...typed a book here, sorry, may get a little carried away when talking comics haha...

Setting boundaries is a good idea. Spidey is a great choice too. There are few characters that someone can eventually have a top notch collection with. Spidey, Batman, Superman, Wolverine I think are like S-class potential for collectors. Always room to grow with them and lots of great potential even without being super rich. Even mid range collections of those characters can put other maxed out collections to shame. 🤣

I do love DD. Think I have about 2/3rd of the comic books up to the point I stopped collecting new issues. My #1 is not super high grade but I have it! Have a cool convention marker sketch by a guy named Nate Lovett too. Also one by Daryl Banks that is probably my favorite convention sketch overall. No pages or covers though, so if I go all in on DD I will have to take you up on getting something good! DD is probably a B tier character to collect. Definitely can amass a cool collection. Has some good history. Collectibles in general. Art. etc... Can't quite match the top 4, and quite a few A tier outpace him.

Originally I went with Thunderbolts because I really like the comics. I have all of them. There really is not much else to collect though. This is what pushed me toward my first original art. There was nowhere else to go with the collection haha. But collecting over all, this group is like D or F tier haha.

When I watched the first Iron Man movie, it literally changed my life. I got into STEM and sci-fi. Went back to school. Got a career. Started collecting. Have every issue from #1 to when I stopped collecting new books a few years back. Tales of Suspense I have a few issues, including #39 at 5.0 (my only graded book.) Lots of figures, statues, etc... A couple convention sketches. Went a little Iron Man crazy. Before the movies, I'd have said Iron Man was a C tier character at best. Now I think, for collecting, he is A tier, borderline S tier. Not sure he quite has as much as the top 4 but he is close now.

I actually have a decent ASM collection, nothing super great. Always liked Spidey but never went hardcore collecting. Same with X-Men and Fantastic Four.

Didn't get into DC much, way later I collect Flash, Shazam, and Blue Beetle. But I don't think I'd choose any of them to be my main collector focus.

I really love a lot of indie stuff. Dreamwave is dead but I liked a lot of their books. Cyber Force and Ripclaw also great. But all indie books except maybe Spawn have almost no collector potential, besides a small stack of comics and maybe a little art or an action figure or something...

If I had to choose one to focus it'd probably have to be between DD and Iron Man. My Iron Man collection is a decent amount ahead of DD too, despite collecting DD longer. But I consistently go back to DD as a character. I like Iron Man but I think it is the movie magic and the allure of the technology and such that bring me to it more than the character himself.