A 27 YEAR TRIP

When my father and I had just gotten into comic collecting back in 1986 we quickly started putting together sets of series that interested us.

The first long running series that we focused on was Daredevil. So in the fall of 86 we went to the home of a coworker of my father who had decided to sell some of his comic collection.

When we started digging through his boxes we found a boatload of Daredevils. They were in pristine condition since he had selected the best he could find and bagged them up and had not touched them since. My only regret now is that we did not pick up more issues at the time.

The pick of the litter that day was his copy of Daredevil 168. We paid the whopping grand total of five dollars for it..... FIVE DOLLARS!!!

My father sadly passed away in the Spring of 2000 and I subsequently sold off almost all of the collection since I did not have a home yet and my mom needed the room. It was over ten thousand issues! This was when CGC was just trying to get off the ground and was years away from being the established and respected organization that it is today.

If I had known then what I do now about the future of CGC I would never have sold them. I DID manage to keep my whole Daredevil set and a select few doubles from the collection. And now after 27 years I am about to finally have some of these graded.

I am attending the Orlando Megacon next month and I have seven raw issues that I plan on getting pressed and graded on site. Five are from my original collection.

Daredevil 168 (see pic below) - paid $5

Amazing Spider-Man 300 - paid $1.50

Transformers 80 - paid 25 cents

Wolverine 1 - paid $1

Wolverine 2 - paid $1

I will be so happy to finally see these graded after all these years but the DD 168 will be the most nostalgic for me. I will never part with it regardless of its grade.

So from $5 acquisition in 1986 to CGC grading in 2013. What a journey. What a hobby. What a load of fun!

Funny how 27 years can still seem like just a week ago. I love you Dad!

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