ThreeSeas

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Solar Boy. I am so sorry to hear about your robbery. I hope the hoodlums get caught. In regards to Craigslist, I just logged on to my old account and it still has everything I ever tried to sell listed there, all the way to 2012. I just clicked on the button that says "show older postings". You may want to check your Craigslist to see if the same option is available to you. I do not know why mine keeps all of those old posts. Sorry I am not that Craigslist savvy. On a lighter note the one time I bought some Archie digests on CL I went to the guy's house and as we were talking outside in his front yard this little old lady comes shuffling out with her walker and he told me "This is my muscle in case I run into any problems" and we both laughed.

The original thread on the old boards is what opened my eyes to the various online comics forums. Before I had seen that thread I had never even known that so many comics related sites existed. I was like an island to myself as none of my friends are collectors. All I had had was my Comics Buyers Guide weekly turned monthly and now gone magazine. Even though I do not post a whole lot I absolutely love reading what others have to say.

If it is not too late to get into this contest: Not totaled and $6,398.00 in repairs

The OP is the one that brought this thread back to life 16 hours ago. From what I see there were posts in 2014, one in 2016, and then 16 hrs ago. I think it is the same screen named person.

Boy you are right about that lol. I still do and at the rate I get out, I'll have my detector paid for - in a few years after I have passed this earth. (I've never found my pot of gold yet.) As for collecting stuff, lets see, my main three c's (hence my online name) are comics, coins and cars, although I have a few, I have not purchased much in any of my hobbies in recent years. I collect and still have my fossils, stamps, pencils, sci-fi books, marbles, board games, and a few other things I cannot recall at the moment. I collect too many things. I really need to concentrate on just a hobby (or three).

Collecting versus Hoarding. I filled out the survey. Interesting. As a collector I collect many things. I do not ever consider myself as a hoarder, even though I have never sold a comic. I have other collections and one year I had to sell a couple of coins to pay my taxes due to the ex's spending habits. Besides that I do not think I have ever parted with anything from my collections which includes comics, numismatics, board games, fossils, and old cook books even. I have two real life friends that are what I would call true hoarders. Just like the ones on the Hoarders TV show. One friend is now in an assisted living facility because of his knees plus he is over 70 years old too, but before he went there he had two properties seized by the local county governments due to the junk. The first time that happened was when he lived a county next to mine, 25 years ago, and when they took his stuff, he video taped them doing it. His son was in the service for Desert Storm and the county took the son's licensed and insured vehicle he had as his dad's house. My friend took them to court as it was an illegal seizure, and not only got his money he paid in fines back, but got a few thousand on top of it. He still could not recover his items as they disposed of them. This same friend I made the mistake of letting him store a couple of things in one of my barns one year. I came home from work to find my barn nearly filled up with his purchases. I have nice folding chairs, old wooden oak school chairs and a whole mess of stuff, but it is all high and dry and only getting dusty so once he leaves this mortal realm, then I will get rid of it, but only if he does not come and get it. My other friend that is a hoarder, is 67 and lives in the town where I work. He has his house so full of junk that you cannot walk inside without stepping over stuff. His front door will not even open all of the way. He has narrow pathways to the various rooms. He said he is in the process of cleaning his place but this guy cannot part with anything. One time when I took him to his VA appointment as we were walking in a parking ramp where construction was going on and up ahead I saw a small piece of wire on the ground, sure enough he swooped it up to take with him. He saves bags and anything imaginable. His van is literally filled to the roof with stuff. He had to have special springs and shocks put on it due to the weight of the hoard inside. I asked him why he has to have all this stuff and he explained how he needed every item and what their purpose was. One time I was with him and he got a flat. I thought oh man now we are stuck. Nope, he had two spares, and six, not one, not two, but six jacks buried in his stuff. I said "why six?" He said "in case one does not work". Sure enough when I tried his first jack to lift the van it failed, but the second one worked and he said "See, that is why I carry six". After I got his tire changed it took 45 minutes to reload the van. He had to do that as every piece of junk had to go back into it's proper spot and this guy knows where it all is and in the mountain of stuff, if he sees something is out of place, he knows it. It must have been a picture for the passersby to see all the stuff on the ground. Both of my hoarder friends seem to have the same m.o. (modus operandi). They both get stuff they say they have no attachment to, both tell me they buy stuff with the intention of selling it for a higher price, but they never get to the selling part, or rarely do that. As a collector I buy stuff to see and enjoy and never sell unless I have to, but the hoarders I know have no intention of keeping their stuff, but they always do. To me a collector is organized, a hoarder lives in chaos. This is only my personal experience and I cannot state this of all hoarders. The friend that has stuff at my farm asked me to try to sell it for him, but then when I did he put the selling prices so high that no one would even touch the stuff, so he now had a reason to keep it. My two hoarder friends have never met each other and if the one was not in an assisted living facility I was thinking of getting them together to see how it would turn out lol. Anyways both of my hoarder friends are nice people and are normal in all other appearances. Both are divorced too. I have, in the past, asked each of them if they ever come across comic books in their travels. Each said they had and had not given them a second thought, but my friend that still lives in his house told me that he has some comics on his dining room table and one day he will dig them out for me. I can only imagine that they will be mid-90's drek, but I will remain optimistic.

