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The perils of an international comic collector...

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...or how I learned to miss Emerald City Comicon 2014.

As a comic collector living in Australia we already have a face a number of challenges especially when it comes to our favourite hobby as well as grading/signings.

Increased shipping costs, insurance, extended shipping times, fluctuating currencies and... comic conventions.

You see, in Australia, whilst we have Comic Conventions, we don't have CGC presence, so even in the extremely rare event we manage to see a celebrated writer or artist, it means that they will always be the dreaded Green Label and not Signature Series.

So with this in mind everytime I get a chance to visit the US I try to attend a ComicCon. Last year, as some of you know, I managed to tie in a work trip with Big WOW show in San Hose.

A couple of months back, another work trip seemed on the cards and luckily enough Emerald City Comicon was on one weekend I was planning to be there. It wasn't until this week I was able to confirm the trip flights and hotels and so visited the emeraldcitycomicon.com site to dutifully buy my tickets for the event. To my horror, with 42 days to go, I found not only ALL the 3 day passes SOLD OUT both the individual Saturday and Sunday tickets as well.

Gutted.

So, I'm here to use this journal entry to put out a plea; if anyone has a spare 3 day pass for sale or even just a ticket for the Saturday event I could really use your help...

...and I'd be forever grateful.

P.S. As I didn't have a suitable image to share with this post I thought I'd share a great scan of a 1979 Star Wars Palitoy ad illustrated by Brian Bolland (as well as letters column) that I recently came across in UK Hulk Comic that I've recently started to collect again (more on that in a journal post soon). Enjoy.

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