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More Pics of My Comic Room Nothing major going on in my collecting life. Lately I haven't even checked out CC or CL; too expensive. Mostly I've been buying from sales here, and my eBay saved searches. Some quality pick ups, but nothing major. I sent in some books to CGC a few weeks ago -- there's nothing more depressing than to have nothing at CGC (so nothing to look forward to), so I fixed that by sending in these books (which I needed to send in). I have another group of comics that I'll be sending to CGC in a week or two. I'm just waiting to receive a couple of comics from recent buys. I regret not going to WW Chicago, but there was no way given family commitments. I'm trying to figure out if I can get to Baltimore, if only for a day. Online shopping is great, but there's nothing like a comic con. On another topic, I'm trying to cut the cord on TV. This is part of my pre-retirement plan to get my monthly expenses to as little as possible. A major criteria is to be able to get local channels, if for no other reason than to get football. But I want to get away from the extortion of cable and satellite, and rely solely on streaming via my Internet. I've tried out Hulu, Sling and a few others. All have been disappointing. I'm now trying out YouTube TV, and I think it might be a keeper. Updates to come. Anyway, here are some pics of my comic room that I took this morning. Thanks for reading.

Statues I collect statues. I have to limit what I buy due to space reasons. Recently I got this She Dragon statute. Some of my other statue collection is in the background. There are actually 2 versions. Here they are together.

That's a good idea, I'll have to do that sometime.

She's okay with it. She knows she's my real life Gwen Stacy.

More pics of my comic book room ...

This is such a great thread. I'd like to get: (at your sale of "Buy 5 or more books and take $2 off each HC and $1 off each TPB") Finder Ghost Stories Greendale Marvel super special 17 Overstreet #44 Overstreet #45 CBLDF Liberty Fairies in all the land Footnotes in Gaza Poison River Heart of Ice Nemo River of Ghosts

Let's see more of the good stuff Bob. You're holding back.

I'm not Rick so I'll take it!

I'll take it

I'd keep the FF

Here are some recent pics of my comic book room:

Yeah, I think you're right about that. I don't think it's VF. I'd be happy if it comes back FN.

I'll take it

I'll take this. This is the first gold comic in my Lady In White collection!

Classic Modern GGA If you're a gold GGA collector, there are some comics that you have to have in your collection. Like Archie 50. (My copy is not the best, but I'm glad I got it when I did as the price just keeps going up and up.) The same is true for modern GGA covers. There are some modern GGA covers that are must haves. With modern though, you have to get 9.8 (or above). Anything other than 9.8 for modern is a fail. It makes for an interesting (and often, frustrating) collecting dynamic. One classic modern GGA cover is Supergirl 23 with the great Adam Hughes cover. I recently got my copy of Supergirl 23 after looking for years. It's not that the comic is rare -- it definitely isn't -- but it took a while to find a seller who I could make a deal with. So what are some other classic modern GGA covers? It's hard, since (by definition) moderns comics haven't been around long enough to form a consensus. Here are a few that I think should be classics.

It was advertised as Fine by the seller. I'm not sure if I agree with that. We'll see, as I'm sending the book to CGC.

I managed to win 2 of Dave's books. https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/419401-n2wdws-tales-of-the-comic-book-room/page/56/#comments (you have to scroll towards the bottom of the page) I also hope he posts more books. Are these from his personal collection, do you know?

Modern Stuff I know this thread is in the Gold section -- and most of my collecting focus in on gold nowadays, so that's why I placed the thread here -- but I still buy modern comics sometimes, so here's an update of what I've gotten lately. Recently I've been buying the Marvel comics with covers by Milo Manara. I'm a fan of his work and have most of his books. I'm trying to collect a 9.8 run of his Marvel covers (and there are a few others, like from Dark Horse and Dynamite). Pricing on these books are all over the place. It's a free country so you can price books on eBay for whatever you want, but people who buy these books for $300+ just aren't paying attention. I look for the auctions (rather than the high priced buy it nows), and regularly get them between $100 - $150, sometimes even less. Here are a few from my collection: I also collect Gwen Stacy comics -- that is, key comics like ASM 31 and 121, and comics with Gwen covers. It's a long story, but I grew up during the ASM story arc where Peter was dating Gwen, and I still haven't gotten over her death in 121. Anyway, here are a couple of Gwen comics I've gotten lately. The best comic in my Gwen Stacy collection is this CGC SS signed by Emma Stone (who played Gwen in the movie): Over the years I've picked up some custom or limited product Gwen dolls, which I think are kinda cool. On another topic, recently I got this statue of the dragon from Bone. It * is * REALLY * cool! Thanks for reading.

