What I did while waiting for my books to come back

The last 3 books I submitted to CGC are still sitting at verified. I was a bit of a bonehead for not paying the extra 10 bucks to fast track them. But, what's done is done. So while I waited I decided to re-catalog all of my books into a software program. The last time I did this, there wasn't a very good comic book specific option for use on a Mac, but now there is. So I bought Collectorz.com's software. 10 years ago when I put my comics in storage, I went through and inventoried them all in a notebook. What at the time seemed like enough information was now seeming a little vague. I didn't know there were going to be 5 volumes of some of these titles. Usually I was able to deduce which ones I owned by the publishing year. If it was published after 1998 I knew I didn't own it. For the older stuff, usually I could look at a picture of the cover in the software and hopefully remember if I owned it. So after a couple of weeks I got them all input and I ended up with a grand total of 5808.

A quick breakdown: 3514 Marvel Comics, 2112 DC comics, Dark Horse a distant third with 52 and the rest.

By eras: A whopping 4609 worthless... oops, I mean Modern Age. 770 Bronze Age, 393 Silver Age, 11 Atomic Age and 2 Golden Age.

By title: 274 Uncanny X-men Vol. 1, 254 Captain America Vol. 1, 251 Amazing Spider-Man out in front by a wide margin.

Here's a question for all you readers. Are there any key issues in the Modern age pre-1998 that I should look out for in my collection? For example, I never imagined that New Mutants #98 would be worth anything.

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