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I made it out to Graham Cracker Comics yesterday to pick up a few comics that they have been holding for both me and Holly. While I was there, I took the plunge and spent $40 on Uncanny X-Men #266. This was the single issue that stood between me having a full run of Uncanny-X-Men from 150 to the present issue of #486. This represents a contiguous run of The Uncanny X-Men from 1983 to the present. It's hard for me to imagine that I have almost 25 years worth of X-Men sitting on my shelves in binders. (And that's not counting X-Men, Vol. 2 or any of the spin-offs.)
While that was a good deal on that comic, I was still a bit hesitant dropping $40 on a single issue. That's a lot, and it's primarily the reason that I haven't begun working back from 1983 (#150) to 1963 (#1). However, it filled a significant hole and I'm happy.
Today, I also received some karmic approval of my purchase. I headed out to Argo Tea to get some work done and I stopped by Borders to check out the bargain bin before heading home. A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a pack of World of Warcraft cards from the comic store to see what the are looked like and so forth. (I used to collect Magic: The Gathering cards.) Then, I picked up a pack of the "Dark Portal" expansion and enjoyed seeing the "boomkin" druid in the pack. (This is the form my character takes when I'm solo'ing in WoW.)
Anyhow, on a whim, I picked up a pack of the "Heroes of Azeroth" expansion while in Borders. The cards were not cheap (15 / $3.99), but I enjoy these things. I was surprised to find that my random purchase included the infamous "Leeroy Jenkins" card. This is a fairly rare card and fetches between $25 to $40 on eBay.
I really don't have any plans to sell the card, but it was nice to find something valuable so serendipitously.
In both of these cases, the card and the comic are already in my binders I use for collecting these things. I've really enjoyed having an excuse to buy these things again. It may seem a bit adolescent, but I figure that I'm doing enough "adult" things during the rest of the time that I'm entitled to let the kid out once in a while.
