grunter

Unfortunately, I can't make the April show. But if that August 2022 date is solid, I'll make a point to take a trip back home to Vermont to attend this show.

It was a good little show. I quite enjoyed it. I'll be back again if it happens in the future.

And I was pointing out that I wouldn't be able to go that NEXT month. But whatever.

I would have loved to have gone to this show this year. Oh well.

Damn. I wish I had heard about this before it happened. I'm dying to go to a show.

This comment makes me particularly nervous. I don't have the best eye-sight. I tend to linger at the front of booths squinting at the wall books just so I can make out what's back there in the usually pretty awful light of the convention hall. I feel massively self-conscious about doing so, but it's the only way I can get a sense of what the dealer has to offer. Plus, unlike most on these boards, I don't have long-time personal relationships with the national dealers such that I can feel comfortable asking to just enter the booth and view the wall books up-close. I'm not a thief. I just have poor eye-sight.

That one will be a big NO, unless there is a major overhaul of the dealer's room to bring in some quality back issue comics. Last time, it might as well have been a Funko Pop convention only.

I am about 5-10 issues (per title) away from finishing runs of of most of the DC "legacy" titles -- runs that begin with the last 12 cent issue and end at the last issue before the New 52. I try to make sure all issues would grade at 8.5 of higher. This includes: Batman Detective Superman Action Superboy Wonder Woman Flash Green Lantern Justice League of America Brave and the Bold World's Finest Let me interject: DC 100-pagers are a b-itch to collect in high grade. I have "complete" runs of most Marvel books that I care about, including: Uncanny X-men 94 through 544 Amazing Spider-man 150 through 545 Daredevil 158 through 381 And lots of shorter Marvel series, including every "X"/mutant spin-off from 1979 through to whatever preceded Marvel Now, the 70s Doctor Strange series, Moon Knight, Power Man & Iron Fist, Marvel "Star Wars," Alpha Flight, Werewolf by Night, Tomb of Dracula, etc. I have every John Byrne "Fantastic Four," every Berni Wrightson "Swamp Thing," every Geoff Johns book in his first 10 years in comics, nearly every Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Kurt Busiek, Garth Ennis and Grant Morrison book up through the modern age "breaks." For DC books, it's the same. Essentially any major series from about 1974 to the end of the era that preceded the New 52, I have complete runs. All incarnations of the Legion of Superheroes, New Teen Titans, every "Bat" spin-off from 1975-ish on, etc. Again, all in 8.5 grade or better, most being 9.0's and up. Besides finishing up my DC "legacy" titles back to the last 12 center, I'm slowly closing in on a complete Vertigo set, and runs of "House of Secrets" and "House of Mystery" beginning with their horror re-launches, and "Phantom Stranger," "Ghosts," and "The Witching Hour." And I'm eye-ing a complete First Comics run as well, since I have most of the major titles already. Yeah, I know. Brag, brag, brag.