What happened, who did what and more in this exciting, not to miss entry!
What a year it's been, eh? Some people have said 2016 has been nothing but a flaming dumpster fire and with Trump winning the election that may be what the future holds.
But let's talk comics. Let's talk about the growth of my initial goal of collecting my favorite modern age grails. Let's talk about how that idea has expanded into the other era's and how I'm hoping to close out my modern age collection in 2017.
Some of you may say I made some poor decisions. Some of you may say, I'm crazy. But I sold my holy grail, Amazing Fantasy 15 CGC 4.0 No MC for a bunch of Modern Age Grails and never looked back.
::Prologue::
I have the unfortunate circumstance where I wasn't a baby boomer or part of the generation prior. I was born into the Modern Age (1979) and didn't get into reading comics until I was nearly 10. Pass some time, get a degree, my first job, now a career with some disposable income and n
Batman 608 RRP CGC 9.8 and Wolverine #1 (2010) Deadpool Variant CGC 9.8.
So, my wife and I had our first son in August and we saved up some cash to let her work part time as a Kindergarten teacher this year.
We've been doing okay, our son suffered a stroke when he was born and needs some help coordinating his right arm and hand. That's been going well, well enough that my wife doesn't feel too stressed out and she gave me the OK to get my comic book collection going again (yay!).
So her
A google spreadsheet that calculates the total cost of submitting a book to CGC.
From time to time, I like to write down what books I want to be graded in the near future, whether they need to be pressed and how much it will cost.
I know that the fillable PDF on CGC's website will calculate my total automatically. However, I got tired of having to fill it out temporarily, or print it out just to add books later on and then I have to recalculate everything again. Let alo
What went down @ ECC in 2012
I bought the 3 day pass as soon as I could, knowing I will only go for one day, since its an easy drive from Portland, Or.
Now, as if there isn't enough to tell after the show, oh no, there are plenty of tales to be told before the show even begins.
The best man at my wedding ('summer '08), that I've known 20+ years, which is about how long I've been collecting comics, has this Giant Size X-Men #1 that Was graded a 7.5 OW. He cracked it open for some reason (?
