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I am not a grade or page quality hunter at all, but I generally don’t like writing on the cover or brittle pages. Since I’ve dipped my toes into the Golden Age, however, those things seem to be more prevalent. I made exceptions to both to add this beauty to my small Schomburg collection. The price was right and the colors on the cover were much better than others I’d seen.

What are things you won’t overlook and what’s the book or books that might get you to “look the other way”?

The night before infuriating the Speculation sub, I went on Heritage hoping once again to snag ASM 3(or 5 or 7) but they all went for more than I wanted to spend. Made a frustration bid for a pair of books at the end of the Spidey section one of which I already have. Needed the 39 but now I’m gonna have to figure out what to do with the other. One day the elusive, yet readily available ASM 3 will be mine.

As a side note, if you use gocollect, the sale price was entered for only ASM 38, so the 30 day average for a 3.5 is a touch inflated.

Found this beauty on comiclink tonight and absolutely had to have it. Annual 7 page 1 splash by Rick Burchett.

I recently won an auction for ASM 98 with a certified Romita sig without realizing that he wasn’t an artist on the book, though he is definitely associated with that particular storyline and the adjacent books. Not usually a signature guy and not sure why I bid, other than thought a Romita sig would be cool.

Signature collectors(or anyone for that matter), would something like this keep you from getting a book, or pay less? I’m probably going to get rid of it because it bugs me.

One stupid Spidey Opening weekend and all of a sudden y’all have lost your minds. Last nights Heritage closing bids were high, but this is nuts. 220 bucks for ASM 43 in 5.0? That’s 50% higher than FMV. Calm down people.

So I had found the perfect copy of ASM 3 to bid on a couple weeks ago. 4.0 but looked great, at that grade In the right price range, I was sure I would get it. Even willing to go a little higher than FMV. Long story short, didn’t get it, but grabbed this guy instead. Not my fave, but looks good for the grade. One more down for the full run.

Started collecting in 2021 after selling my previous collection 25 years ago. Seemingly trying to make up for lost time I have been feverishly buying books to try and “beat” my old collection. This is the last non ASM book on the list other than the big grails.

I do not collect Golden Age books as a rule, and this beauty is only the 2nd one in my collection.

It doesn’t appear too often on the auction block, especially in the range where price and condition both hit the sweet spot. It’s not a grail like #49, but it is easily my favorite Schomburg cover and has been near the top of the want list for awhile.

My main focus is completing ASM including AF15, but I don’t stay disciplined enough to not buy random books in the want queue. Anybody else suffer from this affliction?

While I’m still more than a couple issues from my full ASM run, I’m only one away from my micro goal of all the sinister six first appearances. Only Doc Ock to go.

I put the brakes on collecting at the start of the year except for LCS run fillers for ASM SpecSM and DD. Told myself I would hold out for ASM9 but couldn’t hold it in any longer. Wasn’t even drinking! Anybody else impulse buy like that? I blame this sub for showing me comics every day.

Two more books for my run, but way higher grades than I need for those issues.