How Much Do You Spend On Comics?

[iSteve]

In another thread, the issue of how much you spend on comics came up. I tend to spend somewhere between $40-75 per week.

I'd be interested in knowing how much others spend and if anyone has interesting ideas about how to finance this wonderful addiction.

[iSteve]

I tend to spend somewhere between $40-75 per week.


This doesn't include trades and special hardback editions. For example, I just recently bought the nine trades of Powers from Amazon. But this was an usual purchase. My trade purchases are infrequent.

[jimmyp]

I'd say on average I'd spend $30 a week, normally on trade paperbacks. I do have a student loan though, and money spent on comics would only be spent on fine fine beer. I sometimes do both, but trust me, beer and comics are a bad mix. HMV have 300 for £13, so I took a random dvd back (that I bought ages ago), and with student discount it was only £6.30, total bargain. There was one week where I spent £115 on some Absolute editions though...argh!

[fred]

I'd say about $200/month because while I have random $30 weeks here and there it's usually around $50

[kwok_talk]

Oh wow, I ended up around $10-15 / week. But I think a HUGE reason for that is the small # of titles I read (under 10)

[Ekval]

I am trying to keep it around $50 a month....

And failing miserably, which is why I think I'm going to switch to an online service.

[Jimski]

I have been hanging in there at $15-18 a week, though how much of that apparent frugality is actually just due to Civil War delays I couldn't begin to guess. How many light weeks can you have in a row before they're just called "weeks"?

I do know that if I spend more than $30 in a week, I tend to stare hard at myself in the car's rearview mirror and ask some tough questions about the direction my life is going.

[JAFlanagan]

$30+ scares me in the same way. And I have the show to do. That can't be good. Just forget I said it.

[PV_2]

I track on a monthly basis, and it averages out to about $85 per month.

[DarrOn]

I HAVE to keep it under 30 bones a week, otherwise, I start to lose water, electricity, gas, etc at mi kasa. Yesterday was an eleven dollar day, but last sunday I spent 80 bucks on trades and back issues (why I still buy back issues instead of waiting for the trade, which I will inevitably buy, I dunno).

I TRY to keep it under ten books a week. At least that hasn't been so hard in 07.....so far.

[ConorKilpatrick]

Every once in a while it's under $20, and every once in a while I go crazy and it's like $50. But I consistenty average in the $20-25 range.

[iSteve]

It definitely seems I'm on the upper end of the spectrum of spending. Maybe I need to be more proactive in dropping some.

[CammyKnoxville]

$20 a week. As soon as 52 is over with, I'll be picking up comics here and there.

[Luthor]

I would say I spend between $80 and $125 CDN a month(more or less), thus far this month I've spent less then $30.

[mister s]

Every once in a while it's under $20, and every once in a while I go crazy and it's like $50. But I consistenty average in the $20-25 range.


Yup. That's what I hope for.

[marcushill73]

Usually around $100.00 a month. With Spider-Man Omnibus coming out in May, that will be an even more expensive month. Yikes!

[acomicbookgirl]

I'd say about $30-50 a week.. Then I try to keep the stuff I get in Previews between $50-$100.. I so have to cut back but there are so many new titles now.. Not to mention I spent about $80 at B. Dalton last Friday.. :eek:

[psbp516]

15-20 bucks. Although I didn't go this week so I probably have catching up to do. I have been sticking to civil war so that's probably the reason why it's so low...

[orlov]

100 million..billion...trillion..gazzillion..eiahfaibl bion dollars mwahahahahah

[Derek]

My monthly order is usually between $150-$200. I've been trying to cut it down, but somehow it never seems to happen. Those fancy HCs always screw me over. I think I had a $125 order last month and I was ecstatic.

[JGG0610]

I budget mine on a monthly basis and I'm consistently hitting $200-220/month. However, that does include the occasional action figure and/or statue. If I'm really nice to the wife, she'll occasionally buy me a trade.

[The Dude Abides]

I spend maybe ten bucks a week, if that.
On a crazy week i'll spend about $20.
On the weeks where there's no books I want to get or not enough to break the $10 credit card limit at my shop I go on amazon and look at trades.
Funny, my recently having doubled my income hasn't changed my comic buyig habits that much.

...though i'm gonna get that New Frontier omnibus and I've never even considered spending that much on a book or comic book of any kind (except stupid textbooks)

[Rice-a-Roni]

Hmm... this past month it's been less than 10 most weeks. But I'd say on average I spend 15-25 bucks a week.

