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You need to be patient for a reply, it has to travel all the way back to 2010.

Might be worth warning of us what is coming in the next 13 years as well, there might still be time for them to do something to avoid it.

Only if you buy them singley from idiots on eBay who consider them rare and fancy themselves as dealers or from dealers.

You can set a search - which is probably too large to do - or just look through for lots on a regular basis.

It is quite normal to find lots going cheaper than the singles, it just takes longer.

Don't get into bidding wars and pull out if it goes too high.

I have a full run of both 2000ad and Meg and know they are no long term investment.

A lot of magazines can commonly be bought for £1 a copy outside of properly rare, I only saw a lot of 80s yesterday of acceptables at 99p reserve not met.

From memory there were 50 issues.

Even the most recent pandemic out of stocks that can go for £20 can be bought for £1.

One of the problems as a seller on eBay is that many infrequent sellers can devalue a valuable item in a couple of listings.

A £30 unique item can easily become £5 as listers who have no idea what they are actually worth devalue it..  As a buyer exploit it.

Be patient, it just takes time, maybe years and don't believe you are buying a rare investment.

Quite the micropublisher - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AnotherWorldMedia?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1233500336&section_id=37987353&page=1#items

What gets me is I searched for the history of Roy of the Rovers and this was the first advert I got at the top of the search page.

You missed Dan Dare.  He still hasn't returned.

Not sure if Rogue is valid, The Hit (fuzzy memory, the one where he works as a hitman for the aliens) was appalling and from memory cut short.

I just spent £200 on bags and boards to store all of my non-2000ad titles, the 2000ad ones being bagged and boarded for 20 years.  It makes them easier to store than without.

Around 750 excluding American and mostly Dragon from the late 80s onwards and Eagle from 82 onwards.

I am rereading Dragon and am astounded at the quality and density of the writing of each issue.  The sheer effort that went into them is beyond belief and their equivalents now are maximum 64 pages with scant text boxes overlaid on colourful art with no real text. substance. 

Being kind they are aimed at children at best and yet do have an adult audience.

The D&D annuals now don't have any stats and contain strange word searches and mazes that only a child could have interest in.

Old comics and magazines are real treasure and show how vapid and hollow the printed media industry has become and how dumbed down the mainstream now is.

Admirable and I donate items frequently, although through the filter of ebay first.

Oxfam sent me a letter last year telling me I had raised around £250 from some American comics I didn't want and were so niche I couldn't see anyone wanting them.  3 years on ebay is the evidence for that.

But.

My complete collections of both 2000ad and Meg are sacred and while not a part of my weekly life for probably ten years now I maintain it and store it religiously.  I couldn't not maintain it after 41 years, it is part of me.

Whenever I end up on the conveyor belt to Resyk there will be a complete collection for someone somewhere, I have actually considered trying to donate it to a museum/archive or some such if that could be possible.

Until then - whatever you do, don't go near the boxes and never ever open them, if you want to see any of them ask and I will take out the bagged and boarded copy and turn the pages for you.  Once I have washed my hands.

If you do - well, we will see.

Yes, that may be a failure I never thought of.

My local WH Smith does not stock 2000ad but it does 50 miles away, hence my visit only every 2 weeks when I go for other reasons.

My local McColls was stocking one of the Indie anthologies and White Dwarf but no 2000ad/Meg.

My opinion of independents - from not looking for decades - is that they generally don't stock anything outside of TV magazines and newspapers as it is too much trouble.  Newsagents of the 80s probably disappeared in the 90s.

Only time I have ever been in to them is to get the Christmas Radio Times and it is easier to get it from a supermarket.

The only other staple of them are the horrendous kid's comics with the plastic gifts on the front.

It isn't actually a problem as I order every 3 months anyway and I think I am about 6 years behind on the Meg and 3-4 on 2000ad.

Complete collection but I never find time to sit down and read them.  I know more about the Apocalypse War than I do about anything since 2017.

Can't see any other thread on this and yes I have searched.

Saw it on the newsletter, checked it and found my local coop - 2-3 miles away - should stock both 2000ad/Meg.

Being a rabid collector I do not subscribe because of postal damamge for the past 23 years, so I buy the Meg from WH Smith and 2000ad every 2 weeks there as well, I can choose the best damaged one.  I can't get there weekly and it is a special journey every two weeks.

The rest I buy in bulk from the shop every 3 months.

Long story longer - went to coop today and nothing.  Neither.

Anyone else found it isn't accurate? Can't be bothered to trail around newsagents in the vain hope they have 2000ad when I can do my normal twice monthly and order online.

Fantastic idea but for me useless and I am out.

Not really, the Meg at that point was as I understand it on the edge of folding and went to reprints to what turned out to getting it through.

