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My parents split in 1980. I was 8. I was never allowed near the older comics, just the newer ones. Dad took them all with him. Fast forward to 1986 and I start reading comics more seriously. Dad eventually passes the whole collection to me. I catalogue them all. Amazing silver age through to current. In the boxes is a list of issues written in pencil. "What's these dad?" Back in 1980 Dad sold some of the collection to 2 younger guys both named Steve. He sold Amazing Fantasy 15 for £20/£25 plus a few others. One of lads borrowed a few comics to read, of course they didn't get returned. The list was written by the guy, and at the bottom said "taken by Steve H Sept 17." It included : Amazing Spiderman 1-10 Avengers 1-10 X-Men 1-10 Some other Ditko (Creeper) and Sterenko work. I never did get to see them at all. Apparently Steve H moved to London to be an artist. Whether he intended to keep them we'll never know. I will never be able to replace them, especially at todays prices. I don't have the list anymore. I sold the rest of the collection in 1995 for a pittance to Darryl 😠 Silver Acre. I have a nice collection now and I'm at peace with it. (Most of the time).

That's very cool. What year was that? (I was specifically talking about the mainstream media in the UK with the Duncan McAlpine article. 👍)

In Britain in 1989 the Batman movie brought comics to the mainstream. There was a Daily Mirror (tabloid newspaper) article about Duncan McAlpine buying AC1 for £10000, that was probably the first time collectible comics has been mentioned in the mainstream I imagine. I kept the article for years, probably to remind myself why I was keeping all these rags 🤣

Officially I only collect up to the end of volume one, so up to 1996. Which for Spidey was 441, DD 380, FF 416. Same for the others that stopped then. Having said that, I have loads of the later volumes too. Having culled 40% of my collection recently and felt OK about doing so it is a consideration to cut these out too, but not just yet.

That's cool, did you do it? Would like to see others done like this.

Tell him to 🤬 off.

Maybe. If you're 18 now the last decent movie was DOFP when you were 11. If, in five years there is a great MCU mutant film you might be inspired to get into the hobby.

Stay clear at these prices or go for a lower grade. I actually have no affinity for this comic at all. Didn't like it when it was released and haven't done since. I begrudgingly paid about $25 ten years ago for a mid grade to add it to the run. In some ways this comic started the era that took me out of comics altogether for 12 years. Never liked Mcfarlane art or what he represented in the industry.

Considering this is only 6 months away, have we seen any set shots or anything at all from it? Must be due something soon..

Prices cannot continue at this rate. Investors will get bored and look elsewhere, maybe go back to traditional investments once we return to some kind of normality. Right now it feels like tulip mania.

This is exhausting. Series is over already. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle.

As a completist I collect the annuals but never cared for them. Always felt a chore having to buy and read them generally. The one I remember enjoying is 21,the wedding issue. Annual 2 always puzzled me. Dr Strange story and, typically, he's not on the cover. Just stock images of Spidey on a plain background. Feels like they didn't issue it with the cover they wanted for some reason.

Solid start. Great opening sequence, even my wife was thrilled by it. Which comics will this series cause to artificially increase in value for no good reason? Apart from SS3 of course..

So prices are not that far behind really. Difficult with so few sales so draw wider conclusions I suppose. I think the WWBN sale was an outlier though rather than an indication of where the market is heading generally. I love my 9d's

Purple will be much harder to sell on if and when you need our want to. If the price is right go blue.

When I got back into collecting, around 2007, I would have flashbacks of the collection my dad and I had amassed since 1962 and was long gone. Always been a collector and never sold individual comics or paid big prices. But back in January I sold over 3000 of, mainly, drek and used it to buy a GSXM1. Trying not to look at the prices of some of the smaller keys I sold. They're gone now. Funny books and money comes and goes. Far more important things to worry about.

There is no way bosses at Disney will allow Feige to not use Wolverine. They didn't spend billions on Fox to shelve one of its biggest properties. They may let Feige decide how to bring him in but he will be used in the next few years surely. Same with Magneto.

This is my Dad's story. He has advanced dementia now so his story is lost to him. Growing up he didn't have a great home life so I think he escaped into comics,cowboy books of the 50s and so forth. In 1962 he was 17. There was a young girl he quite liked who worked in a newsagents where he would buy his comics, so he would go in there quite often. There was one comic in there he said that looked different to all those he'd seen before. It was hung on a peg and piece of string above the counter. Eventually he bought it. AF15 was the start of his collection and a fascination with comics that continues through me to this day. That copy was sold in 1980 when my parents split. I was 8 and didn't get to see or hold it. I sold the collection in the nineties when I was a poor student but started collecting again about 14 years ago. So thankfully he got to see my collection before the dementia took hold, no AF15 but a great collection still. He won't have long left to be honest and my wife thinks it would be fitting to buy an AF15 with the inheritance, kinda bring it full circle. Either way, that comic started something that is still going strong nearly 60 years later. Neil

No. None of Hero For Hire have pence variants I believe. First Power Man pence variant was issue 20.

My brother wrote to Knight Rider asking for his autograph back in the 80's. He didn't respond. Fall Guy did though.

I missed picking up FF52 for my run before they announced it and off it went. It's still the latest issue I don't own, the unbroken run to the end of the first series starts there. Speculators, flippers, whatever have no consideration for run collectors in this respect. SS3 is going to be same as well it appears.

Have to say I'm not happy with Agatha being the big bad. Why would they deviate from the comics with this when everything else is fairly consistent? I think and hope that next week we'll see that Agatha is trying to bring the Scarlet Witch out of Wanda to protect the kids somehow , maybe from someone we don't see. Or maybe Dr Strange will come save Wanda and next time we see Agatha she'll come good? The weekly format has been fantastic. I've spent more time thinking, reading and watching videos about this series more than anything else Marvel have done. Wonder if Falcon and Winter Soldier will do the same or reverts back to a simple spy thriller? Either way, really looking forward to it.

Aren't break ups part of growing and lessons to learn for future healthy relationships? You can't avoid heartbreak forever surely.

Catching up with this thread took longer than watching the episode. Loving this show. Why do Agnes and Herb know they're in a show and Norm doesn't? Ag and nes come from the start and end of Agatha Harkness. Can the same be done for Herb with an existing character from the comics? My money is on Mephisto making a deal with Wanda. I'll bring back Vision for you (not fully successfully) and you provide me with the soul of your Two children. It's all I've got and I'm not convinced myself by it. 🙄 Other Quicksilver appearing threw me though.

Way too o much choice. When I started collecting again back in 08, my remit was any Marvel from 61 to 96, and any beyond. And some DC. And Marvel UK, and some Eclipse and anything else I picked up along the way. Now I have a better focus on the 9 or so major titles with a few extras. It feels good to have a narrower focus, there are maybe only about 200 books I want to add to my collection now.