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Why do you collect comics ?

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DarkKnightReturns

DarkKnightReturns

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Recently I've lost interest in slabbed comics. I now see them strictly as a commodity. I began to wonder why I collect comics. I no longer find most stories interesting. I stopped collecting moderns almost a year ago now because I wasn't even reading them. Just buying them and leaving them in the bags from the store and putting them in a closet.

 

I still love the artwork and love seeing the original comics but is it really necessary to own them all. I often find that after selling a comic I don't really miss it at all. When I own it I think I will miss it but than after selling I think "whats to miss?" "its a ing comic book"

 

Do you miss your comics after selling them ?

 

What drives you to collect ? Are you a hoarder ? hobbyist ? flipper ? investor ? or some other label I can't think of.

 

:popcorn:

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rodan57

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Sometimes when you get older, the drive of life becomes more and more intense. You become more and more concerned with the "now" and become disconnected from your past.

 

Comic books are links to a simpler time.

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zuckuss2003

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I used to read them all of the time, then lost interest in the late 90's for obvious reasons. Now I am mostly collecting bronze and silver. I am also reading good stuff like the Thor Essentials, and the Life and Death of Captain Marvel. I can still enjoy these older stories. I think that it why I still collect comics.

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jools&jim

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Like I said...

 

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Margaret, are you grieving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Leaves, like the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! as the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

And yet you will weep and know why.

Now no matter, child, the name:

Sorrow's springs are the same.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:

It is the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.

 

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OR...

 

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Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs

About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,

The night above the dingle starry,

Time let me hail and climb

Golden in the heydays of his eyes,

And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns

And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves

Trail with daisies and barley

Down the rivers of the windfall light.

 

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns

About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,

In the sun that is young once only,

Time let me play and be

Golden in the mercy of his means,

And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves

Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,

And the sabbath rang slowly

In the pebbles of the holy streams.

 

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay

Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air

And playing, lovely and watery

And fire green as grass.

And nightly under the simple stars

As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,

All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars

Flying with the ricks, and the horses

Flashing into the dark.

 

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white

With the dew, come back, the c-ck on his shoulder: it was all

Shining, it was Adam and maiden,

The sky gathered again

And the sun grew round that very day.

So it must have been after the birth of the simple light

In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm

Out of the whinnying green stable

On to the fields of praise.

 

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house

Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,

In the sun born over and over,

I ran my heedless ways,

My wishes raced through the house high hay

And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows

In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs

Before the children green and golden

Follow him out of grace,

 

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me

Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,

In the moon that is always rising,

Nor that riding to sleep

I should hear him fly with the high fields

And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,

Time held me green and dying

Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

 

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OR...

 

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Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

 

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OR...

 

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Whatever. It all amounts to the same thing...! :grin:

 

 

 

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Tempus Fugit

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Agreed on the Rosebud factor.

 

I now have the means to buy most the comics I wanted as a kid, which is ironic, because the same books cost about 100X the money they sold for then.

 

I also thoroughly enjoy buying and selling as a means up upgrading my collection at little to no cost, another thing I did as a kid. I suspect a lot of boardies do the same.

 

I read mostly pre hero and early hero Marvels, and some EC reprints.

 

I have almost zero interest in anything printed after about 1975, although I am reading 1602 right now and find it mildly entertaining, but I can not tolerate the art.

 

 

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Senormac

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Well, there are lots and lots of great comics, but I read / collect Plastic Man cuz I actually will laugh while reading them. Out loud !! The only other strip that gives me that kind of reaction is the Katzenjammer Kids

 

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synch

synch

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For fun nice & easy fun :)

 

IMG_5556.jpg

 

<-- this cover for example ... Why ?

 

1 I love lantern stuff

 

2 its batman ...

 

3 batman + lantern stuff

 

:) It will never be worth anything but I like it none the less . Now if you have fallen out of the hobby it sounds to me like you don't read stuff anymore which is most likely why you don't have fun collecting it anymore ... 2c

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Cimm

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I enjoy them.

 

I enjoy having them around me.

I enjoy looking at them.

I enjoy buying them.

I enjoy displaying them.

I enjoy arranging them.

I enjoy reading them

I enjoy the hunt for the elusive ones.

I enjoy looking through bargain bins.

I enjoy perusing dealer walls at conventions.

I enjoy talking about them.

I enjoy sharing them with others.

I enjoy smelling them.

I enjoy the art.

I enjoy the artform.

 

I enjoy owning them.

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TheLiamSturgess

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I collect a wide variety of books.

 

Foreigns: I collect Foreigns for the thrill of the hunt. You can't just decide to go pick one up on eBay or at your LCS. You have to literally scour the internet and the world for these. You have to make connections in other countries (thanks Allan, Matteo and Mike, to name a few!) and be ready to shell out whatever the seller wants, because you may ever only see the book once. And once you get a full set of a foreign key, like ASM 252 for example (of which I own US, French and Italian), they just look so cool together.

 

Marvel runs: I collect mainstream Marvel runs like Avengers, ASM, Hulk, etc. mainly for the reading value. I want to be able to read the entire mainstream Marvel Universe in a few long sittings eventually, so that is my goal here.

 

Archie: I collect the digests just to be a completionist here. These are a lot harder to find in nice shape than you would think.

 

Slabs: I collect these to own the highest graded copy/set. Not much else to say here.

 

Other oddball items: I collect things like keychains, toys, treasuries etc. just as cool things to own.

 

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Junkdrawer

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flippin for profit, lettin it all ride on the next big book, keep repeating the process, see how much book i can own for free once my initial investment is back. There is a comic book gravy train rollin' round and i'm on it (thumbs u

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mikephoen

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I enjoy them.

 

I enjoy having them around me.

I enjoy looking at them.

I enjoy buying them.

I enjoy displaying them.

I enjoy arranging them.

I enjoy reading them

I enjoy the hunt for the elusive ones.

I enjoy looking through bargain bins.

I enjoy perusing dealer walls at conventions.

I enjoy talking about them.

I enjoy sharing them with others.

I enjoy smelling them.

I enjoy the art.

I enjoy the artform.

 

I enjoy owning them.

 

Great post! (thumbs u

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