What's the longest series run you collected? 5 5

[ttfitz]

I have complete runs of (Uncanny) X-Men, Avengers, and nearly complete runs of Fantastic Four (#1 and #5 missing), Amazing Spider-Man (1,3, 9, and 14), Silver Age Green Lantern (#1) and Flash (112 and 132). I guess my longest run is probably Action Comics, where I have from issue 243 to present (along with all but 4 issues back to 189).

[Gonzimodo]

Threads like this can be humbling.  Every time I start to think I have a pretty decent collection, you big fish come along and show us how it's done. 

I started collecting in the mid-80s and have only been able to go back to the mid-70s on some of my runs.  With prices as they are now, I gave up on ever trying to go back any farther and am just filling those gaps with omnibuses.

I have some good, long runs, but I'm not sure which is the longest unbroken run I have.  Probably Daredevil from about issue 100 to present.  I can't think of any other title that doesn't still have gaps here and there where I lost interest and never went back to fill in the holes.

[Galen130]

All Ghost Rider runs up to about 2011/2012, including limited series'.  I just wanted to see flamehead get to issue #100 in a series, but I gave up. 🤣🤣

Edited May 16, 2023 by Galen130

[Zonker]

I'm impressed with the multiple people here who have been keeping up with the Legion continuously since Adventure #247.  

I never had the earliest appearances, but all the continuity shenanigans since the first Crisis made me starting in the late 1980s.  

My longest continuous run is probably Detective Comics #327-520.
My most significant continuous run is probably Green Lantern #1-89, since I consider it a complete run prior to the mid-1970s relaunch.  

[fett]

Four Color-Dell-NOT DONE.  

[cbalroman]

Have a complete full run of X-Men(Uncanny X-men) 1 to present day - all the different volumes etc. (what ever legacy number that would be)

ASM - currently working on a full run. Still need to get 1-17, 19, 22, 31... but other then that have up to present day with all the different volumes

Batman - 144 to present day.  Starting to work down towards issue 100. 

Detective Comics - 400 to present

Edited May 16, 2023 by cbalroman

[Gonzimodo]

On 5/16/2023 at 3:05 PM, cbalroman said:

Have a complete full run of X-Men(Uncanny X-men) 1 to present day - all the different volumes etc. (what ever legacy number that would be)

ASM - currently working on a full run. Still need to get 1-17, 19, 22, 31... but other then that have up to present day with all the different volumes

Batman - 144 to present day.  Starting to work down towards issue 100. 

Detective Comics - 400 to present

I was going to work on a full run of Uncanny X-Men, because I have 94 to current, with quite a few of the earlier issues in low grades.  (I'm missing the Victor Gischler vampire series, which kind of, sort of doesn't count, anyway, but other than that, I think I have a complete run.)  Then I sold my coverless, hole-punched #1, and there's no way I'll ever spend the money to get another /better one.  I bought the first two omnibuses so I can at least read the whole series, and now I'll probably sell off my pre-94 issues.  (Probably.  Sometimes it's hard to let go...)

Edited May 16, 2023 by Gonzimodo
Clarifying

[F For Fake]

At one time I decided I wanted to own every Batman comic from the Post-Crisis era to what was current. Eventually that became an unbroken run of 400-713, plus all of the corresponding spin-offs (LotDK, SotB, Nightwing, Robin, etc) and every one-shot and miniseries, and included the complete New 52 run (plus all variants), into Rebirth. And then one day I just decided that I was done, and I sold them all. I was tired of buying the new books that I wasn't really interested anymore, and I was tired of the space that the runs took up versus hardcovers and trades that I could display on a shelf. So it's all gone now, every bit of it, and honestly I don't miss it. The only regret is that there is still a large chunk not collected in HC as of yet, but I'm hopeful that we'll get there. The post-Crisis series of Caped Crusader and Dark Knight Detective trade paperbacks were very popular, selling out and going crazy in value, so I'm hopefully we'll eventually get those in omni.

The only other long runs I had were X-men, from GSX 1 until 282, which is when I stopped reading (the first time.)

I don't own many "regular" comics anymore, but the few that I have left include long runs of LoSH (complete set of the Baxter series through Five Years Later) and Justice League International, which I keep because I would probably have to pay someone to take them.

