SuperBird

Yeah Legos were the one thing that came to mind, but people already collect them mint-in-box, believe it or not.

So much of what kids are into is digital, I'm hard pressed to think of a single physical thing they even interact with apart from hardware.

He has OA and commissions available on his website, steverude.com

Here is Church and State volumes 1 and 2, the high point of Cerebus in the COPPER AGE.

I hope you gave him the sumo emoji! I have no clue what forum it goes in. Cerebus as a whole was at its best in the copper years, and this is a "Cerebus the series" thread, so I figured it was fine here.

No.

I am now 1/3 in the club. My scanner is picking up all kinds of minor scuffs on the outer case which aren't noticeable IRL. C'est la vie.

There is apparently no Cerebus appreciation thread? So let's kick one off with my shiny new copy. I started reading Cerebus with issue 63, a weird one to start with, for sure, but it got me hooked. From then until issue 200, Cerebus was my favorite comic. I scoured local small shows to find all the issues I was missing. irregardless of condition, until I had the full set... barring number 1. I was too cheap at the time to pick up an authentic #1, so was content with a counterfeit. Until last week!

I'm thrilled to share my extensive collection of "big boy" GA comics, starting with:

Hold: collected editions Sell: floppies

The guy could have bought the 9.4, submitted it to CGC's Eastman signing for $70, and saved himself $10,000. (and had a better book in the process)

I mean.. really?

The triumvirate!

Will do! I have a 2nd print TMNT 1, which... probably doesn't count. I've never owned an Albedo 2, though at one point I owned all the others. #2 was always crazy expensive (comparably), even back in the 80s, and I was never a big enough Usagi fan to justify it.

Gotta catch 'em all.

Catman 30 and 32! My 31 is lonely.

Liefeld won that one.

It's really shocking to me how Sim always planned to run for 300 issues, but later admitted he had no plans on what was going to happen after 200. Kudos to you for sticking it out. I think I made it as far as 265 or so, at which point it just went completely off the rails in terms of readability. Meanwhile, The Savage Dragon is still on track to beat Sim's record for longest running comic under 1 creator, now in the 250s...

My goal is to sell the last 2 shortboxes of raws I own, read a bunch of collected editions, and get a few pages of OA.

It was my favorite book up until 200 or so. I waffled for years on buying a #1, but couldn't justify it at the price, 20 years ago, of $500 or so. Then I was like you: "this seems like a poor investment, who will ever want this, etc.?" But, it's my favorite, I'll probably never sell it, it's going bananas the last 6 months, there are literally no other copies available at $2k or under (someone hoovered up all of them this year) and I currently have the funds, so...

I justified it by selling a bunch of other books, so in my mind, IT'S JUSTIFIED.