While I was pleased as punch to finally have a copy of the book, it didn't feel like I thought it would to bring it home. Check out the image below of the newest addition to my personal collection:Ĭover image of Avengers # 9 from the collection of Mike Avila. The book is gorgeous, and when I pulled it out of the priority mail box it arrived in, I was quite giddy. It arrived in rapid fashion, perfectly shipped thanks to this very careful eBay seller. I negotiated a bit with the seller, agreed on his counter to my counter, and bought the comic.
the comic I've been searching for, and a pretty nice copy at that. However, the show was overall a success and I flew home mostly satisfied - but the night I returned home, I made the mistake of going down the eBay rabbit hole.
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Didn't see one copy, and this was a show full of rare comics. Except, I had no luck finding a copy of Avengers #9 at the show. But I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, and given my affinity for this particular book, I decided not to cheat and go after one of the copies on eBay. Now I may be old-school, but I have no problem using eBay to fill some holes in my collection. I have always told friends that that book was my comic book Holy Grail. I wanted, nay, I needed a nice, glossy copy of this book. Because I'm such a big fan of Wondy's, I've always resisted buying one of the low-grade copies I've seen at other conventions. A near-perfect superhero design by artists Jack Kirby (who drew the cover) and Don Heck (he penciled the interior story), it's been a fascination of mine for years. He made the safari jacket cool, but his original costume, the one on the cover of his first appearance, is even better. The man is a fictional national treasure. Don't bother coming at me with anti-Wondy foolishness. Of course I'm talking about Simon Williams, aka Wonder Man. But that 1964 book is special to me because it marks the debut of one of my favorite Avengers, and the superhero who has more sartorial fabulousness than any hero in history. I have owned and still own comics that are much more "important" and certainly more valuable than that early Avengers issue. Of course, as with any show I attend, the top book on my list is always Avengers #9. I found a nice mid-grade Silver Age Hawkman #1 that I've wanted for quite awhile, along with an Uncanny X-Men #130 (first appearance of Dazzler) and a killer copy of Saga #1, first printing. Which is why I spent my time at the Greenville show digging through comic long boxes to check off some books on my want list. I have a modest but well-curated collection of books, some of which are considered "key" comics, as well as books that hold great nostalgic appeal (like Treasury Comics!). While I'm mainly an art collector these days, because I clearly hate having money in my pockets, I still collect comics. I've been thinking about this a lot since my recent trip to the SC Comic Con in Greenville, South Carolina. I'm sure collectors who focus on comics or action figures have to make the same adjustments as certain realities of life come into play.Ĭredit: Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images That will happily occupy a place in my collection. Thankfully, Byrne's catalog is full of awesomeness, so I was able to recently pick up my first JB original, a half-splash from Alpha Flight #17. Since the rent is too damn high in Byrne X-Men-landia and I can't compete with deep-pocketed Byrne collectors like Rob Liefeld, I downshifted my interests. except those pages are now way out of my price range. And a Byrne X-Men page inked by Terry Austin would be an ultimate collecting goal. I'm a huge John Byrne fan, as anyone familiar with Behind the Panel knows.
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Sometimes, you have to adjust your definition of a Holy Grail because it lives in a zip code you can't afford. How you define what a Grail is depends on the type of collector you are and by how much you're willing (and able) to spend to acquire it. In the wonderfully weird comic art collecting world, art fiends like myself refer to the page of art that we treasure the most as "the Holy Grail." That's the panel page, splash, or cover we'll supposedly mortgage our home and auction off a kidney for to add to our collection.
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