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Delighted to have been able to treat myself to the all time classic 48. Here he is keeping his buddy company. !

Delighted to now own this and it’s my first major ( to me anyway ) key ! picked up for what I consider a real bargain price. fully complete, tight staples and good colours. Colour break creases and fair bit more but I’d be happy with anything 3 upwards to my untrained eye. thanks

I’m a big fan of Alex Ross and eagerly collected his hero / villain covers. He captures these fictional characters as though they’re actually living, breathing entities. Kirby though is a genius.

2.5 My personal grail this one and that’s exactly the type of condition that’s in my price range. Boy I wish I owned this one !

Saturday morning tends to be my comic time. Not specifically planned, just that’s how it tends to be. Im fortunate my 7 year old boy is at the age where he is obsessed with superhero’s so it’s something we do together. We get the comics out and play games such as ‘name the character’ of I’ll pull out 20 books and he attempts to put in order of value. Then we’ll read a few, education purposes of course !! If time allows we’ll head out to a LCS also so I can buy him stuff he likes outside of that it’s mostly me looking for deals on internet when I get random spare time.

Haha, yes I unashamedly do. in fact I’ve took it to an extreme and every time I open an old book, me and my 7 year old boy both sniff it at the same time, before saying in unison.. ”I get high of that s**t” weird but fun !!

I’m focussing on a run of ASM 1-375 of which I’ve 292 issues completed, I’m 78% done and that’s took me just under 2.5 years, although I still had a few issues from when I was a kid. As it stands I’ve 61 issues of the first 100 but none below issue 17, so thats where the time is going to take I imagine as my pockets aren’t that deep ! I’m 1 issue short (195) of completing 150-375 which hasn’t been too bad. as much as I’m desperate to complete, I keep telling myself it’s a marathon not a sprint ! If I was a gambling man I’d bet I probs won’t complete due to money reasons but you never know. I’m having s lot of fun trying !!

Great looking for .5. Particularly the ASM 1

Thanks, thought so. Likewise I’ve a couple of raws and didnt think they were automatically incomplete and .5. Cheers.

Is a detached cover classed as incomplete ??

Same, I enjoy a well positioned date stamp. Adds to the history for me.

My wallet is ultimately the deciding factor. it’s my major collecting goal to complete an ASM run of 1-375 of which I’m around three quarters done. I’ve sort of worked in stages. 300-375 I mostly bought on release so are all at least a 9.0. Buying back issues I set myself a rough target of issue.. 200 to 300 - 8 or above. 150 - 200 - 7 or above. 100- 150 - 6 or above but gladly go lower on likes of 121,122,129. 50-100 - 5 or above ( my issue 50 is more a 4 ) sub 50 and moving into the big keys it’s just about actually owning them. To me these are pieces of history so I don’t work on grade just a criteria. Firstly has to be complete and no loose pages ( though I don’t mind a cut out advert if it didn’t spoil story ). Mostly I’d gladly take anything on the big first appearances in single figures and 14.

A lot of that will be very achievable. I’m similar to yourself that I’m collecting 1-375, raw and at lower to mid grades ( certainly on the early issues ) I found collecting in stages easiest way to do it. I first completed 200-375. im now at same time doing 150-200 and only need 5 left to do so. im also doing 50-100 and need 11 issues. 1-50 is of course the most expensive and I’ve nothing yet below issue 17. issues 100-150 I’ve not properly started but do have keys such as 121 and 122 so couple of big ones ticked off. for a bit of fun I laid out my sub #100 just to ogle and admire. I love them but tinged with sadness at what I’m missing !!

Hate going first on these threads, but to my untrained eye it looks a decent copy ( better than mine anyway ) id say a 5.

An amazing achievement. Something I’d love to do myself. I’m currently doing asm 1-375 and I’ve 280 issues ticked off ( yep it’s the single issues I’m missing ) I’ll keep chipping away but I can only dream of your achievement. once I think I’ve took it as far as I can I’m going to collect FF Lee / Kirby run and Silver Surfer 1968 as I have issue 1 so rest doable. good luck with your choice