Hello there!
My name is Joel and I am new to CGC, though not to comic book collecting. In the 90s, when I was a kid/pre-teen, I amassed a pretty sizable collection of Spiderman books at the time over several years, including Amazing #11 & 14, through cutting a lot of grass for family and neighbors. I stupidly sold it all off in the early 2000s because of personal issues, and haven't really gone near Spiderman since then.
I did get the collecting bug again a few years back though. It started with trying to collect as many appearances of the Scarecrow in Batman books that I could. I was also really into TMNT as a kid, getting most of the TMNT Adventures issues over time, but was always curious about the original Mirage books. So a few years ago I decided to take the plunge into the Mirage books and bought a lot on ebay for (I think; this was 2011 or 2012) a few hundred - it contained issues 1-25, some Tales of TMNT, and a few graphic novel collections of the early books. I looked through the books when I got them, and then got distracted by graduate school / career stuff for a few years. I recently went back to them though, and looked at them a bit more thoroughly - turns out my #1 was a 2nd printing, and my #3 was a 1st printing. I've decided I want to hunt down the rest of the series, and try to get as many of the first printings of the early oversized books as possible (#1 first printing will never happen because that's way out of my price range, but I'm very happy with the #1 second printing I have), and then try to get Laird and Eastman to sign those through CGC.
So yeah, that's me, and a bit about my interests as it relates to comic books.
Hello there! My name is Joel and I am new to CGC, though not to comic book collecting. In the 90s, when I was a kid/pre-teen, I amassed a pretty sizable collection of Spiderman books at the time over several years, including Amazing #11 & 14, through cutting a lot of grass for family and neighbors. I stupidly sold it all off in the early 2000s because of personal issues, and haven't really gone near Spiderman since then. I did get the collecting bug again a few years back though. It started with trying to collect as many appearances of the Scarecrow in Batman books that I could. I was also really into TMNT as a kid, getting most of the TMNT Adventures issues over time, but was always curious about the original Mirage books. So a few years ago I decided to take the plunge into the Mirage books and bought a lot on ebay for (I think; this was 2011 or 2012) a few hundred - it contained issues 1-25, some Tales of TMNT, and a few graphic novel collections of the early books. I looked through the books when I got them, and then got distracted by graduate school / career stuff for a few years. I recently went back to them though, and looked at them a bit more thoroughly - turns out my #1 was a 2nd printing, and my #3 was a 1st printing. I've decided I want to hunt down the rest of the series, and try to get as many of the first printings of the early oversized books as possible (#1 first printing will never happen because that's way out of my price range, but I'm very happy with the #1 second printing I have), and then try to get Laird and Eastman to sign those through CGC. So yeah, that's me, and a bit about my interests as it relates to comic books.