was less coincidental than they thought. My father finally told me that I was, in fact, named after the comic strip character. On many occasions I have wished my parents would have had just a bit more imagination...

It could have been worse. Your father's favourite character could have been Wonder Woman...

[The Confessor]

Oh, wow! I'd totally forgotten about that one!

Oh, it's a total classic! It's probably the comic I get out of my long box to show to friends the most.

It involves the Thing and the Torch taking Alica and Doris out on a double date to see a Beatles concert. Of course, they manage to run into The Beatles themselves backstage and the girls get autographs from the band while Ben and Johnny look on. Later, some crooks rob the box-office and the Torch and the Thing have to go and sort that out and end up missing the gig!

It's pretty funny trying to identify which Beatles is which from Bob Powell's artwork too...they all look rather similar and slightly grotesque. Still, it's a great 'time capsule' type of issue to have in your collection.

There's a pretty good Lee/Ditko Dr. Stange story in the same issue too actually.

[tony ingram]

I come from India and Ketcham's DtM is well recognised among schoolkids there as well. We used to use images of confrontations Dennis and Mr Wilson in placards for putting comical messages across. I understand that dennis is also popular in France and many other countries.

Then perhaps the only reason he's not well known in the UK is that we have our own Dennis. There was, as i recall, a short lived cartoon show about the American DTM which ran over here a few years ago, but they shortened the title to just "Dennis" in order not to confuse him with the British character (or so i was told). Still, no doubt there's always room in the world for more than one menace...:)

[shaxper]

Oh, it's a total classic! It's probably the comic I get out of my long box to show to friends the most.

It involves the Thing and the Torch taking Alica and Doris out on a double date to see a Beatles concert. Of course, they manage to run into The Beatles themselves backstage and the girls get autographs from the band while Ben and Johnny look on. Later, some crooks rob the box-office and the Torch and the Thing have to go and sort that out and end up missing the gig!

It's pretty funny trying to identify which Beatles is which from Bob Powell's artwork too...they all look rather similar and slightly grotesque. Still, it's a great 'time capsule' type of issue to have in your collection.

There's a pretty good Lee/Ditko Dr. Stange story in the same issue too actually.


Yes, I bought it for the Dr. Strange issue and was totally blown away by this little "extra" in the book. I just recently read an issue of Teen Titans where they meet the Beatles, but it's not quite as funny, and that was always a dated 1960s comic about the Mod scene, so it came as less of a surprise.

Yep, that was a true gem :)

[Hintermann]

Then perhaps the only reason he's not well known in the UK is that we have our own Dennis. There was, as i recall, a short lived cartoon show about the American DTM which ran over here a few years ago, but they shortened the title to just "Dennis" in order not to confuse him with the British character (or so i was told). Still, no doubt there's always room in the world for more than one menace...:)

Yes. The Walter Matthau (as Wilson) feature film and the TV spinoff were both called Dennis the Menace in every country in the world except the UK. But neither was even a patch on the great comic book characters.

[tony ingram]

Yes. The Walter Matthau (as Wilson) feature film and the TV spinoff were both called Dennis the Menace in every country in the world except the UK. But neither was even a patch on the great comic book characters.
TV is seldom as good as comics. Just look at the live action Swamp Thing series from several years ago...

[spoon_jenkins]

Overview: I've got a few thousand comics. The biggest focus in my collection is super-hero teams. The X-Men books, Avengers, and Legion of Super-Heroes are the top 3 in my collection, but I've got a lot of other team titles and solo heroes. I don't have many comics in other genres. My collection is probably more haphazard than others. I usually assemble back issue runs in little bits, so even my major runs are usually missing a few issues. And there are many titles that I just have a couple issues of.

Age: I have about 20 Silver Age comics. I don't have any pre-Silver Age. The most represented era of my collection is the 1980s and late 1970s. I tend to get reprints rather than shelling out cash for originals.

Publishers: Mostly Marvel and DC. Outside of the Big Two, I've got some Charlton Blue Beetle and Captain Atom comics, Understanding Comics, Maus, and a smattering of other stuff.

TPBs: I'm an Essential Marvel addict; I have 41 of them. I have 5 Archives, 6 Masterworks, and 1 Showcase Presents. I have various other TPBs and GNs.

