2000 AD Online Forum

Hi. I'm a big fan of 2000AD (surprise, surprise) and my collection recently had a large chunk stolen out of it.
Um...The point:

I was wondering if anyone might know where I might be able to order 2000AD back issues, online, which stores might have a good collection, and back catalogue? as I'm having quite a bit of difficulty finding them. The store where I got them doesn't have them anymore (or not the specific ones I miss).

I would really appreciate it.
Cheers,
Carl.

 Eee Bay.

Link: Silveracre

Or these guys :

Link: http://www.incognitocomics.com/stocklist.aspx?CATEGORY=3595001

ebay may be cheaper. I've always had good service from Silveracre

For some reason, the post I made earlier vanished. Anyway, I have a collection from Prog 1 through to 800 that I'm going to offload soon, and so if you have any holes, let me know. Quality varies from awful (Prog 1) through to rather lovely indeed. Most of the issues post-100 are at least in the 'not bad condition' category.

Thanks a lot, peterwolf, W.R.Logan, dweezil2, Floyd-the-k, IndigoPrime.

At risk of sounding like damn hippie, the only words I can think of are "WOW!" and "Cooooool." (Quick, kill the hippie!)
That "Silveracre" place had tons of stuff, and that "incognito" place looked even better. I'm pretty unfamiliar with Brit shops and things, being from ye olde convict-land (Australia) and not being super saavy with searching for things on the internet. I've had frustrations with ebay of late, but if you all recommend it then I'll definitely give it another shot.

IndigoPrime: You should be hearing from me soon about that, fer sure. Thanks, and thanks again for your help, all.

Oh,
PS. Indigo:
Your previous post didn't disappear. I retardedly posted the same thread twice, being new, that's my excuse, so you posted it in the other thread too.
Maybe ifyou could leave me a link for what you're selling, I'll give it a look, and I'll try and remember and write down the Progs I've lost and other things I was after that you might have.
Thanks.

So, your a Australian now living in somewhere in the UK or Ireland.

How migght p[ogs have gone missing.

Break and Enter?

Did you lend them to somebody and they never gave them back?

Did a ex-girlfriend sell them on Ebay behind your back?

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ThryllSeekyr:
No, I'm an "Australian" living in Australia.
Progs went missing from a break and enter. The burglar went straight for the 2000AD's.

Left the DVD player and the computer, of all things, but took the 2000AD's.

I investigated, and the trail led me to an ex-girlfriend, who when I questioned her, revealed she had sold them on Ebay behind my back.

I got onto her computer, found the buyer, and said I would pay him triple what he paid for them,
but he said he had lent them to a friend, who had moved to Ireland, then the UK, and never gave them back.

It's a true story. How'd you guess so near to the mark? Are you the friend in the UK? I'm out for you pal. Out for your blood. And this time, it's personal.

MUM! The aussies are fighting again! MUM!

Listen, I have been buying alot of 2000AD's lately from sellers in the UK.

I haven't actualley EBAY/purchased any from Australia. Excpet I di buy quite few froma well known shop in Brisbane last year and the year before.

I also brought quite few from Sysney a couple of years ago.

As for the EBAY Sellers.....

Some of them are female or claim to be female. Alot of them are Couples. All of these puyrchases had been made from the middle to late of last year.

I guess you can't really prove where thse 2000Ad's came from originally.

Alot of these magazines are sold and sold again.

I think my close on the mark gusessing was due to intuitiveness.

Though it's no excuse go off at me like that!!

Only trying to help.

I'm live pretty close to Brisbane , BTW.

When did you magazines go missing or have only only just checked them and realised ahuge of chunk of them dissappaered.

Some numbers would be handy though.

YOu never some of the magazines I purchased last year might be. Though you never know.

You do claimed to have offered some buyer  who you may already have them though.

U may just want to tell wether the missing Progs happen to be Progs containg Isssues of Slaine.

As they have been the ones that I have been concentrating purchasing lately.

U may just want to tell wether the missing Progs happen to be Progs containg Isssues of Slaine.

As they have been the ones that I have been concentrating purchasing lately.

Thryllseeker:
"I think my close on the mark gusessing was due to intuitiveness. Though it's no excuse go off at me like that!! Only trying to help."

Don't worry, sir. Thryll, I was only joking. That whole story was bogus. I just re-assembled the aspects of your guesses into an absurd story.

