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HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

With American comics, it’s not even the shattered continuity, it’s that availability is a mess because some of the franchises are so ancient and collectible.

If I want to read through One Piece from the 1997 start, my library probably has/can inter-library loan all 105 volumes, or I can go to mainstream retailers and get any I’m missing without a huge fracas.

If I want to read Batman from the 1940 start, I’d better hope some of the rarer issues come up at auction in the near future AND that I can mortgage my house to afford them.

I’m amazed they never put out a DVD-ROM collection that’s “Everything Marvel/DC did prior to, say, 1990, as PDF scans” just so mere mortals have a chance to enjoy the experience of completionism.

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kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If it’s anything like magic the gathering, whales and third party sellers are to blame

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve got a DVD of 20 years of Amazing Spider-Man (1986-2006).

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- Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep. I first saw what he is asking for over 20 years ago. They sold them at a gas station by my house.
  
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  - Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    archive.org/details/batman150/Batman 001/
    
    also this lol
    
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Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was surprised about that figure of 105 volumes for one piece, so I googled it and it was 109 (probably just what came out since you last heard about it). I was expecting that number to be like a thousand or something.

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- emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A little over a thousand chapters, but a volume has about ten chapters.
  
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