Enrique's Comic Book Collecting Adventures
I think collecting is awesome! Most of all, I love reading about how people achieve their collecting goals. These are my stories!
About a month and a half ago, I picked up copies of Miles Morales: Spider-Man #13, the first appearance of Billie Morales; Miles’ little sister. I picked up two standard editions and one copy of each variant for slightly over cover price (the euro is slightly more than the U.S. dollar). Now, I won’t take …
Continue reading “CGC Submission #3: I Never Make It Easy For Myself!”
Back in late October of 2019, I finally decided to submit my second batch of comics to CGC. On December 4th, I decided to login to my account and see if there was a status update on my submission. To my astonishment, the first part of my submission showed that it was finalized and pending …
Silver Surfer #4 is my personal holy grail in comics collecting. I can’t remember where or when I first saw the image of this iconic comic book cover, but I can remember always wanting a copy. In late 2013, towards the end of my first deployment to Afghanistan, I decided that I would finally purchase …
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Over Thanksgiving weekend this year, I finally visited the Paper Street Comic Book Company, a comic book shop in Mannheim, Germany that I’d been wanting to checkout since I arrived here. Although it was supposed to be open, I had to wait an additional twenty minutes. I was half tempted to just leave, but I …
During my first ever subscription to CGC, I only sent in books that were intended for my permanent collection (PC). The turnaround times took a lot longer than I anticipated because I decided to use CCS (CGS’s in-house pressing service), but I was actually happy with the overall results of the grades (see previous blog …
Continue reading “CGC Subscription Renewed: What to Send In?”
In August of 2018, I finally decided to try my hand at submitting some comics to CGC. I remember drinking a few beers and talking to my daughter about registering and sending in some comics to be graded. She talked me into it. Although I only submitted seven comics during my entire one-year membership, I …
In January of 2018, I made a resolution to make at least $2000 in eBay sales/profits before the end of the year in order to buy a decent copy of House of Secrets #92; the next book on my all-time grail list. My selling strategy was two-fold: Sell as many dollar bin and cover price …
Continue reading “Flipping for a Cause: A Bargain Bin Hunter’s Story”
