I bought this beauty at TampaCon

Ordinarily, I would try to buy a nicer book, but this one was in the mid $300 range and my dollar seemed to go just far enough with this.  What I mean by that is that I saw a scraggly looking raw Batman 251 (perhaps a VG book) for $250 at the show.  It seems you almost have to pay at least $200 just to get a halfway decent raw book.  For the extra $100, I could get this.  It seems that the extra $100 was money well spent to attain a more presentable copy.  And yet, though it's not high grade, I don't really like pushing into the $400 range or more in filling my "box of thirty".  At least at this point.  Perhaps later when upgrading begins.  While this book gets a lot of hype, I have to say that it seems to be well-deserved.  Yes, the cover art is amazing.  But the entire book was drawn by Adams (not just the cover) and the story was very good,and established the Joker as a serious and dangerous adversary.  It's an important book, not just a pretty book.  

Note that I intentionally bought a book that has universal appeal.  There are a bunch of under-appreciated Neal Adams books, and some seem to come in and out of style, but this one is always a front runner.  There is an old expression that goes like this:  "The race does not always to go the fleet, nor the battle to the strong, but that's a hell of a good way to bet".

Footnote:  I did actually buy one book before this on a lark.  A cheap, underappreciated, out of favor, Neal Adams Superman.  But this Batman 251 is a serious and calculated addition to my collection instead of an impulse purchase.