King Nine to Firefly wrote:
As my hardcover masterworks' buying had dropped from one or two a month a number of years back to a couple a year, my softcover buying will catch up after awhile.  I still buy hardcovers of Sgt. Fury and will buy Strange Tales and Journey Into Mystery when they reach the Lee/Kirby/Ditko era.  I kept my hardcovers of books that wouldn't be in softcover or Omnibus form for years to come(Avengers 7-10, Spider-Man 11-13, Thor 7-9, Nick Fury 1-3, Ant-Man 1 & 2, Sub-Mariner 2-4, Daredevil 4-6, Human Torch 1 & 2, Rawhide Kid 1.
I, also, buy the painted covers as a number of these are beautifully done.


Currently I buy Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men as softcover but after Amazing Spider-Man vol. 4 I might splurge for Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus vol. 2. Sub-Mariner would be a softcover purchase for me unless I found the hardcovers with a drastic markdown. Same with Thor. I was about to buy all of the Uncanny X-Men volumes as softcovers but since the Uncanny X-Men Omnibus vol. 1 is coming back into print this spring, I'll go with that.