Anyone collect them?

They seem to be reproducing everything from Peanuts, to Terry and the Pirates, Dick Tracy, etc.

I've gotten 2 volumes of Popeye and it grows to be great fun in the second volume. I also got my wife the first Little Orphan Annie. and my brother the first Peanuts,

I've also gotten all the Batman comic strips and the Siegel/Shuster ones that were availble though they haven't been continued.


I'm thinking of Dick Tracy. Not sure though. I buy way too much stuff.

also considering Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

I am an addict

I want the Peanuts collections, but I'm determined to start at the beginning, and my Waldenbooks never has the first one. I'd like to get the Addams Family collections, too. I do have several of the Calvin and Hobbes books, though.

I have been considering the first Flash Gordon collection as well.

BTW, Calvin and Hobbes is a MUST OWN. It really gets great at about the third volume.

I have The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, and It's A Magical World.

If only there were some type of magic place that had all the books in the world, and the cheapest prices, and would bring it right to your door.


By the way, I've got every Calvin and it's the best thing of all time. Far Side was my other biggie.

I'd like to get some sort of Buck Rogers or Terry and the Pirates. Some classic that had good artwork.

I'm getting the Peanuts and the Dick Tracy collections. I also picked up the first Dennis the Menace volume. Still waiting on Doonesbury...

I'd put it up there with Watchmen or Kirby Fantastic Four or whatever-- it's one of the best strips in human history.

I got both volumes of Little Annie Fanny... does that count

I read a bunch of Flash Gordon and Steve Canyon stuff downloaded free from Wowio when it was still viable. With Flash Gordon, I found if I skipped the descriptive captions which told me what I was already seeing in the art, and just read the dialogue, I really liked it! I'd sometimes have to give a caption a glance if it wasn't immediately clear, but very rarely.

Stuff I'd buy if I had the space/money:
Peanuts
Calvin & Hobbes
The Far Side

Agreed. I've never bought an Absolute edition of anything, but I happily shelled out for the giant hardcover three-volume of The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.

It is genius.

Absolutely. I generally prefer comic strips for superior stories and comic books for superior art, but it can also be the other way round or both. Anyway, I've been collecting strip reprints for over 25 years now, and I can tell you that we are now living in a golden age for comic strip reprints. Buy them now and see the projects to their conclusion. Don't wait ten or twenty years, for by then the core readers will be gone and there'll be less of a market for strip reprints. Of course we get a few young converts, but not nearly enough to sustain print runs in the thousands or even tens of thousands. Now is the time.

I have the Bloom County collections, Calvin and Hobbes, a few of the Kitchen Sink Press editions of Flash Gordon, a couple Far Sides, and a few of the Twin Earth collections.

I'd love for somebody to start collecting the Secret Agent X-9 strips.

Alex Raymond's original run on X-9 was collected and reprinted in the '70s. A bit of Al Williamson's run was collected and reprinted by Dragon Lady Press in the '80s.

Thanks Googa. I have one collection of the Raymond run. I'm going to have to go looking for that Williamson collection.

I've got a bunch of the old paperback "Peanuts" reprints. And I also have one of the nice Smithsonian comics collections volumes that has a bunch of different stuff.

At the library we're collecting the "Complete Peanuts" series. And a generous comics pro has given us several volumes of Caniff's "Terry and the Pirates."

I have all of the Bloom County books. I also picked up quite a few Farside collections.

I've been getting the new "Peanuts" hardcover books for my dad. It's been a nice staple gift for the last couple years, on birthdays and Father's Days, etc.

Edit to add an amusing (to me) sidebar: Unfortunately this particular gift-resource won't last much longer. My dad is convinced the Peanuts jumped the shark once Woodstock (that little yellow bird) joined the cast.

Woodstock does indeed represent something of a watershed. The strip was different after that. IIRC, though, the subsequent decade or so worked quite well on its own terms. That successful semi-reinvention is one of the things that kept the strip successful for so long.

I don't collect them, but there are some I have to buy. Though I'm behind, I get the awesome Complete Peanuts collections. I'll get a Far Side from time to time.

And of COURSE I have the huge three-volume Complete Calvin & Hobbes (as well as a bunch of softcovers), because it's one of the best things in the universe, bar none.

I have a few other strip collections here and there -- Zippy the Pinhead and Dennis the Menace and others -- but nothing I collect.