Will you be buying comics up until your death bed?12839
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Quote:Originally Posted by Jesse_O If you have ever seen Deadman with Johnny Depp. (One of my all time favorite movies) his death at the end is a version of the Viking funeral. |
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 Have I told you about the time I dropped off 3,000 comics at SDCC?
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| I will stop when I dont find anymore holes to fill or art/stories of interest. | ||
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 You do know that the new guy brings the donuts, right?
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Quote:Originally Posted by comicsforme I've been married 15 years tomorrow (09/10). My wife does not mind at all that I buy comics. She's not really into it, but she's cool with me doing it. |
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doog private msg quote post Address this user | |
| The wife and I support each other’s hobbies and don’t interfere. I notice I have been buying less being newly retired and with more time, listing more non keys, and barely keys on EBay. Now I think I do not have enough boxes left that are show fodder for a show table, should they resume. I know guys who’s houses are stuffed basement to attic with boxes, and storage units besides, they will purchase until death, and are a cautionary example. I think I will buy an occasional book or series, but will continue to refine to fewer, but the better books, just a hobby I like, probably until my robot body. |
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| I would like to think there will come a day when I will stop buying and focus only on reading my hoard. I keep telling myself that and yet I still keep buying more comics than I read. Probably when I stop working I will stop buying and hopefully be content with my library as it is at that point. I may sell off my “money” comics at some point, but the bulk of my collection I plan to retain and enjoy when I don’t have to work anymore. | ||
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 To answer your question, no, this is not where the comics go to die.
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| I stopped buying new comics a long time ago and only buy collections now. With my health on a downward slope now I'm starting to sell pretty much everything though. I have a 10' x 10' storage unit stacked to the ceiling with comics, action figures, Hot Wheels, and tons of other collectibles. I'll probably keep a few things but my goal is to sell enough so I can finally close my storage unit. |
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HeinzDad private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by DWeeB1967I had to work late today so my wife grabbed my books from the LCS this week. I’m lucky. |
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Jesse_O private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @doog I love Johnny Depp but I have not heard of that movie. I will definitely be checking it out! | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Scifinator That is the interesting question then... at what point are we buying just to have something new versus actually collecting toward our focus? A few years ago at NYCC there was a guy selling a 4.5 CGC copy of FF1 for $4500. I passed. I didn't feel like I should be spending that money at the time as I was saving more money for a home and I am not 'that' into the FF. It was then that I felt I was just shopping just to shop... now I try to stay as focused as possible when it comes to buying things that I know I want to keep, and not flip. |
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 It's like the Roach Motel for comic collectors.
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chester15 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Ooh, now you have me thinking. I'll have to sell some comics to start a foundation, one that will continue to buy comics AFTER my deathbed. | ||
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 I showed my wife and she was so happy for me she started to cry.
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| When I was younger I remember talking to a bunch of older guys saying what they use to have, I swore I wouldn't be one of those guys, had full runs if most of the marvel titles, Spider-Man 1 on up, ff 1 on up etc. well I'm one of those guys. I foolishly traded my collection for a few golden age books. I started picking up some keys in the 90's and then put them in my safe and would open about every 10 years. I got back into comics in '17 and have spent WAY to much to pick up the books I got rid of in the late 80's. It's been a rush finding good deals on books, upgrading and selling a few off. The plan is to grade as many of the keys as possible. When I'm 65 or so, (54 now) start gradually selling them off. If I kick the bucket first, my wife will have aN easier time selling them. Have a few friends I can trust to help her. My kids will take a few of their favorites. When I get a book in the mail my middle daughter and wife try to beat each other by calling "dibs" On the book(s). We'll see, plans usually change. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by chester15 I like the way you are thinking!!!! |
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Have I told you about the time I dropped off 3,000 comics at SDCC?
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Scifinator private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Buzzetta Almost all of my recent collecting has been towards filling SA - 1995 holes. The notable exception was going after the star wars original 12 back action figure covers from 2015  and....  |
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 Masculinity takes a holiday.
