alexanderjk Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 On 7/14/2019 at 4:41 PM, Daredevil73 said: daredevil vol 1 which has been challenging and expensive, just got a Cgc 4.0 #2, only keys I need are #1, and 131 and the very last issue and approx 20 other issues, so once I have done this very fulfilling, Bravo! This is what I'm working on at the moment as well, but I'm nowhere close to finishing it. I'm closing in on a complete 175-300. I already have a high-grade 131, so the only other key I'm missing is 168. Will slowly pick away at the rest, and plan on making my final buy a mid-grade raw #1 (I won't even consider slabbing any of these until I complete the set). Some truly impressive and humbling runs posted in this thread. My only other collecting goals: Iron Fist 1-15 and MP 15 (because I already have IF 14) G.I. Joe 1-50, 155 (I have all but four random numbers) Elementals (vol. 1) 1-29 and JM Annual (for nostalgia's sake) X-Men 1-94 and GSX (one can dream, right?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenosmilus Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 On 2/3/2018 at 10:30 AM, Jordysnordy said: I have completed: AF 15 and ASM 1 to present Conan Savage Sword of Conan Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man Marvel Team Up Iron Man I've been at this for 30+ years and it was hard pre- internet to find high grade raw copies. You "youngsters" have it easy with eBay and the many other auction sites You forgot Godzilla!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 AF15, ASM 1 to 700 What If V1, V2 Silver Surfer 1-18, V2, V3 Phantom Stranger (1952) 1-6 & V2 Lots of post 1980 series that all have been long liquidated. I still have the Phantom Stranger and What If Books with no intention to sell them. As for the others, they took up too much room and sold most of the non keys off. I’m nearly finished rebuilding AF15, ASM1-50, plus other keys. I’m also having fun just buying early Marvel SA appearances and trying to put mini runs together (Avengers 1-10). I don’t feel any huge pressure to finish them. I just pick away at them. mec3437, Krismusic and 1950's war comics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 1950's war comics Posted December 13, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2019 Atlas Battle 1-70 complete Atlas War Comics 1-48 complete and many other smaller Atlas and other company war titles... Ken Aldred, FoggyNelson, tv horror and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 10 hours ago, piper said: Phantom Stranger (1952) 1-6 FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsp99 Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Mainly esoteric GA runs for me.... Detective Picture Stories, Danger Trail, Negro Romance, Perfect Crime, CDNP 22-70, All Select, Atomic War, Dark Mysteries, Miss Fury, Fight 1-48, Rangers 1-35 Ken Aldred, Terry E. Gibbs and mec3437 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbone Posted December 16, 2019 Author Share Posted December 16, 2019 On 2/6/2018 at 6:35 PM, Artboy99 said: Planet Comics. Perhaps the run I am most proud of and that was arguably the hardest to complete. It took me several years. I utilized many online resources, and bought from CGC board members and bought at local comic shows and conventions. I sacrificed other books to be able to afford the books that eluded me ( Planet 15! ) There are not many members of the complete Planet Comics run club worldwide. I was trying to stick to 5.0 and above for copies. Other than a handful I attained that goal ( always room to upgrade which I am slowly doing ). I completed lots of runs over my years collecting comics: Spider-man including AF15, Hulk including Tales to Astonish and all of his appearances, Conan both Marvel and Dark Horse, Savage Sword of Conan. Silver Surfer 1-18, etc, but I think the Planet run is the hardest run I have completed. Awesome run ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbsturgeon Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 all of my things have been newer series like ultimate spiderman, batman new 52, and the largest was wolverine vol 1, 2 and 3. I tried buying them in large lots as much as possible, but was buying new issues as they came out somewhat too. I don't have any of those now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serling1978 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) I don't know how I've never seen this thread before. Runs are my life. Most of the below were slowly built over roughly 5-11 years. Tomb of Dracula was the only one i bought in a complete run and that was just because i came across a good deal on ebay a couple years ago. For the main titles i typically stop collecting around the 1990's because that's just when things become less nostalgic for me. The large runs of mostly main titles in my collection: Amazing Spiderman #1-#400. X-Men #1- #317. Including GSX1 and 2 Avengers #1-#400. Including all Annuals up til 1994 Hulk #1-6 (vol 1) Hulk #102-#320 (vol 2) Tales of Supsense #39-65 Iron Man #1-#300 Conan the Barbarian #1-#220 Savage Sword of Conan #1-#150 Spectacular Spiderman #1-#137 X-Factor #1-50 something... i should look into finishing this one Web Of #1-50 something... see above. The complete runs in my collection: Defenders Captain Marvel including the Death of novel Tomb of Dracula Nova What If (vol 1) Marvel Team Up Luke Cage/Powerman Master of Kung Fu Rom The Invaders (vol 1) The Champions Kull the Conqueror (vol 1) Warlock including pre and post Starlin as well as the Warlock Strange Tales issues Edited May 12, 2020 by serling1978 forgot to add a couple series! Ken Aldred, mec3437, piper and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mec3437 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) Complete runs: Alpha Flight v1 + annuals Excalibur v1 +annuals GI Joe (Marvel) Transformers (Marvel/Dreamwave/IDW) Wolverine v2 + annuals New Mutants v1 + annuals X-Force v1 + annuals X-Factor v1 + annuals (Uncanny) X-Men