Summary: Adam Graham discusses how to Amazon Pre-order, Comixology sales, eBay, and more to get the best possible deals on your comic book purchases. <br> Transcript Follows:<br> Find out how to get the best price on your comic book purchases, straight ahead.<br> Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.<br><br> <br> Back in Episode Nineteen we discussed ways where you could read comic books for free, but for many people they want to own them, they want to actually buy and own their comics, and so we’re going to talk about how to get bargains on comic books and on trades. We’ll start with the obvious in regards to newer trades or trades that are coming out, is to pre-order the books on Amazon if you know for example that you’re going to want to read a book that comes out at the end of the year. Pre-order it now. You won’t get charged by Amazon until it’s time for it actually to be purchased. But Amazon’s got a pre-order guarantee which means that if the price goes down between now and when you actually have the book shipped out to you, you will get charged the lowest price and that can be a really nice benefit. I ordered Volume Five of the Silver Surfer – it was, I think, more than a year before publication and the publication date got changed and they added two more Issues to wrap it up, so I put in my request on a six-Issue trade, it became an eight-Issue trade, but before it became an eight-Issue trade the price dropped from nineteen dollars to ten dollars so I only ended up paying ten dollars for a brand new trade. And I had similar experiences ordering some of the Titan Doctor Who comics where I got significant savings by pre-ordering the new trade in advance. Now that’s for just getting a new trade. What about other physical comics and trades, order trades? I will go ahead and talk about them both from physical perspectives as well as the digital version.<br> Now, as I’ve stated in a previous podcast I really prefer trades for reading comics, but occasionally I get individual Issues. And there are reasons why I will get the individual Issues, uncollected stories is one reason. Sometimes they’re not collected just because the series wasn’t viewed as popular enough, or just the company made a decision. I have, for example, Issues 72 to 100 of Spider Girl because they stopped doing trades for her comics with Issue Seventy-Two and I wanted to read the whole series. So, I have all Twenty-Eight of those physical Issues. Sometimes a company’s license has expired – you’ll see this particularly with a lot of the old Marvel trades where you’ll see, for example, that they skip where they’re collecting all the Issues of Marvel Team Up or Marvel Two and One, the team up books with Spider Man and The Thing, respectively. You’ll see some Issue numbers not included, and the reason is Marvel often teamed its license properties with its in-house superheroes in order to boost sales for both. But when a license expires they can’t reprint the book, so thus there was an Issue of Marvel Two and One which featured The Thing teaming up with Doc Savage, as well as the Spider Man comic featuring the same. And those books were not collected; however, you can still buy used copies of the Issues offline.<br> Another example are Pinky and Brain comics or the comic series for the movie Condorman. These were all obscure things I could not get in a trade and so I went hunting for the actual paper existing comics. I will say on uncollected stories, it’s probably a good idea to be 100% sure that they’re not – or as sure as you can be – that they are not going to be issued as a trade. There have been some cases where I have been like, I’m getting these because I want to read them and they came out as a trade anyway....