[Humphrey Lee]

I'm at about $250-300 a month. I get about 65 floppies, and usually am good for a handful of trades too. I just slimmed my pull sheet back from 75 to roughly 58, but some cool new books reared their heads so I bulked back up a bit. Ah well...

[K-Dizzle]

av-rage spending for me is 20 to 30 bucks a week. After 52 I am going to drop most of the DC books I am getting and I also picked up a few extra books because of civil war. I am going to sit out the next crossover because it is getting out of hand.

[Baxter]

I try to stay under $150. I prefer to be under $100 a month, which isn't that hard if you don't get alot of high ticket items and go for the deep discounts online. I'm going back to my LCS in april tho and I'm not sure how much more that'll cost me.

[k33k3r]

I try to stay around $100 - $125 a month.
I"ll save a lot now that Civil War is so close to being over.
Also because I'm scraping the filth from my pulls.

[Baxter]

I try to stay around $100 - $125 a month.
I"ll save a lot now that Civil War is so close to being over.
Also because I'm scraping the filth from my pulls.

DC being on a cancellation streak is helping mine out. As long as they stay away from All New Atom I'm happy.

[k33k3r]

Oldly I read no DC so I don't have to worry about that too much and I'm scraping a lot of Marvel lately as well.
S o I'll see where my reading goes here in the future.

[DarrOn]

As long as they stay away from All New Atom I'm happy.

Tell me a little about the book, if you could. I've always liked the Atom, but never bothered picking up the new Atom. How is it?

[ScottLittlefield]

I'm usually spending about $30 a week. And that's usually a good week. If I get a trade or two, it obviously goes up from there. I thought that was about average, but I guess I'm mistaken. I better start looking a little more closely at my pull list to see if there are any stragglers that I can boot off...

[Humphrey Lee]

I actually spent $108 last week on two weeks of pulls and a trade. Guess that's not as bad as I thought. Of course, it was thinned out because of the five weeks thing. I think tomorrow is a $40 day again.

[marcushill73]

Not as much as I would like to

[AlexG]

Well, one thing about this thread, it makes me realize I'm not alone with my addiction--err.."hobby".

Last few weeks I've been comin in around $40/week. This is down from a few insane weeks of $100+ due to excessive trade purchases, including From Hell (frigging awesome). I'm trying to cut it down to around $20/week, but I'm just not there yet. Been trying to ban trades, but I've only recently begun to read Hellboy in trades and now of course must own all of them--(thanks Dark Horse for th 17.99 price tag...I know, shop online..) That damn Nextwave trade is also callin' my name, so chances are this week may creep over 40. demmit. Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself...but nothing beats skippin out of work at lunchtime on Wednesday and hitting the comic shop.

[MastaP]

Being the poor university student I am, my mothly orders usually come out under $10cdn (also could be due in part to the books i order never coming out ie: All star Superman, Fell)
I usually pick up an issue or two a week off the shelf and an extra trade a month. Usually rounds off around $45 a month

[Baxter]

Tell me a little about the book, if you could. I've always liked the Atom, but never bothered picking up the new Atom. How is it?

God I'm bad at summerizing.

Well, the basic premise is that Ryan Choi,a lifelong pen pal of Ray Palmer, comes to Ivy Town to take over as a Physics Proffesor. Once there he finds a shrinking belt, hooks up with a small cabal/poker group of brilliant old scientists, and tries to hold off a war between the forces of magic and science. I'd recommend picking up issues 7 and 8 to see if you like it. They're the first ones out of the initial arc and are a lot of fun.

[iSteve]

God I'm bad at summerizing.

Well, the basic premise is that Ryan Choi,a lifelong pen pal of Ray Palmer, comes to Ivy Town to take over as a Physics Proffesor. Once there he finds a shrinking belt, hooks up with a small cabal/poker group of brilliant old scientists, and tries to hold off a war between the forces of magic and science. I'd recommend picking up issues 7 and 8 to see if you like it. They're the first ones out of the initial arc and are a lot of fun.

Do you think that this new Atom will make it? I read the first couple of issues and just wasn't won over. Is it getting better?

[Baxter]

Do you think that this new Atom will make it? I read the first couple of issues and just wasn't won over. Is it getting better?

Much. It was a bit too confusing in the start but now that everything been set up its running pretty smoothly. Its just weird and fun, the kind of thing I want in a comic.

[Mikegraham6]

i dont even wanna think about it.......:(

[paper]

This was my second week back at the comic shop. I spent 20 bucks both weeks (on new issues and some back issues to play catch up).

