Collection

So, as you may have seen me elude to in my earlier posts I have begun to collect comic book memorabilia again. I'm going to keep my collection in my office, and have nearly collected all the items (or reasonable facsimilies thereof) that I intended to collect.

The first item I picked up was a Mezco Hellboy Action Figure. It was nice and it was free because I had certificates to Joker's Child left over, so that worked out pretty cool. Next trip I picked up a similarly sized Marv from Sin City Action figure. They were both about 18 inches tall or so and fit nicely on the cabinets next to my desk.

That same day I picked up a bronze style Bowen statue of the Incredible Hulk. This cost a few bucks but is perfect so it was worth it. The next thing that caught my interest was the Factory X pieces from a few years back. The one I really wanted was Captain America's shield, and second was Thor's Hammer, Mjolnir. Both of those pieces are tough to get, and fairly expensive. I found a Diamond Select verions of Mjolnir and decided to get that instead.

But first I picked up a silver style Kingdom Come Superman statue and a smaller color Original Captain Marvel (Shazam!) Kingdom Come statue. I also picked up a Hellboy bust.

Once I laid hand on the Diamond Select Mjolnir I decided I needed the Diamond Select Stormbreaker to go with it. I had just obtained The Factory X Iron Man Mask when I got word that someone down in South Jersey had both a Nick Fury Needle Gun from Factory X and a mint condition Hellboy Samaritan. That night a half dozen Iron Man busts arrived as well as two action figure packages, one which followed the development of a Superman action figure and the other of a Batman action figure. Unfortunately the packages are bigger than I expected and I currently have nowhere to display them.

When I got down the this kid in south Jersey's house he took me inside to see his collection. I asked where the stuff he was selling was, and he said there was so much of it he had to keep it at his parent's house. I laughed. He wasn't kidding. He had easily $150,000 worth of stuff in that basement. In addition to the Samaritan and the Needle Gun I picked up the Factory X version of Elektra's swords (which I didn't really want, but fit the Factory X theme) two more Iron man Busts, a Flash statue, a Colossus bust, and (in a pleasant surprise) the Diamond Select version of Stormbreaker.

I passed on a Captain America statue I really wanted just because the price was too high, but the real tragedy of the day were the things I missed out on. The kid had a Factory-X Captain America Shield, but he had already sold it. I'm sure I could have offered him more money for it, but the thought struck me that somebody else had been really looking for this thing too, and they finally got lucky and found it. Who was I to disappoint them by stealing it out from under their nose? Plus...it's a hell of a lot of fun hunting all these things down. When I got back to the office I got the message that my original Iron Man Mask was in. The rookie and my mother brought it down to my office. In another pleasant surprise I found out that the company that just started making these masks would also be making two versions of Captain America's shield in the coming months. They haven't even gone on presale yet but I've already set my sights on getting a matching numbered set (here's to hoping.)

I'm waiting on one more statue (The Thing) and am still debating a Captain America statue. Two other items have caught my eye. They are selling a Hellboy holster to go with the Samaritan and a 1:1 scale replica of The Right Hand of Doom. They both appear to be sold out, but at least the holster is popping up in some places. The Right Hand of Doom might be harder to track down.

So anyway...shit's been busy. But not necessarily bad. I feel bad about more than a few things right now, and know that there's some shit coming up in the next few weeks that I have to handle. We'll take it as it comes I guess.

Never any other way.