I'll try to share the when, where, and why each book was chosen.
(this all depends on if I can remember or not...)
My ever-evolving personal collection consists of 49 CGC slabs (38 Signature Series / 11 Universal) and 1 raw book.
Once CGC grades treasury sized books it'll be a solid 50 CGC'd.
Why 50?
It is the number of books that easily fits into two short boxes.
Just enough to grab in case of an emergency or not take up too much room in the car.
Why ever-evolving?
I read a post many moons ago on these boards about ensuring that the handling of your collection was easy on your family when you pass away.
In it, someone mentioned selling 10% of your books per year once turning 40-years-old.
They also stressed to continuously refine your books down to a Top 10 that would be easy for your family to liquidate upon death.
Over the past 5 years I have reduced my collection from 34 short boxes down to 16 boxes through donation, selling, and recycling efforts.
8 short boxes of raw comics to be graded
6 short boxes of CGC'd comics to be sold via eBay
2 short boxes of personal collection
As books are sold throughout the year money gets set aside to reinvest into / 'improve' the personal collection.
If a new book is purchased with the intent to add it to the personal collection (aka not a 'flip') then a book has to be taken out 'to make space'.
To provide a clearer understanding, in 2022 I removed the following comics from my personal collection to allow new books to join:
All-Star Superman #1 German Edition 9.6 signed by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Avengers #4 1.0
That is all to say that at some point some of the books featured in this thread will not make the cut going in to the next year.
(I will edit posts when a book has transitioned out of the collection)
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