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| For me it's not really about completing anything, it's more about enjoying an ongoing journey. There's two parts to the journey that I hope to keep enjoying for many years: For Personal Collection I enjoy older and more hard to find books. I like searching for them, comparing conditions and prices, and trying to find the best value relative to other options. In some cases it's about specific books but mostly it's about Cover Art. Lately I've been looking at a bunch of EC sci-fi and horror books. Not even looking at the issue numbers, just trying to find good value in the covers that I find most intriguing. In these cases condition becomes very important below 4.0, but there's little chance I will be buying anything above 7.0. So 4.0 to 6.0 is kind of my sweet spot when I'm searching. For selling purposes I enjoy trying to be ahead of the curve. When I speculate I'm not looking for the most upside potential, I'm looking for books that are so under-recognized currently that there is little to no downside. Basically Minor First appearances that haven't really popped yet and are probably selling now for as low as they will ever sell in the future. I often have to wait 5-10 years, but I've done well enough with books like this in the past to mostly pay for my collecting hobby. For example I recently bought 10 copies of the Jason Rousch Firestorm first appearance on MCS for $2 each. Maybe it will stay a $2 book, maybe it will become a $300 book...But it can't go much below $2. Repeat 10 times, have 2-3 of them pop and you start feeling like you're smarter than you really are. I enjoy speculating long term this way. Nothing quite like the feeling when your $2 book is valuable enough to send the 10 copies in for slabbing...just waiting to find out if each copy will be worth $300, or only $100. Hopefully my deathbed will be far enough out that a grandchild will catch the bug and take over. Right now it doesn't look like either of my two kids are overly fascinated with these comic books they've spent their entire lives living with. |
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| the real question is What comics do you plan to be buried with? I have 2 set aside |
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 Beaten by boat oars
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| Currently, my pull list is composed mostly of indy titles. The good thing is that most are short-run limited series types of titles. At this point, most of the ones I have on my pull list will be ending in the next couple of issues and I'm not intending to add much going forward. It's more of a cost to entertainment value ratio for me. It sometimes takes me less than 10 minutes to read a single issue, and against a cover price of $3.99+, it doesn't strike me as that great of a deal. However, I do enjoy the medium and will still keep buying some newer comics if they strike me as interesting. As for buying back issues for runs I'm working on, that will still happen. It's still a hobby for me and I enjoy it 85% of the time. | ||
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| Definitely not. | ||
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| Good question! I’m already slowing down right now. We just bought a pool and also helping my mother in law out, so my comic budget is the one that suffered. However, I’ll still pick up a few here and there. Right now I’m trying to reduce my collection to about half. As for being buried with them, I’d rather my kids have them. My daughter loves teen titans so she gets those and the Stan Lee autograph. My Son gets the Steranko autograph, and anything Adam Warlock or Batman. And he gets the comic I have where my letter is published. I’m even giving my nephew the first appearance of Damian Wayne. I guess my goal is to achieve a slight amount of immortality... |
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 The Fifth Golden Girl
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| I still read comic books and don't see why I would stop UNLESS all the stories and art was total garbage. I don't buy single issues anymore, but buy trades instead, which means I am anywhere from 6 months to 12 months behind everyone else and get spoilers from friends and while grading. |
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| I'll buy until I die. I have an advance directive and will in place. My baby bro is to keep all my books and get my business assets to either keep or liquidate. He and his gf love this stuff so he told me he plans to mount and display the books in my memory in his house. He then wants to pass them on to kids. | ||
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 Suck it up, buttercup!!
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| I think I'll stop buying moderns and off the rack in 5yrs...so I'll be 51/52 Hopefully before then I'll start selling off most of what I have (need to get it all organized first) and in yr 6 from now I'll concentrate on golden age (space, jungle, horror and war covers) and silver (keys) - maybe a few a year, like 5 or less yeah...that sounds like a plan to me! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Haljordanfan That was my plan but my son is 14 and has zero interest in my collection. I retire in less than 5 years so I'm going back to Plan A. I have close to 50 boxes that I've been collecting for over 35 years. I'm selling for my retirement. I'm still going to work on completing my Amazing Spiderman run though. |
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 It was a one trick pony show but always hilarious.
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| My game plan is to morph my collection from quantity to quality.....I'll likely always be around the hobby....I'll sell many books to buy fewer higher value books. The higher value books are very liquid at slightly discounted prices. If I could liquidate my entire collection and buy a lower grade Batman 1 or a 7.0/7.5 Amazing Fantasy 15 I would in a heart beat....in fact, that's really what I'm doing. When the time comes to sell (either by me or I give them to my kids) then there'll be fewer to sell and hopefully higher values received. Also, I believe big key books are less susceptible (not impervious) to market crashes....but I maybe wrong on that. |
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| If I were to know my time on this earth is about to expire I would stop buying and start selling in order to enjoy the limited time I still have. If I never get notified by a doctor that I am about to die I will collect until I die. | ||
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| I only buy six ongoing series right now and don't think I'll be adding any more. Most of my buying is filling in holes or going after GA or SA books. I don't foresee quitting the hobby - of course anything could happen - but I intend to leave the collection to my daughter or my hypothetical grandchildren. My daughter thinks comics are stupid (then again, she's 13, so she thinks everything is stupid) and asked me a few months ago why I had the collection. I told her it was going to her after I was gone. "What am I supposed to do with it?" she demanded. I tapped a box with my foot (fortunately I had a box with some of my bigger prizes out at the moment - FF 8 to 100, missing half a dozen or so issues) and told her the ballpark value of the contents. Now she thinks comics are slightly less stupid. |
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 The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| My brother always says, your collection isn't worth squat until you sell it. Hypothetical value is a bunch of hot air. Funny on how he would be the person inheriting any books I have left at my end of days.... |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Jesse_O |
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 Cover, 8 pages before the staples, 8 pages after, back cover.
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MrNotSoNice private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by BrashSmurf Dazzler #1 and Not Brand Ecch Annual #1 ??? |
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Cover, 8 pages before the staples, 8 pages after, back cover.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bronte Would he say the same about your house? |
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The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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Bronte private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @MrNotSoNice I don't put much stock in what he says about it. Obviously he has no qualms asking to borrow money from me so he knows I must be doing something right. But yeah, I die he gets everything. Essentially he is the only family I have left. So the house is his too. Fortunately I'm worth more dead to him than alive. |
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