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dikran

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    Collecting the Prince of Power
    With his recent surge in popularity in Incredible Herc, I decided to go for early appearances of Hercules. Man, who thought collecting such a secondary character would be so tough! I have managed a reasonable assembly thus far: JIM Annual 1 9.0, JIM 124 9.4, Avengers 38 9.0 Green River, Sub-Mariner 29 9.6 and my latest, Champions 1 9.6 Pacific Coast. I am desperately seeking out high grade Avengers 39 to 50 but the prices are getting ridiculous!! A 9.4 Avengers 50 just sold for 400$ on eBay and I thought I had put a ridiculously high top bid at 255$. Boy was I wrong... Anyway, I'll let you know how my quest shapes up and hopefully we fans of The Prince of Power can get a competitive set listed of Herc appearances!
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    great books & even greater frustration
    Just added Thor 221 & 222 in 9.4. And I have bids on Thor 225 9.6, 226 9.4 & Journey Into Mystery 125 9.0. Found an Avengers 42 in 9.4 which is high on my interest radar. And found an auction for Avengers 48 9.6 which I will most probably end up bidding way too much for and still get sniped at the end. So is the life I suppose....
    Actually this might be a good time to vent about a very frustrating thing that happened a few weeks ago. I was mere seconds away from owning a Defenders 10 9.6 when I got sniped (as usual) and then minutes after the auction closed the same book was posted as a Buy it now by the "winner" (a comic shop) 150$ higher than the closing (obviously some dealer collusion but whatever). I guess they didnt learn the lessons of the 90's where artificially inflating market value just leads to the market crumbling. Hope I'm wrong....
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    Montreal Comic Con

    By dikran,

    Not bad, could be better
    Montreal is not known to be a hotbed of the comic collecting world, in fact I have yet to find a decent store with older books. But when the Con comes to town, the bank account gets drained. Graham Crackers & Harley Yee were the most popular booths since they never come here and have real quality stuff. Found a long sought after Avengers Annual 1 in decent shape (VF+ to NM-) Completed the 2nd Thor & Hercules trilogy with Thor 128-130 (all look VF) Couple more Avengers, a decent 40 & a nice 49. Got a Marvel Premiere 15 in what looks like VF+. Not much in the way of high grade CGC books, a lot of the dealers were complaining of theft (gotta love Montreal!) so the good stuff was probably left behind. Everything else was pretty much an overpriced modern super-rare-ultra-secret-variant-sketch-cover crapfest.
    Herb Trimpe was there but his seat was empty on artist row for the duration of my stay. Well it ain't the SDCC but it's the best available.
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    Mission accomplished!

    By dikran,

    Best Champions set EVER
    Well i finally did it, after 2 and a half years of wheeling and dealing I completed the finest set in the world of Marvel's Champions series from the Bronze Age. It feels somewhat bittersweet because this mission has been consuming my collecting for a while and now I don't know what to do next...
    You can check out the set with descriptions & pics.