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Where have you found comics unexpectedly?

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Artboy99

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My parents moved into a house in the mid 1970's when I was 10 years old and my Dad was in the process of repairing the walls in the kitchen and he was ripping the existing moldy ones all down with a crowbar and i was helping him pick up all the garbage and bagging it. One of the walls we ripped down was filled with papers, newspapers, magazines and yes, comic books. All used for insulation my Dad thought when I asked him why it was all there. Unfortunately he wouldnt let me keep any of it " you dont want any of that moldy " and it all got burned in the fire pit to make sure I didnt go digging into the garbage to get it later.

I distinctly remember seeing a few batmans...was a couple of hundred comics in the mess.

 

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My parents moved into a house in the mid 1970's when I was 10 years old and my Dad was in the process of repairing the walls in the kitchen and he was ripping the existing moldy ones all down with a crowbar and i was helping him pick up all the garbage and bagging it. One of the walls we ripped down was filled with papers, newspapers, magazines and yes, comic books. All used for insulation my Dad thought when I asked him why it was all there. Unfortunately he wouldnt let me keep any of it " you dont want any of that moldy " and it all got burned in the fire pit to make sure I didnt go digging into the garbage to get it later.

I distinctly remember seeing a few batmans...was a couple of hundred comics in the mess.

 

Artboy99

 

I didn't find comics that way but I did find a whole bunch of old silver coins ripping out a ceiling in a basement in Brooklyn years ago. There was a small store on the first floor and over 70 years or so a lot of change found its way through the floor cracks. I hit the plaster ceiling with a small sledge and a few dimes and pennies fell to the floor. All in all I think we found about $40 worth of silver dollars, quarters and dimes with a few pennies (wheat and Indian Head) along the way.

 

No comics :sorry:

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seanfingh

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My parents moved into a house in the mid 1970's when I was 10 years old and my Dad was in the process of repairing the walls in the kitchen and he was ripping the existing moldy ones all down with a crowbar and i was helping him pick up all the garbage and bagging it. One of the walls we ripped down was filled with papers, newspapers, magazines and yes, comic books. All used for insulation my Dad thought when I asked him why it was all there. Unfortunately he wouldnt let me keep any of it " you dont want any of that moldy " and it all got burned in the fire pit to make sure I didnt go digging into the garbage to get it later.

I distinctly remember seeing a few batmans...was a couple of hundred comics in the mess.

 

Artboy99

 

I didn't find comics that way but I did find a whole bunch of old silver coins ripping out a ceiling in a basement in Brooklyn years ago. There was a small store on the first floor and over 70 years or so a lot of change found its way through the floor cracks. I hit the plaster ceiling with a small sledge and a few dimes and pennies fell to the floor. All in all I think we found about $40 worth of silver dollars, quarters and dimes with a few pennies (wheat and Indian Head) along the way.

 

No comics :sorry:

 

Go post it for the coinees!

 

 

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the blob

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I found a bunch of educational comics from the 40s and 50s while doing volunteer work at a local school cleaning out a storage room that they were going to convert into something. they were pristine and according to OPG they're worth like $2000 total...yeah right!

 

my job was to toss it all (the contents of the room) in a dumpster, but heck, i kept a few souveniers. along with some raunchy porno mags the custodian must have tucked away in there...some Ron Jeremy circa 1984 or so before he blobbed out but still was hairier than a hedgehog. My wife was like "that's gross, he's a porn star? he's so ugly and hairy. that's so sick. you people are disgusting." (She was hoping they might have some value on ebay, being "vintage" and all)

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When I was a kid around 1977 or so, I went to the 7-11 down the street from my house on Wednesday, new comic day, to get a few. Behind some of the comics was an issue of Daredevil #15 (Ox cover). Don't know how it got there but I grabbed it and took it to the register. The attendent (nicknamed "Cookie" and a very cool guy) didn't know what to do as he knew comics were 30 cents and not 12. He almost pulled it to give back to the magazine distributor but I talked him in to selling it to me for 30 cents...

 

I kept the comic for years even after being forced to sell my collection by my step-mother in 1980. Somehow along the way I lost it...

 

Jim

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