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A few more items for my X-Men non-comics collection!

The three bagged figures...I'm not really sure what they're from. Pulling the triggers makes them swing left and right...they're kind of like hand-held Rock'em, Sock'em Robots, except without the heads popping off. The case was a nice find...no trays, but not surprised--I had the Transformers collector's case up until a few years ago, and the trays were such thin plastic that they were crumbling to the touch. These are likely the same way. As for the board game, if you mean the abridged Survival's Guide, yep, that was with it. I think it's complete, but need to find what should've been inside--nothing's punched out, but it has cards and dice loose, so just need to make sure there are the right amounts. It also had no instruction booklet, assuming it was supposed to. Heck yeah! I had three others of these sheets, so this got added to those. I have a bunch of duplicates now, and still some missing, in case anyone's got some of these unpunched beauties for trade! I *believe* these came from Hardee's, but I'd need to check my list.

Recent pickups from a trip down south and then out to a bunch of stores on Long Island...any tips for cleaning the dirt off the Wolverine Combat Center and Under Siege boxes?

Thanks all...sounds like I just need to get a bigger box or two and store them in there. Wasn't sure if there was a better way, but guess not. The eventual plan is a peg wall display, but that's likely a few years down the line. I wasn't planning to start collecting them now, but there've just been some opportunities/prices I found too hard to pass up

I have a question for this thread, assuming that's appropriate...for those that collect on-card figures and don't have anywhere to display them, how do you store them? I've started picking up 90s Toy Biz X-Mens, and now that I'm at like 20 or so...I don't have a ton of space for them and am not sure how best to get them into, like, a closet space.

It's definitely nowhere near as good as it was 10-12 years ago. That being said, I still find it pretty enjoyable. Last year, I don't think Marvel or DC were there; DC has barely had a presence outside of some panels for a few years pre-Covid (just doing a small installation at the south end of the lobby, not a kind of booth), but they were still doing the FanDome thing last year, and Marvel was among the big names that backed out of having a floor presence. I also thought last year felt like it had more dealers than previous, which was great. This year's content...still hasn't really been totally announced I think, which is different and annoying compared to previous years (usually by Labor Day, at least 80-90% of the stuff is announced and panel schedules have started going online, but right now, not much of anything). Still can't do any kind of planning or anything yet...sigh.

Was there any mention of when Vol 5 would go up for presale? I don't see it yet on CGN (or didn't when I checked before). I'm curious what would be in Vol. 6 and 7 also...can't tell which would be worse/weirder, capturing only 20-25% of each of the giant crossovers by just doing the UXM issues, or skipping around wildly to avoid them entirely...

Thanks, yeah, I've only rarely found them in the wild before now, and usually just one or two and not ones I wanted. The store had a few dozen more, most of which were still in their boxes, but they were Spider-Man/Fantastic Four-related, so not what I was interested in. Sadly, most of the X-Men ones were boxless, and the White Queen is actually cracked mid-torso, but otherwise they're in good shape. Just gotta remember to, you know, not try to lick or ingest them...

I'm in!

Not quite this week, but finally got around to snapping pics of my pickups from Terrificon a few weeks back. Got 8 more books to scratch off my list to complete my full UXM v1 run (only 66 left to go...), plus a bunch of great X-related 80s mini-series (I love the covers of those Nightcrawlers, always have), some one-shots, and some X-related Amazing Heroes issues. The printer's proof sheet of the X-Men Series 1 cards looks amazing, and now aside from getting it framed to hang, I have a goal of trying to catch Jim Lee at an NYC-area con to get it signed by him as well...

Got these from a store in NH while driving back from a vacation/road trip in Maine...

Royal is my LCS, I'd recommend them (for whatever my opinion's worth). Good store and good people. They're located in Queens (Forest Hills, though I think they recently opened another location in Astoria).

This is great! I wish I'd written a message like this to myself in the 90s...tell myself, when I have to cut my collection in half, not to get rid of some of those random one-off books..."That weird squirrel character? Keep that book around for a bit..."

Hi all, I'll be heading to Nashville in a bit to see family, and I've been told that my niece (5) has been showing an interest in comics and superheroes recently, so I wanted to bring her to a store to pick out her first comic(s). I haven't actually been to any of the Nashville LCS's in my previous visits, so I don't really have a good sense of what they have to offer, but I know some stores tend to have better selections of kids/all-ages books than others. Anyone have any recommendations for any stores with good selections for that age?

My quest for the highest score is going well! ...wait, what, we want low scores?

Yeah, apparently they still had Covid protocols in effect (which we knew coming into the weekend, I'd been checking regularly all summer). The pools were for guests only, and no pool day passes were being sold at this time (which pre-Covid would have been an option). We stayed at an Airbnb, not the hotel, so that meant the pool was out. My wife thought about just paying for a pass and coming in with me, decided against it, ended up just wandering around the hotel in circles while I was in the show (so ~4 hours), and basically regretted just not coming in with me, lol. So, for my first experience with this show...I enjoyed it. The aisles were definitely a bit tight and very packed, especially up in like the front third. There were groups of people who were just standing in the aisles between vendors talking--not looking at the vendors, not commenting on cosplay of other people they saw, just groups that came together, clogging the aisles. Heard others complaining about it as well while I was digging through boxes. Lots of good selections at the vendors, definitely a better proportion of comic vendors to others than I've seen at other cons. Personally, I felt a lot of the wall books were pretty overpriced (like, they were reflecting prices of a few months ago, and not how some have been dropping quite a bit lately...and some just seem oddly higher than I'd seen/been tracking recently). For me, that just meant nixing my hopes of picking up one or both of the last two X-Men keys I needed and instead, I just focused on random X-related stuff I saw and knocked another 8 books off my list for completing my UXM v1 run (will post my pickups in a bit once I take some pictures).

Great report! This show's been on my bucket list forever...one year I'll finally take the plunge and go (or at least, make the attempt to get tickets). Did anyone else see the sand sculptures (which were great!) and expect a Sandman marketing thing? Missed opportunity!

I'll be going, gonna be my first time there as well. Looking forward to it! Talked the wife into making a little weekend getaway out of it...though she wasn't able to find anything to do while I'm at the con on Saturday (we aren't staying at Mohegan Sun, so she can't use the pool there; it's still restricted to guests only from covid), so maybe she'll end up joining me at the show, who knows.

Omg I need this...they'll go perfect with my X-Men Dinnerware Set! Finally, I'd be able to start hosting again...

I'm in!

Sorry, meant to come back to this yesterday but work just kind of blew up. I was born over the weekend, so I'm a little torn between what was on the shelf already (first week in Sept) or what hit the shelves right after (second week), but am leaning more towards the first week. Mainly just the Marvel and DCs; I'm less interested in the indies. I checked out the Mike's Amazing World link and it looks like that could work, I just need to click through each book in that month to check the on sale date (it lists them on the individual book's page). Thanks for the help!

1984, September, first week

Hi all, Does anyone know of a site that lists what comics hit the shelves on a particular week years ago (like the 80s)? I've been tossing around the idea of a side goal of collecting all the books that hit the shelf the week I was born. I tried searching around online, but I couldn't find any lists/schedules older than 4ish years ago.

Congrats to the winners!

Same! This is going right into my "random X-Men stuff" collection.