In part one I digressed

There are many comic collectors out there that have no problem getting rid of a prized item to get another prized item. I don?t know if I could do that. There are books I got graded just for the purpose of selling them, I still have them. I purchased a boxed collector?s set of Robin II. It contains 14 issues(the 4 newsstand and all 10 direct editions). I bought it for thirty dollars for the express service of selling it and making a little money. I still have it.

My latest thought is to get all 14 issues graded. The question is do I get them graded outright or do I put them together and get a pre-screen done so this way if they are a 9.6 or lower I only pay for the pre-screen, but if they are higher, let?s say a 9.9 or 10, they will be encapsulated. I am most likely looking at three hundred dollars to grade them and then there is the fearful question. Can I sell them? All of a sudden this thirty dollar investment became ten times that amount.

Let me say that if one of those 14 books is pristine enough to receive a gem Mint grade would I sell it? I know it is only Robin II and to me I fell indifferent about it, but to have a Gem mint would be a desire fulfilled. Now what happens if by some miracle they are all a Gem Mint, well I would keep one and sell the other thirteen as quick as possible. However, I have gotten rid of so much. I even got rid of multiple copies of New Mutants #98. What if one of them was to receive a 9.8? (The things we do when we don?t have enough storage space.)

At the moment I am only collecting the comics I want. I might pass on a few but when a comic shop has a sale for sixty-five percent off I buy what I passed on the first time. Sometimes I will just pick up the trade paperback when they are released. Most of the times I start to read them at the local book store and then decide if I wish to own them. It would probably be cheaper if I started to collect only the hardcover comics when they come out and purchase the individual copies in a CGC 9.8. Ok so it wouldn?t be cheaper but it would be so much fun.

I have thought about trying to find some bulk comics and buy them in lots. If I get a good find send them off to get graded and sell them on E-bay, after all many others have sold it why can?t I? Oh yea, that?s because I don?t know if I could buy them to sell them.

Thank you for reading.

Tnerb