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A couple of my favorite sketch covers by Yusuf Idris.. Amazing!!! 💀

Jae Lee sketch cover....

I swore I wasn’t going to do it, lol.  Only need a #2 1:500 cover.  I was thinking of getting one with a nice Zeck remark to match my #1.

Not everyone's cup of tea, but definitely mine

Garage sale pickups. Nothing to blow your skirt up, but I'll use any excuse to bathe in the glory of those McKean Sandman covers. Also a couple of Dave Stevens books I already have a stack of, but can't turn down when I find them.
 

Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows him well took me over to Nick's house. Now, that was a "comic room"... It's funny when you get over it, we were all just fan boys geeking over books. We all have stuff that other people don't have especially if you have been collecting a while. I found him to be just slightly egotisital at first, but after a while comics became the great equalizer. He really loved them for what they were and admitted how luckily he was to be in a position to finally afford what he wanted. I don't know what eventually happened and why he actually sold his collection but it must have hurt him a bit.
Being a musician, I also had a chance to go over to Billy Mummy's house once. A mind blowing comic collection and a hell of a cool guy. I was more impressed with his vintage guitar collection though and we spent more time talking about them then comics. I haven't run into him in many years. I wonder if he still has that killer collection.

My new arrivals...

Scanned some more books from my latest submissions
 

Another bought when brand new:

Not bought when brand new.  

One of the Adams wrap-around 100 Pagers.

The last of my 9.8s to post. 
 

Living on a budget with kids, while being in my early 30's, in the tax saturated Northeast has meant purchasing any one of my personal grail keys has been methodically planned out. I'm already tapped out this year. I know what books I'm buying for the next two years. I have plans for the next five years.
This year's books were an upgrade for my WBN 32 and Hunting down a Warrior Magazine #1. Both aquired through these boards and some awesome boardies. Next year my goal is a 6.0 Marvel Spotlight #5. Followed by ASM 129 and HOS 92. 

Great idea for a thread, sorry it devolved into off topic shenanigans but I do have a legit answer for you. That happened to me too very recently. Since March 3rd, I noticed that Mycomicshop had a Master Comics 25. The price was ok but not great. Technically it was the cheapest option I could ever get for that book but also the highest I would pay for that specific grade historically speaking (there are only like 20 books graded and only a couple get sold per year so it's not super obvious to determine a trend). Long story short, 4 months later I said "the hell with it" and pulled the trigger. I knew that if I kept stalking the book and one day I wouldn't see it, I would feel bad. 
Now I have it and I feel great!

I so rarely get to post here as most of my submissions can't compare to the gorgeous comics everyone else posts, but I was happy with my recent submissions, including the book I submitted for the CGC Claremont signing.
 

Just received today.
 

And three straight up randos.
Was happy with the 9.6 "Cowboys and Aliens" Adams cover

3 highest graded Charlton File Copies



 
Yes they flipped my labels for the SA52 and SA59... they're headed back for a fix.

And a couple of 3rd highest, and the SA30 was a deslabbed PGbech 8.0, i knee wasnt that high....

I can't believe it! Someone wrote all over my comics. 
My first two submissions