Senormac

Very cool.....thanks shark !! This kind of stuff is always interesting......It like looking at family photo albums.......no one gives a rip....unless they are part of the family !! (thumbs u

Nope.....I missed that one

Congrats on the JLA run My opinion of new issues is that trying to compete with the entire multi million $$ industry is ridiculous. They are bigger faster and stronger.....and I just cant keep up. They publish too much to fast. Hell, I can't even keep up with Hollywood and all the movies that come out. So I just don't even try. Imagine a Comic Shop being named......The Comic Shop

No more mortgage payment?? !!! Oh, how I envy you !

OUCH !! Going to the hospital is a tuff way to build your collection scrooge

Thanks Scrooge. Plas is one of the only comics I've read that actually makes me laugh !! It is good to be known Torch (thumbs u I plan on building on this one for the duration can we be best friends? <3 Heres to Odd Rods jimjum and your grail !!! And the whole set of Odd Rods cards can be viewed too.

Boy did this turn into a book. Hope nobody minds my reflecting. Starting out with the date thing brought back so many memories. Its been quite a road. 1959 - Born Eugene Oregon 1964 - Move to sleepy beach town in So. Cal called Redondo 1965 - 69 - Discover TV shows like Combat, Man From Uncle and Addams Family. Begin making my way through grade school. Some school kids have Batman cards. They are cool. Dad begins buying me a comic or two when he goes to get beer and cigs. Turok, Donald Duck, Aliens, Tarzan.....all Gold Key titles. Comics are 12 cents. One day brings Jules Feiffers The Great Comic Book Heroes home from library for me. Batman story is awesome. Joker is evil but cool. All stories are great but I love Plastic Man most and realize comics are old......AND COOL ! The seed is planted. 1970 - 72 - Begin going to liquor store with my friend Jack to get our own comics. We have a 3 store circuit cuz there are no "Comic Book Stores" yet....and no store has all the issues. We split our money between comics, pop, and paks of Odd Rod stickers that have pink slab of petrified gum inside. Love DC. Love war comics. Love seeing ads for other DC comics in my issues. Buy 50 cent 100 page DC book #6 World Greatest Super Heroes. See notes that say "Originally appeared in....." on first page of stories and learn about something called reprints. See the listings for First appearances of all DC Heroes. The seed just got doused with Miracle Grow. I want them. Marvel does not exist. 1973 - The BIG year. Discover some back issue stores like Rudy's Books and Comic Vendor. Discover Marvel. Buy my first Overstreet Price Guide. Order a Marvel Value Stamp Book and try to fill it. Score an ASM #1 for $20. Score an AF #15 with a ripped cover for around $3. Begin buying everything I can get my hands on. Buy Marvel Mystery's # 51 , #58 and #64 for around $12 each. 1974 -77 - Continue building collection by trading away nice books to get other nice books. What was I thinking? Teenagers idea of "nice" is so subjective. Play sports meet girl. Sell collection get first car, a '72 Monte Carlo. Sweet. Graduate high school. Go to my first San Diego Comic Con after seeing ad in The Buyers Guide. Lets hear a cheer for Shel Dorf !!! Have comic fever to the max. Stay at El Cortez Hotel for four days with Jack and Steve. Drive home to Redondo and back, to get my $64 check so I can buy more comics.....oh, and eat. 1978 - 79 - Break up with girl friend. Discover smoking reefer. Think its the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is. Build beautiful GA collection. Form garage band. Name band after panel in Mickey Mouse Four Color #268. Story is of jungle native who visits Mickey. Band name is "Budem Gly" We rock. Have connections. Record in studio. Who needs sliced bread anyways? 1980 - Love my rebuilt comic collection. Its almost all golden age books. I stare at it alot. I love Mylar. Love smokin reefer. Love jammin in the garage with drummer and guitar player. Love everything.....except myself. I'm really quite unhappy. Don't know why. I hear the voice of Jesus speak to me. Its not the reefer. He is very kind towards me. I need what He has. Tells me to follow Him. I quit the band. Six months later I take my entire GA comic collection to Hi De Ho comics in Santa Monica and ask if they want to buy. Guys eyes pop out. Takes me in back room. Writes me out a check for $900. I feel extremely light and happy on way to bank. 1981-1984 - Buy a Four Color #159 VF off a friend. Its my only comic. Go to San Diego again in '79 , '81 and '83. At the 1983 con I trade my Ghost of the Grotto + $50 for a Barks litho. Its called an Embarrassment of Riches. Its beautiful. I still have it to this day. Probably cuz its not a comic. Get married in '84 1985- 1988 - Get a driving job with a comic book distributor. Job is to put new comics in stores and take out old comics. Its great to work with comics. Start once again building a comic collection. Working in a comic warehouse makes it easy to score hot new issue books. Start buying up silver age DC. Marriage breaks up late '88. 1988 - I'm broke and divorced. I take whatever I can fit in my car and drive to Oregon. Comic collection gets prime spot on back seat. I sell comics along the way to get $$ for food and gas. Yea, it was probably my lowest point. Pull into Eugene a few days later. Take rebuilt comic collection to comic store and sell all. Get enough $$$ to help me get settled and get a job. 1989 - Let roots grow. 1990 - Meet woman. She likes comics and Tolkien and Jesus and me. Get married......again. 1990 - '99 - Slowly build yet another collection. Nice bunch of DC war (Sgt. Rock, SSWS Dinosaur issues and assorted silver ) Meet man about my age at comic shop. He is from Houston. Have same taste in comics. He knows our very own Mr. Bedrock. We become friends. He has collection of 600 books many of which he bought new off the racks. High grade silver. He inspires me. His story is so different than mine. I raise 4 kids. I discover ebay. I sell collection once again and buy house. 2000- 2006 - Go to San Diego Con a couple times with wife and even the kids one year. Finish raising kids. 2007 - Kids gone. Job secure. Wife and I going on 18. Future looks bright. Have some close friends. Some good friends. Began brewing my own beer. Started collecting comics once again. I think, if God is willing, this last and best collection is the one that I will leave to my children. I'm not driven. I have peace. Jesus has been good to me. I think Plastic Man is a fitting choice and goal for this time in my life. A Police comics run is my foundation. I know there will be many other books I will see and want, but there is no hurry. Its a hobby. Havn't smoked reefer in.......well, along time. But you never know..... 2008- Discovered Collectors Society forums. Am making some new friends. I like it here

