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Focus? Whats yours?

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dekeuk

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I must have every issue of every Bat title in CGC 9.8 from the 1975 to 1983 era (the ones I read as a kid)

 

This includes:

 

Batman

Detective

Batman Family

Brave & Bold

World's Finest

Joker

Man-Bat

Dynamic Classics

and any other title where Batman guest starred on the cover

 

so far I've got about 40 books

 

and I might add JLA to that list once I get all of the above

 

ps - sell me your Bats 9.8's from this era. whatcha got?

 

 

 

 

 

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Lee K

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I'll go 8.5 - 9.4, I try to stick to 9.0 + 9.2. I'm sure when I get near completion I will find that I have compromised - probably on some of the more outrageously priced keys...I don't know about 9.6's I feel like the market breaks down a little too much there and value becomes unpredictable.

Really after years of buying raw books at conventions and swap meets and the like, I find that most of the books that I considered clean copies when I bought them are 8's & 8.5's - so I am more interested in how the book appears to me. I guesss somewhere under the surface I am still a subjective collector.

 

L

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Old Fashion PB and J

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I must have every issue of every Bat title in CGC 9.8 from the 1975 to 1983 era (the ones I read as a kid)

 

This includes:

 

Batman

Detective

Batman Family

Brave & Bold

World's Finest

Joker

Man-Bat

Dynamic Classics

and any other title where Batman guest starred on the cover

 

so far I've got about 40 books

 

and I might add JLA to that list once I get all of the above

 

ps - sell me your Bats 9.8's from this era. whatcha got?

 

 

 

 

 

Ill be submitting a few Bat books from the early CA should be 9.8's :whistle:

 

The Tec's are mine :devil:

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I'll go 8.5 - 9.4, I try to stick to 9.0 + 9.2. I'm sure when I get near completion I will find that I have compromised - probably on some of the more outrageously priced keys...I don't know about 9.6's I feel like the market breaks down a little too much there and value becomes unpredictable.

Really after years of buying raw books at conventions and swap meets and the like, I find that most of the books that I considered clean copies when I bought them are 8's & 8.5's - so I am more interested in how the book appears to me. I guesss somewhere under the surface I am still a subjective collector.

 

L

 

I am no condition conscious collector but eye-appeal has always been more important to me than true condition so some 8.5's look as good as some 9.2's. Some of my books have back cover defects and I like to buy those.

 

Good luck with your quest. (thumbs u

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Old Fashion PB and J

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Here's mine:

The X-men. All raw, only 73 issues to go... :cloud9:

All Punisher appearances, ever! :headbang:

Anything Garth Ennis has written. (worship)

 

Ennis is good. I actually have alot of his books going up for sale. I know shameless plug.

 

But seriously, his punisher was just the way Frank Castle was meant to be (worship)

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I'll go 8.5 - 9.4, I try to stick to 9.0 + 9.2. I'm sure when I get near completion I will find that I have compromised - probably on some of the more outrageously priced keys...I don't know about 9.6's I feel like the market breaks down a little too much there and value becomes unpredictable.

Really after years of buying raw books at conventions and swap meets and the like, I find that most of the books that I considered clean copies when I bought them are 8's & 8.5's - so I am more interested in how the book appears to me. I guesss somewhere under the surface I am still a subjective collector.

 

L

 

I am no condition conscious collector but eye-appeal has always been more important to me than true condition so some 8.5's look as good as some 9.2's. Some of my books have back cover defects and I like to buy those.

 

Good luck with your quest. (thumbs u

Atom Age comics with chunks out of the bc rule :headbang:
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40sJohn

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My collection focus for the last year or so has been focusing on comics I read as a young kid in the early - mid 70s, so the list starts there.

 

1. DC 20 cent covers, especially Superhero but would like to have all titles. Target grade is 8.0 - 9.0.

 

2. DC Neal Adams books - especially Batman - Tec issues. Target 7.0 - 9.0

 

3. Master Comics with Raboy covers. I do not own one yet as I missed a few in 2008; however, this is the year! Target grade = whatever is affordable with tight staples and decent cover appeal.

 

4. Impulse buys - can't avoid 'em

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Limited66

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HG Vault of Horrors and secondarily other ECs

 

But I don't really have focus, also want GA Caps, a few more Actions, at least one Tec and Adventure. The Timely MMs are awesome.

 

Pre-code horror in general.

 

SA early X-men.

 

I don't know focus seems overrated. I'd rather have some eclectic bad- mess.

 

Once I start making some money this year and start having to choose between books, I get a little more focus.

 

 

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Guardian Comics

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I'm the king of focus, I only buy comics that have a date written in pen on the cover. The problem with focus is the fact that it an be limiting and therefore frustrating. There is not a single day that has gone by in the last month that I haven't thought about selling it all and buying only GA Timelys, but I'm a:) chicken b:) realize that if I got bored with Gold there is nothing left for me in this hobby and c:) the grass ain't always greener on the other side.

 

Jim

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