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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 6, 2020 19:52:04 GMT -5
I donated the bulk of mine to a youth home, via a friend who volunteered there. It felt good to know that kids who really needed an escape could have it. He was worried they'd get all torn up: I just said, as long as they're torn up from reading them, it's worth it.
Libraries often do resell to fund their programs; so, donating there is a good cause. I donated several boxes of graphic novels to my local a few years back and the head of the library came out to thank me after I had dropped off several boxes. They integrated some and sold some as fundraising.
Shelters for victims of abuse are always needing assistance.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 6, 2020 20:01:29 GMT -5
I couple years back, there was a charity called 'Comics for soldiers' that would pack'em up and send them to deployed troops, but I don't think they exist anymore. Last pile I used them for an 'old and ugly' yankee swap, and they got in the hands of a co worker that's a HUGE Star Wars fan, but never read many comics, so I have hope they got read (haven't talked much since then, since we're all work at home) I have also sometimes donated them to Savers...the get sold cheaply there, and the hope is others will donate stuff I can buy later  |
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Post by profh0011 on Jun 7, 2020 22:10:53 GMT -5
About 25 or more years back, my best friend helped me give away a number of long boxes to the county library. He had a van, which made transport easy. The absurd thing was, I forget how this happened, but due to a scheduling issue, he wound up doing it on his own, and I never got to see what they did with the comics, or have anyone say "Thanks".
Some of my earliest, most treasured comics, I got for free from my barber (a block away), or, my Mom's optometrist (across the river). That's where I first encountered "MAD" magazine.
Crazy enough, the first Marvel I ever got WITH A FULL COVER INTACT (not missing half or all of the cover), my brother found laying on the grass under a park bench across the street from the barber. It was STRANGE TALES #167, which introduced me to Jim Steranko AND Dan Adkins. That was the one with the infamous 4-page spread, where (it said), you needed 2 issues side-by-side to see the full picture. Took me about 10 years before I found another copy. I suspect that "2 issues" gimmick caused a shortage of that particular issue.
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Post by profh0011 on Jun 7, 2020 22:13:23 GMT -5
"WHERE did you get that money?"
"That question shows a distinct lack of character."
"I said, WHERE did you get that MONEY???"
"This is a rich country. People are giving it away on steet corners."--from "THE SAINT IN NEW YORK" (1938)
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Post by Confessor on Jun 9, 2020 7:15:27 GMT -5
I took mine to the local orphanage, put them in a big pile in the grounds, and set fire to them. I laughed with glee at the children's tear-stained faces as the fire consumed them. I'd never felt so alive. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!
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Post by brutalis on Jun 9, 2020 8:05:57 GMT -5
I took mine to the local orphanage, put them in a big pile in the grounds, and set fire to them. I laughed with glee at the children's tear-stained faces as the fire consumed them. I'd never felt so alive. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!! Better lay off the drinkie-poo during self isolation there Bugs! You are scaring the kids! Which ain't necessarily a bad thing if it helps keep them off your lawn and out of your Petunia's and digging through your trash. And really? What kid would cry over you burning comic books? Not like any kid reads the dang things. Now if you were to burn their video game(s) system or cell phones I might actually believe we would see some tears. And I do have to point out, would ANYBODY have tears when watching you burn your own stuff? They would just scratch their head and say who let the bloody furry green arsonist out again?!? Wouldn't they? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2020 8:19:57 GMT -5
I'm assuming Confessor puts on his arson display only after making a preliminary visit to the orphanage first, shopping for a kid, but letting them all know they're too ugly to be loved.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2020 13:14:16 GMT -5
I took mine to the local orphanage, put them in a big pile in the grounds, and set fire to them. I laughed with glee at the children's tear-stained faces as the fire consumed them. I'd never felt so alive. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!! Better lay off the drinkie-poo during self isolation there Bugs! You are scaring the kids! Which ain't necessarily a bad thing if it helps keep them off your lawn and out of your Petunia's and digging through your trash. And really? What kid would cry over you burning comic books? Not like any kid reads the dang things. Now if you were to burn their video game(s) system or cell phones I might actually believe we would see some tears. And I do have to point out, would ANYBODY have tears when watching you burn your own stuff? They would just scratch their head and say who let the bloody furry green arsonist out again?!? Wouldn't they? They were crying because they were seeing a giant 7 foot green rabbit dancing around a fire in front of their dwelling instead of roasting on a spit over the fire for dinner...  -M |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 9, 2020 13:22:46 GMT -5
I would add a new Archie Double-Digest to a pair of jeans asked for in a local drive for Christmas presents for underprivileged kids each year, but as I'd get whatever the newest one was just for that it's not really much of an answer. I made sure to get a 'cool' brand of jeans too, I remembered too well the junior high consequences of some budget brand being noticed. Hopefully Archie was never too un-cool. Is that anti-virtue signalling Confessor? I remember someone who actually did something along those lines with a furby during their peak.   See also: Happy Tree Friends videos. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 12, 2020 15:10:21 GMT -5
This group will get the comics to kids in medical facilities: www.comicbooksforkids.org/They're also on Facebook, which is where I found them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 18:58:56 GMT -5
This group will get the comics to kids in medical facilities: www.comicbooksforkids.org/They're also on Facebook, which is where I found them.
