On 15 Jul 97, Robert O. Sachs wrote to John Giannini:
 >>>> I have other sets available too:  Star Trek DS9, Green Hornet, Spawn,
 >>  RS> Green Hornet?  With Black Beauty, his car?  Tell me more, please!
 >> I have all 46 issues available as a set, and this, I have to admit,
 >> would be my most expensive comic book set.  I am asking $500.00 firm on
 >> this one.
 RS>     I'm afraid I'm out of my league here.  While I would -love- to have
 RS> the complete set, and I respect your time & effort to assemble it, it's
 RS> just way out of my league.
Understood.  I think it would actually be out of the league of most people. 
In fact, there's a lot of *stores* that it would be beyond their budget.  
It's just unfortunate that Green Hornet was such a short printed title; it 
makes finding issues all the harder now.  I don't know of even one mega-store 
in the country that has a whole set for sale - not even CCC of Barrington 
Square in Chicago, one of the nation's hugest comic stores - which takes up 
almost an entire city block.  Indeed, that's the problem.  In the cities, the 
title has sold out long ago.  It's now only in little hick towns in the 
country that have a little comic book shop that you can find issues.  But 
since little town comic shops seldom advertise in any of the major magazines 
or the trades, you have no way to find them!  So in the end, putting an 
entire set together depends more on luck than effort.  :(
The same thing is happening with the Innovation "Lost In Space" title.  VERY 
hard to put a set of those issues together.  And it's beginning to happen 
with the Battlestar Galactica comics from Maximum Press - the main series 
consisted of five separate multi-issue stories and the comic was awesome, 
totally faithful to the TV series...in fact, they find Earth - a very 
different Earth than was in Galactica 1980...  The series was hot when it 
came out, but Maximum Press is a small independent outfit and they didn't 
have the resources to print a zillion copies of each book.  So now, the 
series is getting really hard to put together, especially since there's talk 
in Hollywood now about the possibility of a new theatrical Battlestar film.
I think it should be a requirement that these small companies put out double 
what dealers order.  So there's a supply for the future that doesn't cost am 
arm and a leg.  Heck, I'm starting to see Leonard Nimoy's "Primorals" and 
Gene Roddenberry's "Lost Universe" titles going for upwards of $6.00-$8.00 
per comic now, in some places.  And people say the comic business is down? 
Hmmm....
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