Runs and collections:
Team Books
X-Men: I have a hybrid run (mix of originals and reprints) covering just about all of Uncanny #1-350 and most of the mini-series and one-shots through the 1980s. Every X-Factor issue from the Original 5 era. Most New Mutants issues through #80. Also, a bunch of more recent stuff.
Legion of Super-Heroes: Portions of many different eras. The best represented era is 1982-89 (including the complete 63 issue run of vol. 3). An Archive and several digests reprinting all the materials from Adventure #306-339.
Avengers: My collection focuses on 3 eras. The beginning (I have all 5 Essentials), the Roger Stern era, and the Busiek era. I also have most of Byrne's West Coast issues.
New Teen Titans: Most of vol. 1 through #53. About the first dozen of vol. 2.
Outsiders: Most non-reprint issues of BATO/AO.
Alpha Flight: All the Byrne issues.
Fantastic Four: Many of the Byrne issues.
Green Lantern/GLC: About half of the 1976-1988 issues, including most from#187 to cancellation.
Spider-Man: 9 Essentials (7 Amazing, 1 Spectacular, 1 Team-Up). Lots of 1980s stuff.
Batman: Focus on the Don Newton issues of both titles.
All of OHOTMU Deluxe Edition and most of the original Who's Who volume.

[TheHistorian]

Usagi Yojimbo: Nearly every appearance ever made (1984 to current). Still missing five obscure appearances in nearly impossible to find independent titles.

Which ones are driving you crazy? I'm having pains with the Dark Horse Extra issues, mostly.

[Samurai]

Overview:

I have well over 20,000 books in 60 long boxes and several short boxes. About 45% Marvel, 45% DC, and 10% other companies. Most of the collection is superhero comics, though I also have a lot of fantasy such as Conan, Kull, Tarzan, Warlord, and all the Crossgen books except Meridian.

Age:

Most of the books are Bronze and Modern age, though there are over 1000 silver age and about 150+ Golden age books too.

Notable Key Issues:

Giant Size X-men #1
Comic Cavalcade #3
Fantastic Four #48 (1st Silver Surfer and Galactus)
Fantastic Four Ann #2 (Marriage of Reed and Sue)
America's Greatest Comics #2 (Captain Marvel & friends)
Wonder Woman #18 (1st series)
Incredible Hulk 102
Captain America 100
Iron Man 1 (2 copies)
Sub-Mariner #1
All Flash #14
Amazing Spider-man #20 (1st Scorpion)
Amazing Spider-man #41 (1st Rhino)
Batman Annual #2
Flash #129 (2nd GA Flash)
Flash #137 (1st JSA in SA)
Showcase #36 (3rd Atom)
Showcase #75 (1st Hawk and Dove)
Brave and the Bold #42-44 (2nd Hawkman tryout series)
Tales of Suspense #58-59 (Cap vs Iron-Man, 1st solo cap stories in SA begin, 1st Jarvis)
Tales of Suspense #65-66 (1st Red Skull in SA, origin of Red Skull)
Tales to Astonish #49 (Ant-man becomes Giant Man)
Tales to Astonish #52 (1st Black Knight)
Avengers #5-6 (Hulk app, 1st Baron Zemo & Masters of Evil)


Notable Runs:

Fantastic Four #16-400, including Anns & Specials
JLA #36 (SA series) to present
Legion of Super-heroes #197 (1st issue after changing from Superboy) - 325, Vol 2 1-63, Vol 3 1-66, current series
Detective Comics #500-700, missing about 20 issues between 437-499, spotty before that.
Brave & the Bold #87-200 except for 11 missing issues here and there
Captain America #267-416, plus many individual issues back to 100
Batman #328-534, plus many individual issues before that
Avengers #102-402
Amazing Spider-man #121-404, plus many individual issues before that
Warlord #1-133 incl. Anns
Spectacular Spider-man 1-204
Uncanny X-men #93-336 plus many individual issues before that and long runs of X-Factor, Excalibur, X-men, etc
Green Lantern 90-224 except for 7 issues here and there
(New) Teen Titans 1-58, vol 2 1-104, vol 3 1-current
Atom (SA series) 5-44
Iron Man 111-293, many individual issues before that.
Thor #251-502
DC Who's Who Complete, including all updates and spin-offs, such as Legion and Star Trek
Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition complete run
Crossgen: All issues of all series except Meridian, which I only have 1-7 of.
Tarzan (DC series) #207-258 complete set
The Shadow (bronze age DC series) #1-12