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I'm pretty sure I would go with sewn bindings since they lay flat.

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I would be really tempted to get my Grendel run bound up like this.

The Dark Horse reprint of Devil by the Deed, Comico Grendel #1-40, and War Child #1-10 bound into two sewn, leather bound volumes, one red and one black, with only the Grendel face logo embossed into the front and "Grendel by Matt Wagner" vols 1 and 2 stamped onto the spines in the opposite colors. Finished off with custom endpapers of Hunter Rose vs Argent (from Grendel 16-19).

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 12456907)

Some comics had interesting letter pages, though many did not.

Occasionally you will find fan letters in old comics from people who later became famous or professionals like George R. R. Martin.

Agree about the ads. It can be sort of fun to see old ads from the 60s and 70s (mail order live monkeys, Count Dante, Sea Monkeys) but most modern ones are just a bunch house ads and video games.

Yeah, the ads for older comics are great because they actually had a steady stream of advertisers who wanted the exposure in comics... today, not so much. But it is one of the things I appreciated about those computer collections.

The ads I miss the most are probably the Twinkie ads, and the ads for the new Saturday Morning cartoon lineups.

For some of the older issues, isn't the quality of the paper an issue?

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Having recently been reading some older back issues from the 1990s, almost all the ads are for video games or trading cards. Earlier eras had a better variety of ads, including contests for kids, food products, weird gimmicks, etc.