This week I also visited a CoinStar machine with my jar of loose change and ended up with $45 in Amazon credit (if you opt for credit and not just cash, they don't charge a counting fee), so I used that on trades (Astonishing X-Men vol. 3, Essential X-Men vol. 2, Alias vol. 1).

[DrWally]

Not having regular access here in Tokyo, I usually keep a running list going (thanks iFanboys and all members!), and then binge when I actually do have a chance to grap up tons of great stuff, then go crazy on Amazon about once per month. Last December I visited SF for a month on vacation, went to Isotope on the recommendation of Ron, and dropped about $120.00 on trades and a few floppies without thinking. But I did pass on several items that looked mildly interesting -- I still have my limits. But, since there was no international shipping involved, I got about +70% more volume than what I could on Amazon.

In my case, I have to figure in shipping cost (+25-30% or more, f****** bastards), but I'll even pay a bit more on that if they can get the books here faster (Yeah right, when the American small vendors figure out how international mail works) Just the thought of trying to deal with the shipping speed and not letting them default me into "takes 8-10 weeks to arrive, what a bargain!" thing keeps me away from the "buy" button. One guy was sweet enough to let me pay +$3.50 outside of Amazon on Paypal to get it some books here faster, and I love him for it.

All that said, when I start to reach the 10,000 yen per month limit, I pull back (about $120 per month). But that's still about 40-50% less volume than what most can get at their lcs. I want to visit a shop in Tokyo that has "Ame-Comi" (American Comics), but I'll probably just use that as a way to firm up my list for Amazon (I can actually flip through the pages, oh joy!), but not buy at the shops here since they charge TWICE the cover price, f****** bastards.

[Jimski]

This is fascinating, and a little depressing. (http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/10/08/i-spend-how-much-on-comics/)

[xyzzy]

Here's my order history from DCBS. As a person who buys primarily trades, my total varies pretty wildly based on what trades come out that month. Best way to pay for comics, in my opinion, is to get a good paying job. Other than that, buying from a deep discounter like DCBS helps, as does trimming the fat from your pull list.

ORDER DATE............ Cost
October 2007...........$73.76
September 2007........$35.69
August 2007.............$80.40
July 2007.................$61.27
June 2007................$74.00
May 2007................$135.01
April 2007................$204.16
March 2007..............$121.41
February 2007..........$138.13
January 2007............$89.68
December 2006.........$104.01
November 2006.........$55.38
October 2006............$107.63
September 2006........$199.27
August 2006.............$173.01
July 2006.................$138.73
June 2006................$120.11
May 2006.................$94.00
April 2006.................$85.39

[HomeTeam790]

I generally spend around 16-20 dollars a week. I didn't even notice until my LCS guy took notice.

[Mikegraham6]

how much do i spend on comics?

too much....

roughly 30-40 bucks a week on average

[MastaP]

god, I can afford one or two books a week right now, WITH my job. And now that a good chunck of online downloads have been taken down (yes I know it's wrong, let's not have this discussion) I plan on falling behind, as I have no more to spend on comics, and I'm not going to go so far out of my way to find comics on the internet

[Labor_Days]

Trimmed my pull list way back recently, but for awhile I was averaging about $50-70 a week. Trades excluded.

All of this poverty I lay at the feet of iFanboy and the forums. ;-)

[kahunablair]

I'm about 20 to 30 something a week.

[sullivan85]

I only buy trades, but I'd guess I spend an average of $40 a month on em.

[esophagus]

I only buy trades, but I'd guess I spend an average of $40 a month on em.I spend more than that on trades in a month, and I buy some issues too. How do you do it?

[CAM!]

Currently trying to cut back, but I'm dropping $50 a week easy.

Cause I can always find more I'd like.

[Diabhol]

In another thread, the issue of how much you spend on comics came up. I tend to spend somewhere between $40-75 per week.

I'd be interested in knowing how much others spend and if anyone has interesting ideas about how to finance this wonderful addiction.

I spend between $20 and $40 a week, depending.

As far as suggesting financing, ummm....I'd say recycle your bottles and cans personally instead of using city-provided bins. The deposit is up to $0.10, now. So three twelve packs could equal a single comic.


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[Jimski]

My credit card statement was giving me some pretty grim numbers this time last year, but these days it's more like $15-18 a week.

Of course, I don't count trades. I get those at either the neighborhood Borders or one of the deep-discount web sites, so they escape accounting. With those, who knows?