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I was just nosing around e-bay in my never-ending hunt for stuff others refer to cheap junk and worthless tat. When I spotted JLA #21 and JLA #22 going for 50 bucks each with okay grades, no bidders, 30 minutes to go, and it was from a dealer I’ve had good dealings with before (AAA+++ GREAT SELLER, etc). Now, just so people are sure I’m talking about the original Silver Age series here; JLA #21-22 was the first ever JLA/JSA team-up — it’s a very important key story.
Now this is where I started to get cold feet. My JLA collection is complete (baring some minor Elseworlds and guest appearances) from Giffen and co’s JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 onwards. Then I’m more or less complete to JLA (original series) #200 until I peter out somewhere around 1974. It’s a shocking confession from the maintainer of a JLA webpage, but I don’t actually own any early Silver Age comicbooks. I’ve got plenty of reprints and collections, I’ve got numerous books and magazines about the peroid, but I don’t actually have any comics from that time. So you can see that buying JLA #21-22 would have been a massive leap for me.
I let the auction lapse and didn’t bid.
It wasn’t just that 100 bucks is a lot of money for a pair of comics books (even if it was these two). Here is the clincher – I had a copy of JLA Archive #2 sat on the bookshelf besides me (another e-bay win – can’t go wrong for 10 bucks). The archives contain 8-issues for about 32 bucks (Amazon’s got a 33% off sale at the moment). That’s 4 bucks a story. Or to put it another way one eighth the cost of buying the issues separately. Compare that with normal trades which are about the same number of pages, but about half the price.
Anyway, to cut a long rant short I went with the most cost effective way of getting the stories and ordered JLA Archive #3 from Amazon. It just makes financial sense. DAMN YOU SENSIBLE PART OF MY BRAIN!! But it knows, yes ladies and gentlemen it knows that one day I’ll break! One day I’ll be in the convention dealer room on in a new shop and I’ll spot a key issue at a price I can’t turn down. Bwahahahaha!!!
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