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Strange as it seems, I can remember just about every book I owned from the many times I looked through (you could even say devoured) them even before I could read. When I would draw, even up til high school, a few of my friends would ask me how do I remember what the characters look like without having the book in front of me.

A ha! Told you so!

Not if I can help it

That’s pretty cool, those being books from the mid 70s we’re talking close to 50 years that you were able to hold on to them for so long. I wish I could say the same coming from that era myself but unfortunately, I had one sibling in particular that would raid my stash and give away books for whatever she got in return along with my family moving constantly made for a lot of lost issues. I’m pretty fortunate that none of what I lost was a major book that’s unaffordable these days and even if I can’t remember specific issue numbers, the internet has made it pretty easy to track down most of the books with a simple image search, this being one of my favorites: took me awhile to hunt a nice copy down as I’m pretty sure my well loved original is nowhere near as nice but I’d have loved holding on to that copy for so many years

Your first impression was probably, “where did these former members go?”’ Well, you’d be WRONG Anyway, it occurred to me this morning that many of us who’ve collected comics since we were kids more than likely have either lost, traded, sold, etc. books from our collections over the years. Maybe some were major keys or other books that held a special place. Maybe an undercopy that we upgraded from but have since had slabbed but you now miss opening those old pages and seeing the artwork and ads, filled in coupons that were never sent, doodles we may have scribbled in the margins or defacing of the “why is this man smiling” ad from the back cover (at least I know I did on occasion). My question to you, my fellow collectors is: Have you ever wondered where these lost treasures wound up? Who may be enjoying them now. If they ended up in someone else’s collection or are sitting in a humid basement waiting to be rediscovered. Where is that run of Superboy that I wrote my name on the splash page of each issue. Maybe the reverse is true and you have a silver age Spidey in your shortbox with a name childishly scrawled on the cover as “property of…” As someone who’s replaced lost books constantly over the years, I’d like to think some other collector is happy to own one of those lost treasures and vice versa. I ended up with some oo copies that belonged to “Martin” and posted some examples below. Share your stories/thoughts if you have them. It’ll be nice to read some good memories since the Hero Restoration soap opera seems to be winding down.

Some keys to go along with the drek

That’s 95 pictured

You should add acceptable payment methods to your listing. glwts

I remember reading sometime ago about people using dryer sheets to remove rust from staples. I would imagine either of these would leave some traces of residue behind

I believe that if this case were brought before a judge, some of his own comments in the thread have exposed his actions as being deceptive and would make what could’ve been a simple resolution a legal and financial nightmare for him than it already seems to be

Link?

add this to my stack if still available

Always been a fan of Kieth Pollard’s work

I think Methusala waited the longest

Now I remember where I’ve seen that lion before: ”How many lumps do you want?”