Wow !!! Beer was only 5 cents when you were born.

Me too !! This is a great thread idea. Its like People magazine for comic collectors

Thats awesome !!

Very cool. One thing about comic rooms is you have wall space for artwork that doesn't quite work in living rooms.

This "IS" a cool thread. Its great to see what everybodys got goin on. I took some page shots for you......just to give you an idea. The book is in WELL READ condition....but its all there. Heres a few pics of Donalds early life......

Hey, thats cool. You don't wanna sell it now....it has way more collector value to you yourself. And money can't buy the memory you have of him signing it for you. Very nice !!

Isn't that where the expression....."one bad apple spoils the whole bunch" came from? I am sometimes amazed at how the actions of one single insufficiently_thoughtful_person can cause a law to go into effect limiting the freedom of the other 300 odd million of us. Or if nothing else.....costing us fees to continue being free. One thing I never see from the comic people is, that if Wertham was totally wrong, off the mark and an insufficiently_thoughtful_person.......then what "WAS" the cause of juvenile delinquency at that time? I think the WAR had more to do with it than was given credit...... One of the greatest tragedies to ever hit this world and Iraq is NOTHING by comparison.

Bet you don't have ......This one...........or that one......!!!! Well, Ok....you might. Heres "this one".........Came out in 1991. And when I saw it, I thought.....oh ......He's winning !!! :grin: ......and heres "that one".......Its a Random House Book from 1941. First print....and its the ORIGIN OF DONALD DUCK !!! No really, it shows him hatchin from the egg and everything. Its way cool. Not only that, but it was my Dads book. Got his name written right on the inside front cover. I'll never get rid of this one.........

Thats my own cataloging system. It has the year published in the center in larger writing.....and also date I purchased and price paid in very small writing. The stickers are on the mylars.....not the books....which I'm sure you knew Seeing the date of each book gives me a certain kind of perspective when I'm looking at them and considering what else was going on in the world at the time. Thanks all. I love this hobby !!

Well, I just got things organized tonight.....and took some pics. My comic room.....such as it is. This is what I've attained after only one year back in collecting......starting from scratch. The Conan run I'm working on. 1- 40. Coming along nicely. My Police Comics collection.....also coming along nicely. My Turok 1- 50 run......these are just the early ones. Also, my Detective "last of the large logo" run.....90 - 113. I had two more but had to send em back cuz the description didn't match what I got in the mail. Various comic related books...... My Ibanez bass......and some of my beer bottle collection. And my Age of Empires: The Conquerors wall map.....from a battle I was actually in. Very cool......

Krypto. I like MM, never much cared for krypto stories, but that is just me Must be a dog thing.....judging by your avatar. How do you feel about REX TWD?

The main thing is.....you are enjoying the hobby....like when you were a kid. ahhhhhh......Stumbo the Giant. I loved those 60's Harveys cuz they showed so many covers to other books for sale. That always intrigued me. I never got much into Horror books.....but I can still remember seeing the covers of House of Mystery books......and other scary books from DC during the early 70's. I didn't even know who Wrightson was.....but the covers were great. Crack away my friend......crack away !!

HEY !!!.....I don't see a statue of Plastic Man in there?? Whats up with that??

Looks good to me too, and hey, at least you got one. You can always upgrade if you got the $$$

Probably not too much about Mario. Resident Evil however........

My copy.....complete with bibliography. I myself am a Wertham sympathizer....but lets not go there. I've already been CENSORED once on a message board for offending the "all knowing, all powerful" Wertham haters... My copy is a 100% re-publishment of the original book from 1954, complete with bibliography..... from 2004.....and is limited to 220 copies.... I picked it up for something around $80 on ebay. One thing I would like to say in Werthams behalf......is he was definatley NO CRACKPOT !!! The guy had his mess together. He was NOT a comic hater....as a matter of fact.....he, like most adult americans at that time.....paid little to NO attention to comics and was also....TOTALLY AGAINST CENSORSHIP....... So.....like I said above......lets not go there. Anyways.....why argue with me..... read it for yourself.....

I'm 49 today.....but I'll be 50 in Jan, so I'm guess I'm moving into the smaller crowds

Wow !!.......what else is there to say.......(yea, even though this happened almost 4 years ago) .....Wow!!