The most difficult short run you ever completed

[jimjum12]

What is the most difficult short run( 20 or less issues)that you ever completed?GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[lighthouse]

Rat Bast.ard

[greggy]

Rat Bast.ard

Trigger Twins

[BlackHeartedDwarf-migratio]

 

Rat Bast.ard meets the Trigger Twins.

 

[deathlok]

Astonishing Tales #25

[goldust40]

Menace (Atlas PCH).

[Scheradon]

I'll let you know as soon as I complete one.

[OldGuy]

Fast Willie Jackson #1-6.

[Zanarkand]

The Girl Who Would Be Death 1-4. One of those invisible dollar bin minis that everyone seems to have 3 of, but never all four.

[CW]

I'm a couple of issues short of a 1-22 run of the quality comics Spirit.

[Mr. Zipper]

Big Bang Comics Volume #1 (Issues 1 - 4)

 

Years later and I STILL can't find #3. (Although, I haven't been looking that hard lately... )

[Foolkiller]

Before the reprintings, a complete set of the original Marvel Masterworks. Was tough. Internet wasn't as big a presence. That's how I discovered ebay was finding Marvel Masterworks.

[chromium]

Aztek the Ultimate man - DC Comics. This Grant Morrisson 12-issue series took me over 2 years to complete.

 

The final issue took me for ever, even Mile High never has a full run. But last year a fellow forum dweller found me a copy

[Stronguy]

I understand that 4 issue Rawhide Kid mini-series from the 80s is pretty hard to find. Know where I can pick up even one of those, 'House?

[jjreason-migration]

The Frank Miller Darevdevil issues took me a LONG time to complete.

[OldGuy]

The Frank Miller Darevdevil issues took me a LONG time to complete.

 

You have got to be kidding.

[JiveTurkeyMoFo]

Marvel's Greatest Comics # 34-39, (the PictureFrame issues) reprinting the FF stories from 47-52, in 9.4 or better. Took about two years and around 5 times guide.

[Foolkiller]

Frank Miller Daredevils would take about 10 minutes to complete if you were just going to buy them...

 

Now if you were gathering them and buying them individually and telling us a story about how you had to save money to buy a run, that's a different context. But in terms of having trouble finding them? Hope you didn't spend a lot of time tracking them down because they are EVERYWHERE.

[skybolt]

It took me a good 1.5 years to complete the 8-issue run of Junior Comics in mid grade.

[october]

I haven't had much trouble collecting runs, since I am not picky and I don't go after esoteric golden age stuff. That said, these took me a bit of time to complete, in nice shape anyway.

 

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: 1-4 (Epic)

 

I spent YEARS looking through local LCSs in search of 2-4 (1 seems fairly common) with no luck. Then I discovered eBay and I got them in less than a month. Fantastic issues with Mignola art.

 

 

Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love 1-4

 

Sinister House of Secret Love 1-4

 

These gothic love/horror issues aren't that tough, but it did take me awhile to find them in VF or better. SHSL 3 seems to be the toughest. Too bad it also has the best cover of all 8 issues.