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RE: Speculating on Comics 02.06.2019
I never really knew about variant covers much growing up. When I discovered them, I was practically drooling over some of them. They'll really make you wanna spend whatever it takes to get one sometimes. They'll also extremely disappoint you when you think you have the variant cover worth a ton, and then it turns out, no, there's a slight difference, and your's isn't worth much of anything.
I was clueless too; I started my older collection in the late 1980's and early 1990's like most people my age once the Batman movie broke out. I just read the books I got, didn't think much from a collector standpoint, and even gave away my ASM 300 without much thought to a friend to read.
I knew nothing about variants either; this past year I thought I'd start getting Batgirl comics for my (redheaded) daughter, and discovered all these wonderful Artgerm, Hughes, and Middleton variants fetching some extraordinary sums on eBay (extraordinary for me anyway, to see a $3.99 less than a year old book go for $80 today). My thinking is really two things perhaps I'd like to explore this year :
a) attempt to pick a "hot" book up at my LCS and sell it on eBay
b) keep the cost of the book and use any margin to save for more expensive books like Batgirl 23 for my daughter
That was my thinking originally,but haven't followed through yet. Ideally, if I could sell books on an open market to people who want them, make a bit, and save up for a Swamp Thing ! or Batgirl first appearance down the road, I'd be ok with it to build up a "hobby" budget. Yet who knows? It takes a bit of work, and my LCS doesn't have the largest inventory on Weds, so the plan may not work for me.
And by the way: Tom King isn't the author this week on Bats...looks like it is Joshua Williamson. Error!
You said you are working on completing sets right now - which set are you focusing on finishing up? My current task is indeed the Middleton Batgirls...
Just random things in my collection. Some old X-Factor from when I was a kid I never got around to filling in. Thinking about selling them once I complete the numbers. Strong Man kinda ruins them, even if I like some of the other characters.
Some X-Men from the same era.
Um...got one book I'm missing I think in the Cloak and Dagger 4 book series from the 80's.
Was thinking about starting collecting Deadpool. Always liked him, but just never ended up picking up his comics for some reason. Wait, that's not true. I got him in some other comics, like X-Force...which I also am missing a couple of to have a full number series from 1 to whatever.
Oh...there's also a few issues of Captain America from the 70's I'm missing. Boy, those are horrible. Like seriously, those comics will make you wonder why he's so popular. But he does have a motorcycle.
Basically just a lot of random comics that I just never got around to getting because I tend to forget to fill out the collection until I randomly stumble upon it.
I'm also planning on getting the whole Death of Superman arc. It's probably never going to be worth much, because so many collected it and bought the books...but I liked the story, and there's a ton of the books around. I've managed to pick up a lot of them so far in very excellent condition. Some perhaps Near Mint even, though there's probably some flaw I'm overlooking. All of them so far I've gotten at great deals. So just slowly gathering it up.
There was this mini-series with Robin from the 90's that I somehow am missing just one book from. I could have sworn I had it.
Most of the things just really I don't have a priority to collect. What I do end up collecting in some ways is sort of chosen by fate. I find some book for a nice price that looks interesting and try to get the series.