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As a fifteen year old kid I knew back in 1973 that comic books were a good investment and I saved this article. |
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| Thanks for posting that. Interesting read. I wonder how well known Dennis Kitchen was at that time. I had never heard of Bob Beerbohm, Justin Green, or Felix Dennis but they all have Wikipedia pages. Reading about Justin Green's character obsessively trying to deflect "pecker rays" this morning was amusing. And Felix Dennis had been a defendant in the Oz underground magazine obscenity trial, and was publishing work by such artists as Dave Gibbons and Brian Bolland by that time. Later he "built a Nasdaq company turning over $2.5m while on crack cocaine". Lots of talent at that comic convention in 1973, and that non-credited journalist got quotes from some interesting characters. |
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| Felix Dennis Obituary Oh, and when Felix Dennis passed away in 2014 he happened to be "one of the richest men in Britain". That article you posted was a real rabbit hole for me. |
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| I knew and worked with Bruce Hamilton, he was a very nice man and passionate hobbyists. | ||
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| @sborock Would he be this Bruce Hamilton? Soon to become, at that point, the publisher of Gladstone Publishing? Yeesh. Another big name in a small article. My first searches were polluted with results related to a hockey executive. |
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| Yep! That would be Bruce. He had the 1st book ever professionaly graded when we 1st opened the doors at CGC. 1st Donald Duck. | ||
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| @Rafel “Wish I had $1,500.00 back in 1973”. Sounds like you would of needed a little more than that to get the Action Comics #1. |
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| @CaptainCanuck Meh. Just pick up three or four copies of AF15 instead. You’ll be good. | ||
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| I wish I could show my dad this newspaper piece. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by xavier I wish I could have shown my grandmother that article before she burned a substantial number of silver age comics (prior to my birth) that I would have inherited. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Cerebus3000 Isn't that awful? I'm 60 and I got to hear how all the parents burned golden age comics when their kids went to college. Aw. They didn't know any better. |
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| If comics weren’t scrapped, discarded, recycled, they wouldn’t be worth a fraction of their current value. There’d be too many remaining. IH181: “hold my beer.” |
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| @Davethebrave Quote: Originally Posted by Davethebrave Makes you wonder why some modern comics have such value. See UF4, for example. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave Yeah no shit. A comic that shouldn't be so out of control. Desire is a strong motivator. I ALMOST completed my run of signed, raw Crisis On Infinite Earths run. Most are/were around $45-$50 average. Not no more. The buzzards are no longer swirling, they are feasting. Will I pay $350 for a raw, signed #5? Not on your life. Plenty of them have been signed. TONS of unsigned abound. I can't swing a dead Supergirl without hitting a COIE book. Golden age and silver, yeah I get it. When IH 181 outstrips a Capt Marvel Jr #1 in the same grade, I'm out. It isn't a matter of "Oh WELL it's the introductory, full appearance of a huge MOVIE DRIVEN character arguably the most important in the Bronze age!" Keep it. It's heavily populated and nothing at ALL rare about it. The buzzard factor. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck My IH181 comment was intended to address that but same applies to UF4. UF4 has a limited history at such lofty values. Many were calling for Bitcoin to “reach $500k” by 2023, or hailing Cathie Wood as brilliant and dismissing Buffett. Scarcity has a durable quality that pure speculative demand does not. Care to guess what this chart represents?  |
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| Back to the OP above. Love that bit of history! $1,500 was a serious chunk of change back then but the returns would have been exceptional. Not quite “buying Microsoft in 1986” but still great. | ||
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 If I could, I would. I swear.
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| If wishes were horses then beggars would ride, If turnips were swords I’d have one by my side. If ‘ifs’ and ‘ands’ were pots and pans There would be no need for tinker’s hands! |
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 being an ass and being a clown are two very different things.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave This is Warren being Warren. |
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