[Kaewin]

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Originally Posted by thechris

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.

Yes, I started buying in the 80's but I love the sixties stories. Each book is a bit of history. When I get them I read it all ads and everything. It is almost like speaking to the past. Yes I am buying other things at the same time. I am trying to get the complete Avengers because that was my first love and I have a new fix of Journey into Mystery. If I see an issue I need and have the extra cash I will gobble them up. I had thought to do 1970 first, the year I was born, but somehow (and this sounds silly I know) it doesn't seem to gleam like the others do. I know it might take me a year or two to find and buy all of these but I have time. After that its '68 and I have a couple issues from there and if any of the '69 book have stories that start there (or if it ends in '70) then I will get those books too.


And part of my first real fix besides the books I had.

And now three more

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