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"Freshly graded" "freshly slabbed" "fresh from CGC/CBCS/wherever" is my peeve. I don't know why, but it bugs me reading a listing with that in the title. I picture some farmer growing slabs in a field and he has to sell them before the comic inside becomes rotten and decayed.

A few recent pickups. The X-Men #4, 24, 28, 58, 73, 78, 83, & 85 came from fellow forum member @Dan82. I know some of the XMs aren't SA, but it was all part of the same purchase and wanted to give Dan a proper shout out.

Received a package from @Dan82 today. Inside was some serious goodness, along with some extras that he threw in. An absolute pleasure to do business with and can't recommend him enough. These will help in completing my X-Men UKPV run. Dan, you are amazing, thank you so much!

Queen City Comics in Pleasant Ridge, Comic Book World in Florence, KY, Bookery in Fairborn, OH. There are others in the area but hit and miss with stock. Those are the three I frequent with regularity.

I mostly remember reading ASM 328 as it was the first comic I ever read. I read the heck out of it as a kid. I still have it.

The Canadian Edition was what CGC used to call the Canadian Price Variants. They switched over to calling them price variants a few years ago.

I can't speak for others, only myself. For me, when I completed my Uncanny X-Men run I decided to start working on something different. So I thought why not put together a run of Canadian and UK price variants for it as well. In a way, it's just something different to look for. I don't consider it any different than the people who only like to buy newsstand copies. It's just something different for me to focus on, while still staying fairly engaged in the hobby from a collecting standpoint. I completed the UXM CPV run (still working on the UK run), and am working on a few other little runs like Punisher and Dazzler. As far as the overall collecting view on why CPVs have taken off, my guess would be scarcity. The Canadian population is clearly less than that of the US, and since the CPVs were generally meant for newsstand distribution then it is possible there are fewer surviving high grade copies. I don't know if Canadian newsstand distribution worked the same as the US or not (maybe someone else can chime in on that). Plus, they have barcodes and those have proven to be highly desirable over the past few years. Again, just my take on it, and not scientific at all.

One more left to go. Maybe two if I upgrade #3.

A few recent pickups

Looks super pulpy. I'll have to check that one out.

Beauty and the Beast and Iceman were decent reads. Iceman seemed a little disjointed, but a lot of the Marvel mini series from that time frame seem that way like they were rushed. Going off memory, I would think Wolverine and Punisher were both solid reads. Some of the other fun ones I can remember would be Hawkeye, Hercules, and Falcon. Have four short boxes of Marvel minis to work my way through reading.

I'm thinking it's the 7.5

As corny as it may be, I like some of the Bill Sienkiewicz covers for Dazzler. The Thriller homage of #33 seems to sell for more than a lot of others in the series, and I don't believe there are any/many keys in Dazzler.

I think these are the only two Whitman copies I own. The LCS has a slabbed copy of Sgt Rock #329 Whitman. I don't remember the grade or the price, but it's been there a bit.

Pleasant surprise when I visited the LCS today.

I sold a 9.8 of variant a couple years ago when it was still in the $230ish range. Saw some of those going for around $1k. Pretty cool. Be even more cool had i held onto it for a bit.

That 2000 mini got me back into comics when I was in high school. "Welcome Back, Frank" might be one of my favorite Punisher stories.

Polished off my UXM CPV with these. Working on a Dazzler CPV run which is proving a little more difficult than I previously thought it would.

CG is nonsense incarnate.

Thank you, sir. I also just noticed this thread was moved to the SA section.

Finally got around to acquiring some more UKPVs. I missed seeing the packages with the customs forms arrive.

Upgraded to a 9.8