Softcover Trade Paperback Collections that have a strong resale value over the original retail price

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$15
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$150

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288-page trade paperback collecting Spawn #150 - #163

Copies ordered by retailers: 1,600

Original retail price: $29.95

TPB ⋅ Mirage ⋅ 1989
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$5
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$15
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$50

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224-page, black and white trade paperback collecting 7 new stories and 19 reprints

Eastman and Laird published the trade with proceeds donated to the Literacy Volunteers of Chicago charity

Original retail price:$12.95

TPB ⋅ Milestone ⋅ 2000
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$3
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$9
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$35

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108-page softcover trade paperback

Collects Static #1-#4

Original cover price: $9.95

TPB ⋅ DC ⋅ 2015
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$5
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$15
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$50

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296-page softcover trade paperback

Collects multiple stories and is described as a "greatest hits" of the Riddler

Original retail price: $19.99, first printing dated May 2015

TPB ⋅ DC/Marvel ⋅ 1996
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$5
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$15
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$65

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196-page trade paperback collecting issues #1 thru #4 of the DC/Marvel crossover

Original retail price: $12.95

TPB ⋅ Fantagraphics ⋅ 1993
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$12
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$40
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$125

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92-page, trade paperback collecting selected pin-ups from five Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Specials between 1990 thru 1993

Cover art by Adam Hughes

Original retail price: $14.99

TPB ⋅ Dark Horse ⋅ 1992
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$5
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$15
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$50

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96-page trade paperback written by Frank Miller

Four-issue series spawned a video game

Exclusive edition produced by Diamond Comic Distributors included three card-stock character cut-out inserts

Original cover price: $12.99

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368-page, softcover tradepaperback

Collects all three Batman vs Predator limited series: Batman vs Predator I, II: Bloodmatch, III: Blood Ties

Original cover price: $34.99

Marvel ⋅ 1997
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$18
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$60
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$175

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In accordance with the writer Mark Gruenwald's wishes, his cremated ashes were mixed with the ink in the first printing edition of this trade paperback

TPB ⋅ IDW ⋅ 2011
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$10
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$30
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$100

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240-page, softcover trade paperback

Collects G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #101 thru #110 (1990-1991)

Original cover price:$24.99

TPB ⋅ SLG ⋅ 2009
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$60
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$155
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$575

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200-page softcover trade paperback titled 'Clan Building' Volume Two

Collects issues #7 and #8 plus pages from unpublished issues #9 thru #12

Pages from issue #10 include artwork by the character designer of the animated series, Greg Guler

Written by the series creator and producer, Greg Weisman

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Original cover price: $19.95

TPB ⋅ SLG ⋅ 2007
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$18
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$55
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$170

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Softcover trade paperback titled 'Clan Building' Volume One

Collects issues #1 thru #6 of the 2006 Slave Labor Graphics series

Written by the series creator and producer, Greg Weisman

Original cover price: $19.95

TPB ⋅ IDW ⋅ 2012
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$15
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$50
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$150

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256-page, softcover trade paperback

Collects G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #146 through #155

The G.I. Joe series that Marvel began publishing in 1982 ended with issue #155 in 1994

Original cover price: $24.99

TPB ⋅ Image ⋅ 2013
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$9
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$25
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$90

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160-page softcover trade paperback

Collects Spawn #111 - #116

Original retail price: $14.99

TPB ⋅ Eclipse ⋅ 1994
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$9
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$20
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$90

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100-page, softcover trade paperback

Comic book adaptation of the short story 'Rawhead Rex' by Clive Barker, originally published in Books of Blood volume 3

Comic book adaptation of the short story 'Twilight at the Towers' by Clive Barker, originally published in Books of Blood volume 6

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$15
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$50
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$175

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128-page softcover trade paperback, limited print run

Collects Duck Tales #5 and #6 (2011) and Darkwing Duck #17 and #18 (2011)

TPB ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2009
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$20
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$80
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$200

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120-page trade paperback collecting issues #1 thru #5 of the limited series

TPB ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1992
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$25
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$80
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$250

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Collects Spider-Man (1990) #1 - #5

926 copies distributed mostly to comic shops in the United Kingdom

Softcover, shrink-wrapped

TPB ⋅ Aircel ⋅ 1990
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$9
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$20
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$90

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96-page black and white collection of the full first series, issues #1-#3, published by Aircel

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