There was a time in your comic book life when you busted your tail off to get a comic to complete a collection. Now it could be major drek. However it didn't matter you had to get it. Finding a Ambush Bug #2 or a Nfl Super pro #4 (yes it made it past #1) sometimes is harder then finding a New mutants #98. Logic says the seller is going to be putting up his demand items not his supply items. So a simple ebay search isn't going to help you.
MOST store are going to have it in their sale areas and if asked to look for it well good luck. But you are a determined collector and MUST have it. You might pass up a great comic in a long box because you have to find that cover springing out of the box at you and you hug and yell in gleam... I've got it!! You rush it home showing all your friends who seem to say the favorite "great" but you don't hear the sarcasm in their voice. You get a bag and board because you aren't going to use the bag it came in or the board because you Have to pamper that new comic to your collection. You run to log it into your book, you sharpen your pencil and BANG you marked check!! Your body fills with joy, you smile ear to ear. Years of the search is over. You spread out your collection on a table gleaming over NFL Super Pro 1 thru 12. ITS ALL YOURS. The Holy Grail is found the crusade is over.
Now as dramatic as it sounds in my 28 years of collecting I have done this over and over. I love the story telling of how I found it and where. Or the trade I did or the anticipation of the mail man dropping off to me. Now this isn't about Action #1 but tangible comics that anybody could afford. So next time you see that collector rummaging through a drek box it just might be someone on a crusade searching for his Holy Grail. When he finds it try not to say "great" but join in his glory for NO ONE likes to celebrate this GRAND moment by them self.
Six Shooter Jesse James
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