Bless them!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 14:32:21 GMT -5
This group will get the comics to kids in medical facilities: www.comicbooksforkids.org/They're also on Facebook, which is where I found them. I finally looked into this group, and they are based in the Chicago area, as am I, so I can drop off the comics instead of mailing 20 pounds worth. This worked out great. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 13:47:27 GMT -5
I dropped off a bunch of trades with comicbooksforkids.org this morning. Mark from cbfk asked me to come back here and share my experience, which I probably would have done anyway. Mark obviously loves comics and loves doing good. I asked about donating more mature material in the future (I only brought PG-level trades with me today), and he explained that he does sort the donations by age-appropriateness, and that he ships mature material to the troops, so no donation goes to waste. So it looks like I have a home for everything I want to get rid of, and it feels so much better knowing I'm providing escapism for those who need it, rather than holding on to this stuff and dragging it out on Craig's List or a garage sale every five years and unloading only a couple issues at a time. I am skeptical by nature, and if I didn't have my own experience as "the troops", I'd wonder about the conventional wisdom of the "donate it to the troops" mantra, like unloading stuff you don't want "to the troops" is a cheap feel-good for the donor. But, man, as a young Marine in Saudi Arabia, I would have killed for some Conan Sagas to replace the few crappy novels we had going around. Well, King's "It" was OK, but the only other one I remember was "Memories of Midnight". Ugh. And Mark didn't let me go without insisting that I take some goodies with me. He insisted. |
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Post by berkley on Jul 4, 2020 0:36:33 GMT -5
What you do is, first you dress up in a nice suit and tie. Then you have to find a church. You walk up the aisle with the comic on your arm, and when you get to the end, the minister or the priest says a bunch of weird, ritualistic stuff, as is their wont, and when he stops talking, you hand the comic over to this young feller with a ring who is conveniently standing nearby for this very purpose. This is the crucial step in the whole process, so don't mess it up - you have to make sure that comic is rolled up really tight so he can get that tiny ring around it.
But anyway, if you follow all these steps successfully, you've done it - you've given away your precious comic that you loved to some stranger and I hope you're pleased with yourself. But if you're lucky he might let you see it once a year on holidays, maybe Christmas.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 4, 2020 21:50:43 GMT -5
I dropped off a bunch of trades with comicbooksforkids.org this morning. Mark from cbfk asked me to come back here and share my experience, which I probably would have done anyway. Mark obviously loves comics and loves doing good. I asked about donating more mature material in the future (I only brought PG-level trades with me today), and he explained that he does sort the donations by age-appropriateness, and that he ships mature material to the troops, so no donation goes to waste. So it looks like I have a home for everything I want to get rid of, and it feels so much better knowing I'm providing escapism for those who need it, rather than holding on to this stuff and dragging it out on Craig's List or a garage sale every five years and unloading only a couple issues at a time. I am skeptical by nature, and if I didn't have my own experience as "the troops", I'd wonder about the conventional wisdom of the "donate it to the troops" mantra, like unloading stuff you don't want "to the troops" is a cheap feel-good for the donor. But, man, as a young Marine in Saudi Arabia, I would have killed for some Conan Sagas to replace the few crappy novels we had going around. Well, King's "It" was OK, but the only other one I remember was "Memories of Midnight". Ugh. And Mark didn't let me go without insisting that I take some goodies with me. He insisted. From the 2 in person military guys I know who have been stationed overseas, they both told me they'd have loved anything to do that people sent, so I went with that. I hear you though, such things can go very wrong. |
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