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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 7, 2021 8:48:51 GMT -5
I was more curious about one specific thing, but figured this would be a better topic. Is there anyway to get a complete collection of one of the EC Comics titles legally (Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, Etc.) without spending an arm and a leg? Perhaps literally as we are talking EC Comics  From what I gather select copies have been digitally reprinted in volumes for the EC Archives. Each volume contains 5 or 6 comics, sometimes less. They sell for $13.99 each. The comics are all fairly short and if we’re talking just horror EC that would be easily over $200. If you throw in the sci-if/fantasy stuff that’s easily some multiple of that. So to get a complete EC Comics collection (of the popular titles anyway) you’d have to spend $600 easy. That is if all were offered as digital reprints. To really get them all you’d have to dig around outside of the digital archives. I’m sure from there you could get up to $1,000+ easy. Those comics are great and are rightfully treated like gold even all these years later. It’s something since back when they originally sold they went for $0.10 or so each. If you don’t include the long running Mad there are somewhere between 200-300 EC Comics of the even remotely popular titles. Possibly much more for the super obscure stuff. if you went back in time to 1955 to purchase every popular title from EC Comics you could do so for under $30! Even with inflation that is under $300 in today’s money. So improving to well over $1000 would be quite the feat in itself, but remember these are original printings. So we’re talking Scrooge McDuck money. Quick Marty get the Delorean! |
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 7, 2021 8:55:30 GMT -5
Legally getting versions of stuff that's out of print is always a pain in the ass. Video games from past generations especially have become harder and more expensive as time goes on, with Gamecube titles that were selling for $30 on the second hand market 15 years ago now costing $100 plus to buy online.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 7, 2021 9:09:29 GMT -5
Legally getting versions of stuff that's out of print is always a pain in the ass. Video games from past generations especially have become harder and more expensive as time goes on, with Gamecube titles that were selling for $30 on the second hand market 15 years ago now costing $100 plus to buy online. You have to be careful with this kind of stuff. Sometimes online sellers are sitting on a big pile of stuff and asking an obscene amount for just one copy of the item. Then another seller will emerge, sell it for a fraction of the price, and a bunch more pop up. If you wait it out a cheaper copy of the same item can emerge. But you can be waiting a VERY long time and sometimes that cheaper item never pops up. Other times it pops up right after you bite the bullet lol. For example I’m still kicking myself for not getting Monsters, the 1988 horror anthology when it was selling on Amazon for $50. Now you can’t find a new copy of it for under $150 or so and even used copies sell for $100+. It’s only been about a year so I’m hoping a copy pops up sooner or later for a more reasonable price. On the other hand I bit the bullet and bought a copy of the Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Collection for nearly $250 last year. It was my white whale of Blu-ray sets and HGL is obscure enough of a figure I thought it would stay out of print. That was just about the MSRP IIRC and is a great set so I didn’t think it was too ridiculous of a price even though it was the most I ever spent on a single Blu-ray set. Now it’s selling for under $63 on eBay. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2021 9:58:51 GMT -5
Cultural theorist Walter Benjamin's Arcade Project is still 40 dollars in paperback.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 13, 2021 15:44:35 GMT -5
I was more curious about one specific thing, but figured this would be a better topic. Is there anyway to get a complete collection of one of the EC Comics titles legally (Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, Etc.) without spending an arm and a leg? Perhaps literally as we are talking EC Comics Bringing this up because I was just thumbing through my copy of Diamond Distributor's Previews this month and saw that Dark Horse is starting to reprint EC comics in trade paperback, $19.99 for a 200+ page trade. |
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Post by FinalGwen on Jan 13, 2021 15:47:22 GMT -5
Getting all the Doctor Who books from the 90s/early 2000s is very hard. The New Adventures towards the end of their run had very low print numbers, which leads to things like the following Amazon listing for the novel Lungbarrow:  (I mean, $3.99 shipping? Outrageous.) |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2021 17:01:23 GMT -5
James Roberts wrote a Transformers novel called Eugenisis. Even though it is technically fanfiction, it was actually published and is considered one of the greatest Transformers stories ever told.