[Gonzimodo]

On 5/16/2023 at 3:40 PM, F For Fake said:

At one time I decided I wanted to own every Batman comic from the Post-Crisis era to what was current. Eventually that became an unbroken run of 400-713, plus all of the corresponding spin-offs (LotDK, SotB, Nightwing, Robin, etc) and every one-shot and miniseries, and included the complete New 52 run (plus all variants), into Rebirth. And then one day I just decided that I was done, and I sold them all. I was tired of buying the new books that I wasn't really interested anymore, and I was tired of the space that the runs took up versus hardcovers and trades that I could display on a shelf. So it's all gone now, every bit of it, and honestly I don't miss it. The only regret is that there is still a large chunk not collected in HC as of yet, but I'm hopeful that we'll get there. The post-Crisis series of Caped Crusader and Dark Knight Detective trade paperbacks were very popular, selling out and going crazy in value, so I'm hopefully we'll eventually get those in omni.

The only other long runs I had were X-men, from GSX 1 until 282, which is when I stopped reading (the first time.)

I don't own many "regular" comics anymore, but the few that I have left include long runs of LoSH (complete set of the Baxter series through Five Years Later) and Justice League International, which I keep because I would probably have to pay someone to take them.

I had a complete post-Crisis Superman run like that, with every series, miniseries, one-shot, and everything in between that was published from 1986 to about 2000, and I sold it all for pennies on the dollar in the early 2000s.  I sometimes wish I would have kept some of it, but I know I would probably never go back and read it, anyway.  I just need to keep telling myself that and clear out some of the thousands of comics that are now taking over my basement...

[F For Fake]

On 5/16/2023 at 3:46 PM, Gonzimodo said:

I had a complete post-Crisis Superman run like that, with every series, miniseries, one-shot, and everything in between that was published from 1986 to about 2000, and I sold it all for pennies on the dollar in the early 2000s.  I sometimes wish I would have kept some of it, but I know I would probably never go back and read it, anyway.  I just need to keep telling myself that and clear out some of the thousands of comics that are now taking over my basement...

Yeah, that's really a big part of why I finally let it go, the realization that the day was likely never going to come that I would sit down and re-read 30 years of Batman stories. And even if I did, most of them were in a nice collected format. So, the need to maintain the library removed, coupled with the amount of space it took up, it was surprisingly easy to let it go. The last hold outs were my complete run of Kelley Jones issues, including newsstands, and I finally let those go a few months ago, as we have most of that run collected in HC. Much rather have them on a shelf where I can pull them out and look anytime, as opposed to a box. 

[OtherEric]

On 5/16/2023 at 11:59 AM, Zonker said:

I'm impressed with the multiple people here who have been keeping up with the Legion continuously since Adventure #247.  

I never had the earliest appearances, but all the continuity shenanigans since the first Crisis made me starting in the late 1980s.  

My longest continuous run is probably Detective Comics #327-520.
My most significant continuous run is probably Green Lantern #1-89, since I consider it a complete run prior to the mid-1970s relaunch.  

Legion fans can be a bit obsessive, even relative to other comic fans.  I personally suspect there are more complete LSH runs than almost any other series of similar length.  Mine hinges on the fact my Adventure 247 is textbook beat but complete.

[Azkaban]

Avengers 14 thru 402 including all Annuals, Giant Sizes and King Sizes

X-Men 15 thru 141 including all Annuals, Giant Sizes and King Sizes

Uncanny X-Men 142 thru 544 including all Annuals and Giant Sizes

Iron Man 1 thru 332  including all Annuals, Giant Sizes and King Sizes

those are what I call the Big Three in my collection but have other runs of

Captain Marvel 1 thru 62 including Giant Sizes

Wolverine 1 thru 189  including all Annuals

Rom 1 thru 75 including all Annuals

Micronauts 1 thru 59  including all Annuals

The New Mutants 1 thru 100  including all Annuals and Specials

Excalibur 1 thru 125  including all Annuals

West Coast Avengers/Avengers West Coast 1 thru 102  including all Annuals

Alpha Flight 1 thru 130  including all Annuals

Ghost 1 thru 36 including Specials

Iron Fist 1 thru 15

Nick Fury, Agent of Shield 1 thru 18

The Invaders 1 thru 41 including all Annuals and Giant Sizes

The Savage She-Hulk 1 thru 25

Marvel Team-Up 1 thru 150 including all Annuals

Ms. Marvel 1 thru 23

Spider-Woman 1 thru 49

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos 7 thru 128  including all Annuals and Specials

