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BUILDING YOUR COLLECTION....

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Mr.Silvestri

Mr.Silvestri

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O.K I'll start this off by saying I've been reading comic books since early 1980 ..

 

And started a collection of some of my favorite books to read like G.I.Joe - uncanny x-men - amazing spiderman some D.C issues but not many (batman at best) and in the early 90's my parents moved to Houston (The Woodlands) and on the move down there I lost alot of books (my whole collection) when the trailer we used had a hole in it and filled with water.

 

Fast forward to the mid 90's and I started working and dabbled in stocks and made some money and wanted to rebuild the collection I once had. when I had enough money to do so I bought out some comic shops (2) that where closing and all the contents in them for dirt cheap. made my money back first and kept what I made in profit to continue to buy stuff at shows or other collections that I come across.

Some good & some bad - but live and learn and for some reason I have a love to sell comics and wrap them up to ship - wanted to open my own comic shop -brick & mortor - but couldn't pull my self to do so as I never wanted to lose what I had built.

 

 

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thehumantorch

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One comic at a time. First I completed my FF collection, it seemed impossible at the beginning but eventually I tracked them all down. Strangely enough #97 was the last. I guess I'm the buy and hold mutual fund investor type. I've been buying comics for over 30 years and once a comic goes into my collection it tends to stay there.

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arexcrooke

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I started about 6 years ago buying VF books of titles like Thor and Avengers. I would buy and buy and then decide to work on something else and then eventually the HG bug got a hold of me.

So, i would sell off the other stuff I bought and plow that money plus more money into higher grade and higher dollar books.

I work a part time job that i use some of that money to buy comics with.

 

I still do the same thing in that I buy stuff, sell it later and add more money (although not as much as I used to) to buy new books.

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Shark

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Between about 1971 and late 2001 (30 years) I didn't own a single comic book. Then in early 2002 I started perusing eBay and was amazed what kind of prices the comics on there were bringing. My first comics purchase was about a week later at a local book store (Toad Hall) and I spent $275.00. About 50,000 comics and about 100 complete runs later I'm still buying but selling off duplicates and what I don't want to fund what I do still buy.

 

Yeah, I kinda went crazy there for a while. :insane::acclaim:

 

Shark

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I first started reading comics in the late 70's (my cousins stuff) and started buying them off the spinner racks in the 80's. Kept on buying comics until the mid-90's when all that busts went down and I had a new house, new child, and a new job. I started back in comics collecting when I got a computer and discovered Ebay in 2000. I've been slowly but surely filling in runs of Marvels and whatever looks cool.

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Mr.Silvestri

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Between about 1971 and late 2001 (30 years) I didn't own a single comic book. Then in early 2002 I started perusing eBay and was amazed what kind of prices the comics on there were bringing. My first comics purchase was about a week later at a local book store (Toad Hall) and I spent $275.00. About 50,000 comics and about 100 complete runs later I'm still buying but selling off duplicates and what I don't want to fund what I do still buy.

 

Yeah, I kinda went crazy there for a while. :insane::acclaim:

 

Shark

 

WOW !! You just went full force into this hobby didn't you Shark ?? lol

 

I know people are reading this so chime in and let us know how you got to where you are to day.

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Shark

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Feeding frenzy on comics like sharks.....that's the origin of your s.n.?

 

Actually, no...that's not how I came up with "Shark". I used to be a big Greg Norman fan (aka The Shark) and that's how it originated. I've also used sharkbite, sharkbite2557, etc.....

 

Mike (Shark)

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