The Master Trade List

[saint_matthew]

Okay, so i've been saying for a while that i would make a list of trades i want & now that i've opted out of the NU52, now is the time to pick them up... So for crits & giggles i thought i'd upload the shopping list... Feel free to suggest some that i've missed but might enjoy.

DC MISC.
52, Vol. 1

JUSTICE LEAGUE/JUSTICE SOCIETY
Justice League: Generation Lost, Vol. 1
Justice League: Generation Lost, Vol. 2

JLA
JLA Vol. 1 (JLA Deluxe Editions) [Paperback]
JLA Vol. 2 (JLA Deluxe Editions) [Paperback]

JSA
JSA: Justice Be Done
JSA: Darkness Falls
JSA: Return of Hawkman
JSA: Fair Play
JSA: Stealing Thunder
JSA: Savage Times
JSA: Princes of Darkness
JSA: Black Reign
JSA: Lost
JSA: Black Vengeance
JSA: Mixed Signals
JSA: Ghost Stories

RED ROBIN
Red Robin: The Grail
Red Robin: 7 Days of Death
Red Robin: The Hit List
Red Robin: Collision

BATMAN
Batman: Gates of Gotham
Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 1
Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 2
Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 3
Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 4
Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 5

BATGIRL
Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl Rising
Batgirl Vol. 2: The Flood
Batgirl Vol. 3: The Lesson

THE LEGION
Legion, The: Foundations
Legion Lost
Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds
Legion of Super-Heroes: The Beginning of Tomorrow

SHAZAM
Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder
Power of Shazam
Black Adam: The Dark Age

SUPERMAN: NEW KRYPTON
Superman: New Krypton, Vol. 2
Superman: New Krypton Vol. 3
Superman: New Krypton Vol. 4
Superman: Mon-El Vol 1
Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton Vol. 1
Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton Vol. 2
Superman: Mon-El - Man of Valor
Superman: Nightwing & Flamebird, Vol. 1
Superman: Nightwing and Flamebird Vol. 2
Supergirl: Who is Superwoman?
Supergirl: Friends and Fugitives
Supergirl: Death and the Family
Superman: Codename Patriot
Superman: War of the Supermen

SUPERMAN
Superman: Up, Up, and Away!
Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 1
Superman: Secret Origin
Superman: Return of Doomsday
Superman: Reign of Doomsday

TEEN TITANS
Teen Titans Vol. 1: A Kid's Game
Teen Titans Vol. 2: Family Lost
Teen Titans Vol. 3: Beast Boys and Girls
Teen Titans, Vol. 6: Titans Around the World
Teen Titans, Vol. 7: Titans East
Teen Titans: Team Building
Teen Titans: The Hunt for Raven
Teen Titans: Child's Play
Teen Titans: Deathtrap
Teen Titans: Changing of the Guard
Teen Titans: On the Clock
Teen Titans: Titans of Tomorrow

COUNTDOWN
Countdown to Adventure
Dr. Fate: Countdown to Mystery
Countdown Presents: Search for Ray Palmer
Countdown Presents: Lord Havok and the Extremists

SPECIALS
Invasion
The Death of Superman
The Return of Superman
World Without a Superman
The Infinite Crisis Omnibus
DC Universe Online

GREEN ARROW
Green Arrow: Quiver
Green Arrow: The Sounds of Violence
Green Arrow: The Archer's Quest
Green Arrow: Straight Shooter
Green Arrow: City Walls
Green Arrow: Moving Targets
Green Arrow: Heading Into the Light
Green Arrow: Crawling From the Wreckage
Green Arrow: Road to Jericho
Green Arrow/Black Canary: Road to the Altar
Green Arrow/Black Canary: The Wedding Album
Green Arrow/Black Canary: Family Business
Green Arrow/Black Canary: A League of Their Own
Green Arrow/Black Canary: Enemies List
Green Arrow/Black Canary: Big Game
Green Arrow/Black Canary: Five Stages

POWER GIRL
Power Girl (Collects JSA Classified #1-4, Showcase #97-99 and Secret Origins #11)
Power Girl: A New Beginning
Power Girl: Aliens and Apes
Power Girl: Bomb Squad
Power Girl: Old Friends

NOBLE CAUSES
Noble Causes Archives Volume 1
Noble Causes Archives Volume 2

DYNAMO 5
Dynamo 5 Volume 4: Change Or Die
Dynamo 5 Volume 5 TP

MARVEL
New Thunderbolts Volume 3: Right Of Power (Vol. 3)
She-Hulks: Hunt for the Intelligencia
Avengers Assemble, Vol. 1
Avengers Legends, Vol. 1 - Avengers Forever
Mystery Men
Darkstar and the Winter Guard
Captain America: Patriot
The Defenders, Vol. 1
Powers Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl?

