Comics anyone?

[Erwin]

Anyone here collect comics?

I try to collect Golden Age comics if I can. Any other comic book collectors here?

 

[lucypevensie]

My husband has a lrage stack of Donald Duck comics that his dad had when he was young. A collector once offered him $500 for the stack, and he refused to sell. The guy eventually got up to $1500, when my husband told him to just get out of his face--he won't sell them!

 

[sad astronaut]

I used to collect a few. I'm sorta young, so the oldest ones I have are early 90s, so its more like the Bronze or Copper Age. I was huge into Silver Surfer and any other stories related to cosmic super heroes. I also had the death of superman comics, which aren't worth much anymore since he came back. Also, I have the first issue of Spawn.

 

[TCapp]

Donald Duck? Wow. I have a whole lot of Uncle Scrooge comics. My favorite artist/story writer is Don Rosa. I email him once in awhile. I love Ducks! I wanted to collect all 12 of the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, but I missed #3.

 

[Erwin]

Yeah, I had a huge collection of Silver Age No. 1's myself. Sold them to fund this site 2 years ago. I still kep a couple of Golden Age ones. I don't read them - I just like collecting them.

 

[Spicy McHaggis]

I started collecting right around the time McFarlane left Marvel. Mainly I was into Spider Man, Wolverine, Punisher, Ghost Rider and a few others. WHen Image started, I was pretty much bought at least the first few issues of a new character.

I came to the realization that my collection most likely will not be worth much. Comics increase in value when they're rare. The market is so saturated now that I buy them for story and artwork (occasionally), not for collecting.

My prize possesion in the collection is Amazing Spider Man #318. Cosmic Spidey vs The Hulk, done by Todd McFarlane.

 

[Dawn Marie]

My bro has hundreds of comics stacked away, still in the packages... they must be worth a lot of money. They're pretty old, almost as old as him. lol

 

[TCapp]

I like 'em for the stories. If I just get them to put them on a shelf somewhere, it's just clutter. Blah. I think my early interest in comics set me on the road to reading books in general. I love to read.

 

[D.C]

I have allot of Transformers comics. I have almost all of the original series that was put out by Marvel and the newest series being published by Dream Wave.

 

[gypsymoth]

dc, I'm too tired to look now, but I bought a tranformer comic a long time ago.

 

[tulc]

I have almost 1000 of X-Men comics almost all of the 1990's. Then I got into DC mostly side comics (Suicide Squad, Spectre, Vigilante) stuff like that. I stopped collecting when I started doing
re-enactment.
tulc

 

[gypsymoth]

I am into Solar man of the Atom. It has an almost magical feel. I don't like the more introspective comics, but this one is alright.
-Nathan

 

[marmaladePRO]

comics LOL, great thread, i wish i saw it sooner
yeah, i collect comics, i probably have too many, but i keep getting more. my father was a huge sword and sorcery collector years ago, so he got me into the collection. (He sold it all when i was real young, all the original Conans etc.)
i had the privilage of meeting Sergio Aragones and gettin his autograph when i was young, and i started collectin with a fury then... and aside from the odd downtime, i still buy comics. i collect them for their artist/writer and their plot/story some are worth money, some are not even worth the paper they are printed on (which isnt hard since all this fancy paper is used )
i figure that i'll be in a similar situation you were Erwin, some day, i'll have this investment that i can pass off, maybe for my kids education i dunno
but until then, they are great to read.

 

[Erwin]

I wish I'd kept my X-men, Spiderman, Daredevil and Hulk #1 - sold them 2 years ago to start-up CF. They are so big now.

 

[psycmajor]

Ah, but Erwin, what you've gained is priceless!

I'll have to point this thread out to retrogeek.

 

[GL2814]

Huge comic book freak, here. I collect The Green Lantern, The Green Arrow, Batman (HUSH storyline rocks!!), Superman, JLA, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine, Ultimate Spiderman, Ultimate X-Men, and Daredevil:The Man Without Fear.
Favorite of all is The Green Lantern

 

[marmaladePRO]

well Erwin, you've sold cooler comics (price-wise) than i've ever owned i think yowzza
i traded all my 80's & 90's Xmen comics for board games... LOL i guess i got the short end of that financial bargain the comics are worth more now than then, and those board games i got, we'll they're gone...
/once too young, really!

 

[The Barbarian]

I have a pile my kids left when they went to college. After graduating, they said "toss them". Any particular items you're looking for?

 

[Outspoken]

<-- still has all his comics including the 1st app of wolverine in hulk

 

[Rechtgläubig]

I pick them up when I can. My favorite is Predator, but I have a wide variety.