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Are you a sheep collector ?

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DarkKnightReturns

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The infinite picture frame thread discussion has made me wonder how others collect.

 

Are you the type that follows the crowd chasing the hot book of the month ?

 

Did you start collecting Thors because there is a movie coming ?

 

Did you try to buy up tons of Ghost Riders before the movie was released ? maybe Jonah Hex's ?

 

Or are you a trail blazer like JC who finds the stuff thats not hot and collects it until the masses start chasing it and moves on ?

 

What are the cool books/titles/niches to have right now ?

 

What are the best buys that trail blazers like JC are buying ?

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I don't follow the hot books. I generally wait for them to be around for a while to see if it's worth reading. I'm now getting around to Walking Dead now that a good number of trades are available pretty cheap. I'll likely read Invincible next.

 

I'm impatient, when it comes to books or TV shows. I don't watch seasons as they progress, I just wait until the DVD set is out. I've got no problem waiting as long as I don't start the story. I won't look at Cursed Pirate Girl, Chew, Morning Glories, or Skullkickers until a few trades are available. I've never been good at the speculating game.

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I've collected a little of everything. I'm guilty of jumping on bandwagons but I also have my core loves which don't change much.

 

I happen to really like late 30's and early 40's GA Superhero stuff. To me that stuff is ground zero for comics.

 

Then I also love SA Marvels because those were the unattainable books as I was growing up (GA hadn't been exposed to me yet).

 

BA stuff because of my teenage years as that is what I bought off the newsstand.

 

 

 

 

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"Did you try to buy up tons of Ghost Riders before the movie was released ? "

 

I liked the 1990 ghost rider series- when #1 of that book came out, my LCS put out a stack of marvel spotlight 5 (all real high grade) for like $1.00 a piece.

 

I picked up a couple for the heck of it.

 

I kindah find that hard to believe as #5 was broken out for a long time, but admittedly I was out of comic collecting in 1990, so what the heck do I know. More irrational things have happened. It wasn't a $1 book in 1984. Though I did pick up a copy for $2 in 1994, but it wasn't high grade.

 

The premise of this post is a bit insulting, unless you're just trying to be tongue in cheek to give JC a ribbing. Yeah, I was a sheep, I hit the 50 cent boxes hard in the 18 months before the GR movie and bought up a ton of GRs. I sold a ton of them too in lots (or individually for HG copies) at 4-10X what I paid (though I apparently misplaced a magazine box worth of them...so I still have those). A year before that I was buying Marvel Spotlight lots from kochcom figuring the books had hope, paying about $1.50 each for sharp copies of the GR spotlight books (sans #5) and sold them at the peak for $15-$35 each. so yeah, i'm a sheep. But a cheap sheep.

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I actually don't like when the stuff I want is popular, because then it's harder for me to get :P

 

Most of what I like is considered drek by others, and even when it isn't it still isn't terribly valuable, I just don't like spending $5-$10 per issue on stuff.

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"Did you try to buy up tons of Ghost Riders before the movie was released ? "

 

I liked the 1990 ghost rider series- when #1 of that book came out, my LCS put out a stack of marvel spotlight 5 (all real high grade) for like $1.00 a piece.

 

I picked up a couple for the heck of it.

 

I kindah find that hard to believe as #5 was broken out for a long time, but admittedly I was out of comic collecting in 1990, so what the heck do I know. More irrational things have happened. It wasn't a $1 book in 1984. Though I did pick up a copy for $2 in 1994, but it wasn't high grade.

 

The premise of this post is a bit insulting, unless you're just trying to be tongue in cheek to give JC a ribbing. Yeah, I was a sheep, I hit the 50 cent boxes hard in the 18 months before the GR movie and bought up a ton of GRs. I sold a ton of them too in lots (or individually for HG copies) at 4-10X what I paid (though I apparently misplaced a magazine box worth of them...so I still have those). A year before that I was buying Marvel Spotlight lots from kochcom figuring the books had hope, paying about $1.50 each for sharp copies of the GR spotlight books (sans #5) and sold them at the peak for $15-$35 each. so yeah, i'm a sheep. But a cheap sheep.

Yeah a little. But I really am curious what people consider the best buys right now. Not the hot stuff, Thor, Avengers, Green Lantern, Archie :insane:, Picture frames according to JC but the stuff that will be hot.
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Are you the type that follows the crowd chasing the hot book of the month ?

 

You tell me. I collect Police Comics and Plastic Man (shrug)

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