Click on the picture to see this Collection!! Name: Jimmy-James Hamilton Location: Southern Ohio

1- What do you collect?
Marvel Legends and any other Marvel toy that fits the scale (6 in.), but I also have some D.C. Stuff, a little Star Wars from when I was little.

2- When and how did you start Collecting and what keeps you going?
Over a long summer my friends and I desperately looked for ways to spend our time. The result was a love of comics. I first thought to just get a few to sit in my room around my T.V., but once I saw how many and great the Marvel legends were/are I couldn’t stop my self and ended up buying quit a few.

3- Why do you collect what you collect?
I love marvel, and I love the cover art. I believe the figures best represents that art better then a 2D poster.

4) When did you begin to display your Collection?
As soon as I started buying Marvel legends.

5- How do you get your inspiration to organize and display your Collection?
I put up comics and posters on the wall in an attempt to make it look like panels of a comic book.

6- Do you “Collect ‘em all”, or just the ones you like?
The ones I like for the most part, but some times like the Sentinel and Galactus Series I bought them all so I could build the figures.

7- Do you have a favorite character that you collect?
Some of my favorites would be ML 3 Thor, ML 6 Thomas Jane movie Punisher, Legendary Riders Scarlet Witch, and ML Goliath with Ant Man and Wasp pack-ins.

8) Which item in your Collection would you say is your absolute favorite and why?
The 16 inch ML Sentinel is about the coolest thing I’ve got. It’s got all the detail and articulation of Marvel Legends and on top of that’s its over a foot tall, how can you not love that?

9- How much do you spend a month on your Collection?
Since ML are only like $7.50 at Wall-Mart, I’d say less then $100 but in a week if I went somewhere special, I would spend more.

10- Which item was the most difficult to obtain?
ML Goliath with Ant Man and Wasp pack-ins

11- What are the oldest item you own and the one with the most value?
Millennium Falcon from Star Wars when the Moives were released in the mid-90’s (I would have been 10 or so)

12- What is your “Holy Grail”?
The Holy Grail. I mean, c’mon, if you drink out of it, you have Eternal Life! What better to collect that that?

13- What inspires your to purchase an item to add to your Collection?
A character or version of a character that I don’t yet have that’s fits with other’s.

14- Customizing figures and statues has become very big, have you ever purchased a custom figure or statue and have you ever tried making one?
I have never made or bought one, but I really like to look at them online and would buy some if I ever found some with a good price.

15- Where do you make most of your purchases from?
Wally world of course!

16- How does your partner (wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend) feel about your collection?
Apprehensive, because they realize that eventually they will have to become part of it.

17- Do you ever get hassled about being a toy collector?
People that don’t know me that are surprised when there see my room, but closer friends give me a hard time about it. One of my larger acquaintances finds it funny to try and shake the ground and knock’em over.

18- What will happen to your collection after you've passed away?
“Death is but a door, time is but a window. I’ll be back.”

19- Is your collection insured?
Insured that it will burn if my house catches fire.

20- What is missing from your collection that you hope to one day acquire?
An action figure of “Benjy” Grimm from “Fred and Barney Meet The Thing”. If this is non-existent, then perhaps a custom-made version.

21- What toy did you have as a kid that you most wish you had kept or, at least, kept in good condition for your collection?
All the Star Wars ships I had as a kid have a few peaces missing. I t would me nice to still have all those parts.

22- If you needed to raise cash quick, would you consider selling (some of) your collection? If so, what would you NEVER sell?
Some day perhaps, but as of now I have no reason to worry about that now.

23- What is the usual reaction when people see your collection?
Hun…What? Since when was this here? It’s like I big 3D comic. Quote from a friend upon entering my room for the first time “I feel like I’ve died and gone to Asgaard. And you’re Odin.”

24- Do you attend conventions for some of your purchases? Could you tell us about that?
I love conventions. I attended my first this November (2005 mid-Ohio-Con) I plan to attend another in February. I bought a number of find marvel legends such as Blade and Marvel Select Carnage. ML Ironman and Spider-Man Classic Venom were also on by buy list. 

25- Most collectors today go on what they call a toy run; do you participate in that as well? And what are your favorite spots? Tell us about your routine.
There are no comic or toy stores within 30 miles of my house, so when I am at a mail or larger city I hit as many toy sores as I can. In all I seem to have better lick at K-mart where simply no one shops.

26- How do you decide what to take out of the package and what stays sealed?
When I first stared collecting I toke them out of the box, so to make them look good together I take them all out of the box.

27- At what stage do you think your collection will be at 10 years from now, do you think you would have grown tired of it?
No. By then, barring none of it being sold, it shall have grown exponentially each year.

28- What advice would you give someone who just started a collection?
"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness . . . they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die." – Soren Kierkegaard