shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Feb 16, 2024 11:21:02 GMT -5
So I'm teaching my daughter this.....if she doesn't want to keep them for herself, or her future kids, then know how to sell them and maximise her return. If she takes to it with your enthusiasm, that will be awesome. In my case, I realize the level of anxiety it will cause my kids to feel like they have to get the right amount for my comics or else they'll be suckers. Going through a loved one's belongings after they're gone is anxiety-inducing agony. If they can get it over with quickly and painlessly, that will make me happy. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 16, 2024 13:33:55 GMT -5
I stopped actively buying new Marvel and DC comics in 1978. Since then I've filled in a lot of gaps, so I now have a really nice Silver and Bronze Age collection. If Cei-U! outlives me, it will go to him. Otherwise, I hope that one of the local universities will be interested. Both the University of Oregon and Portland State University have comics programs.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 16, 2024 20:50:05 GMT -5
I’m still collecting Detective Comics backwards (more or less). I’ve got #242 to the present day (#1080 or so), and most of the issues from #231 to #239. They’ve gotten awfully expensive, so I’m not buying them very frequently.
But my birthday’s coming up in March and I’m thinking of splurging on a low-grade #240.
I finished that Batman run from #251 to #400, and I think that is more than sufficient for a long while.
But the last few years, I’ve gotten interested in 1970s Superman, Action Comics, Superman Family and World’s Finest, and I’ll probably continue to dabble in those series for a few years.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 16, 2024 21:34:13 GMT -5
For me, it's about reading, not collecting. I save stuff because I might want to read it again. I suppose at some point I might have read all the things I want to, but I doubt it  |
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Post by james on Feb 17, 2024 23:59:52 GMT -5
For me, it's about reading, not collecting. I save stuff because I might want to read it again. I suppose at some point I might have read all the things I want to, but I doubt it Yes. Now it is reading and not collecting. Though I want to collect the Silver and Bronze Age, life has gotten in the way. |
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Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Feb 18, 2024 22:09:51 GMT -5
I thinned out my collection a fair bit a year or so before the pandemic, getting rid of pretty much anything that I thought I was unlikely to re-read. I still have a reasonably decent collection of something like 3000+ comics, but I've no intention of stopping collecting. The thrill of buying and reading new stuff that I've not read before is too great.
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Post by tonebone on Feb 23, 2024 11:00:15 GMT -5
When I was really into monthly comics, I was too poor to be a "collector". I just bought and horded the stuff I liked, mostly through high school, when I had some disposable income. I didn't live near a comics store, so everything was bought at the local 7-11 or by mail. I have been obsessed with comics all of my life, since the age of 3, and by 10 had decided I wanted to draw comics for a living.
Then came college, and I went 4 years without buying more than a handful of comics (RIP disposable income). As a matter of fact, I sold all my comics at one point to afford to go on a skiing trip. Then, after college, I slowly got back into them, through collections... Sandman, Death of Superman, etc. Now I have a huge collection of trades and hardcovers, mostly of stuff I missed, or could never afford to buy as a kid, but have never gone back to floppies.
So, in essence, I have never really "collected" comics. I have just amassed them.
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