Loving me some Daredevil

Hi everyone, as a few of the posts I have read already I'm launching back into comics and collecting them in a way that I never did before. Comics were a welcome escape while growing up in a small farming community. Now I'm a few years from 40 and finding it welcoming to read through the books of my childhood. In what felt like forever I was a DC fan. When Hastings closed down I went from the dozen comics I had saved from my childhood, to about 400. They then sat on a shelf in my office for about a year and a half before I started reading them. In doing so I found that I was annoyed by jumping through and really wanted the whole story. Sadly I started with the red lanterns. This years tax return time, I found myself scanning evil bay to compete my run. And it wasn't till I reached the end of buying them one here one there that I found lots to be a better way of doing this. Sadly I think I paid about twice as much for the fillers then if I had just been patient and waited for a complete lot. But lessons learned. Now here we are 6 months later and my collection has swelled to 1500 comics. A huge injection was helped from a friend that yard sales every weekend and picks me up every comic book he finds. And I found a second hand store with about 700 comics that came out of a storage unit that I snatched up for $150. That leads us up to today and what I'm trying to complete.

A series I enjoyed earlier in life that I have started in on completing is the Daredevil series. My collection currently sits at 98 out of the first series. I have been trying to focus on the 1 through 100's right now and have 28 of them so far. I have been getting mostly 7.5 and ups. even scored two below 50 that are at 9.0 and up. Its been pricey which has made it a slow grind. Not to mention I refuse to pay more then they normally selling for. So I bid low and may get 1 or 2 out of 50 per week. And then I buy more comics from the person so I can justify the shipping costs to get the price per comic down lol.

As I mentioned above I bought that collection of 700 comics. Mostly fillers. But a very wide range of them. One that I wouldn't have bought before was Thor. There were about 40 issues that almost completed a full run. There were about a dozen X-Force, new mutants, west coast avengers, and of course about 30 web of spider-man, and 30 or so spectacular spider-man. The majority of them were reader copies but were enough to peak my interested. I have since found a pawn shop that has tons of comic books in back. The guy is very knowledgeable and sells his comics at a very good price to people he feels are collecting and appreciating them. So I'm now starting a run of spectacular spider-man. And to jump start it he had a run from 1 to 50...at $5 each. Except issue #1 that he sold for $30. So needless to say my collection kick started lol. 

With finding this little treasure trove is brought me to finally get some things slabbed. In the group of spectacular spider-mans there was an issue 27 (first Frank Miller Daredevil) that didn't have a single crease in the spine and perfect corners. So went through and pulled my best comics that I felt were worthy of slabbing and sent 10 off to CGC. The arrived there yesterday  Now the wait...and the every day check for the next couple months till I get them back. I even started a wall of my favorite comics. Just need to find the time this next week to finish putting up the white rails for putting up the rest of my comics. The next line will be slabs and then more bagged and boarded comics all the way down the wall. Hoping some day that I can make a wall of all slabs  .

So that is my story, and will post some more updates as I my collection grows