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jon81uk said:

Ergates said:

jon81uk said:

pulliptears said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

pulliptears said:

If I'm understanding this correctly I can see his point.

Replace comic book with Jigsaw.
Seller offers a piece of the jigsaw puzzle a week with a completed jigsaw after 55 pieces.  If suddenly piece 55 wasn't the end of the jigsaw and didn't make the complete picture I'd be annoyed, the dilemma then being the sunken cost fallacy, do you cut your losses or carry on in the hope it stops soon?

All that said, I can't see a court supporting that either.

With your jigsaw analogy, that would mean that the first 55 pieces complete the picture as shown on the box, but you have the option to buy another 125 pieces to extend the picture beyond that originally promised.

I'm curious so I've had a google.  
There is a set of 97 for sale on eBay, and because my life is rather dull I've sat and counted and it would seem issue 55 is to the left of Superman and Riddler at the bottom run.  Looking at the image that surprised me, It would have been better to finish the run on the DC logo so it was standalone, but where 55 ends it does look incomplete.

Wikipedia implies the orginal run was 60 not 55 but that doesn't make a huge difference.
Counting the spines in the alove image, it seems the second DC logo after the villians is around 67 copies, so the OP could have easily stopped there and had a complete image. 
If they had complained at the time they were expecting to pay for 55 (or 60) issues to get a complete picture and had to buy 67 then I could see a point, they needed the extra seven issues to finish the image of The Cheetah.
But to then keep buying even past the second DC logo I have no sympathy, there was a finished image and it was your choice to keep purchasing, the time to complain was at issue 60ish.

There is a nice break at the 60 mark just before the *start* of the 2nd DC logo.  That would have been the place to stop.

I mis-counted then as got 67 at that point. 

But as Wikipedia suggests it was an original run of 60 it would make sense for that to be the point where it meets the first logo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics_Graphic_Novel_Collection

It's 67 to the start of the 2nd DC Comics logo. But the original increase from 60 to 100 run was confirmed back in 2017, so 4 years ago now... 

I definitely couldn't get 180 in a single row on a bookcase, so I think the issue of having a complete image is massively overrated anyway.

This is a small selection of my comic collection, not quite sorted properly!