one way or the other, it is only paper.

Last year I was addicted to finding the books I needed online. I was doing my best to create the best New mutants set I could. So far I have accomplished this. There are a few others that I need but as of now, they are unavailable. I collect new issues every week but that doesn't seem to fulfill the need of completing something. Currently I have every single issues of Daredevil from the first volume except number two and three. I hope to have those this year.

I decided to create two lists of ten, both of which would cause a great sense of fulfillment and will not be cheap. One list will be of 10 books graded by CGC in the best condition available (or that I can afford). The other ten will be books that should be part of a must have list for any collector, including a copy of Amazing fantasy #15. As I said, this will not be cheap.

A collection also tends to have or need a holy grail. My such comic was and is the New Mutants #15 in a 9.8, but only because it was the comic book that helped start my collection. The other book is a Sub-Mariner #38. This was a book that I had read over and over before I even knew the significance comic books would play in my life. I lost in the bidding on that book.

This has created such thoughts of Why do I collect? Can I stop other than because of financial reasons? Why would I want to stop? My collections consists of Star Wars memorabilia, action figures, fine art work, original comic book pages, statues, novels, shot glasses, raw comic books along with CGC graded ones.

My Wednesday haul tends to be read on the way home from the comic books shop. I save every week so I have extra money at conventions, even if I don't buy. When I was younger I purchased without any thought of the consequences. I have since seen the error of my ways. All that time I was spending on frivolous things I could have had an Amazing Fantasy #15. SO how am I rectifying it? I tend to think before I spend, but occasionally...I forget.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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