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This stuff BEGS to be multi-posted, Gino! Congrats and please post away Hexk, I beg for it to be multi-posted...

Wonder to blunder

Crossed my mind too...similar pattern with Flash and All-Flash too.

It's individual as to which point of demarcation you want to select, but I have found that in discussing runs with people, when I say that I have complete original runs of Avengers, Iron Man, and Defenders, people understand I mean 1-402, 1-332, 1-152. If anything, I have to clarify that with IM I just mean the self-titled series not TOS. I think the early Marvel reboots are a no man's land for many (though in fairness the Perez/Busiek effort was better than much of Avengers original run north of say 202. Past that only a couple isolated storylines stand out much.) I include the annuals and giant-sizes in my definition; no one asks if they are there. It's a process to define what's meaningful to oneself as a run to collect. As to selling, I don't think it's an impairment to to break them up. I think for larger ones they might be hard to find a buyer for. I mean, who the heck likes the Avengers enough to buy that whole run from me without already having many of the books?? Defenders, I'm guessing, is about as large a self-contained set as I could sell in one shot. I suppose someone who has none might be inclined to buy and read it. I have been on a kick of paring down the size of my collection and using proceeds/trades to acquire books I have always wanted that I never got. This has involved hunting down odd issues of many small runs to finish them off, then reading them end to end before releasing them. (Champions, Secret Society of Super Villains, Super Villain Team-up, West Coast Avengers, Freedom Fighters, etc) I will read the three larger runs end to end before making any decisions, but I have already traded a long box of Avengers-related books post-402 and haven't looked back. I reread a few beforehand is all. I can easily see myself cutting Avengers off north of 202 (basically 200, except those next 2 are a great little Ultron arc; the comic book version of an Avengers novelette from a Marvel Superheroes paperback from the late 70's) after seeing what it's like to read the serial epic as a serial epic. Then there's full sets that came within collections I acquired! These really stump me....I have the Spirit Warren and Kitchen Sink stuff and Jonah Hex from All-Star Western 10 thru Hex 1-18, plus a few later books. I'm reading, and I plan to release, but I still need a plan for those. Both are right at that size point (about a full magazine box) where someone might want them intact, but I'm not sure how to do it yet. I will probably walk them into the post office one day to figure out whether offering online is even an option (in terms of shipping).

Bucky gets it to Bucky (and Toro) about to get it

Soooo... You scored Deadman's first appearance, eh?

None yet

Does this thinly disguised romance book count for you guys? I adopted it today.

Awesome show so far! Bravo!

Picked this up today

Pretty happy to find this at all, let alone in this shape, today. None on census, one lower grade went cheap on eBay recently, one lower grade went in a lot on Heritage. Ogden Whitney and (I think) Bill Ward killing it inside! This is the first issue, as it changed over from Diary Loves. Wasn't on my radar but it needed a proper home.

Fun topic! Certainly in GA, lots of GGA, classic horror and crime are actively collected without necessarily the #1/1st app benefit. I do think some of the influential firsts of that era are undervalued compared to superhero keys (CDNP 22, Mad 1, etc) One could also pick and choose the best runs within full runs to collect, aside from keys and major first apps. (Eg - not just GL 76 but the whole O'Neil/Adams run, though there's a big first app within it), the Byrne/Claremont X-men, certain ASM story arcs such as the drug issues and 31-33 off the top of my head. There's also the Shooter/Perez Avengers era, which was completely overshadowed by the Byrne/Claremont X-men, but I actually preferred the Avengers run. So I guess I'm saying sub-runs are an option for those who neither want to chase full sets or expensive keys.

Maybe that's it...maybe my itchometer is turned up too high!

Phew! It's not just me....anytime the usual suspects haven't called me with anything new, I start driving more slowly, looking for places that might have old comics...trolling CL at night.... I tell myself that's the time to figure what I want to cull, to plan and prep a sales thread, but I look to scratch the itch instead. Even though I know the quiet spells end and something else turns up, and it's good to be ready....

Rats & bats to cats and dogs

I'm thinking 5.5, low side of mid-grade, still well worth grading for sale. (Lots of little stuff on FC; blunted lower left corner, color scuffs in upper left box, color breaks in green on right, thin color breaking line across very bottom, lots of spine tweaks that would be color breaks if not white) still well worth slabbing for sale as a major marvel key. Is Time to liquidation of the essence as well? If so, in short, I'd slab anything that's in DD1 weight class or above in most any collectible grade, and any other stuff that's pretty high grade. (If a Marvel Silver collection, for example, I'd go 9 or better at least). That said, this is fun and keep the grey area decision points coming! Good luck!

Fear 19/Man-Thing 1 is a terrific read...I kept waiting for Dr Strange to show up...

Or does anybody else get...I dunno ... A little ...itchy...when they don't add a book for a while?

Rope rats to cave, Bats

Productive farmland. (And a Cap 1 )

I agree with early bronze guys who said Black Widow and Grell's female Legionnaires, but no one else is calling out Shanna the She-Devil?????

When you get the credit memo in the mail, post it in "this week in your collection." I still have some from the 80's.

I'm not being cheap. A small stack of WF comics (non keys, not exceptional grade) just can't equal a barn full of parts. You would think he would take the cash and go focus on what he finds to be fun, but people can be strange

Torture me...I've been trying to get a non-collector in my area to part with a stack of WF from that very era (plus a few either side) for over a year now....he found them while cleaning out his parents' house, but he's a car guy and wants to parse the antique car parts that he found first...