Eternals 1 thru 19 including all Annuals

Generation X 1 thru 87 including all Annuals and Specials

Inhumans 1 thru 12

Marvel Fanfare 1 thru 60

Dazzler 1 thru 42

Champions 1 thru 17

The 'Nam 1 thru 60

Justice League of America 1 thru 60 including all Giant Sizes and Specials

Justice Society of America 1 thru 54 including all Annuals, Giant Sizes and Specials

too many more to mention 

I have a problem 

 

 

 

Edited May 17, 2023 by Azkaban

[Crimebuster]

I have Avengers #1-503 plus annuals. I really should probably get rid of the last 40 issues or so and end with the Kurt Busiek run though.

I was going to say that's my longest run, but I realized it isn't. 

It is just barely longer than my run of Jughead, which is vol. 1 #84-352, vol. 2 #1-214, and vol. 3 #1-16, for 499 consecutive issues. 

But my longest run is actually Archie #156-713, which is 558 consecutive issues. I'm currently working my way back to #50, as I think it will be cost prohibitive to try and complete beyond that point. 

[ADAMANTIUM]

I've tried to be a run collector, I really have!
I got the first "3" appearances of the Punisher in Mark Jeweler.

I'm currently working on X-men #94 - 143 with only about 9 books left to obtain, then maybe a few upgrades. Which is only about 53 books, including the "annuals" part of the run and the GSXM. Good news are the one's I'm missing, well most of them, aren't too terribly expensive ie I have the "keys"  

I do have the 30 cent variants of the X-men run, but no 35 centers. 

Edited May 16, 2023 by ADAMANTIUM

[Stefan_W]

I had the entire Fantastic Four Vol 1 run except for five issues before I decided to sell them off. A big chunk of them were mine from when I was a kid collecting comics as they came out, and the rest I bought when I was older and had some more cash to spend on comics. But then, as an adult, I decided there are other comics I wanted more (plus the storage space on a few long boxes of run fillers took up too much room) so I moved on. 

[s-man]

My longest run is X-Men 94 - 544 which I currently have and would like to make it from issue 1.

 

 

[Montezuma]

Four Color first series 1-25, second 1-1354

On the 1354 I have the probable missing isues as well.

Edited May 16, 2023 by Montezuma

[jdandns]

In sheer number of issues, it's probably Uncanny X-Men for me as I have it from around #20 through somewhere in the 400's (less an occasional issue here and there and the reprint run from 67-93).

Totally uninterrupted, from the Bongo Comics line, I have Simpsons 1-245, plus Bart Simpson 1-100, plus Futurama 1-83, and Spongebob Squarepants 1-85, Treehouse of Horror 1-23, the various Radioactive Man series, and all of the mini-series and one-shots which constitute well over another 100 comics.

I've also got all Swamp Things, the 171 issue series that started in the early 80's, plus the 1970's series before it, and the several that followed it, which all-told, constitute another 100+ issues. 

Runner-up would probably be Daredevil, which I have from the first Frank Miller issue (#158) to somewhere in the 300's

I've also got Incredible Hulk from around 290 through the end of the Peter David run, which I think would make for about 160 issues straight.

Edited May 17, 2023 by jdandns

[universal soldier]

ASM #1, 3- current including annuals. I plan on aquiring a #2 ASAP so that will be completed before end of year. I also have full runs of all the other major Spider-man titles, all volumes (Web, Spectacular, Peter Parker, Marvel Team-up, Friendly Neighborhood etc...) with the exception of Marvel Tales.

Uncanny X-men #94 - 544 and slowly picking away at the reprints. I should be able to get back to 50 with too much trouble.

A bunch of other titles have smaller/medium size runs nearing completion.

FF #40 - 300 (Need 24 issues)

Incredible Hulk #102 - 250 (Need 18 issues)

Conan  #1 - 120 (need 9 issues)

Runs of Thor, Iron Man and Captain Marvel (V1) are in lesser states of completion but I have some good pockets and keys already.

[universal soldier]

On 5/16/2023 at 4:06 PM, Azkaban said:

 

I have a problem 

 

You came to the right place.  we all do here