Long-time lurker and first time post here on the boards. I've been a serious collector since the early-90s... had a solid collection of DC Silver and Bronze up to the early 2000s, as well as X-books from the early 80s and up. I sold much of my DCs and key books 20 years ago as I was about to start grad school. I've kept a subscription box at the LCS continuously since then - but always keen on selling complete runs of Modern Age once I'm done reading.
Enter the Pandemic last year, when I - along with many others - decided to revisit my collection and completed the holes in my X-Men 94-141 run in high grade. Finished that task, and now my other main interest these days is early Golden Age anthology superhero books - mostly DC for now, but I'll dabble in other publishers at some point.
I feel like since I've had this previous life as a Silver Age and Bronze Age key collector, I have an advantage of already having owned so many key books in the past - many of which I'm certainly priced out now... I liked them at one point, but they're not interesting to me anymore. Been there, done that. I still love the characters, but I'm certainly out of the Speculator game. So now, I just go for what I like - early GA books, in low to mid-grade, 2.0-6.0, preferably raw.
Cheers!
Per PM. Thanks!
