I have the Complete Calvin & Hobbes, lucky enough to find a lone copy sitting on the display shelf at Kinokuniya KLCC.



Also have the complete titles for all Tintin books. I'm starting to collect DC Comic's Absolute Editions of their comics, currently I have the "Absolute Dark Knight The Long Halloween", "Absolute Kingdom Come" and "Absolute Watchment".

RM600.

I will have to, however, find a book binder, the pages are not sewn into the spine, it is glued to it. Sewn pages can withstand being handled more robustly rather than glued-onto pages.

This is a coffee-table book, not something you'd peruse over while holding on to its spine, it is heavy. It is meant, as per that picture, to be pored over while being opened on a sturdy surface. The additional point of having to be careful while opening these volumes since the pages are fragile, for its size and dimension, makes perusing them like archaeologist opening a fragile papyrus document. Not that fragile, but you get what I mean.

For something of its size, the Complete Calvin & Hobbes should have its pages sewn-in. The thicker the stacking on the spine is, the more possibilities of the pages coming off the spine if it is just glued on. Sigh....

RM500++ indeed. It was RM599.

The binding isn't that disastrous, provided you treat it as a coffee-table read kinda material. Peruse, and then store it back inside its box. The tightness of the box helps fixating the pages back to the spine. It is not ideal, a sewn page is still preferred IMO.

I picked up C&H late in its lifetime, in fact I pick up reading it after its final strip drawn at the end of 1995.

The shipping will kill you. It will be either as much as , or more than the price of the edition itself. If you opt for the cheapest shipping, be prepared to receive it in tatters as the condition of the spine-to-pages adherence is flimsy.