Latest addition to my collection

I am super pleased to unveil my latest acquisition. This year has been absolutely amazing when it comes to auctions for me and this one may be my best deal yet. I won issue 122 of All American Western. This is the ONLY CGC graded copy of the issue. It's a golden age comic from 1951 graded 9.4 with white pages and an awesome Alex Toth cover. This also puts me in the number one spot in the All American Western set. I won't tell the price I spent but let's just say I got more than triple value in registry points per dollar spent.

Let me add my thoughts on a previous journal. I can understand why people add comics to the CGC registry without including images and descriptions and I'm cool with that because it's still useful for knowing who has what issue. For newer comics it probably doesn't matter but for golden and silver age comics where the numbers can run in the handfuls or less it's useful. It's boring but useful. As to obscured sets I simply don't see the point and I don't understand why CGC even gives people the option.

What I try to do is make my sets an experience so people can learn more about the comic and see the issues. Someone mentioned that they buy comics off EBAY and don't have a scanner. Every single CGC comic I've bought is off the internet and all my images were culled from seller supplied images. Not all are great but more often than not they are as good as anything I could do. The image I'll attach for All American Western 122 is straight from EBAY. There are a couple issues in my collection where I forgot to grab the image including the only 9.6 issue in my collection, Western Comics 14, but imagewise almost every issue has one.

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