The REAL story is even more absurd.
It has a lot to do with neurochemical theft and CIA conspiracies. Suffice to say I moved back to my folks lately, and most of them were gone.

"U may just want to tell wether the missing Progs happen to be Progs containg Isssues of Slaine.
As they have been the ones that I have been concentrating purchasing lately."

Coincidentally, a few of the missing ones ARE Slaine, by Bisley. I've managed to collect most of them back, but I'm missing one or two.

Are you from Australia too? I'd like to check this shop in Brisbane you mentioned if you can remember the name of it. When I bought them originally, they came from Comic Kingdom in Sydney, but while they still have some, they don't have most of the ones I want, and Sydney seems to have run dry.

Proudhuff:
Yes, we are a bunch of drunken hoons, with convict blood, not to be trusted by any length. Measure the length of your shoelace, then throw it away. Not even that much! Tell your mother not to fall for any of our scams, though it sounds like you're both onto it.

Quick! Stick on Dogs In Space! We must maintain our positive view of the Australians!

Good luck with your efforts, Carl!
I have a fair few doubles for sale, so if you're stuck, send me a message. I'll sort something out, if you can bear to pay post from the UK.

- Trout

Dogs in Space rocks!

An Australian living in Australia? What are the odds?

Whereabouts in this sunburnt country do you live?

yours Icomefromalanddownunderishly,

Floyd

King Trout:
Cool, thank you! Oh, and there's no maintaining a positive view of the Australians. Remember, they're people, just like everyone else...so, no matter how positive your view may be of them at one point, they're bound to f**k it up sooner or later.

Floyd-the-k:
Hello Floyd. I am from ye olde Sydney town. The place of shitty clubs and ecstasy driven night-life and generally crap culture for the most part. You wouldn't happen to be here too would you? Then I'd have just told you what you already know I guess. But there's plenty of food here...so...can't complain about that. That's living, it is, it is. Truly 'Tis.

Oh, and I haven't seen this Dogs in Space stuff. It looks totally vein, superficial, plotless, pointless, and a total waste of time. So I ought to love it.

Thanks again, chaps.

Ben, I think I know that place.

Though, there are two shops that I beleive use the same name or that they may actaulley be joint together.

The is the recently brand new store ( Well, they moved to that spot from underground railay station sometime between 2002 and 2003.) with a big Marvel super hero character montage out the front on Pitt street across the road from Games Paradice if that store is still in the same spot also. This was a favorite store of mine. This is how every comic book should be like. It's just a very nice, neat place to go shopping for comics, graphic novels, posters, action figures and what ever other paraphenalia. Dispite what ever 2000AD graphic novels ( One isle, two book shelves.) they have in there. There weren't many actual back progs for sale there. They don't sell alot of old stuff in there. It's mainly new. I think they had about a dozen back progs. Two of which I brought when I was in Sydney. It's also where I brought the speical Black and White hard back cover editon of 'Time Killer'. I got the Slaine the King speical edition Hard bakc cover also from a Kings Comcis that used to be situated in Fox Studios. It's not there now, I think they moved not long after the other store moved to Pitt street. It's pity as I thought that store was a good excuse to go the studios also.

The other store I was talking about is on the other side of George Street. If your standing outside the Birch, Caroll and Coyle cinemas across the street from the City Hall railway station. If you have just exited the cinema from lobby. Turn right and walk to the next block down, there should be a alley way on your right before you get there. When you get to the end of the block you shouild be standing underneath doorway with a gold embossed statue of the three wise monkeys. It's pretty big, so you shouldn't miss it. I think this place is a Spanish resturaunt. If you cross the road, there should be a pub on the corner and the monorail should be over your head. Turn right and going past a small supermarket, and small place where they sell pizza slices. It should be the next shop down.

You could also go down the alleyway I mentioned earlier and turn left and keep walking till you cross the street and the shop should be right in front of you.

