Cosmic Boy

Really good to know! Pretty much echoes my situation. I see all these Hulk #271's and Walking Dead #1's reaching ridiculous prices, and I wonder what's it all for. And yep, we're in the same age bracket. Good to know I won't be the only Golden Age collector in that range!

Interesting question. Superman and Batman for sure. But I'd like to pick up all of the minor and major keys I can afford. I know I'll never be able to sniff my biggest grails: Action #1, 7, 13 and 'Tec #27, 29, 31, 33. Well, at least not until I win the lottery. My goal was to raise 10k in seed money and see where that took me. Looking for value and depth, but not picking anything up at random to start with. I want to start with the most important books I can get a hold of on my budget. My Realistic Top 10: 1. More Fun #73 2. Action #23 3. More Fun #55 4. Adventure #61 5. All-American #61 6. Superman #3 7. Superman #4 8. Adventure #48 9. All-American #25 10. New York World's Fair 1939 (might be out of my budget) A healthy smattering! (thumbs u

Thanks, Bill. Now if only I hadn't unloaded that AA #25.

Great start! I said much the same thing some 12 or so years ago. In that time, I've amassed a po'boy collection of early Actions, Supermans, Detectives and Batmans. They are awesomely cool books that I'm thrilled to own in any condition... and indeed, my screen name was chosen as a wink and a nod to that philosophy. I still get excited when a new one rolls in. Looking forward to watching your collection grow! I'm right there with you now! I'm all in. Even willing to sell my AF #15 if something really tasty comes up. Say, a More Fun #73 for example. Probably my ultimate grail book alongside Action #13 (which I'll never sniff). Stay tuned tomorrow as I've got a neat little piece coming into the collection!

Thanks! I think I'm just at a point in my life where I relate better to the simplicity of the infancy of the genre. It really resonates with me right now. For some reason, I've gone from Spider-Man to Slam Bradley. It's inexplicable. But it is what it is.

The first (and so far only) book in my Golden Age DC collection. DETECTIVE COMICS #40 (1st Joker Cover) (CGC Qualified 2.0)

WARNING: This thread is highly introspective and incredibly self-indulgent in nature. Turn back now if you dislike that stuff. Some of you may recall that I went through a slight “collecting crisis” this past summer. After twenty years of hardcore collecting, I felt as though I had reached a crossroads. My passion for collecting was waning, I was expecting my first child (now a beautiful 4 month old girl that lights up my life), and I was at a general loss with how to balance my collecting life with my real life. At first, I considered dumping all of my Silver & Bronze DC comics in favor of chasing those few remaining Silver Age Marvel grails I wanted (needed). But somewhere along the way, I realized that route was taking the easy way out. My interest in the hobby hadn't grown stale because I couldn't get everything I wanted, it had grown stale because I could. Everything I wanted was so easy to find if the cash was there. So I took a long look in the mirror, and tried to reconcile who I was now in relation to who I was when I first started collecting. I tried to remember the joy of being a child again. Watching Superman: The Movie for the first time; staring at “Crisis on Infinite Earths” issues on the spinning rack at the drugstore in my small town; checking out old copies of the Overstreet Price Guide from the local library; meeting Mart Nodell at my first comic-con at the old Thunderbird Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota; and placing my first winning bid on a mid-grade copy of Batman #181 in the early days of Ebay. But the one thing that stood out to me the most was the chase. It's what we all live for here, albeit in different ways and to different magnitudes. Nobody's chase is the same. We all have different priorities, budgets and lives. But to me, it was suddenly all so clear. I flashed back to being nine years old again, gazing wide eyed at pictures of classic DC Golden Age covers in those long unreturned and overdue Overstreets. At the time, I had no concept of what the 1930s or '40s was. It was Ancient Rome for all I knew. But the purity of the mythology stood out to me from an early age, and this past summer I realized that it still does to this day. Their innovation, colors, vibrancy... Golden Age DC comics are the backbone of this genre. And it's taken me a long time to realize I was denying myself that fact. But now, I truly believe that they are capable of reinvigorating my collecting spirit. So in short, that's what I'm going to chase. Before a few weeks ago, I owned zero Golden Age books. I've had a few in the past, but they've long since changed hands. I've dumped a lot of my collection in an effort to build some seed money for this endeavor. I am literally going to build a Golden Age DC collection from the ground up. So I thought it might be fun (if anybody was interested) for you guys (and gals) to come along for the ride. I'm going to use this thread to document what I buy and how I put this collection together. Recently, I bought the first piece of this collection: Detective Comics #40 (CGC Qualified 2.0). Some of you have seen it already in other threads. I'm very excited to show it off as well as each new piece that comes into this collection. My budget doesn't allow for high grade books, and there probably won't be any mesmerizing finds on display here. But you will get to watch a collection being built from the ground up, no matter how long it takes. Thanks for any who choose to indulge me and my quest. --CosmicBoy

Great to work with! Fast payment, good communication. Awesome.

Didn't Gerber once assign AF #15 a Gerber 5? Maybe I'm mistaken, but that's 200-1000 copies in existence. Which, of course, we all know is total BS. Does that mean that the Gerber ratings in general are BS?

Picked this bad boy up last week from Sparkle City. Couldn't be happier. The staple replacement doesn't bother me. Presents very nicely.

Golden (1) Action Comics #1 (2) Detective Comics #27 (3) Marvel Comics #1 (4) Superman #1 (5) Batman #1 Hard to argue anything different. Maybe...just maybe Captain America #1 over Marvel Comics #1. Silver (1) Amazing Fantasy #15 (2) Fantastic Four #1 (3) Showcase #4 (4) Incredible Hulk #1 (5) Brave & the Bold #28 I think the first four are written in stone. Number 5 is a wild card that could have gone a lot of different ways: Adventure #247, X-Men #1, Amazing Spider-Man #1, Tales of Suspense #39, Journey into Mystery #83, or even Avengers #1. Bronze (1) Incredible Hulk #181 (2) Giant Size X-Men #1 (3) Amazing Spider-Man #121 (4) Amazing Spider-Man #129 (5) House of Secrets #92 This list would be dominated by Marvel in my opinion. So many great books to choose from of fairly equal significance and value. Other contenders might be Green Lantern #76, Batman #227 and #232, All-Star Western #10, X-Men #94, many more. Copper and Modern are practically worthless to me, though I'd probably throw out New Mutants #98 and Walking Dead #1 as the top of the crop.

Hard to get much better than Robert! He's one of the good guys and a model citizen as a buyer.

Great buyer! And a A+ all around guy! (thumbs u

Great Buyer! First rate guy!

Thanks for the positive feedback folks! It was a pleasure working with all of you!

100% honest, accurate, accountable. Roy is great to work with, and you can trust that things will go smoothly!

Thanks Roy! Glad you like the Pep #22!