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Last year I saw this Annual go for £70 on ebay, not so much these days ,I got mine for around £4 early this year.
£70!!!?? I got one four or five years ago and paid about the same as you.
I just got issue 25 of Cracker from eBay.
Reading comics since 1970. My Current Regulars are: 2000 AD (1977-), Judge Dredd Megazine (1990-), Spaceship Away (2003-), Commando (2013-), Deadpool and Wolverine (2023-), Quantum (2023-), Fantastic Four (2025-).
I do read the newspapers, Digi, I really do. I was actually expressing a kind of sorrow that I hadn't been able to support Borders' initiative in accepting Tony's magazine for sale in the first place. Whether the fault is Borders' for not establishing an outlet nearer to my home, or mine for not being prepared to travel to Chester or Preston or some outlying area of East Lancashire to pick up a copy, I must leave others to decide.
I really wanted to support Crikey's move into newsagents by buying it there, but haven't been able to find it in Wigan/Manchester - spent so much time looking for issue 11 that issue 12 came out before I bought it!
Then, when on holiday in St Ives, I popped into a newsagent just to use their cash machine and what should be there but Crikey 12! Bought that and 2000AD, and a had a little chat with the woman behind the counter - she said her husband reads 2000AD and is trying to rebuild his collection after his mum threw them out!
Erm, this is a bit off-topic now, sorry. TODAY I BOUGHT: this week's 2000AD, Batman Legends (for the Neil Gaiman-penned strip) and received the Christmas Viz in the post.
Not a comic and I didn't buy it today, but yesterday afternoon in a Southport discount bookshop on the verge of closure I bought a new copy of The History Of The Beano for £12.99. Stickers on the dustwrapper show that it had previously been reduced from £25 to £19.99 and then offered at £14.99. When I asked the guy at the counter if he had another copy as there was a one-inch tear in the back of the wrapper he said it was the last one but then knocked off a further £2 to encourage me to buy it. If this purchase turns out to be a nail in the coffin of another bookshop somewhere else I apologise in advance. But what would you have done? It was nearly half price!!!!!!
Not bought today, but my mum just came back from Norwich with The Dandy Book 1973 for me, which cost £2.50. She didn't say exactly what shop it's from. Apart from a slight tear to the spine it's in OK condition - not bad for a 37 year old annual!
Not today, but my first chance to post the details.
Bought the following in a bricks and mortar auction:
Lion comic - every issue between Dec 1962 and Jan 1967 mostly VG
About a dozen Beano's from 1962
8 copies of The New Hotspur from issue 10
About 100 Eagles from 1957 to 1960 mostly VG
Couple of copies of Smash - fairly late issues
Few copies of TV Comic (1969)
Couple of 1950's Wizard's
bubbadog wrote:Not today, but my first chance to post the details.
Bought the following in a bricks and mortar auction:
Lion comic - every issue between Dec 1962 and Jan 1967 mostly VG
About a dozen Beano's from 1962
8 copies of The New Hotspur from issue 10
About 100 Eagles from 1957 to 1960 mostly VG
Couple of copies of Smash - fairly late issues
Few copies of TV Comic (1969)
Couple of 1950's Wizard's
Total price was a fairly steep £195.00 all in.
Good deal? Bad deal?
Depends on the condition. Eagles tend to be around the £2.00 mark, so unless they're very tatty, it's probably pretty good going with the Lion's on top. The others are stuff I generally put out at about a quid each, unless they're particularly notable issues, though Smash is quite a find these days...
The day after I bought the Marvel annual i decided to get out a pile of Alter Egos to browse through. The first one I looked at actually had an interview with Dick Ayers and gave the dates and issue numbers of the Captain America and Sub Mariner stories in the annual. Lucky find. It says Bill Everett signed one of the stories but there was no signature in the annual version - they must have erased it for some unknown reason.
Commando: Bandits a 12 o clock!
2000AD
Death Note 9-12 (which is, erm, Japanese)
Emperor's Castle 1 (which is, erm, Korean)
I did want to get some more IPC war library big books but they appeared to have all gone (!), and also some Modesty Blaise, however with christmas presents and books about learning Japanese to buy the costs were mounting even with the sale... oh well hope i did my bit to prop them up, the Cambridge one is huge and i've lost hours in it before.
Over the last 3 weeks, I've purchased 22 copies of Match magazine from the 1980's for various different prices all reasonable, so that I can build up my Cannon strip collection.
I got one four or five years ago and paid about the same as you. 