v1 + annuals X-Men/New X-Men/Legacy/X-Men + annuals X-Men Unlimited v1 Punisher multiple volumes including Marvel Knights & Max series Punisher War Journal v1 & 2 Punisher War Zone v1 Dazzler The Thing Star Wars (2015 series) Darth Vader v1 and 2 Doctor Aphra I think that is it. Currently working on Canadian price variant runs of Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, Punisher, and Transformers. Also working on X-Men UK price variant run. Edit: I didn't add in the tons of mini series from the 1980s-2000s or short run indy series (ie. Human Torch 1-8, Drifter, Invisible Republic, etc.) Edited May 12, 2020 by mec3437 serling1978 and Ken Aldred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 2 hours ago, serling1978 said: The complete runs in my collection: where are all the DC runs FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 51 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said: where are all the DC runs Didn't you know that DC Gold is great and DC Silver and Bronze is not? Terry E. Gibbs and 1950's war comics 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serling1978 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, 1950's war comics said: where are all the DC runs No ill will for DC , but i've just always been a Marvel guy . I did briefly flirt with mostly late Golden Age/early Silver Age DC when i first got back into collecting about 10 years ago, but i sold them all off to buy some other books that i wanted more. The one book I do miss was a blue label 6.0 Worlds Finest #4 that I had. 1950's war comics and piper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Silver Posted May 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 12, 2020 Someone say DC? Superboy Lois Lane Jimmy Olsen Superman Family Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Eighty Page Giant A couple issues away from Superman 100-300 Action 250-414 Need a couple more issues for Adventure Comics 247-380 Couple more for World’s Finest 87-225 three issues away from a complete Brave and the Bold 24 issues away from a complete Sugar and Spike Bronze Age, tons Swamp Thing Demon Kamandi Tarzan Korak, Son of Tarzan Warlord etc... 😉 FoggyNelson, serling1978, Ken Aldred and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Silver said: Superboy Lois Lane Jimmy Olsen magnifique magnífico FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Silver said: 24 issues away from a complete Sugar and Spike Terry E. Gibbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Silver said: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 8 hours ago, 1950's war comics said: My Rudolph set is really nice....😉 1950's war comics and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) On 5/12/2020 at 10:31 AM, piper said: Didn't you know that DC Gold is great and DC Silver and Bronze is not? Thats not universally true. There are some great books from DC in both silver and bronze eras. Edited May 13, 2020 by Silver Terry E. Gibbs and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry E. Gibbs Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I am in Australia and collecting is, was a little harder. Back in 1982 we moved to a new home and when we investigated child care we found it next to this old shop, called "Nostalgia comics, or books" . I came back that weekend and could not believe such a place existed. Run by a panelologist, Roger Morrison who opened the shop on Saturdays. I had come back to comics the year before and had been trying to build a GL run from 160 back to when I had left. (After the Adams run) . That day I left with about 75% of books from 3# to about 38, which is when my run started. Roger ran a very small gym next door which I joined and after a few months he passed on a Hugh O'Kennon catalog. Prior to that he had been buying a few Flash for me. I remember him saying, There is a SC 4$ for $800 (NM) you should make him an offer. Well I missed that but built over the next 15 years a good Flash run including SC 8, SC 14 and Flash from 108 up with only a few holes. Surprisingly Tricksters first and second appearance. I stopped in the mid 90s and swore never to go back, as I had a few dealer issues. (not Hugh) . I kept buying and reading but I was done collecting (although my boxes kept growing). After the Flash TV show, I decided to finish it. So my runs are Flash SC4 to 350 (and at one time all the Barry Allen issues after that) My greatest Adventure 80 to Doom Patrol 124, finished in mid 90s, Legion Super Heroes Adventure 247 right through Adventure 380, the Action issues, the Superboy issues before they changed the title, the Giffen issues, the Archie legion, Wades run Shooters run, the New 52 , a soap opera hard to break away from. This was finished late 80s Funny thing with the Flash books my collecting started at about the time we had a major business jump and my wife basically said, I could take the books as my reward for not retiring. My first SC4 was just 13 pages from the book, Centre wrap and one other page missing, but then followed by a purple 5.0 minor color touch and small glue on spine, and then a 4.5 last year and my SC13 is worse. Started as a 1.8 purple (my first slab), then a reader with no back cover, then a 6.0 from mycomic shop, then a beautiful 8.5, the a 7.5 in case I need the money sunk in that 8.5 one day. All makes perfect sense to me. Now that has finished I started chasing Flash art. and although I now have a couple of SC22s I never finished that GL run. Think I am missing 7, and just don't like the cover. Other cool thing with Roger, after he considered you a serious fan, a guy who would chase the books in the US, on a quiet Saturday he would bring out his old Tec comics to show you and let you look through. Roger had from Tec 27 on,plus Action 1, more fun 52, All star 3, 8 etc. Not locked away. After all, they were meant to be enjoyed. An amazing guy, and great mentor. bc, 1950's war comics and Ken Aldred 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