It's a small shop, despite the fact that it looks like it's been there for a very long time. It has that well aged feel to it. It just looks very quaint. Sort like a two storey shoe box. You walk in and it's like stepping into the past. It's wall to wall books, comics, graphic novels, toys, and other stuff you would normally expect. It's very cosy with this short shelf in the middle extending all the way to the back of the shop and then the back room full of stuff that is really old and cheap. I once brought a novel there for fifty cents. The newer stuff is closest to the front as always. They have a box filled with the very earliest 2000AD newspaper progs right at the back, just before you enter tha back room. They sell alot of Annuals on the middle shelf, Magazines, alot of foreign stuff. They also have a section for the newer 2000AD graphic novels on the far wall, near the front counter, going closer to the back they have almost whole shelve full of Richard Corben's work, another shelf back there should many volumes of the work of R.Crumb and further back are the Playboys and triple XXX Comics. I guess the thing with the downstairs part of this shop is that it's mostly the old, weird, foreign stuff in here. If you go upstars you will find that they sell the more normal superhero comics like Marvel and DC. Not to mention anything based on current action/ adventure/ fantacy films. Unless it's being sold at the front down below. Action figures.

My memories of this place were the annoying shop clerks that would follow you around and watch you closely. Not that this behavior should be unexpected as I guess they didn't like me much. Sometimes they would crouch next to me while I'm thumbing through the old 2000AD progs and whisper to each other. Sometimes they just would walk backwards and forwards and up and down the aisles as they were really narrow and only so much wider than a person.

Concerning the box of old 2000AD progs. I once told the old guy at the front counter ( I think it was a family buisnes.) that I would buy the lot if I won the Golden Casket.

I have brought afew of those old Progs and the newer Graphic novels. Some Richard Corben books and Slaine The Horned God. Both volumes when they were re-released. About those old progs again. I have noticed that the price stickers on some of these say 'Bondi Comics' despite the name of the store out the front. ( Of which I now forget.) A far as I knew and could find, there are no shops like this in Bondi. Despite the normal Newsagancey across the road fromn the beach and the Borders bookstore in the Westfield centre in Bondi Junction. There also some Quality comics that I brought baring a price sticker with the name 'Kings Comics' on the front. Which has me thinking that both the old and the new store are connected.

This old shop may be the store you were referring to.
 
Though there are other stores and perhaps a few that I have missed. If you hop off the train at Newtown station ( I Love NewTown.) and turn right and keep walking towards the place called Broadway. Just as your getting to the end of the shopping district you should find a pretty big Newsagancy and second hand Book Store combined. There should be a statue of American indian out the front.  It's the only place like that that I know of that stays open until 12 oclock at night. I think it is run as a family buisness as well. When you walk inside, it's like across between a oversised newsagancy and a small two storey warehouse. The second story is more of a gallery over looking the main fllor filled with isle after isle of books and magazines on the main floor. They have all types of literature. More of the type of stuff you might find in a libary than in a regular comic book store. Though it does have one large shelf ( Two sided.) devoted to comics and a very small section of which was devoted to 2000AD's.

Some of which I brought and then one day I walked in and noticed that the rest were sold out.

Of course they might have now replenished them somehow. So it maybe worth a visit.

ThryllSeekyr:
Wow. Thanks so much for this vital information. The place you mentioned on King Street is "Kings Comics". It is quite good, but it seems a bit "Sterile" to me. They keep up to date with a lot of new stuff though, and I'm 1000% happy that it exists. The other place you mentioned near the spanish club (The 3 Wise Monkeys) is called, confusedly, as opposed to King's Comics, "Comic Kingdom". I'm not sure how that works as they're unconnected. I love King's Comics. I know what you mean about "The annoying clerks" and shopstaff. They behave that way because they all have exacerbated mental conditions, but that is why I love that place best. The store is run by this guy called Steve. He is a quiet very mild mannered and quiet neurotic person, who often, nearly always, talks to himself quietly but in a hurried manner, always mumbling. He is incredibly hard to communicate with, constantly jittery, like a guy that just completely withdrew into himself as a child, but somehow managed to muster the greatness to open a very fine comic book and odd paraphernalia store, which defies me how, but I am just love that he did it and does it. There's an oldish, middle aged, incredibly cynical guy there. Love him too. Can't push him for answers. "Do it your fucking self" he seems to say without actually saying it. "I liked comics as a kid, but I don't know why I'm here" is a phrase that seems to radiate from him. There's another somewhat quiet nerdy type guy who seems to hold a lot of things together, and another REALLY annoying guy maybe in his 60's who it wouldn't be possible for to drop dead soon enough, as he simpers to you to buy these "I can't talk you into buying this? These are beautiful books, aren't they?" "Are you sure I can't tempt you with anything?" (Quite literally). He's the only guy I can't stand. The rest are a bag of neuroses, so I love them for sure.

