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spectacular shocker wrote: I primarily only buy both HC & TPB color reprints, i.e. Masterworks, Omnibuses, Marvel Classics, etc.
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I have ended up with a total mixture. I'm reading the 60s stuff in order and writing about it a lot at the moment, so I do actually read these comics a lot. I used to have a big silver age collection but I sold it about 10 years back and have only recently rebought collected editions of everything so i have a real mix of collected editions.I have a bunch of the Omnibusses but they are a pain to read and an even bigger pain to have on a desk and refer to while typing. Hard to keep the dustjacket nice if you are actually reading the whole thing and carrying it around as well. Plus they are a pain to carry if you are reading one issue of FF then one issue of Iron Man and so on. They are often cheaper than 3 masterworks and they look nice though. I'd much rather have say the Simonson tpb set than the Omnibus, they are just too big to read properlyThe Essentials are great to just have massive runs of a title available. They were one thing I kept when I sold my collection so I have a real grab bag of different editions. They are great for the 70s titles I dont care all that much about as well but generally when I started the read through I decided I needed colour.The hardback masterworks are great, very readable, look nice on the shelf, I have FF and Spider-Man in that format after the first omnibuses (only have spidey 39-40 in essentials :-( ) and Thor right through. The Paperback masterworks are fine by me, they are a decent package and a much better price point. Same goes for the tpb sets like Miller DD or Simonson ThorPremium HC's I dont really like the dustjackets much My favourite format is probably the hardcover they used for Avengers Forever and the rest of the Busiek run. A good size to make the most of the art and they look good on the shelf. or the one DC used for the Kirby omnibuses they were a great size and i loved the paper. They really felt like books the designers had taken care over whereas a lot of the Marvel ones feel like gouging a lot of the time, multiple editions of the same stuff, omnibuses of 80s and 90s crossovers you could get in bargain bins when i was collecting.
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