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You know, the drug store across the street from me put in a machine a few months ago that supposedly makes copies of keys. I've tried inserting my X-Men 94 a few times, but I've yet to manage to get the thing to work...

Indeed, thanks! I greatly enjoyed participating for the first time, and I'm looking forward to next year!

Nice run, hope you pass it on to a nice home...I'd love to offer on it, as I'm missing about a dozen of these, and a few of the others would be upgrades (incremental, but still), but sadly, I don't have the cash to spare right now.

Seconded, nice haul!

Uncanny X-Men. First the regular run, then variants and pence versions, then foreign editions.

I also celebrate Hanukkah, so decided to open mine on the last night, a few days ago! I was on a two-week vacation the beginning of December, and was excited to see the package waiting on my desk at work when I returned! My cat had to inspect the gifts, of course, and make sure they met his approval. Once he signed off on them and allowed me to open them... Super-excited! Anything X-Men is always good with me, and this checked a few items off my general collecting bucket-list (own a 9.8, own a GA comic). Thanks for the great gift, @143ksk!!!

Woo, got back from my two-week vacation and found my exchange package sitting on my desk at work waiting for me! Now, can I hold off on opening it until Christmas, or open it now for Hanukkah (my holiday)...

I mean... You didn't say it had to be a fair trade...so I would trade my entire collection for an Action 1, preferably 9.0. I could then pretty easily sell that and not only rebuild my collection, but complete it in entirely 9.8s.

I don't know if they've changed in more recent years, but I have two copies of one DF book (special cover, not signed, neither slabbed), and they both have certificates of authenticity with them.

Why would we want to do that?

I got my cash ready to buy something good...

Almost the worst X-Man...almost... I mean, Jubilee is clearly much worse.

Woohoo! Time to see what I can put together...

I remember always being confused by this cover, even when I first saw it as a kid...mainly 1) Iceman seemingly throwing snowballs past Magneto, yet hitting his barrier; 2) the fact that Angel has a bazooka (I can't recall, did he even have one in the book itself?); 3) Jean's random "drunken stagger"pose; and 4) where Beast was swinging from with that swing. It confused me almost as much as Mr. Fantastic deciding that it was a better use of his powers to stretch and untie himself from ropes on the cover of FF 1 rather than just, you know, stretch out of them entirely.

Congrats! Enjoy the satisfaction of crossing these off your list!

The boat is a boat, but the mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!

I replied and resent...thanks HJO! And looking forward to the raffle sign-up, I hope to be in for that as well!

A couple of years ago, I got an email letting me know that I'd won a CLink auction for a Spider Jerusalem sketch by Darick Robertson that I hadn't even remembered bidding on (though it was only like five days earlier). Pretty sure I'd put the bid down as a "this will probably go for higher, but since I'll never be able to afford any actual Transmetropolitan OA with Spider on it, and I never see Darick Robertson at any cons I go to, this may be the closest I could get" kind of thing. Ended up shocked that I hadn't been outbid, seeing as I'd put a pretty low max bid down. All the better for me, though!

Even X-Men 4?

Definitely. Some kind of searchable database would probably be best--something a person could search by title and/or book to see what's available, then look more into the offeror to see what else they may have and what they'd want before contacting. Or just a running list of "Haves/Wants" by title, and then contacting that person for more specifics. But with the volume of books that might end up being offered for trade, any route would probably just become seriously bogged down. (And either way, it could be hard to do--I mean, I have non-duplicate/undercopies that I'd be willing to trade toward books I'd rather have, if the right situation arose...but how to advertise that? That becomes more difficult...)

I could certainly get behind this...I have a number of books (I'd say a lot, but compared to others here, it's probably barely noticeable...) that I have duplicates/undercopies of now, as I've been trying to put together runs, and I'd be happy to trade them (assuming someone else would be interested in them) for others that I need.

I've been putting together a complete Uncanny X-Men run that I'm about 66% of the way through, and have toyed with the idea of picking up other appearances. If I see another book with them in it, I may pick it up, at least if it's SA and maybe BA, but at the same time, that's much less of a priority. I'd thought about putting together an Adam Warlock run and had a list of appearances somewhere, but thanks to the MCU enough of those have become pricier (between Adam's appearances and the overlap with Thanos's appearances) that I've shelved that idea. I've also put together or worked to put together a few other title runs (but not character appearance sets), some of which I've had to break up a bit for one reason or another. I think appearance sets can be more difficult, though, depending on the character. Someone that doesn't get overused too much? Sure. Someone who seemingly appears in 15 books a month? Bit more difficult on the wallet and storage space...

Awesome! I'll resend. I was fine with what I'd sent, overall, but realized I probably could've been a little more specific. Especially since I'm newer to posting on the boards, so I don't have as much of a history with the forums or with other posters for whoever was assigned to me to pull from. Thanks!

Smart...I replied too quickly, I think, and didn't quite think it through enough, but oh well

Nice find! I'm jealous. I don't think I've seen one of these...now I need to make sure to be on the lookout to add it to my X-Men collection.