Comic Kingdom is where I originally stockpiled my very old 2000AD's from. They still have a great lot, but are missing the ones I want (partially because I was the one who bought them). I've become attached to my old one's, so I want to try and buy most of them back before continuing with newer stuff.

I don't know about this place at Fox, but I definitely want a copy of that hardback Slaine Bisley book. Is the place still there?

I don't know this place in Newtown? That sounds really good. It sounds sort of like Elizabeth's (another branch of which you can find on Pitt Street incidentally just across the road  and down just a little from Kings Comics. It has some great literature and comics, and just a few 2000AD's.)

You might also like Kinokuniya, which is a HUGE HUGE bookstore diagonally across the intersection from Town Hall. It has EVERYTHING great that is in print. However, they are so well patronised, that if I can, I prefer to support the neurotics at Comic Kingdom, as buying from Kino often feels like I'm supporting some huge faceless but nonetheless attractive Japanese Corporation that will probably own the entire world of print distribution some day. And then the beautiful old obscurities, and the stange nutcases who keep them alive, like the old men at Comic Kingdom, will probably be lost forever on the ether.

Thanks for your informing post. Muchos Grasias to you, Amigo.

Regarding the location of 'Kings Comics' It is still across the road from 'Games Paradice. Not far from the Telecom building. I didn't think it was on King Street, though.

Looking at a Google Earth map...

It should be on Pitt street between Liverpool and Bathurst. Unless it's moved to Kings Street or that might be it's oldest location before I found the place in a Museum station subway back in 2002.

I don't know anybody in there. Though I recall the short girl with red hair and the much taller rubenesque brunette.

As for it being sterile, well alot new places are like that. They probably like it that way as well as the customers. It is easy to find stuff in there and a good place to go for new releases.

As for older, second shop I mentioned. The one that you named 'Comic Kingdom' Perhaps I was wrong about the connection between the two. There were three guys that worked there. Stooges I thought they were. I wouldn't really call them crazy. Who knows. They're always alittle stand offish with me. Probably cause I looked like homeless guy with no money. One had short closely cropped dark hair and a nasally voice. He would sometimes snap at me if I asked him a question, though he still did his job. The other guy, balding, wore glass's and a constantly angry demeanor. Always yelling at me to stay away from the back room everytime I went upstairs. He would often be standing out the front smoking a ciggerette. The third had dark hair, roundish looking face. Very pale. Seemed more together than the other two. Except one day when I tried to enter the store not long before closing time as he just promptly slammed the door in my face. The would sometimes be a girl working at the counter upstairs and then there was the mature aged couple ( I think they were married.) who were somtimes at the front counter or standing around. They seemd to be quite nice actually if I wasn't being too annoying myself. I just remember another person, working there. I
always thought he was the son. Sort of chubby, black curly hair, moustache, funny voice. As for
exacerbated mental conditions. I guess
that is none of my buisness.

You say or hint at that you were the person who brought the 2000AD newspaper progs to that place.
That is interesting to know. I  brought quite alot of those.

Located on Liverpool street heading towards Darling harbour on the other side of George street.

The branch of Kings Comics that I found at Fox Studios is no longer there. It's been replaced by store that sells porcelein vases and other woman's gear like that. When it was still there. It had some marvel posters out the front on it's front glass display. Just a smaller version of the bigger store on Pitt Street. Nice place to go Fox Studios. I once witnessed Jodie Foster attend a movie premeire there once. They have a furniture/resturaunt store. Forget the name, but they are well known. They had huge ass couch out the front. They were so big, the seat itself was about as wide as a double bed and it looked like it was made of oak.

If you would like to buy one of those 'Slaine the King' hard back editions. Just follow the link below.

I might have mentioned Kinokuniya before. It is mainly just another huge book store. Ultra modern. I'm not sure if it's multi-level, but tit's does cover large section of the upper floor of the building where it is. The few times I had been there, I would just waunder around for hours and hours. Yeah, I quite like that place also.  Despite it's great size it only  has a very small section where they sell comic book graphic novels. I once found the Dr Who graphic novel written by Pat Mills.

The place is so big, that the staff there left no lasting impression on me.

Located across the road from the City hall. Also across the street from the multi-level Woolworths.

Galaxy Bookstore and Napoloens ( Wargames and Minatures. Worth mentioning. Galaxies is huge book store which I think had moved but had been with in distance of the Queen Victoria building and arcade and is now across the road. Which is easy to find if your heading toward Darling harbour from George street. It's a huge book store that also sells movie vidoes, Dvd's, action figures, models, t-shirts and other trademarked paraphenalia based on the same genre. It otherwise would be a normal regular book store, except that they have more of the fantacy and Science fiction novels.  

