u/ScarcityMode

I’m referring to the 2015 NYCC Naruto Volume 72 Exclusive, the 2018 My Hero Academia SDCC exclusive, and the 2019 One Punch Man SDCC exclusive.

These were primarily only handed out at the events aside from a few select bookstore locations so there aren’t that many out there. Plus they’re pretty hard to find on third party platforms.

A week ago I went to a few Half-Price books in my area (my first time going to Half-Price books stores) looking for manga. At most of the locations there wasn’t much, but I did see a second English print of Food wars and Shaman King that weren’t too bad.

But then I stumbled upon this Spy X Family volume. Immediately I thought that there was no way this was a first print since the first printing came out in 2020 and it looked like it was in great condition. When I saw I was wrong I instantly bought it lol (for $6).

Have you ever found any cool manga at a discount store?

SAKAMOTO DAYS by Yuto Suzuki will be ending in the upcoming weeks, freeing a slot in the magazine for this new BLEACH series.

I bought the first print when it came out in 2022.

The Barnes and Noble exclusive is a 2nd print fun fact. I’ve never been able to find the first print.

The BAM exclusive was the hardest one to find. As far as I know they only had one printing of it and not a lot have been sold on the secondary market.

If anyone in here has a raw copy of Shonen Jump 0, can you confirm what One Piece characters appear? From research, I think a few pages of Romance Dawn 2 are shown, and in those pages I think it’s just Luffy. Would love to confirm!

Imagine you had the chance to be gifted a BGS 8.0 of:

(1) WSJ 1968 #1 (First issue of Weekly Shonen Jump)
(2) WSJ 1984 #52 (First appearance of Dragon Ball)
(3) WSJ 1997 #34 (First canon appearance of One Piece)

You’d get one of these for free. Which would you decide to get?👀