2000AD comics - the first 100 issues
For all your tales of financial loss and woe, I have something far worse and terrible and horrible and soul destroying - so brace yourself before reading on.

While still at my little school, for some completely unknown reason, mummy was in a newsagent and signed me up for a new comic that was coming out.... 2000AD. Entertainment for young lads was no doubt the slogan, instead of bloody brilliant mind boggling violence in cartoony form which it should have said.

Anyway, I had the first 100 copies of it and kept them in a bag under my bed.

Fast forward many years, and I am in big college, and come home for a long weekend. My room is different. Something is amiss. Something is... missing.....

Mum had binned the lot.

The.

Fucking.

Lot.

I (nearly) wept.

I still have about 400 issues running from issue 200 to 800 or so, but I have not kept them in particularly good nick. Can't be bothered.

I suspect that more guys will understand this than girls (for some reason, never met many girls who liked 200AD) but it still bothers me now when I think about it.

Hey Ho.

EDIT: Any clues as to what the first 100 copies would cost now? Just trying to compound my misery is all....
(Spreddum O Grrrr. That's my vicious circle, that is., Fri 15 Aug 2008, 8:02, 7 replies)

I feel your pain...
Issues 76 to 200, all in perfect nick, kept in boxes in the loft. Mum gave them away, she didn't think I'd want them any more. It was like losing a limb. Hate to think what they'd have been worth now.

Funnily enough, something similar happened to my father, but with the original Eagle comic and his collection went from issue one, so I was relatively lucky.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 8:40, closed)

I would guess
One miiiiiillllllion dollars
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 9:11, closed)

Grammar Badger
You are aware that grown men crying can be a pretty unpleasant sight?....
(Spreddum O Grrrr. That's my vicious circle, that is., Fri 15 Aug 2008, 9:14, closed)

That is so sad....
did you manage to retain the free gifts as well with the first 100.. such as the bionic stickers? I miss mine so much....
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 9:31, closed)

What is it with Mothers and 2000AD?
Mine did the same - up to Prog 378 (when I stopped reading)!! But this year I was able to buy a totally mint copy of the Prog with the Judge Dredd story featuring the villan named after me in it.... sometimes it pays to write to Tharg, even if you don't get the letter published - you get rewarded in other ways... (smug grin)
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Fri 15 Aug 2008, 10:11, closed)

I loved 200AD
I did have the first copy for a year or two but as my one and only post says....my mum hated me keeping things.
( girlinthehole, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 10:29, closed)

Gutted for you mate.
Same thing happened to me but not with 2000AD. i had like the first 20 issues of Toxic magazine, which i kept bagged and boarded in my wardrobe. I came home from college one day to find the wardrobe replaced. "mum, what did you do with all the stuff in the bottom of the wardrobe?" i asked tentetively fearing the answer. "oh those silly magazines and assorted other junk? i took them to a jumble sale, here i got you £2 for them". cue platoon esque pose and me screaming to the gods. i managed recently to get a couple of issues again by rummaging through my LCS but they are all dog eared and tattered so they'll be practicaly worthless. but i still get to enjoy Marshal Law and accident man etc again.

As for the first 100 issues of 2000AD, if they were in mint condition you could flog em to some dopey septic tank for a handsome fee i suspect as they can only get the collected volumes over there. But even the teeniest bit of damage drastically reduces the value.
(FutureGhost, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 13:34, closed)