Napoleons, of which there is also a store in Brisbane sells Role Playing games, mainly wargames, minatures, and lots of background information on the real life world wars.

This place is just a few doors down from Galaxies. Practically next door. I don't like the people that run the store in Brisbane much and will never return there if I can help it.

The Borders Bookstore in Sydney which is located in the Pitt Street Mall is another multilevel book store merged with a newagancy section that should sell the 2000AD progs but doesn't, nor do they have section that sells any graphic novels.
while it's not quite as big as Kinokuniya. It does have a similar modern look to it and they have section where they let you sit down and read
 magazines, books.

I could go on forever here.....

There is another large bookstore in the Broadway shopping centre. They have a cafe in there as well.

The other place, I mentioned in Newtown. Just turn right leaving the railway station there and walk all the way along that street amd stay on it. You will need to cross the street a few times. The place I told you about is not far from the end. Before the shops stop and the residential houses start. There is huge sign out the front and wooden statue of a American Indian. It may not be a indan, but I do recall it being a wooden statue of somebody.

Link: Slaine the King Hardback Speical Edition

"There were three guys that worked there. Stooges I thought they were. I wouldn't really call them crazy."

Yeah, I wouldn't call them crazy either, but neurotic, certainly. They are definitely stooges. And you could call the 3 stooges neurotic too, I suppose.

"You say or hint at that you were the person who brought the 2000AD newspaper progs to that place.
That is interesting to know. I brought quite alot of those. "
Oh, no. I must have misused my words/expressed myself badly. I didn't mean I brought them there, I meant I bought a lot from there in the past, and they don't have doubles of the ones I am now missing, because I bought the only ones there.

"I once witnessed Jodie Foster attend a movie premeire there once."
I once saw Tom Cruise out the front of the state theatre on market street, and I climbed to the top of a street kiosk and managed to spit on him. He was with his wife at the time Penelop Cruz, I think it was a premiere for that movie he was in with Cameron Diaz, Vanilla skies or something. Anyway, he ended up all spitty.

Borders actually does have a graphic novel section. It is fair, but not great. Worth checking out if you are in there though.

Aside from the difficult staff, Comic Kingdom really does have some beautiful rarities that it is nearly impossible to find elsewhere.

I do love the staff though. I find them hilarious. Most of them could easily be characters in a book or script.

"The other guy, balding, wore glasses and a constantly angry demeanor. Always yelling at me to stay away from the back room everytime I went upstairs. He would often be standing out the front smoking a ciggerette."

If that's the guy I think it is, he's funny. I like him.

It is a small business, and small business owners in obscure/semi obscure shops have a tendency to be this way. It's not like Kino where none of them own the store, and the store pull in a shitload of thousands of dollars everyday, where the staff don't care if you leaf through books for hours and if I get my greasy mits all over them for too long. They are all still paid the same, and they don't have to deal with running a business, which is a bitch, and I think makes a lot of people into angry neurotics, not always, but often.

"I just remember another person, working there. I always thought he was the son. Sort of chubby, black curly hair, moustache, funny voice."

If it's the guy I'm thinking of, I don't think he's the son. He's the owner. He stutters a lot in his speech, and mumbles to himself often/ He's about 45.

"The other place, I mentioned in Newtown. Just turn right leaving the railway station there and walk all the way along that street amd stay on it. You will need to cross the street a few times. The place I told you about is not far from the end. Before the shops stop and the residential houses start. There is huge sign out the front and wooden statue of a American Indian. It may not be a indan, but I do recall it being a wooden statue of somebody. "

OH! Is that the absolutely huge place with 2 levels, and books absolutely stacked to the ceiling everywhere? I think that's Goulds. Don't like that place. Many of the books are useless in proportion to the books that aren't. I only ever saw just 4 or 5 2000AD's there.

Try Elizabeth's across the street and back a bit. And their other store on Pitt Street opened a little whie ago, just across from King's comics.

Cheers again, Thryll. Thanks for the directions.

Nah mate, I'm from Melbourne, the place of, ummm, penguins, lovely old buildings, souvlakis and.....well it's so long since I've been to a night club I don't know what they're like

Dogs in Space is like every party I ever went to during the 80s rolled into one with Michael Hutchence dying at the end