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Ya'll were talking about the Comic books and such in earlyer posts, And I just found out the other night, near my school, there is a comic shop, and they have TONS of Comcs! (Including thr First Editon of Wolverin- or something like that lol)
Anyway, saddly, I dod not see any Usagi, Y, But!! the most boggling thing was I did see comis there for like 50 Cents to $1.00!!!! and they are the old school comics from DC Marvl ect....
Now PLEASE, someone has got to know why old school comics are that cheep!- When others are like $10000000 of dollers?....I thoght of getting my Unkle (though he dose not collect comics that much anymore)- some comics, but as you know, Im very Comic Stuped, I see a Comic, and it is just a comic.....
So...Whats the difference between Comics that are just there, and ones that areworth Oddles of Money?
"Ich wundere mich wie weit es ist zu sonne wenn du ihr entgegen rennst."
I once found copies of Jack Kirby's Eternals issue #1 in the ten cent bin! I bought all the copies they had to share with other comic collectors. If you look in the books that say what comics are supposedly worth, it is worth much more than 10 cents.
For one thing, is the comic in mint condition. That means, it probably has never been opened touched and has been in protective cases since day one. Also, I'm kind of skeptical of how much comics are "worth". They aren't worth anything til someone has the cash in their hand to give to you.
The really expensive ones are from the days when people considered them disposable. They were only a nickel or a dime and so they threw them out. After a period of time, Only a few people still had them. Those that did were offered extravagant amounts of money for them. After a while, anyone who bought comics thought, "I'm going to hold on to this. It might be worth money some day!" Therefore, those comics aren't really rare.
I bet if you asked your uncle which ones were his favorite back in the day and bought him a few of those titles he would thoroughly enjoy a walk down memory lane. I love picking up the comics from when I was a kid. Even the ads bring back memories. "I remember sending away for these junky plastic roman soldier toys!"
Andy- Wow! I never considerd peoples cares and whatnot to the comics, I compleatly understand when you say "I'll hang on to this , it could be worth money"- I do that a lot , with my toys no less- and books, and posters...I dont know what I have that would be worth anything but a Ventage Photo Album from ww2....And i did or would have had a rosery worth some moeny if it did not break..>.<
But a lot of people realize, that anything could be worth money these days, thats why they hang on to their old junk.
The Comics at the shop were all in mint condition in plastic wrap with cardboard layouts. i havent remaged threw the piles of comics. I might get my unkle some, he will be in his 30's reather in a cuple more years lol- so he is quite young, 7-8-9 years older then I I think, at least, I widh he still kept up with his collection, I could have learnd a lot lol- but none the less....thanks for your advice!
"Ich wundere mich wie weit es ist zu sonne wenn du ihr entgegen rennst."
I saw an episode of the US version of "Antiques Road Show", in which a guy brought out his collection of early '60's Marvel comics: X-Men #1, Fantastic Four #1, the first appearance of Spider-Man, all that sort of stuff, and in amazing shape. Largely worthless, of course, since in a misguided attempt at conservation, he'd applied some kind of laquer to the covers at regular intervals for most of his childhood.
"...[H]uman beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other..."
Aldous Huxley, 1946
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