There is nothing more difficult to a collector than changing ones own goals.

The past few months have been a time to re-evaluate my collecting habits. CGC has competition, and even though this new company has established a strong foothold in the grading market, they are in no way the reason why I haven't written lately; that honor goes to the person that put a ring on my finger. I was still able to travel to a few comic conventions this year, but this time my wife came with me.

At these conventions I wasn't worried about getting signatures as much as I was focused on finding high-grade-worthy raw books I wanted to collect. These of course were books from April of 1972...with a few others being from the New Mutants series that I love. I also decided to pick up a few that I only wanted for the cover, one of which I picked up strangely enough on the same month that a new Doctor Strange #1 came out.

Next year my goal is to complete my 45 books from 4/72. This means that I must purchase every single issue from Marvel and DC. This does not mean that they will all be graded by CGC before the end of 2016, just that I will have them all purchased. If I deem them high enough in grade I will send them in, unless a signing opportunity is available.

Other goals will be forthcoming, as well as thoughts and grievances, after all it's November and I have twenty-nine more to go.

Thanks for reading

Tnerb.

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