Hi all! I've been lurking these boards on and off for a few years now (a bit longer than my account's age, I think it took me a bit to even make one), and figured I eventually ought to start actually posting instead of just reading...
Anyway, I'm Adam, from South Florida originally (a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale that probably only other people from South Florida would've heard of), but live in NYC now. I'm 33 (god, where does the time go), and have been hooked on and collecting comics since I was 5, when I got my first Marvel Masterworks (vol. 1) as a gift from my parents, and which I still have, among some other volumes from the early editions--though sadly, the dust covers did not survive my early childhood...
I read pretty much everything, and have a few longboxes worth of random books from when I was growing up (though only about half of what I used to have, after having to part with a portion of them), but other than a few scattered semi-keys I've picked up here and there, I'm mainly focusing on trying (on the limited budget I have) to put together a full Uncanny X-Men run, which is currently at around 66% complete (but only 53% complete in the conditions I'd like to settle at), excluding variants (which I'm including in my ultimate goal, but at a much lower priority). Though in just vol. 1, I'm at 75%/59%. With a ton of dupes, at this point, hehe. Right now, I'm mainly squirreling away what I can to try to snag myself a copy of X-Men #1 at next year's NYCC in something around the 2.0-2.5ish grade, preferably with good eye appeal.
Aaaaand yeah, I can't think of what else to mention! Hi!