Well, I guess I only have two copies of this issue. Now that I remember - I gave one to a friend for graduation 30 years ago, not sure where my other copy went, I may have given it away too. Anyways here is some more information from the indicia page, plus the front and back covers. I guess this comic did not do too bad being in mylar for 33 years, 15 years of it in a non climate controlled environment.

I and a couple of friends were really into the Robotech/Macross series back in the 80's. I have all of the comics from the original American series' (Macross, Masters, New Generation, Invid War, etc.), so I'll tell you what I can remember from 30 years ago. I cannot remember if it is the word Robotech or the word Macross, but one of those were not used for a title until it was published for the American audience. I thought that the Japanese version was called Super Dimensional Fortress One or something similar and there were like three or so stories that were combined into one long story arc when published here. This I remember reading in an article at the time. I do remember reading about the origin of the whole Robotech/Macross series but I cannot remember if it was in one of the comic issues or in the Comics Buyers Guide newspaper at the time. I just checked my old database and see that I have 36 different issues for the original Macross comic, with four copies of no. 1..Dang I must have really liked that because I rarely bought duplicates in those days. If I can get to the comic I will see if the first issue or two talks about the origin. The comics, I think, were just adaptations of the cartoon/TV series which I believe is currently available on Netflix. My old friend that was into Macross with me still comes over for the occasional Saturday night card game so I'll ask him what he remembers when I next see him. He was/is more into the whole, I guess you call it Manga nowadays, a lot more than I. He even named his first born daughter Nova after one of the characters, but I do not remember if that was Robotech or another Japanese based series. Heck, after I post this I'll shoot him a message thru Facebook and see what he knows.

I am not sure how to highlight this in green yet - you do mean so the response/quote shows up in green, right?

I looked for you Nick, but I had to leave before I could check out every isle. I'm glad you did well at the show.

Heh, if I would have held the camera a little lower...man I did not notice this girl in the background as I was mainly focusing on the Planet of the Apes guy.

Oh man, I guess it does look like Wolfie in the background is watering the lawn heh heh.

Yes, It was a bit crowded, but that was okay. I did not find some of the comics I was interested in, but that is my fault for not going through every isle. My neighbor has trouble walking and when he was ready to go, we left. For comics, my tastes right now are Carl Barks' duck comics and Horror comics from the 1970's and before (Tales of the Unexpected,The Witching Hour, Etc.). I had to get a car this year, so it kind of set back my comic buying a little bit. Next year I will be in a better position to do some buying, though.

Anyways apologies for the lack of text, but I wanted to get these posted before I have to head out to get some work done. It took me a while to shrink them down from my camera's 3.2mb size each as I was not sure how this uploading would work, but it went pretty well so I think I got it figured out now. A quick note about the show. There were a lot of people there, so that is cool, but I wish they had had more space between the isles as it was not easy to check out all of the comics. I was so glad to see so many dealers there, though. I heard that the owners of this place plan on expanding it so that would be good. All in all a fun time.

And the last four. I hope you all do not mind me posting so many pictures.