Do you collect Comic Books?

[Locut0s]

That can be a bottomless pit too depending on how involved you want to be. With any kind of collection, it's best to specialize. You only have so much time, money, and room for old junk :^D

Yes that's definitely true. You can spend thousands hunting down some of the more obscure systems. To say nothing about the game libraries on each. I'm thinking of just collecting the big name systems (Atari 2600, NES, SNES, PC Engine, etc etc..) and for each only a handful of games. I do plan on specializing in a few areas though. For example it would be great to have a really mint Mario and Zelda game collection. If you try hard enough you can get them in their original boxes with manuals and everything, but as you said that starts getting expensive. This is one of the reasons I like visiting thrift stores. And I have my computer hardware habit to feed too.

 

[BudAshes]

They should make comic books illegal because I don't read them and don't know anyone who reads them and they are a bad influence on kids and make them dumber. Why can't they read a real book? Comics are for losers.

*this is a parody of the op's constant whining about drugs, don't take this seriously*

 

[ahenkel]

I did collect comics and was a huge fan of spider-man mostly. I got this picture tattooed on my leg. Not the whole cover mind you just the green goblin and spidey.

Pardon the bad cell phone shots its late and I don't feel like shooting new pics, and yes the tattoo is not finished. Money has been tight and I need to find a new artist.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

I haven't bought a comic since probably 4th grade.

My favorite amongst the stash was Spawn #1-15...
... Then my cat crawled in the drawer of comics and ended up shredding the first 4 or 5....
..........

 

[HeXen]

Yes that's definitely true. You can spend thousands hunting down some of the more obscure systems. To say nothing about the game libraries on each. I'm thinking of just collecting the big name systems (Atari 2600, NES, SNES, PC Engine, etc etc..) and for each only a handful of games. I do plan on specializing in a few areas though. For example it would be great to have a really mint Mario and Zelda game collection. If you try hard enough you can get them in their original boxes with manuals and everything, but as you said that starts getting expensive. This is one of the reasons I like visiting thrift stores. And I have my computer hardware habit to feed too.

i too considered similar. i decided to specialize a bit, i kept what systems i do have and games. i love collecting games and hardware but kept it reasonable

 

[Stifko]

I had the first appearance of the Punisher and Wolverine. My mom threw them away.

That sucks, man. My uncle had the first superman, and my grandfather burned it in the fireplace intentionally.

I think the first appearance of the Punisher was in a Spiderman comic, with Nighcrawler and the Jackal. Ross Andrew penciled it. I read that comic many times and have it somewhere.

 

[TallBill]

All the orginal TMNT comics (the B&W series that was violent!).

Those are phenomenal. I had several books which were large collections of all the early comics. Dunno what I ever did with them, even those are pricey these days. Some awesome and brutal violence.

 

[Spydermag68]

Hulk #181 has the first appearance of Wolverine? I have a copy of that someplace, but it is dog-eared.

Technicality Hulk #180 is the first appearance of Wolverine. It is just one panel on the last page. Hulk #181 is the first one will Wolverine all the way through and with him on the cover.

I have two copies of each of them. One set signed by Len Wein.

 

[nageov3t]

I buy comics sporadically (mostly just TPB's, though). I wouldn't say that I collect them, however, and I doubt I have more than a handful of issues worth more than cover price.

 

[twinrider1]

I had the first appearance of the Punisher and Wolverine. My mom threw them away.

My dad (born in 1927) collected when he was a kid. He had the two holy grails; Action Comics #1 and Detective Comics #27. No bags and boards back then, but he did build a set of drawers for storage. Read them a few times, and into a drawer they went. Kept them for nearly ten years. Left town for the summer to look for work and....... yep, he came back to find his mom had given them all to the neighborhood kids. :'(

 

[angminas]

I've never been a collector...as above, it's just too huge for me to really get into...but I'll buy some here and there. Some of my favorites:

The Infinity Gauntlet (and What if...The Silver Surfer Possessed the Infinity Gauntlet?)

Iron Man- the Dragon Seed saga (I want to say it's like five issues in the 270s)

Elfquest- the original series (I have this spread over some originals, some Marvels, and some GNs)

Superman vs. Doomsday

 

[Possessed Freak]

I did when I was a kid. The last one I bought was when they seemingly killed off Dr. Doom in the 90's. Evidently they didn't, but at the time I thought I was losing my favorite character so I quit reading.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Read them, did not collect. They got too expensive WAY back in my day in college, the day of the crossover (when you had the Infinity Gauntlet, the Infinity Gems and the Infinity Undies).

When you had to buy 20 comics that you did not read to get a complete story line, and the books went from 75 cents to $2 in short order... well.......

You read the second appearance of the Dark Phoenix in the Annuals and you start saving your $$$

 

[slayer202]

I love comic books. Here is my favorite

 

[bigrash]

I still collect. Have been for about 15 years. Still buy them weekly.

My most valued ones are probably Wolverine 1, the Daredevil issue where Bullseye kills Elektra, 1st appearance of Gambit and a few others I can't remember.

Btw, does anyone else use Collectorz.com to track their comic books. It's a pretty cool software and I even bought the iphone app.

 

[NuclearNed]

I collected in high school and college, but completely quit shortly before I got married as it got too expensive. I have almost all X-Men comic books printed from around issue #100 up to whatever the issue # was around 1993. Strangely, some of my most valuable comics are the Star Wars books I got when was a kid in the 70's.

Recently, my grandmother gave me a stack of really old comics that belonged to my uncle. They're in terrible condition, but man are they fun to read - Nick Fury & his Howling Commandos, Sgt. Rock, really old Superman books, some of the first Avengers, Iron Man, etc.

 

[darkamulets]

Just recently knocked out Iron man Vol 1 & 2 out in FINE condition and up with the exception of #7 of volume one. Can't find a good price on it and my current copy is held together with some rusty staples and would fall apart if I went to read it I'm sure. I'm trying to unload all my spiderman stuff, he just has to many titles to collect on a budget.

 

[HAL9000]

Just recently knocked out Iron man Vol 1 & 2 out in FINE condition and up with the exception of #7 of volume one. Can't find a good price on it and my current copy is held together with some rusty staples and would fall apart if I went to read it I'm sure. I'm trying to unload all my spiderman stuff, he just has to many titles to collect on a budget.

Thats cool I've just started my Iron Man collection, where did you start, I've started at the beginning as that's were I'll be spending the money, I also want to get Tales of Suspense, I imagine I wont get Tales of Suspense 39 any time soon but I've got 40 and 48 and I'm working my way through the rest. So far with Iron Man i've got 1, 2, and 3

 

[darkamulets]

I had a bunch of mid 200 stuff from when I was younger. Afterwards I put out my want list on a few boards. I got a big push from someone that was dumping there collection and he added about 150 issues from 2-300 on avg 2~, considering the condition of the low numbered issues I think it worked out well for the 200+ ones.

I picked up #1 on ebay for $100~ or so it came CGC rated so I've left it in the case (have the TPB 1-50 to thumb through). Then I picked up another 2 lots of 50-140 & 100-250 on ebay, at that point I needed about 30 misc issues. Hit up lonestarcomics.com traded in a few spidey/FF books and grabbed the ones I needed.

South Florida really doesn't have a strong comic following I have 1 shop in my area that gets new issues, anything else I need to travel 20-30 miles for.

Lemme know if you want that guys email address, he was great to deal with.

I always liked reading through the issues myself so they'll never all be perfect mint.