Hepcat

Here's a pic of The MAN bringing some of my slot cars over to me so that I can make sure they're still up to my ever more exacting quality standards:

I like that one! (thumbs u

Here are a few more of my model kits: I have to watch Balticboy closely because he's always wanting to build the kits. "You only build reissues, not the originals!" is what I keep telling him.

Actually I suspect you already knew how to determine the condition of a comic. What you may have learned is the criteria that CGC uses to award a numerical grade to comics.

More of the Sgt. Fury than the Nick Fury, but admittedly I read those when they first came out in the sixties.

Somehow I doubt it. Here's why: That's why my progress for the last twenty years has been three steps forward, two steps back. Moreover, my collecting activities have kept octopussing. Don't blame the message boards. It happens to most collectors anyway so I doubt very much that you yourself are immune from the syndrome.

I like the Nick Fury, Agent of Shield title with the fabulous Jim Steranko artwork. It's Fury's earlier incarnation as Sgt. Fury I find intolerable.

Boss book! Now those are real heroes! (thumbs u

The Millie titles look better and better to me all the time. I might be forced to start collecting them.

You always wanted to meet Batgirl?

So? I started in 1979 and I'm not finished either. And with the price of the Showcase issues, I might never be finished.

You should send it out to be slabbed. I have no doubt that CGC would find a category for it. Twould also be the best known copy.

Cool! What's behind the unopened large folding door on the left in the top pic? More comic boxes? Is the door on the left hand side an exit door or another closet? Is more comic related material behind the closed doors of the cabinet in the bottom pic?

Here I am admiring some of my Revell "Big Daddy" Roth model kits:

Those are 1958-59 hockey cards though. Buffalo Sabres didn't start to appear until the 1970-71 issue! Here are some of my Aurora model kits featuring licenced comic book and TV characters:

Here I am with some of my Aurora model kits:

I'm very deep into the issues that came out in the 1957-1964 period including the hockey coins and the York Peanut butter cards. I also have a major presence in the hockey cards issued in the 1965-1972 period. One of these days I have to find the wherewithal (and finances) to start pecking away at the Chex cards and Beehive photos. I'll probably limit myself in the Beehives to the Montreal Maroons and the woodgrain series though. Modern hockey cards from 1992 to the present I've collected only sporadically. I've only picked up the issues or specifically chase cards I've found most compelling on the basis of aesthetic design. I lean toward gaudy. Nonetheless, I still have about eight binders of these modern hockey cards since there are so many of them. Here are a couple of examples of modern cards from 2003-04 that I just added to my collection:

Games over thirty years old are typically not shrink wrapped so opening them is no problem. I look for games in which any cardboard tokens, markers, playing pieces, etc. have not been punched out of the sheet. Here are a few shots of miscellaneous cool items before I move on to my model kits:

Yes. A technique to help contain the growth of my nevertheless burgeoning collection. You're part right. The pieces are moved to the closest space of the colour spun, but the objective of the game is to collect three pieces of food from under Tom's watchful eye. Tom can be strategically placed by lucky players to make it more difficult for other players to collect the food.

Here are my wallets including two of the Standard Plastics monster wallets that came out in 1964 or so: Unfortunately I don't have the Wolfman-Creature one that I earned for selling fifteen newspapers one Saturday morning in the spring of 1964. I had to sell one to my father and buy two of the papers myself to earn the prize but it was worth it! And here I am with some of my Kenner Presto Sparkle Paint Sets:

Hake's Auctions and Ebay have been my two main sources but not surprisingly games in unused condition just don't show up that often.

Here I am watching Balticboy get out the dice for a round of board games. I have to watch him closely to make sure he's not substituting loaded dice. He's like that. This gorgeous Man from UNCLE game just arrived on Friday: I had to rearrange the shelf containing my board games slightly to make room for it:

The stereo is in a different room than my comics, which are fortunately readily portable. Here are a few more items in my comic room. First is a signed and numbered Neal Adams print: Here is a reproduction of a Vampirella cover done in chalk by a local Toronto artist that I purchased at a comic con in 1983 or so: Here is the original movie poster artwork for the 1972 rerelease of the "Song of the South": Finally, here's a stained glass window of Brer Fox and Flower that I commissioned for the door between my comic room and the upper porch:

I'd be there already if I did! I have neither of those two items. Toys even higher on my list of priorities are a Mad, Mad, Mad Scientist Laboratory, King Zor, Odd Ogg, the Ideal Haunted House Game and the Hamilton's Invaders sets.

Well I already have a shot of the Terrytoons game in inventory: That and the Casper game gave me the inspiration to pick up more board games.