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Post by Merlot Joe on Jun 15, 2011 5:45:28 GMT -6
When I was a kid I used to have a rather large comic book collection around 350. I have decided to start to get my grandson Jakob interested in them. He love Spiderman and the Hulk and I have also gotten him interested in Superman and Batman.
I wish I had keep mine. I sold it about 20 years ago because I was tired of keeping the boxes around and need the space. I sold the whole thing to a comic store for $750.00. Recently I went on line looking for a couple of the old ones that I had owned to get for Jakob and just about shit in my pants when I seen what some of them are worth now. If I had only known!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jun 15, 2011 5:50:49 GMT -6
I had a very nice collection that my Dad threw out some time after I went to college. He didnt know I wanted them, of course he never asked either.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jun 15, 2011 7:57:14 GMT -6
I also had a pretty large collection, but only Marvel comics; didn't care for DC much. Marvel's offices were located on Madison Avenue in Manhattan in those days and as a kid, I wanted to become one of their artists when I grew up, so I started writing and drawing my own comic books with the plan that someday I would take them in to their office to see if I could get a job. Never followed through with that and I've regretted it ever since.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jun 15, 2011 23:42:31 GMT -6
My more valuable ones were Marvel. I had Iron Man #1 (in his own mag)
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Post by Irish Stu on Jul 4, 2011 10:15:05 GMT -6
I loved Marvel and DC comics when I was a kid and still have a lot of them in boxes in the attic including the Spiderman Vs Superman special. They were imported from the US and there was only one shop in town that stocked them, and you could never be sure what would be in each delivery. I loved to go there with my pocket money with my fingers crossed that they would have what I wanted, which was Superman, Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Daredevil and The Hulk, or failing that anything else they had.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jul 4, 2011 17:44:36 GMT -6
I was a big Hulk fan as a kid. Once, I asked my mother to pick me up a Hulk comic book on her way home from work one night. Apparently, she didn't quite understand what I asked for and wound up bringing me home a comic book about some character named The Hawk.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jul 5, 2011 0:03:58 GMT -6
I have been wanting to get my grandson started on a collection but I can't find any fucking place to buy them. Walmart, Safeway, the local book store none of them carry them. I guess I'll have to buy them for him on line but that is just not the same thing as buying them off the shelf. There is a comic book store in Santa Rosa, but shit that's 16 miles away.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jul 5, 2011 4:37:24 GMT -6
Look for new titles as online material, seriously.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jul 5, 2011 7:50:13 GMT -6
I'm also given to understand that there are a number of graphic novels in e-book form as well.
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Post by Irish Stu on Jul 5, 2011 7:58:59 GMT -6
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jul 5, 2011 16:04:24 GMT -6
simon that might be worth a couple of more bucks than you paid for it. Go to mycomicshop.com and you can get a value on it.
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Post by Irish Stu on Jul 5, 2011 18:42:09 GMT -6
Joe, mine has the price in pounds on it, rather than dollars like the picture. I can remember the day I bought it.
I also have a copy of the first edition of 2000 AD. Do you know that comic? It was where Judge Dredd was born. Alan Mills who created Judge Dredd lives a couple of streets from me.
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