ANNIHILATION
Annihilation Book 1
Annihilation Book 2
Annihilation Book 3
Annihilation: Conquest Book 1
Annihilation: Conquest, Book 2
The Thanos Imperative

REALM OF KINGS
Realm of Kings
Nova Vol. 5: War of Kings
War of Kings: Warriors
War of Kings
Road to War of Kings

SQUADRON SUPREME
Squadron Supreme New World Order
Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe
Squadron Supreme

[Vexous]

Fair Warning, Justice League Generation Lost and Power Girl Bomb Squad and Old Friends will make you hate the New 52 even more. Good books, but they do a seriously large amount of setting up things to come, especially with Divine and Max. Since the reboot came along we'll never see any of that.

Since you're reading Realm of Kings you might want to pick up Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shiar Empire. If I remember right thats the one where Vulcan shows up. Gives you a little background on the galactic situation and how it got to where it was.

[saint_matthew]

Fair Warning, Justice League Generation Lost and Power Girl Bomb Squad and Old Friends will make you hate the New 52 even more. Good books, but they do a seriously large amount of setting up things to come, especially with Divine and Max. Since the reboot came along we'll never see any of that.

Since you're reading Realm of Kings you might want to pick up Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shiar Empire. If I remember right thats the one where Vulcan shows up. Gives you a little background on the galactic situation and how it got to where it was.

I already have the x-men stuff & i've actually read both Generation Lost & Powergirl... I just dont own them. I'm also selling off a lot of my single issues to "trade up" as it were, to the trades. Single issues are harder to maintain, once they are put in a long box you stop seeing them & stop reading them. I want the convenience of trades, all set out on my full size book shelf.

i'll admit the shopping list has a couple of holes in it, such as only wanting 52 volume 1, but thats mostly because i've already started getting trades at a rate of 1 a week. It'll speed up when i get back to full time work, but at the moment i like getting a trade a week... Its so much better then getting a single issue because you get more story, without an adverts.

[Vexous]

I have the exact same problem. Thousands of comics in over a dozen long boxes. The pile is starting to get to be a problem. Seriously thinking about going digital for the regular reads. That way you know which issues to buy for the collection and which will end up being just more clutter. Pick up a trade a few months later if you liked the particular storyline. Much less mess....

[saint_matthew]

I have the exact same problem. Thousands of comics in over a dozen long boxes.

My collection isn't quite that bad, i've only got 4 long boxes & a couple of crates, but yeah its to space expensive, which is one of the reasons to trade up. Trades don't take up nearly as much space, because there are just less superflous pages.

An i've sold a fair chunk of books already, mostly from the "oh god, why was i collecting these in the first place" box, which is marvel heavy.

Seriously thinking about going digital for the regular reads. That way you know which issues to buy for the collection and which will end up being just more clutter. Pick up a trade a few months later if you liked the particular storyline. Much less mess....

Yeah, i'm not a fan of digital. An unlike most people who aren't a fan, i'm not a fan for actual reasons, rather then the usual knee jerk reactionism reasons. I find reading a comic digitally to be an inferior read. If i want to read it on anything close to a screen that can accomodate the material (without pan & scan, which i find ruins the reading experience), i have to use a computer & a computer is not easy to curl up in bed with, or read on the train... Not to mention how bad trying to read a back lit screen in different lighting conditions is for your eyes.

Yours is the only time i would endorse digital & only as a last resort. Alternatively, you could always cull the collection, in a library we call this "weeding the collection."

[saint_matthew]

*While searching Amazon*

Whats this? Marvel made a collection of Ka-Zar, from 1997. Damn it Marvel, just take my money already