It's almost impossible to find a copy, and when one does pop up, it's like 100 bucks.
After it went out of print James Roberts put it up online for free but it's not up anymore as I sadly found out when I went to re-read it a couple months ago.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 13, 2021 17:54:24 GMT -5
Also noticed IDW is publishing a trade of pre-code crime comics for $39.99... think I'm gonna get that one... |
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 13, 2021 19:02:37 GMT -5
Dogma.
It's out of print on DVD and Blu-Ray, and it isn't on any streaming platforms because of rights complications, I believe. Copies of it are going for roughly $100.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 13, 2021 19:30:11 GMT -5
For me the go-to on this subject is a 1994 TV movie called Without Warning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_Warning_(1994_film)It's been out of print since its only DVD release in 2003, and is rarely seen for less than $100. Amazon actually have it for half that price at the moment, but that's not something I can justify. |
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jan 14, 2021 10:00:43 GMT -5
I collect vinyl, and I'm a fan of nineties alternative rock and power pop, but because a lot of it was released when vinyl was considered a dead format these records have quite limited vinyl releases, and a lot have never really been reissued or not properly. I'm a big fan of the Lemonheads, but finding either originals or reissues of their early/mid-nineties releases for under £50/£60 is exceptionally difficult; the copies of Car Button Cloth on sale on Discogs at the moment are priced at upwards of £170. Free All Angels by Ash is another holy grail of mine that commands ridiculous prices on the second-hand market.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Jan 14, 2021 11:18:37 GMT -5
Chinese Democracy had 3 different covers, but good luck finding the "red hand" and "how are you grenade" covers without spending close to a grand.
also as a fan of Terry Pratchett theres a number of his books that go for alot now that are out of print.
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Post by 67 more on Jan 14, 2021 13:12:22 GMT -5
Dogma. It's out of print on DVD and Blu-Ray, and it isn't on any streaming platforms because of rights complications, I believe. Copies of it are going for roughly $100. If it's the Affleck/Damon film, it's dirt cheap in the UK, if you're not bothered about second hand. £3 for a Region 2, £7 for a Region 1. Weird the price would skyrocket so much in the US |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 14, 2021 13:17:05 GMT -5
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Post by JIMBOB on Jan 14, 2021 13:59:03 GMT -5
Rage by Stephen King (Richard Bachman) for obvious reasons.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 14, 2021 14:33:29 GMT -5
Rage by Stephen King (Richard Bachman) for obvious reasons. Has it went up that much? Until about 2015 it wasn't hard to find used copies of The Bachman Books,still with Rage in it,for 10 to 20 bucks. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 14, 2021 14:52:14 GMT -5
Rage by Stephen King (Richard Bachman) for obvious reasons. Has it went up that much? Until about 2015 it wasn't hard to find used copies of The Bachman Books,still with Rage in it,for 10 to 20 bucks. Oddly enough I bought my copy of The Bachman Books in 2015. I just looked up my Amazon receipt for it and it cost $10.49. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 14, 2021 19:22:26 GMT -5
Has it went up that much? Until about 2015 it wasn't hard to find used copies of The Bachman Books,still with Rage in it,for 10 to 20 bucks. Oddly enough I bought my copy of The Bachman Books in 2015. I just looked up my Amazon receipt for it and it cost $10.49. Until it closed in 2016 the local used bookstore always had a few copies of The Bachman Books. I keep hearing how it is rare and I wonder how a book with a huge print run like it did could be rare. In high demand sure but not rare. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 15, 2021 14:18:47 GMT -5
I know this is going to be a case of you just having to wait it out, but I just looked up Robot Jox.
The cheapest version of this I could find selling was $27.66 on eBay. Copies are actually being purchased for over $100!
Not too long ago copies of the old DVD were going for a little over $10. I expect Robot Jox to be available for much cheaper again, but for now yikes!
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Post by JIMBOB on Jan 15, 2021 15:13:51 GMT -5
The Blu-ray for the movie 9 To 5 from Twilight Time goes for around $200.
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