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I've just sold about 40% of my collection with the aim of buying one or two key books. 

I'm a run collector not interested in investment but whatever I buy I hope will increase in value if I want to sell on in the future. 

I need Avengers 1 to complete volume 1 but I'm also thinking that there is little room now for that appreciate in value. Likewise I'm looking at Daredevil 1 as a possibility but not sure where that will go. 

GSXM 1 is looking a good bet maybe, but I have never followed the market really. 

I just know I will get pleasure from owning a big key more than the 3400 comics I had sat around taking up space I didn't have. Still got another 5500 in my collection that I do enjoy owning. 

Whatever you decide, don't rush your decision. 

A recent check of my inventory showed I was missing Avengers 389, Cap 114 and Thor 128.

Really infuriating as they are listed in my software app. 

Av 389 isn't a problem to replace but I knew had the other 2 somewhere. 

Anyway,  I found Cap 113 - I've got it slabbed at 7.5. Was very nice as I have no recollection at all of buying it. Still no Thor though. 

On the upside, I found I had a Dr Strange 169 which I didn't know about. 

I have just listed 40% of my collection on ebay. 

My wife's aunty died of Covid last month. It took them days to clear her place and most of it went in the bin. It did make me think what would happen when I go. Who would be interested in Red Sonja 7 in VG? 

I'm going to keep the major titles and runs and focus on them. I haven't lost interest but I do need to focus. Those 16 boxes of dreck were just going to sit in the attic anyway. They're just things, things with little relative value.

I sold mine and my dad's original owner collection back in 95 for a pittance and regret it still but this time I feel its a positive thing to do. 

When they do sell I will buy a key that will mean something more to me and be of more use to the kids if I do disappear. 

Steve, this has been a phenomenon effort.  You succeeded where Kev and I couldn't.

Do you have the'final' spreadsheet to share?

Neil

The True Believer reprints of AF15 and ASM1 arrived today after I ordered them last week. 

Guess I'll be reading those. Ironic they came today. 

My dad's first hero comic was AF15 back in 1962 when he was 17. He's 73 now and Stan Lee has been a part of our life since then.

I remember learning to read as a 4 year old with Marvel comics and my dad telling me who he was. 

Stan the Man!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

Sad news. He gave us so much so I'm grateful for that. 

Good luck with the search.

I assume you've checked out Duncan Mcalpines site already as it iss full of info on UK comics http://www.comicpriceguide.co.uk 

That they were printed first is still just a theory I think.

Too many collectors stateside see them as inferior in some way. Which is fine by me, cheaper to buy for me.

My dad bought a 9d Amazing Fantasy 15 from a newsagents back in 1962 and set us out on this crazy journey that still continues for me today. 

10 hours ago, tv horror said:

Here's a question for you, other than keys do you think that it would be cheaper to collect U.K Silver age runs? I'm feeling like it would be nice to start collecting the Astonish Suspense Strange lines as I've always loved their covers.  

If you mean collecting those titles, rather than true UK copies I wouldn't say cheaper I would much harder.  Not sure they exist in great numbers.

Yeah this already exists, my son got it for me a couple of Christmases so

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My dad started collecting in 1962 and bought AF15 etc off the shelf.

By the late 70's I was reading them with him. Parents split in 1980 and he sold some including that one and some weree borrowed and never returned.

Still by 1986 we had a lovely collection and he passed them on to me 6000 plus.

In my university days I was of course broke and decided to sell them all. By 1995 the interest in comics had died down somewhat so there weren't many buyersof big collections that I was aware of. Silver Acre got them in the end for a bargain price.

I am at peace with it now but from the moment he loaded them up and closed the van door I had regretted it. This was an OO collection started by my dad 30 years previous and I took the money to pay off my overdraft ☹️

This is great little app, thank you for it.

Absolutely loving this thread guys.

What's the app you're using?

That #160 is spectacular.

6 hours ago, AnthonyTheAbyss said:

That is the worse movie review...ever.  Give a rating man!  Compare it to other movies!  I need to know if I should buy a small or large Icee.

 I was pretty tired when I got in last night.

A solid 8/10. He makes a great Peter Parker, but then I thought TM did too to be started dancing.

Is probably the best Spidey movie yet, but I haven't watched SM2 for a long while.

Aunt Mary is a bit strange, she's too hot for the role, otherwise I enjoyed everything they did with the cast.

Just back from watching it. 

Won't say anything except I really enjoyed it.

Stay till the end for the last scene

Avengers was a pretty easy run to collect. Only need #1. Other than that the only high value issue in the run is #4.

Spidey, FF and JIM are too costly if I were to start today.

22 hours ago, gadzukes said:

An Af15 7.0 pence copy is the jewel of my collection.

I remember that copy being for sale. It's the one signed by Stan back in 1974 isn't it? 

A beautiful example and probably the best pence copy there is.

In 62 my dad cleaned windows for his father's business. He would work in an area called North Ormesby in Middlesbrough near the docks.

He would go into a newsagents there for drinks or whatever but mainly because he took a liking to the young ginger haired girl who worked there.

There was a particular comic hung up by a peg to a length of string that he kept noticing everyone he went in. At this point he would read British comics and American reprints and swap them with his friends.

Eventually he bought it, it was AF15 of course. It was the first super hero Marvel he bought and for some reason didn't swap it out throw it away.

No he didn't get the girl.

He sold it in 1980 when my parents split up so I didn't even get to see it

Jaydog is here.

This thread is over.

Thanks guys. 

Love stories of old fandom.

7 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

So in instances like this, the books (e.g. ASM 42 and 43) just weren't sold in the UK or were they sold as regular U.S. cents issues?

If not sold at all, that must have been a little hard on UK fans to miss two issues out of a book's continuity. 

Well it's a long time since I had the collection but my dad definitely had them in his original collection bought at the time of release.

Don't have them to check but my guess would be that they were stamped copies.

What was the Marvel Art Review?

That really is a thing of beauty. 

After you initially posted this i went out and got myself a copy.  i have it in a white frame and white border.