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Big Ebay Actions Last Night! There were so many great comic auctions closing last night on eBay. I was bidding in 9 auctions. If I won them all at my max bids, I would have been in for $7500. My wife would've killed me, but I knew I wouldn't win them all, and if I won just one I'd be happy. Most of the comics were higher grade Bakers and Ghost comics. They were being offered by "dave.odell." I don't know who this person is. Is he liquidating his collection? Right now at this moment, he doesn't have any other comics on eBay. Maybe someone here knows him? The first auction to close was Going Steady 10. My max bid was $1000. This isn't one of Baker's best covers (IMHO), so I thought I had a chance. But it closed at $1675! So clearly the big guns were out. At that point, I was wondering if I'd win any of the auctions. But moments later I won my first auction, Teen-Age Romances 26. My max bid was $250 and I got it for $190. The win kinda shocked me, even though the multi-panel Baker covers generally go for less, and this was one of the lowest condition comics being offered by Mr. Odel. Next up were the 2 prizes of the night, Going Steady 13 and TAR 44. BTW, I'm focusing here on the books I needed for my collection. Mr. Odel was offering some other comics that I wasn't bidding on (since I already had them). You rarely see these 2 comics for sale, and I love both covers. I'd been thinking about going to a con later this summer (maybe Chicago). But when I saw these comics go on sale last week, I decided to dumb the con plans and throw all my money into trying to win these books. So I put in max bids of $2000 for each of GS 13 and TAR 44. I thought I had a realistic chance to win both. But then GS 13 closed at $2705! I had a few minutes to think about TAR 44 before it closed. I decided to raise my max bid from $2000 to $2500. I knew ahead of time that I'd have buyer's remorse if I won it at my max bid, as then I would've spent more on TAR 44 than any other Baker (at the moment, the most I've paid for a Baker is $2352 for a 1.8 Blue GCE 12). But I decided to go for it so as to try to win one of these grails. And I won it! And I got it for $1800, way below my max. Although this is the second most I've paid for a Baker, sandwiched between GCE 12 and TAR 32. My evening wasn't done. I didn't know it until I woke up this morning, but I also won Pep Comics 30. With its chilling branding cover. This definitely qualifies as a Dastardly GGA bondage cover. Pep was not being offered by Mr. Odel. I did bid on 3 of his Ghost comics, but I put in relatively low max bids. I couldn't go that high given how aggressive I was being with the Bakers (and also the Pep). Thanks for reading.

It's Been a Busy Summer Here's a update on my summer. Although we have moved to our beach house, I still work full time in DC. So my wife and I rented a small apartment in DC. It's cool to be city people again! I've gone from a 1.5 hour commute to a 15 minute commute (each way), and now we leave the car parked and walk or take scooters everywhere. So my entire summer has been busy with getting the electric, gas and internet turned on in the apartment, waiting for deliveries and putting furniture together. It's an exciting time, but time consuming too. I haven't put a lot of thought into my comic collection this summer. In fact I've barely been in the comic room lately. But now that things are finally settling down with the moving and new apartment, I'm starting to get into comic mode again. I read everything I could about the happenings at SDCC (does it seem like there wasn't much coverage this year?). I was floored when Chuck Rozanski at Mile High Comics came out as trans (http://milehighcomics.com/newsletter/071819email.html). I thought I was going through some major life changes with moving and all, but I don't have anything on Chuck. But anyway, I have managed to pick up a few comics this summer. Here are a few. Thanks for reading.

This sculpture is actually important to me and my wife as we got it in Venice, as part of an anniversary. But I get you, art is definitely a personal taste thing.

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