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Post by DubipR on Mar 5, 2024 21:13:14 GMT -5
MDG
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Post by DubipR on Feb 28, 2024 9:40:36 GMT -5
Captain America #156
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Post by DubipR on Feb 27, 2024 9:55:43 GMT -5
Thankfully, nothing this week. I still have to catch up on 3 weeks of downloads...
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Post by DubipR on Feb 27, 2024 9:50:25 GMT -5
tarkintino
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Post by DubipR on Feb 21, 2024 21:32:45 GMT -5
Black Kiss #4
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Post by DubipR on Feb 21, 2024 14:06:22 GMT -5
- Batman/Superman World's Finest #24 - Nightwing #111 - Wonder Woman #6 - Daredevil #6 - Elvira Meets HP Lovecraft #1
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Post by DubipR on Feb 15, 2024 9:26:56 GMT -5
Hey comic crazies, I have a question for you all, after my little tale. After 40 plus of collecting, the hunt has been slowly dwindling down. In 2020, during the pandemic and when my Teddy boy passed on, I took a serious look at my collection and sold off a lot of it, focusing on what I call the 'essentials' for my collection. I've refined within the collection, picking up a key issue here and there, replacing a book and selling the lesser one. You've all seen my purchases and my obscure runs that I've been making into binds. And I'm happy with what I've done and accomplished. I have about 2 personal grail comics that I'd like to pick up, and am very close to accomplishing purchasing those within a couple of months. And that's it. I've gone as far as I can without breaking the bank on trying to purchase elusive white whales. I'm content with my books. I'm proud of what I have left but I think the tank's run out of trying to find books. Aside from Love & Rockets and anything Los Bros Hernandez put out (which is sporadic), I have enough comics, trades and OGNs that I can re-read until my heart's content. I'll still continue to refine my collection (maybe a CGC slab here and there)... My question to you, to those who have stopped collecting; when did you know it was time? To those still collecting, when do you think you'll know its time? There wasn't really a point where I realized I didn't want to collect comic-books anymore; it happened little by little. When it comes to new books, it started with availability: we moved far from any LCS twenty years ago, and there were no titles that I was so enamoured with that I wasn't willing to wait for trades. When all those titles eventually got cancelled, the point became moot. As for older stuff, I was never a great collector. There were a handful of series I wanted to read and therefore had to own, because they likely wouldn't be reprinted, and there were a few key issues that I was ready to pay good money for... but once that was done, any further purchase was just a matter of opportunity; there was no collecting zeal behind my sporadic purchases. The price of back issues, the exchange rate and the cost of shipping were the final nails in that particular coffin. As you say, I am content with the comics I have... and our public library fairly bursts at the seams with titles I've never read. It's a Mount Everest deal for me. I've climbed the highest mountain in my collecting, and in my desired price range. Where do I go from there. I don't want to stop; there's Kickstarter projects, collected editions. But the books I've been seeking and hunting will finally be put into my collection shortly. The trophies have been mounted on the wall. Maybe my phrasing might be wrong; I don't know. When did the slow down start maybe....
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Post by DubipR on Feb 14, 2024 17:24:44 GMT -5
Punisher #2 (mini series- 1986)
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Post by DubipR on Feb 14, 2024 16:48:26 GMT -5
Well, in the past 4-5 years, I've been buying a lot more old comics, but I don't collect in any particular manner. I like going to shows mostly for the social aspect and will looks through junk bins for cheap stuff to read for fun. Mostly stuff on newsprint, so you know I'm not buying for condition. The one thing I have been spending money on is older undergrounds, which I can justify bu knowing there's a very limited number of them (compared to superhero runs), there's a lot of stuff that hasn't been and probably won't be reprinted, the best ones are very re-readable, and I can be fairly secure that I have the biggest collection of them on the block. I buy new work from certain creators--Deitch, Griffith, Los Bros, Clowes, Burns--and some odds and ends that look interesting if it's inexpensive. In a couple of years, I may start selling off my silver age collection, just 'cause I see friends rakin' it in. I'd probably have to go the clean-press-slab route though, and that whole thing just depresses me. A majority of the cons for me these are is purely social, which I love. The undergrounds are indeed getting harder and harder to get in great conditions. Like you I've been searching for Los Bros, some Clowes, but I'm trying to lcote clean Eros Comix stuff and it's hard. Small print run and trying to find them in great condition will cost me The comic shows that are pure comic collectors shows I'll eventually splurge on because there's usually something there.
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Post by DubipR on Feb 14, 2024 16:12:57 GMT -5
Hey comic crazies,
I have a question for you all, after my little tale. After 40 plus of collecting, the hunt has been slowly dwindling down. In 2020, during the pandemic and when my Teddy boy passed on, I took a serious look at my collection and sold off a lot of it, focusing on what I call the 'essentials' for my collection. I've refined within the collection, picking up a key issue here and there, replacing a book and selling the lesser one. You've all seen my purchases and my obscure runs that I've been making into binds. And I'm happy with what I've done and accomplished.
I have about 2 personal grail comics that I'd like to pick up, and am very close to accomplishing purchasing those within a couple of months. And that's it. I've gone as far as I can without breaking the bank on trying to purchase elusive white whales. I'm content with my books. I'm proud of what I have left but I think the tank's run out of trying to find books. Aside from Love & Rockets and anything Los Bros Hernandez put out (which is sporadic), I have enough comics, trades and OGNs that I can re-read until my heart's content. I'll still continue to refine my collection (maybe a CGC slab here and there)...
My question to you, to those who have stopped collecting; when did you know it was time? To those still collecting, when do you think you'll know its time?
-R
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Post by DubipR on Feb 14, 2024 8:31:42 GMT -5
Apparently nothing this week, which is okay with me....
-R
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Post by DubipR on Feb 13, 2024 17:10:40 GMT -5
MDG
Great Jack Cole cover
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Post by DubipR on Feb 7, 2024 17:56:51 GMT -5
We've had corn cob pipes, regular pipes and calabashes a'plenty, how about a peace pipe? Beep Beep the Road Runner #10 (1961)
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Post by DubipR on Feb 7, 2024 9:44:16 GMT -5
Sensational She-Hulk #5 Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #2 Birds of Prey #6 Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #6 Shazam #8
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Post by DubipR on Feb 4, 2024 21:57:23 GMT -5
Great day today at Cal ComicCon. It's my favorite convention as its nothing but comic dealers. It's super old school, in two hotel ballrooms with about 50 dealers. And good comic guests; veterans of the business signing and sketching. I found 2 more of my holy grails; A solid graded first printing of Love & Rockets (I have a signed version, buts its a 2nd printing) and Pussycat! This is a book I've been trying to find for well over 25 years. So rare that they're out there but the seller had both of them right next eachother. Purchased and happy.
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