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Huge Marvel Comics Digital Sale on Amazon - lots of stuff 90% off
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Effigenius
Member
The best place is probably with her introduction. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785134743/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Thank you! Ended up getting quite a few comics but I'm at the $30 range so I think I'm going to stop for now.
sweetvar26
Member
Alright guys.
Question though, should I get the rest of the Ultimate SpiderMan or should I just finish these up and wait for the next sale? I got tons of comics already and I know that these will last a while but still having second thoughts if I should complete the ultimate spider man collection from the first 10 I bought to the next 12 from the whole 22 set.
The question is whether or not there will be another sale...lol
(probably but that would require willpower)
Seriously though it depends on how much cash you have and whether or not you will regret not getting them now when you're done reading the ones you picked up already.
thebigmachine
Member
If another sale doesn't roll around the time you need the rest of the volumes you can just do Marvel Unlimited to get your fix.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
I really want to pick up some '90s X-Men stuff, but I don't even remember which were the good stories. X-Tinction Saga? X-cutioners Song?
AbundantChoice
Member
Finish what you have and wait. You probably have a big enough backlog as it is. If you somehow run out of comics and another massive sale hasn't happened, buy one month of Marvel Unlimited and just read the rest of the Spiderman stuff that way.
AbundantChoice
Member
X-Cutioners Song is good enough; I prefer it to Xtinction Agenda. It's also 90s AS HELL. Age of Apocalypse is pretty fondly remembered: they released a new four-volume version of that with updated reading order and whatnot. Again, 90s AS HELL. Also, doesn't feature the normal X-Teams; it's sort of an alternate-timeline thing.
The X-Men Mutant Genesis 2.0 collection (i.e. the "Jim Lee Doing Everything" collection re-colored) is fun. Man I forgot how wordy that comic was. It's sort of fun reading that an the X-Force Epic Collection (so many pouches!) side-by-side as basically the apotheosis of mainstream 90's comics, even if they're actually not very good comics.
Also the two "Wolverine by Hama & Silvestri" collections, while not an X-Team book per se, are pretty good.
Not to compound the problem, but Amazon is also having a Batman sale with books and trades up to 77% off through 9/25. Lots of classics and new stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Day/b?ie=UTF8&node=13097114011
The last few days I went from not having the Comixology app nor purchasing a comic book for years to suddenly being overloaded with too many books to read in the span of a year or two. Each day I keep poking into this thread and buying more recommendations after telling myself no more. This is dangerous.
https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Day/b?ie=UTF8&node=13097114011
The last few days I went from not having the Comixology app nor purchasing a comic book for years to suddenly being overloaded with too many books to read in the span of a year or two. Each day I keep poking into this thread and buying more recommendations after telling myself no more. This is dangerous.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
I really wish those Bat books would be a bit cheaper. I'd probably buy one or two, but no where near the amount of Marvel books like the ones on sale.
LordOfLore
Banned
BC: An Explanation For The Marvel Amazon Kindle Mega-Sale That Has Come Round Again
So it's exactly what everyone thought.
So it's exactly what everyone thought.
MMBosstones86
Member
oh damn. So......which are the good batman books?
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Year One
The Long Halloween
Black Mirror
Court of Owls (City of Owls is the followup but not as good)
Arkham Asylum
I'd recommend Grant Morrison's run but it might be a bit much and a key story isn't included in the sale so let's just leave that.
BronsonLee
Member
I'M STILL BUYING COMICS
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I read Capt. Marvel off Prime Reading and scooped the other 3 volumes because it's so good
LordOfLore
Banned
Old ones?
PeskyToaster
Member
I don't know their reasoning but something worked because they got someone who's never bought a marvel comic outside of special offers for Marvel Unlimited to spend around $100 dollars on digital comics.
BronsonLee
Member
The 2014-2015 one
hawkeye needs no previous knowledge
follows him off duty when he's not avenging
first vol. was free for me as a prime member
Beer Monkey
Member
Same here. And I'll spend like $100 every time they do a sale like this.
And I'll spend nothing if they don't.
Edit: I spent $136. Damn!
MMBosstones86
Member
This is exactly my philosophy as well. Before these sales I had 0 novels. I have 90 now.
I regret nothing. So good.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
You're killing me man, I was supposed to stop 2 days ago...
That's basically me, never used Comixology before but now I have like 78 books;
Some Random Marvel Comics having extra discounts?
I put this on my wishlist during the sale as you can see the sale price was £1.80 when added on 21st sept, now i check my wishlist and i see this at 99p
Discount on top of a discount? So I bought it.
Both volumes of The Vision book everyone reccomends too, came to £3.60 i think for both volumes, not sure if it was £4 odd recently, so I bought it as well.
Apologies to wallets in advance.
I put this on my wishlist during the sale as you can see the sale price was £1.80 when added on 21st sept, now i check my wishlist and i see this at 99p
Discount on top of a discount? So I bought it.
Both volumes of The Vision book everyone reccomends too, came to £3.60 i think for both volumes, not sure if it was £4 odd recently, so I bought it as well.
