What is your biggest comic failure/regret?3538
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Quote:Originally Posted by kaptainmyke Ohhhh I cringed at this one. You poor soul. |
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| Not buying a bunch of Walking Dead #1's back in '03! | ||
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| My only regret is not buying a copy or two of Saga #1. I remember seeing it at my LCS the week it came out. I thought "oh that artwork is fantastic, I should buy one". Never did it. Those sell for $150-200 all day right now. |
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 I bought a meat grinder on amazon for $60 and it's changed my life.
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| never heard of Saga | ||
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| I bought a copy of Human Torch 1 when I started out just presuming it must be his 1st appearance. Whooops! | ||
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I kick myself in the ass for not holding extremely tight to a cooy of amazibg fantasy 15 my mom sold at a garage sale in the early 90's. I was only 5 or 6 years old. My mom told me i could keep 1 comic and i was holding the comic as an older guy probably in his 60's was buying all my moms comics which i remember seeing amazing spiderman 1,2,3,6,7,9, and a few others. I also recall a butt load of tale suspsense books, richie rich books, looney tunes, human torch golden age books her uncle had given her, some captain anerica books, and casper. I remember telling her i wanted the amazing fantasy book as i loveeeeed the comic cover art and use to draw a bit myself as a kid. My mom didnt do her hw and sold most of the comics for a .25 -$1 a piece. As the older man turned to load up the comics in his car he noticed the one in my hand and kind of grabbed it out of my hand and gave my mom $5 or so for it. Till this day i still remember that moment and when i tell my mom the value of that comic she goes "shut it. I didnt know comics would be worth that" her copy wasnt a 9.0 or anything but definitely a solid 4.0 i would think. I remember chipping on the cover but dont remember any major creases or bends. I do know she kept all her comics stored pretty well in her room. Ughhhh i wish i had that book today  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson Must be nice. |
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| 5 or 6 years ago, I had the opportunity to get on J. Scott Campbell's commission list....it was something like $400-600 and I thought that was way too expensive so i passed. I'd pay 3 or 4 times that amount to be on that list now. | ||
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| @rckstr1253 Reading that made me ill. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Despain No point in spending time on could'ves, should'ves, didn't. I would rather focus on those times I turned $1 into $500 or $92 into $1,000. |
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annnd @rckstr1253 takes the lead  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson Elementary my dear Watson! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson Oh I agree. I was just saying it must be nice that you have no regrets. Or not even a misstep in collecting. I wish I was that perfect. |
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 Beaten by boat oars
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| Ought a Batman 189 and never realized it was missing a page because it didn't affect the story. Runner up is an Iron Fist 14 that graded to an 8.5. Paid $315 for it which was pricy for a raw book a couple years ago. I also regret not buying a DD 131 when I had the chance but didn't pull the trigger. Book would have graded out 9.4 at least. |
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| Yep Rckstr1253 tales the lead. But nikki666666 is a close second.(funny as hell) |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Despain Please, there have been plenty of missteps. I got screwed big time by Danny Dupcak in the 80s... or was it the 90s? There just isn't any point on dwelling on it. There's plenty of positive stuff to focus on that's a lot more fun. Just buy things that you enjoy at what you think is a fair price. Buying on speculation is when everything usually ends in tears. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson Gerry Ross burned my butt when I mail ordered Hulk 181 from him circa 1989. Paid $150 for a near mint copy. Kept it all these years only to have it graded this year by CBCS. Came back a 4.5 with color touch. Mile High Comics burned me too. Bought a "near mint" copy of Hulk 180 from them circa 1999 for $90. Came back a 5.5 with color touch. |
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| Gerry Ross? Is that 1,000,000 Comix? | ||
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| @DrWatson That's the one. | ||
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| I remember going into one of their stores in Halifax, Nova Scotia many many moons ago. | ||
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| Passed a few months ago on an action comics 252 that was raw about a 3.0 for $400. | ||
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| Putting a stack of 7 or 8 New Mutants#98s back and gettin 1, because I wanted a pack of Big League Chew instead. Stupid kid... to this day, have no idea what happened to that book. Thanks... now I need a shot | ||
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| It's not really comic related, but it is art related. I had a chance to buy a page of "little red riding hood" storyboard artwork done by Milo Manara and I passed on it. I had extra cash in the bank at the time and I liked it. I wanted to keep it that way. As a general rule, I don't have a lot of regrets. If the price is too high, I definitely don't have regrets. | ||
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| OH.. a few years ago when BA12 was like $20 bucks and I could have bought all of them, but instead I thought DC Comics Harley Quinn was THE ONE.. OH.. when my Girlfriend said pick me up a copy of EOSV2 for that cute new costume and I only bought one copy... |
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Suckin' on a chili dog Outside the Tastee Freez. |
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| Sticking it out until #15 with Ravage 2099 | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by FUEGOMUSIC Have to agree, rckstr1253 takes the lead. Sad thing is when I was a young gun (i was a young gun once, right?) I coulda, woulda shoulda loaded up on AF 15s for mere dollars a pop...... |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Savage_Spawn After reading through, I'm not sure there is much else that can top that. |
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| Rookies!! In 1974, I bought Amazing Spider Man 1-15 for $50.00 (down from $100.00) and sold them for $525.00 and a complete set of RAT PATROL CARDS in 1980 (I needed to make car payments), 1976, bought Journey Into Mystery 83 (near mint) for $40.00 and that same year sold it for $80.00 and lastly in 1976, I bought 3,000 comic books for $1,000.00 or 30¢ each. One of them was X-MEN 1 which I sold for $110.00 in 1986 to goto RENO, NV and I lost it. I cry every time I think about this. |
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