Darn you Bagofleas, now I feel compelled to write one.
This is a difficult list as the last two years seem to blur together. In January of 2013 I got back into comics after a 10 year hiatus. I have never felt as youthful.
I've made some great friends at the cons along the way and that would have been my #1 item of a 2013 list.
10 - Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 CGC SS 9.8 (George Perez). The death of Supergirl cover is a classic. Honorable mention to CGC SS #8 which saw the heroic death of
Gonna bring these outside as the base for my snow fort this winter.
The postman came this week and told my wife that my mail would not fit in his truck and that I would need to pick them up. These are most of the invoices submitted at NYCC 2014 in October. There are still three more invoices of books that went to CCS for pressing first.
I did not peak at the grades online when they were marked Shipped/Safe and am looking forward to spending the day pulling each book out for the reveal. Fing
NYCC and Baltimore 2014 Stats
NYCC 2014:
First off, I picked up a number of Original Art pages and completely blew my budget. Second, I commissioned too many sketch covers and torpedoed what remained of my cash after already blowing my budget. Darn those dealers who take credit cards
6 Invoices
170 Books
221 Signatures
18 Creators
10 Sketch Covers
2 Creators missed
11 Books coming home, not submitted
Special thanks to Mike B. and
Cannot wait until next year already
14 Invoices
387 Books
465 Signatures
32 Creators
3 Sketch Covers
4 Creators missed
14 Books coming home, not submitted
I could have not accomplished this without the help from the following people:
- My wife -- She puts up with me and my silly hobby
- Bloom -- My friend who came to Baltimore with me and laid out the convention floor where each creator was and texted me when their lines were reasonable
I can plainly see that.
And why might some of my choices in life seem foolish in hindsight. Let's look at the time period of the late 1980's to about 2003 when I was a regular on the comic book convention scene in the New York area.
Here is a list of some of the shows that I set up at:
East Meadow -- At the time, this was the longest running monthly show in the New York area, run by Perry. I used to have two tables and would lug about 20 long boxes down a steep flight of stairs every month
Lacking in wealth and well, taste is subjective.
I started collecting when my parents took me to a large Flea Market when was about 10 years old. There was a vendor selling comics and my dad let me pick out a few. I remember an issue of "Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth", "Adventure Comics" with Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, "Fantastic Four" with Silver Surfer and a "Justice League of America " comic book. Looks like I went for team books. I always looked forward to when my parents we
