Collecting Graphic Novels

By: James Hall

Background Info.

• I’ve always liked reading select comics and watching movies that come out about them.

• Recently I’ve been intrigued by collecting Graphic Novels of certain comics I hold in high regard and like to read them/put them on display.

• So far I have a very small collection since this can be a bit of an expensive hobby.

• In the following slides I’ll just show some of my favorites…

Absolute Watchmen

• I had no previous knowledge of Watchmen until I saw the movie preview. It piqued my interest and I decided to read the graphic novel and loved it! I now have in my possession a 1st Printing of the graphic novel and an oversized Absolute Edition of Watchmen which is loaded with tons of extras…A picture of it is on the next slide…

Absolute Watchmen Pic.

The Absolute V for Vendetta

After reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen I delved further into his writing and found out that he was the author of the comic V for Vendetta which was made into a movie before Watchmen. I had since seen the movie but hadn’t realized it was written by him. Not too long ago I acquired V for Vendetta in its Absolute form which looks great on display…on the next slide is another pic…

Absolute V for Vendetta

Astonishing X-men OmnibusThe best for last (for now)

• This one is/was out of print when I wanted to get it. After a week or so of calling around and looking on eBay I found a shop in Indiana that had it for 74.99 with no tax and shipping, so I paid a penny below retail! That was a great investment because their selling for more than 100 dollars on eBay.

Astonishing X-men Omnibus