$5 a week will only buy you one comic, with $1 or $2 left over to carry over to other weeks. In a four week month, you're bringing in $20, but your pull list is a $30 a month undertaking. You have two options: make more money or drop 3-4 titles.
If you need more money, you may have to have to renegotiate the terms of your allowance. Take on more chores for a higher pay wage. Mowing the lawn once a week should definitely be worth at least a $10-$15 jump in the spring and summer. Shoveling people's driveways is a good winter time money maker. When my brother and I were your age, we would take in $20-$30 per driveway. Three driveways covers your comics bill for a couple of months.
It might be easier to just drop a few titles though. I dropped Uncanny Avengers recently and haven't missed it. Trade wait on some titles. You say you don't want any unbroken runs in your single issue collection. In that case, wait for these comics to hit the discount bin or buy them cheap in a set on Ebay. But really, when your money output exceeds your input by 50%, you have to be willing to compromise some of your wants.
What you really need to do is stop spending more than you take in. That's an irresponsible path that will lead to personal financial destruction once you're old enough for a credit card.
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