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robotcat - comic collecting history

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robotcat

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a brief bit about my comic collecting history

My first comic was 1st comic was Amazing Spider-Man #173. It was given to me by a friend of mine, most likely in early 1978. It was his older brother's. I still have it. I've bought a few more since then.

My first major collecting period was between 1986-1993(bought some good books and a lot of ). I infrequently bought comics between 1994-2006 and sold about 1/2 my collection in 1997 after a drunk ran his truck into my house. He hit the wall where my long boxes were and ended up parked on my bed. He missed the gas meter by about 2 feet. Surprisingly, at least 95% of my comcs remained unscathed. They were packed fairly tight, and most were boarded or two in a bag with a board between them. I mainly sold the ones I did because I didn't want to re-bag them. Most of the sleeves had an icky feel to them. So all the low value books, that didn't have any potential went to a friend of mine or HPB.

I started seriously collecting again in late 2006. I slowed down a bit in 2011, as I was more focused on the the Topps giveaway program, but I've pretty much been going full steam since. My current collection has 8,000+ individual issues with 3,000+ extras that I have in a consignment store.

accident pic below - it happened around 2AM, and I was watching Murder by Death - being a nite owl paid off in spades!

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