My primary collecting goal.

I thought it was time for me to write a journal relating to my collecting aspirations, and not a journal remarking on my ire and indignation at turnaround times.

When I began seriously collecting comics my focus was first appearances. That seems like a rather commonplace goal for most, because those are some of the most sought after issues in the collecting community. My focus is not only on the more widely recognized characters, but the obscure ones as well (who remembers the Spider-Villain Chance? or the Jack O' Lantern? Or how about Black Lightning?!). Currently 41% of my CGC collection is dedicated to first appearances. That number reflects only the first appearances for characters and not: items, costumes, revivals, et cetera. A few of those issues even have first appearances by more than one character, such as: New Mutants 98, Batman 357, and Avengers Annual 10 to name a few. My raw collection also consists of many first appearances. At a conservative guess, I have nearly quadrupled the amount raw first appearances as I do slabbed. It is interesting to note that CGC does give recognition to most of the first appearance on each slab, but not all. Some first appearances are so obscure that CGC does not even recognize them (see New Avengers 4, first appearance of Maria Hill or Web of Spider-Man 15 for Chance!).

In honor of my collecting niche I am going to begin updating the descriptions for each first appearance issue I have. I will add background for each character for starters and take pictures of each slab.

My other collecting goals are:

-Completing my Incredible Hulk run raw. I am about forty issues from completing that goal.

-Completing Dale Keown's run on Incredible Hulk in all 9.8's.

-Completing raw the original Marvel Conan run and the What If? series.

-Completing my Justice League (1987) CGC series in all 9.8.

That?s about all I am tackling for now. It is a realistic goal that I enjoy working at. Thanks for reading and collecting!