Without going back and polling the stories - it was a Dredd world monthly, to all of a sudden go to non-2000ad world stories didn't make any sense at all.  Judge Dredd Megazine featuring mostly reprint stories from the non-2000ad universe other than the Dredd story .

Would Preacher fit into 2000ad?  Not sure as I didn't really enjoy it, but it would make sense as it could comfortably fit into the anthology universe of the weekly.

I don't remember Hellboy and likely a lot of the other reprints (Tank Girl?) but again they simply didn't fit in a Dredd centric title.

There have been a lot of anthology titles over the decades that I have read and didn't survive very long, some of them new material others with collated more well known titles.

The strength of the Megazine is supposed to be the core of Dredd and the spinoffs.

I am years behind on reading the Meg and only just remembered to check what has happened to the insert.  I was surprised in December no polybag and thought that it had been put out of its misery at last.

A positive is that it seems it is material I haven't ever read, I have to be choosey about what I buy as with approaching 25 boxes on racking I can't spare the space for American titles.

It also saves me 12 bags and boards a year.

You are correct, the Meg has had a checkered past - I can still remember reading Preacher and not knowing why and for me the lowest point was an article about pirates that nearly made me write in it was so abominably and memorably bad.

I have a complete collection and don't get around to reading it for years at a time, but there are also times I considered giving up, the only reason being I am a completist and would have regretted trying to find them on ebay afterwards.

My benchmark is that any issue that doesn't contain non-2000ad wold reprints and articles about pirates isn't at the bottom of the barrel.

Due to 20+ years of postal damage whenever I tried to subscribe and random out of stocks on the website I have shifted from ordering from the website every three months to going to Smiths.

I can get there every two weeks so pick up every other 2000ad and every meg, making up the balance every three months from the website.  I would like to go every week, but it is not viable.

I wouldn't have depended upon a subscription for at least 20 years - even though I did try again a couple of years ago and it failed because of the damage - because of the way Royal Mail handles things, but now the service has deteriorated as well and there are strange print runs that mean random copies of 2000ad/Meg go out of stock.

My advice would be to get them physical if you can and if not reserve it from a newsagent.  If that is even possible as that was an 80s thing with the newsagent's mark.

I have a full collection and the anxiety of missing an issue and not knowing if I will get it on ebay or a damaged one I can't replace is more grief than going out to get it myself.  Which happened with Meg 440 for some reason.

As a collector with a full set of Tooth, Meg, specials and annuals - I endorse these prices.

As a collector with a full set of Tooth, Meg, specials and annuals - I can go on ebay and find a 'rare' copy of just about any of them and realistically your average copy of 2000ad is worth less than a £.

I can also go on to ebay and find separates that are for sale for more than you can get the same issue in a bundle for.

British comic dealers - both professional and private ebay - can be laughable at how much they over value them and you really do have to be an uninformed mug who hasn't even bothered to do 10 minutes research on what they want to buy.

Also - why not just buy all these high price copies up for low on ebay, sell them in the US and retire?

Sounds ponzi/bitcoin to me.

Don't worry about Water Wars, they are a myth.

My master's is in hydrogeopolitics and I found no evidence in history outside of of regional conflicts that any nation would go to war over water and why I chose to study it.

The Nile is a perfect current example.

Internal regional conflict is known, local small scale neighbour disputes are more common and end up in deaths, but armies are unlikey to be involved other than as a secondary objective.

judge dredd is america. halo jones's hoop is pretty much here. invasion and savage? ukraine.

I don't think we could live in a more dystopian science fiction future if we tried.

Pandemic (with more diseases to come), extinction events occuring in front of us, environmental degradation including wild fires, heat waves and storms, energy and food inflation not seen in 70 years, £2 a litre fuel, general poverty to a level that will lead to the deaths of the old and children through cold and hunger, super power threatened world war including nuclear, openly corrupt governments looking after their mates and corporations, corporations openly getting away with it - in this country oil/gas, gambling, the finance sector and property development.

Until recently we had a far right rascist US president who now openly admires the Russian Premier and is looking to run for office again in 2 years time despite all the criminal accusations levelled at them during office and after leaving.

And since around 2016 - the empowerment of anyone who has a personal grudge to grind that is now in alignment with the mainstream media and yet not so long ago other than fringe internet forums wouldn't have any other platform.

Coming later this year - domestic civil unrest from the cost of living and global unrest through unaffordable food price rises.

And other things we really couldn't believe would happen just 15 years ago and I can't even begin to imagine.

It is getting so surreal we can probably expect giant ant attacks and alien invasion.

Massive price 'rise' on this issue.  I am waiting for the other issues 338 onwards, but the bundled reprint has shrunk in szie and is only 12 pages.

It is more like an insert than the previous reprints., something that would have been a free promotional insert 30-40 years ago.

I have never considered the reprints worth having - I have a complete set - but this seems like a near phase out unless it is reversed in future issues.