[thechris]

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

Why not focus on 1 line at a time that way you'll have complete sets, plus why everything made in the 60's rather then just the lines you want. That's like me buying barbies,hot wheels, transformers and nerf guns all because they're made the same year... just sounds weird. good luck on the early ironman,spiderman and avengers $$$

That's not as crazy as it sounds. There are plenty of collectors who collect based on year or era. Antique collectors for example may only collect from certain decades or centuries. Some people will only collect toys from a certain era like the 1980s. Some people only like the Jim Lee era of X-Men. He's clearly archiving from that decade and may have a fondness for the period. Possibly because he began collecting in that era or his first comic book was from the '60s or he fell in love with that comic decade. Some people dress '80s, collect '80s movie, '80s albums, '80s toys and boardgames and drive an '80s car. There was a period not that long ago where every douchebag dressed like they were from the '70s with aviator glasses, flowery shirts, tight jeans and claimed to be a hippie. Personally, I'm mainly a fan of comics from the mid-90s and earlier with a few exceptions like Identity Crisis. I love the Golden Age DC heroes and Silver Age DC was a blast, too. For me, DC and Marvel were both pretty neck in neck storywise up until the 90s where Marvel started to push ahead a little with epic stories like Maximum Carnage, Lifetheft and other winning Spidey tales.