This has taken me a lot longer than I expected.
I got the scenery series quickly ('79), but I actually started with the Devil's Face notes, and they are hard to get without spending crazy cash. and I want the '37 series, but also expensive. Ugh.
The '35s are going to kill me.
Then it will be the pre-35s after I get all of these. See you next year? lmao
I don't normally like to send over links to youtube videos, but I stumbled upon this today, and thought it brought a very real, very interesting take on Weapon X that I think true fans of the story would appreciate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6tfzd3yUs4
Please keep in mind this is a very real, very adult content specific view, but it's grounded, it's real, and I think it brings the material to an important height.
I know this is a bit personal, and others will not see this the same way as I do.
I am sure that a few of my collecting mistakes will ruffle a few feathers because others won’t see these as mistakes at all!
But here goes…
Getting books signed and not getting them submitted for SS CGC books. Keeping signed books in raw form was throwing away money. I wish I never did it. Selling signed raws was one of the most painful experiences in my life.
On the flip side of that, I would also think that every book in my collection had to be graded. Omg what another waste of money.
This one is tough because I love the hobby for a reason. But selling books individually is an insane time waster. And if you sell them in bulk, kiss your money goodbye. I wish I kept my collection down to a 100 books, tops.
I want to be clear. Anything. And I do mean anything, that I have purchased at cons, was cheaper, somewhere else. I’m talking comics, toys, clothes, whatever.
Self explanatory
I thought, when it was released... ah, this is expensive.
I can wait...
and then they kept selling...
and then they kind of all, dried up! Then I got worried. I'm not going to find a mint condition copy now.
I missed out!
Well, one dropped, and i snagged it. I wanted this specific version, no foil, no trade dress.
And she is as beautiful as I expected.
Wow, this game is a total dumpster fire. I can’t believe they did all these things.
Don’t you just wish they did all these other things instead?
I hate this and that and that and this. This game is awful. Two thumbs and two big toes waaay down.
I mean, I haven’t played it yet, but just going on what I saw online and I can already tell this game is going to suck. Even though it looks wicked and everything I could ask for, there’s still going to be all this stuff I’ll complain about. Especially since I haven’t even played it yet.
Okay seriously, internet culture has hit new levels of toxicity. The amount of complaining this game has been getting is ridiculous.
It looks literally perfect and yet, we are all inundated with posts ragging on a game that hasn’t even released yet.
I say BOO to you, armchair critic. For shame.
So in my old age, I have found myself in love with finding unicorns. I don't know why, but it's a thing for me. On that topic, I have been looking to find this unicorn.
It is the X-Men 25, Black and White (sketch) Retailer Incentive Variant WITH Nooooo Hologram. I am curious if anyone has or knows of the one where the hologram is missing.
This is one of those books that I am just in awe over.
I'd be curious if many people knew that this existed!
But I've wanted one for years.
Specifically, X-Men 25, The Black and White Retailer Variant, in Near Mint condition.
I've always wanted one in near mint, without paying the actual CGC 9.8 near mint pricing.
There have been many raw books on ebay over the past few years but they've either been too high or they will have a very obvious flaw to them.
I am happy to report however, that my copy, is pristine. It's just nice to hold the raw copy in my hands. Oddly enough, as I have bought a few copies of these over the years that were less than ideal... a lot of them tend to 'yellow'... the white, of the 'black and white' sketch, isn't all that white.
I know it's of the dreaded hologram era, but man I love this book. Wolvie, my favourite, gets owned lol
When I am in love with a book, I can't seem to stop.
This isn't the only book I have multiples of, but I don't have many comics either.
What is it with this obsession of having so many of the same book?
At the time of this post, which still shows 6 days left… this blank is already at $900 with OPEN BIDS.
WHY??
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