How to have a personal and rewarding 2000ad comic collection - Content is king!

Not every fan can afford to own every copy of the galaxy’s greatest comic. Nor do they all have the time, money or space. Just an incredible passion for the scrotting stories, vision and art. Here’s a guide to help you refine , define your collection and maximise its thrill power!

Pick a niche and gradually build up your collection (or trim it) based on content and quality and then lastly quantity. Pick one of the following niches to get you started and refine it to your taste.

Theme - Examples

* Key issues – Events such as 1st appearances of technology; Dredd’s Birdie Lie detector, Boing, Umpty Candy

* 1st appearances of characters – Anderson, Hershey, Middenface McNulty, Chopper etc

* Last Appearances / Deaths – Judge Giant, Rogue Trooper, Mad Ronn, Dan Dare

* 1st / Last Episodes – The beginning / end of the Judge Child Quest, Cursed Earth Saga etc

* Format changes – 2000 AD has come in many shapes and sizes. Each change being a milestone

* Free gifts – Scan cards, sticker albums, badges, poster progs

* Favourite main characters and villains– Orlok the Assassin, Torquemada, Quinch, Wulf

* Games – Cursed Earth Board game

* Pin-ups, Posters and cut out issues – The Book of Robots, Hall of Heroes

* Supporting characters – The Gronk, Walter the Wobot, Stogie, Gunnar, the Blitzspear

* Artists – Too many to mention but I have a special fondness for Dave Gibbons art

* One shots – Time Twisters, Future shocks and those rare one-shots

* TV / Movie tie-ins – Hardware, Accident Man, A life Less Ordinary, Shaun of the Dead

* Band Issues and Popular Culture – The Burger Wars, Anthrax I am the Law

* Oddities – Stories that never ended such as Dan Dare Servant of Evil, Issues of 2000AD without Dredd

* Real People – Hitler, Ronald Regan, Jim Morrison, the Queen, Tharg the Mighty

This should get you started with a rewarding and cost, time and space effective quality collection of 2000AD, the Galaxy’s greatest comic with content best suited to your thrill centres.