u/Sugar_Crash_Brigade

Here are some of my favourite books. And they are my favourite, for so many different reasons.

Mostly I loved reading them. But there's more to it than that. I've realized though that, when I try to organize my collection, I look crazy.

There is no way that anyone, other than myself, looking at how I organize these books, would ever make sense to them.

Yes, I do have some reads collected together, but then I collect by artist? Or, I have other books of the same story, over there somewhere, in a different box... I've organized some by year, as a whole, like it's a museum, there's raw signed books mixed with non-signed.

I am a mess!

What happened August 4th, 2025?

This is a 10 year graph, which shows steady, consistent, albeit boring, activity.

Then August 4th 2025 was Day Zero, of a 9 month rollercoaster.

These past 9 months do not make sense. All of a sudden?

All of a sudden, the world woke up and realized how import silver is? Come on...

Historically... this is a huge red flag. Thoughts?

I wanted to post here to see if I could get any more traction on the tracker I created a few years ago.

Back in 2023, I was obsessed with the Marvel Comics Presents #72, specifically the CGC 9.8 SS (Signature Series). Mainly, There are a lot of Universal Grade 9.8s, but at the time I made this post (found originally on CGC's Chat Forum), there were only 19 SS books! So I wanted to know, what were the signed books? How rare is rare.

It turned out, pretty rare.

These were my findings:

Submission: Marvel Comics Presents #72 CGC 9.8 SS
Total Census Count: 19 (as of November 29, 2023)
Serial Numbers Found: 12
Serial Numbers List:
0958841001 - signed Barry Windsor-Smith
0958841002 - signed Barry Windsor-Smith
0993676007 - signed Barry Windsor-Smith
0993676008 - signed Barry Windsor-Smith
1008501002 - signed Barry Windsor-Smith
1008501003 - signed Barry Windsor-Smith
1318940011 - signed Stan Lee & Herb Trimpe
0216214010 - signed Stan Lee
1331997003 - signed Stan Lee
1330643004 - signed Stan Lee
1019794012 - dead number (was signed Stan Lee)
1063796003 - signed Hugh Jackman

So, from that list, I was missing 7.

Now there are 26.

So I am missing 14. But I do know that since 2023, Stan Lee and Barry Windsor-Smith haven't done more signings, so I am going to bet these are Chris Claremont, and potentially more Hugh Jackman signings?

And I love it!

I am obviously on a Maple kick.

I bought the Grand Maple, but the Maple Tree of Life was always in my sights.

Now they are joined, at last. Next up, the Ultra-High Relief! I can't decide on the OG or rose gold...

Any other 5oz I should keep a look out for? There's the Matthew...

I know this isn’t a big deal, or that big of an accomplishment, but I’ve been trying to get all of these, in uncirculated condition, at a fair price.

And to be fair, I have been buying… other things, but this was important to me.

When I first switched hobbies and collections, this was literally the first thing I wanted to get, all the Scenes of Canada notes that I grew up with... that weren’t all bent to hell.

So where to go from here? Now I’m going for all Devil Face notes? but those are so expensive. It will take me a long time to get those.

As well as the 1935 series. ultra expensive.

Any other bank releases etc I can look into is great. I just got the $100 note from 1937, but the series suffers from the same as the 1954 notes, with all same faces