I've just tried digital comics..and I liked it!

I had a few days off sick last week. Confined to my sick bed and having completed the Harley Quinn trades, I was looking at my wishlist on my Amazon Kindle when i noticed that the Monster of Frankenstein collection was just £0.92 on Kindle! That compares to £33.50 in print. That's an insane difference and I thought that is definitely worth a try.

I also noticed that "Doctor Strange: Into the Dark Dimension" was only £1.68 compared to £19.98. Now that was a collection I'd had on my wishlist for sometime. So I bought it on kindle and read it through. It was great! I surprised myself how easily I took to reading the comic on my kindle using the clever comixology trickery.

So I looked round a bit more and realised that Marvel Masterworks that were 6 months or more ago are pretty cheap too. Daredevil vol 5 was about £3.20 and I worked out that if I bought that and vol 6 I would save about £25 on the cost of the print epic collection printing the same material. Woo hoo.

So I cancelled my order for the epic collection and purchased the masterworks.

The price difference isn't as dramatic for DC collections, only a pound or two. So I think I'd stick to print for my DC stuff and keep my pre-orders, but it's nice having another option for the Marvel stuff.

Takes up less room too. Big bonus!

More Daredevil Masterworks

I finally bought this hardback edition via ebay after seeing that a future Daredevil Epic collection continues directly from it. When I've got that I'll have issues 1-63. Which'll be nice.

That Epic collection isn't due until March 2017 and reprints DAREDEVIL (1964) 42-63.

Nice shiney new hardcover collections - Waid and Brubaker

Just received:

The fifth and final volume in the nice oversized edition reprinting Mark Waid's recent Daredevil run.

The weighty Gotham Central Omnibus by Brubaker and Greg Rucka. It needs more than one pic to to the size of this justice.

Two lovely looking collections for my shelf and I'm sure they will be nice to read too when I get the time.

Masterworks Bonaza

For some reason I've had a bit of a splurge and bought 3 new masterworks volumes.

More John Buscema Thor and Gene Colan Daredeveil. Nice.

Some new collections

A couple of new collections have arrived recently.

The Daredevil by Mark waid is vol 4 in the nice oversized format. The fifth and final volume has already been pre-ordered and I very much look forward to reading the whole thing.

And Star Wars vol 2 also got delivered. I'm seeing very positive stuff online about this series but I should really try and read it before ordering volume 3.

More Bronze-Age back-issues

I'm clearly on a little bit of a back-issue kick at the moment because I've just bought these three back issues off ebay. Nothing expensive but they just caught my eye,

Iron Man #90 is actually an upgrade copy as it was one of the first US Marvel comics I ever bought. This slightly better condition copy will go into the box and I'll frame my original copy. I love the cover!

Daredevil Vol 3 by Mark Waid

It's actually not that long since I purchased Vol 2 of these nice over-sized DD collections. So I'm happy that Vol 3 is already out. However, as I'm not reading Marvel in 2014 it's only the comfort that it's safe and sound on my bookshelf which I can take at the moment.

Two More Collected Editions

I've heard that Fatale will finish with issue 24 so I reckon I'll read them in one sitting.

Daredevil is another of those nice oversized collections reprinting 12 issues or so. Nice to have but in my Marvel free year, this one will have to wait.

Marvel Tales by Alan Davis

I bought and read this because it's actually Alan Davis doing a Clandestine story using major Marvel heroes annuals as a vehicle.

Unfortunately, although  the art is the usual Davis superb standard - the story just didn't grab me on first reading. It might if I read this at the end of re-reading the various mini-series featuring the Clandestine characters.

A near miss at the moment though. :-(

Daredevil by Mark Waid Vol 1

This was a nice oversized hardback collection of the first 10 issues.

An enjoyable read with some nice art and fun stories. I'll be definitely getting the next oversized collection when it comes out.

Finally...some back issues added to my collection!

But nothing that exciting in this lot of 99p bargains.

The Marvel Tales reprinting Spidey's first ever appearance looks nice but is only FN at best - still it matches my other early Spidey reprints and that's why I got it.

Marvel Team-Up #92 gets me one step closer to completing the 1-100 run on that title.

And I always thought Paladin was cool- will I still think that after reading this issue of Marvel Premiere where the (then) Daredevil nemises strikes out in his own comic?

More trades this week

A couple of new trades arrived this week. Both collecting relatively new material. The Alan Davies book collects 2012 annuals he did whereas the Terra collects the 2009 mini series by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner. This is actually the second copy of this book as I returned the first one I received because it had a binding error for about 12 pages which made it awkward to read those. Unfortunately the "new" copy had the same error so I've decided to keep this one as I suspect Amazon had a duff batch and it is difficult to obtain from anywhere else. It's still readable - just not perfect.

Plenty to read here!

Two big collections arrived in the post this week.

Rex Mundi Omnibus Vol 2 is another massive (500+ pages) collection. It will take me some time to read this together with Vol 1which I got last September. Good value at aroung £14.

Just hope it's as good as I've been promised.

Another title with excellent reviews is Daredevil by Mark Waid. and this collection is an oversize hardback collecting the first 12 issues. A quick flick through shows it looks nice.

Daredevil and the Black Widow go Cosmic!

These two issues won on ebay complete a run of early Daredevils which tie-in to Jim Starlin's Cosmic storyline which ran through Captain Marvel and Warlock in the 1970's. These issues are actually written by Stevfe Gerber but JS does write and draw part of 105 which features the first appearance and origin of Moondragon. Not a character you who have expected to begin in those pages!

Added to my collection: Bronze Age Daredevil and Modern Age Powers

Daredevil 99p from ebay. 2nd part in a Moondragon storyline which ties into Starlin's Cap Marvel epic.

Powers Vol 14 from the Book Depository (still undercutting Amazon).

Added to my Collection: Marvel Team-up 73

My complete Team-Up run draws ever closer with this nice VFN- copy of issue 73 for 99p.

Just 4 to get (3, 8, 92 & 97) for the complete run to from 1-100 which is the priority on this title.

Added to my Collection: Daredevil 107

This might seem a bit random as I don't ordinarily buy Daredevil back-issues but this particular one and the issue 106 tie-in to Jim Starlin's Thanos War over in Captain Marvel. And this FN grade copy was going for 99p so why not? Problem is I now want 106 as it is a two part story.

Added To My Collection

Two comics arrived in the post today as my recent EBay purchases continue to arrive in dribs and drabs.

I'm pleased with Daredevil #99 as it's a cross-over with Avengers #111. In fact it's even reprinted in the Essential Avengers volume. I got it for £1.99 + £1.50 post. It was only the only week when a £3.50 bid of mine for this issue was out-bid so it was nice to pick it up so soon afterwards at half the cost.

The Iron Man #44 is a bit ropey. VG- probably. I took a bit of a gamble with it but it's a bit watersoaked although still readable.

More Marvel Masterworks

Ordered from Amazon Wednesday ;Arrived in the post today

Daredevil Masterworks Vol 3 (reprints issues 22 -32 and Annual 1)
Captain America Masterworks Vol 1( reprints Tales of Suspense 59 -81)

New Purchases for May

More collections have arrived in the post. I'm pleased to have got Mouse Guard Vol 2 (via EBay as Amazon was sold out) so I'll read that soon having just finished vol 1.

The Avengers Masterworks Vol 4 means that I'm just one Avengers Masterworks volume away from a complete run to issue 400. Unfortunately, I've Vol 5 is yet to be scheduled for release in paperback.

I don't know why the Daredevil cover has scanned so poorly. It must be something to do with it being so dark. These issues (12-21) are the first John Romita comics in the Marvel Age.