Some More Marvel Additions

Last year I decided to start a new collection of comic books.  I enjoy super hero movies but never was a big reader of comics.  However I saw someone who decided to collect the Marvel comics from the month and year of their birth and thought that would be a great idea to dabble in comics.

Back in September, I shared my first 4 comics of the collection.  I added a couple during my blogging hiatus but this collection took a bit of a back seat until recently.  I decided to do some searching and quickly found this Captain America comic on eBay at what I thought was a solid price:

In this issue the Captain partners with The Falcon and I enjoy this artwork quite a bit.  Captain America looks to be in a pretty perilous situation but I suspect as I dive into this comic he will find his way out.

The shipping was a little pricey so I decided to see if this seller had any other of my needs at a good price and I was pleasantly surprised:

I can't say I am knowledgeable about the Inhumans but the Black Widow is quite familiar. I am looking forward to her movie which I believe will be an origin story.  The cover makes it seem like there may be two different stories going on, I guess I will find out soon.

I kept looking and found another:

This is a comic I am not familiar with, Creatures on the Loose!.  The Skull of Silence sounds like a formidable opponent.  This was the priciest comic of the lot but it was half of the price listed on this sleeve.

The luck continued as I searched the inventory:

Sgt. Fury sounds familiar but I don't know anything about His Howling Commandos.  One cool thing about this new collection is learning about new characters.

I was able to identify one more comic from this seller and it is a very familiar subject:

I am a big fan of the Fantastic Four.  I seem to remember a TV show with them when I was a kid and recall reading a couple of their comics.  I suspect this adventure against Megaman will be the first one I dive into.

This collection will end up running 22 comics deep and I feel pretty fortunate to have tracked down 5 from the best seller.  This purchase gets me over the half way point with 12 of the comics.  I set up some eBay saved searches to see if I can knock off some more.  I have already made a list of the DC comics from my birth month.  It is a much more diverse list of comics and longer at 47 comics.  I think I will focus on the Marvels for the time being then decide if I want to expand the collection.

Any of you have collections outside of the world of sports?

A New Non-Card and Non-Sports Mini Collection

I am well aware that I collect too many things and my wife is quick to remind me.  I must have a genetic mutation that encourages me to seek out different things to collect.  I usually just share my card and sports collecting here but I have also been a long time US Stamp collector and I also collect Sports books and books of a couple of my favorite authors.  My sports collecting will at times spread to magazines and other pieces of sports memorabilia as well.

I have given thought to but have yet to pursue collecting some items from some of my favorite pop culture genres, Star Wars and Super Heroes.  Well that changed a couple weeks back.  I was watching videos of You Tubers who had attended the National (living vicariously through them and drooling over their purchases) and ran across a guy that had a unique collection hanging on the wall of his card room.  He had a copy of every Marvel comic from the month & year he was born.

I thought this would be a relatively small and achievable collection to go after and I am a big Marvel fan.  I did some searching and found out that there were 22 Marvel comics issues in March of 1971.  In looking through the list, they all aren't Super Hero Titles but the completionist in me decided to go after all 22.  I haven't searched out all of them yet but I don't think there are any crazy priced ones in the group.

As I started to search I had some decisions to make, mainly around the quality of the comics and whether or not I wanted them graded.  I decided to go after non-graded copies because I want a chance to read them and I am not buying them for investment purposes.  In looking at prices of the first few, I decided to seek out ones in solid but not great shape trying to avoid any paper loss and massive amounts of creasing that would detract from the beauty of the cover.

To date, I have picked up 4 comics and I thought I would share them here today:

 The first one I received was The Hulk.  Pretty cool cover with what looks like a dead Hulk floating through space.  I am guessing he finds a way to survive.

 The second comic I received as The Ringo Kid.  This is a title I hadn't heard of and is a Western themed comic. I am pretty interested in digging into this one.

The third one I received was this The Mighty Thor comic.  This looks like another cover that teases the death of a Super Hero.

Finally, my fourth and most recent acquisition was the The Avengers comic.  I love the artistry on this comic and it features four of the five Avengers, this is probably my favorite cover to date.

I plan on seeking out one or two new ones per month until I finish off the collection and haven't ruled out a DC comic run as a next collection yet.

Any of you out there comic collectors and if so any words of advice?