Apologies to wallets in advance.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Making Slayven proud
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Started the second volume of Simonson Thor and it's back to the colours I'm familiar with (original). Strange, but I'm glad.
So I picked up the following:
Secret Wars 2015
Civil War II
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 (wanted to learn about Miles)
Spider-Men
The sale has me wanting a bit more. Anything else that is a must get? I am looking at grabbing both volumes of The Vision. People also seem to be quite positive about Thor: God of Thunder volumes 1 and 2?
Secret Wars 2015
Civil War II
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 (wanted to learn about Miles)
Spider-Men
The sale has me wanting a bit more. Anything else that is a must get? I am looking at grabbing both volumes of The Vision. People also seem to be quite positive about Thor: God of Thunder volumes 1 and 2?
LordOfLore
Banned
"We need our investors and Disney think we're doing alright so let's fudge the numbers the month before their review with a massive sale we actually lose money on".
The KSD one? It's good. Still amazes me that Marvel wanted her to stay on until the movie was out even though she had told them before that she was done and didn't have any more multi arc length stories to tell.
LordOfLore
Banned
Are there other versions of the first volume? Kinda want the old colors...
Another fuck you to your wallets...
Saga by Brian K Vaughn trades are pretty cheap now as well. Get the entire current set(Vol. 1-7) for $40. MUCH cheaper than buying the two Omnibus books(those only collect Vol. 1-6 anyway).
Saga by Brian K Vaughn trades are pretty cheap now as well. Get the entire current set(Vol. 1-7) for $40. MUCH cheaper than buying the two Omnibus books(those only collect Vol. 1-6 anyway).
Seems there is a general consensus on recommendations scouring this and the older Marvel sale thread earlier this summer. (Probably missing plenty, but these came up repeatedly the most.)
-Astonishing X-Men 1-4 (Joss Whedon)
-Alias: Jessica Jones 1-4
-Black Panther 1-3 (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
-Captain Marvel (2014-2015) 1-3
-Gwenpool
-Hawkeye (Matt Fraction)
-Planet Hulk
-World War Hulk
-Infinity Gauntlet
-Marvel 1602 (Neil Gaiman)
-X-Men God Loves, Man Kills
-X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga
-X-Men Days of Future Past(not as essential as above two)
-Moon Knight 2014-2015 (Warren Ellis)
-Ms. Marvel 2014-2015
-Nextwave Agents of HATE
-Punisher Max (Garth Ennis)
-Secret Warriors (Brian Michael Bendis)
-Secret Wars 2015
-Spider Gwen
-The Mighty Thor 1-3 (Jason Aaron) - Jane Foster as FemThor
-Thor: God of Thunder and GodBomb (1-2)
-Ult. Spiderman (Bendis run)
-Unbeatable Squirrel Girl beats up the Marvel Universe
-Uncanny X-Force (Rick Remender run)
-Vision 1-2
-Fantastic Four (J. Hickman) - I forget specifically which specific stories, but assume all are good by that guy.
-Daredevil (All the Frank Miller stuff)
-Daredevil: Man without Fear (Bendis)
-Also the entire Star Wars 2015+ run is popular (Vader, Poe, Leia, Chewie, Han, Shattered Empire, etc...etc...etc...)
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Pick up Age of Apocalypse my favorite 90s marvel event
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
I'm not sure. I went to check the previews for the single issues collected in the first volume and they also had the recolouring.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Oh snap. Time to nab the remaining stuff. I think I have like issues 1-23 in floppies so this is awesome.
Also saw that The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (the teenage witch) #1-5 is currently free for Amazon Prime users. I read a bit of the first one and it looks great.
Do you know if this is a one shot? I grabbed vol. 1-4 but wasn't sure what this was
LordOfLore
Banned
Yes, it's just a one-shot book. Only $2 right now and enough people seem to adore it(I bought this sale but have yet to start).
For Marvel essentials, definitely don't skip Annihilation (Annihilation Conquest is also good).
I picked up:
Annihilation 1-3
Epic X-Factor Genesis and Apocalypse
Epic X-Men Second Genesis
Epic Excalibur
Epic New Mutants
Infinity Gauntlet
Infinity War
Captain Marvel Complete Collection
Warlock Complete Collection
The End
1602
X-Men God Loves Men Kills
World War Hulk (get Planet Hulk if you haven't read it)
Nightcrawler
There are so many other great options.
I picked up:
Annihilation 1-3
Epic X-Factor Genesis and Apocalypse
Epic X-Men Second Genesis
Epic Excalibur
Epic New Mutants
Infinity Gauntlet
Infinity War
Captain Marvel Complete Collection
Warlock Complete Collection
The End
1602
X-Men God Loves Men Kills
World War Hulk (get Planet Hulk if you haven't read it)
Nightcrawler
There are so many other great options.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
They did a good job but I really would have preferred the original colouring. The new one makes the events of the story feel a little more mundane.
You can always buy me comics lol
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Dammit. Bought. I think I spent like $80 between the two sales but I realize the value proposition here is damned insane so I don't regret it at all. Hell, I wish I had the time and money to nab even more :l