Nice little hole in the wall shop near me has .50 cent and $1 long boxes. Running a half off deal on long box books. 42 comics for just under $16 bucks. Still had others to grab. Will be making another trip back soon. Got some reading to do.
Anyone who has paid attention to my communications on here may have noticed my statements about needing issue 78 for my collection, of course like many others on here I'm sure.
Been sticking to ebay and noticed that it re-emerged now at the whopping price of $500! Let me also clarify, the seller is cyberspacecomics. 2 weeks ago the same issue was listed for $287 by cyberspacecomics. It "sold" conveniently after another one was listed and sold for around $150 by a different seller. It's also worth noting that cyberspacecomics uses stock images for their listings. Thinking this is a scenario of them gouging the market on this one issue by pulling it and re-listing it when they don't have competition selling the same book.
I typically don't like to magnify situations or sellers like this, but this issue used to sell at an average price under $100 bucks multiple times in the previous year. All of this seller's more rare titles are highly inflated and questionable without actually seeing anything but the stock image, so be cautious if you're finding titles through his store.
A nearby comic shop by me makes the mistake of shoving dozens of Image/Extreme books in the 50 cent bargain boxes. His loss and my gain! Picked up around 30 books at a steal. Luckily, these were grouped together and mine for the taking for $1.50. Got some reading to do. 😁
Let me post this as a buyer's guide if you plan on getting all 11 issues.
First off, it would be much easier to obtain both trade paperbacks, Reborn/Rebranded, to get all of these issues without scouring for each book. To that I say, where's the fun in that?!
I'll start with the first 6 issues. Issues 1 to 6 are decently populated either through ebay or most comic retailers online. One online retailer, mycomicshop, does a very excellent job of showing each issue in the entire run and will show whether they have it in stock or links to ebay listings if not available. Here's where things get fun.
Issue 7 is where the later half of this series gets oddly scarce. My ebay luck scored me a couple small bundles that took me to 7 with some strategic searching. I was fortunate to have found issue 9 through a random online retailer. 10 finally showed up on ebay by entering Youngblood Towe Bowers into the search queue. This eliminates a lot of the search results from compiling multiple other series that muddy up the search. 11 I had to dig deep into Google until another store popped up having 1 in stock. As for issue 8...
Australia. My very first time ever having to get a comic book from Australia. Big thank you to King's Comics for having both issue 8's in stock. About 2 weeks for delivery but they arrived today. For some reason, I see Canada and Australia both have the later issues in stock better than in the states. I also emphasize that although the volume 1 trade is easier to obtain, I have not found an outlet to retrieve the second trade paperback anywhere. 1 online shop claimed to have it but refunded my order to let me know it was out of stock. That was when my hopes of getting 8 felt lost.
Hope this long winded post can be of use to new collectors that are just discovering Youngblood and want to explore the earlier lore. Also, as frustrating as this started to become, the reward of slowing getting each book felt exciting.
I'll keep this post spoiler free but just finished the read on Giant-size. It isn't a Youngblood comic without an exciting battle and an interesting plot twist. I enjoyed it a lot!
So much hype today about the Doomsday trailer when in reality, a trailer for this would blow it out of the water! 😆 Narrowing in on random issues for my Youngblood collection. Scored these on ebay last week. Still honing in on the elusive YB78. May have to sell part of my soul to obtain it.
If anyone is familiar with the store, Book Off, or are fortunate to have one in their area. All of their comic books, not including tpb's or omnis, are a dollar. I found a nice stack today that included other Image titles but I have been tracking down the Bowers/Towe run and found this one for $1. Cover a little scuffed, but that's fine with me! 😁
Been on and off again getting the Youngblood books, mostly through ebay, to try to get current and caught up with every series. Still a ways to go, but made a fair dent so far.
Completed Strikefile and Team Youngblood. Scored a good deal on the first 2 Vol. 4 books this weekend.
Excited to get the entire line complete! 🤞