I’m surprised that as I spend more time with comic books, I am now looking for books that apparently everyone else is looking for as well. To my surprise, the value of these books has not gone up.
Recently, I began to backwards in my collection, collecting the issues with lower numbers than what I already have. I am primarily focusing on Superman and Cat Woman with this.
With Superman, I want to get get all of the books from number 200 to the present.  I ran into a problem when I got to the Jim Lee run. I had every issue except 210, 211, and 212. I was able to complete this this collection weekend.
In Cat Woman, I want to have every issue from the Pfeifer run. The trouble here was with 50, 51 and 52. I found 52 at a very small shop near where I live and found 50 this past weekend. 51 still eludes me.
I was lucky to find what I could in South Carolina. I had already tried the local stores and the Internet to no avail. This is the game in comic book collecting: going after those issue that are yet in our collection.