And Why Not The 1970s X-Men?

Much to my chagrin, my ranking on the CGC points registry has always stayed within the 270-300 area. As everyone probably knows by now, I specialize in Neal Adams books from the late silver and early bronze age period. Problem is, so many of the books I have by Adams amount to peanuts when it comes to points. Unless you acquire the major titles with his artwork like Batman, Green Lantern and X-Men in ultra high grade, you are not going to move up in points very fast. Which brings me to the X-Men books of the late Seventies. So many great covers by Dave Cockrum and John Byrne. And I'm sure the stories are just as great. I've won two in the last 24 hours - a 9.6 95 and a 9.6 120 from Pedigree Comics and ComicLink, respectively. Right now I can't afford high grade slabbed copies of X-Men 94 or Giant Size 1, so I'll focus on the ones between 95 and 120. Beats collecting some oddball title just to accumulate points. After all, you can't go wrong with the X-Men, right? Oh, and don't worry fellow Adams fanatics, I won't stop buying slabbed books by Neal anytime soon!

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