Younger Silver Age Collectors

[oakman29]

Welcome Scott

[Spiderphill]

I always thought youse guys were old geezers like me. I too, got started through a relative. My Aunt was a young High School P.E. teacher and wanted to get some books together to ship to the troops in Viet Nam....then she found out the shipping would be the equivalent of several months pay. My cousins and I were the lucky recipients....we each got a stack almost as tall as we were. The trunk of her Chevelle convertible was packed to the gills with comics. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

Doesn't get better than that. Wish I had a trunk load to start off with. All this avengers hype wants me to try out the Thanos saga over there in the bronze age though.

[Spiderphill]

I'm 40 and absolutely love silverage books. Growing up with bronze and copper, no Internet, and very few reprints, these were the books I dreamed about being able to read.

I never purchased anything besides SA to really give it a shot. I'm so consumed in these insane ASM prices that I have yet to venture out. I want to read the frank miller DD run and Thanos saga. Since I see a lot of good things said about those reads.

[ThoseBackPages]

41 years of age here.

 

Been a baseball card collector for a very long time. Collected comics when I was I my early teens. Gave them up for cards in the mid to late 80s. Still love cards (always will), but theres something about being able to now afford a lot of those comics that the comic store owners back in the day would barely lt me hold knowing that I couldn't afford them.

 

I bought my first slabbed book today (I have a few thousand card slabs, been at that a very long time as well ), ASM #1, graded 2.0, just my style

[sufunk]

Still love cards (always will), but theres something about being able to now afford a lot of those comics that the comic store owners back in the day would barely lt me hold knowing that I couldn't afford them.

)

 

That is the absolute best part of collecting now!

[adamstrange]

This excellent post was buried in a Comics General thread but thought it apropos to the topic.

 

My next customer was a very shy 14 year old boy. He asked how much the

Avengers 1 was. We had my low grade copy for $400 and 500club's nice copy

for $2600. He looked at mine and then gave it back. I'm a bit of a joker and

teased him about something and he just turned and walked away. Oops, didn't

mean to scare him off but there's no way he's buying Avengers 1.

 

He came back and like a fool I teased him again and he again walked away.

 

He came back a few minutes later and handed me $400. I must say I was

surprised. I gave him the Avengers and asked him if he liked Spider-man.

He did so I gave him a decent copy of ASM 252. He was thrilled. I gave

him my card and told him to call me if there was any problem and I thanked

him for the sale. And yes, I'm sure I teased him again.

 

He walked off and then came back an hour later and purchased some

Marvel Star Wars.

 

Next time I saw him he was with his mother. She could not believe he had

bought a comic for $400. More shocked than mad but I'm sure the thought

that I had ripped her son off was in the back of her mind. She was also

concerned that he had been convinced to send the comic to CGC after

Stan had signed it.

 

Turns out they are farmers and he earned the money milking their 60 cows

every day and he spent almost all of it on one comic.

 

We had a long discussion about collecting comics and why certain comics

were worth so much. She didn't mind her son spending $5 on a Star Wars

comic; but $400 for one comic? I told her she had it backwards. The Star

Wars were relatively low demand books and the Avengers 1 was an

important old key book featuring popular characters and an easy book

to resell.

 

During this discussion I had a couple $100 type sales and then I sold

nice copies of FF 10, 14, 17, 26 and 28 to one guy. As I jammed the

pile of $100 bills into my Batman cash bucket she realized that grown

men were spending hundreds or even thousands of $$ on funny books

before her very eyes. And she could see that my cash bucket was

absolutely stuffed with big bills.

 

I also explained that it was a good idea to submit a signed book to CGC

to ensure the signature was verified.

 

And I told her she had raised a great kid and collecting comics was

a wonderful hobby and that comics were an art form.

 

I gave her my card with a link to the CGC message boards and him to

come here and read about comics and I told her if he wanted to sell the

book back to me at any time I would give him all his money back and I

told her to contact me if they ever had any questions.

 

The whole time that kid had a silly, happy, I'm in heaven look. He was

totally digging comics and the show and our discussion and he'll be a

comic collector and fan for a long, long time - unless they chain him to

a cow.

[Force Majeure]

Just turned 26 last month. I was 23 when I started collecting SA books seriously. I never had the cash or the connection for these back when I was a kid so as much as I wanted to start early, it never happened. Even comic book shops here didn't have anything good to sell back in the day. There were no such thing as selling comics via the internet back then and I live in a country where comics are treated as fish wrappers or fuel for flame. If not for the internet I'd be stuck with and I probably wouldn't even have started collecting SA altogether.

[dscott]

Nice Thanos cover

[Force Majeure]

Thanks, it was made by Anthony Castrillo.

[gaz973]

At 39 years old, my first comics were late Bronze Age but I got to love the Silver Age through reading black and white reprints. Silver Age Marvels have always been my favourite to collect despite the fact that I had to read them all by playing catch up as I grew up.

[roulette44]

34 here.

 

Collected as a kid, and then took a LONG Break until about 18 months ago. could now afford all the books I always dreamed of and really enjoying pulling together high grade keys and the runs I'm interested in (although my favorite run is GA superman, bit

[gaz973]

This excellent post was buried in a Comics General thread but thought it apropos to the topic.

 

My next customer was a very shy 14 year old boy. He asked how much the

Avengers 1 was. We had my low grade copy for $400 and 500club's nice copy

for $2600. He looked at mine and then gave it back. I'm a bit of a joker and

teased him about something and he just turned and walked away. Oops, didn't

mean to scare him off but there's no way he's buying Avengers 1.

 

He came back and like a fool I teased him again and he again walked away.

 

He came back a few minutes later and handed me $400. I must say I was

surprised. I gave him the Avengers and asked him if he liked Spider-man.

He did so I gave him a decent copy of ASM 252. He was thrilled. I gave

him my card and told him to call me if there was any problem and I thanked

him for the sale. And yes, I'm sure I teased him again.

 

He walked off and then came back an hour later and purchased some

Marvel Star Wars.

 

Next time I saw him he was with his mother. She could not believe he had

bought a comic for $400. More shocked than mad but I'm sure the thought

that I had ripped her son off was in the back of her mind. She was also

concerned that he had been convinced to send the comic to CGC after

Stan had signed it.

 

Turns out they are farmers and he earned the money milking their 60 cows

every day and he spent almost all of it on one comic.

 

We had a long discussion about collecting comics and why certain comics

were worth so much. She didn't mind her son spending $5 on a Star Wars

comic; but $400 for one comic? I told her she had it backwards. The Star

Wars were relatively low demand books and the Avengers 1 was an

important old key book featuring popular characters and an easy book

to resell.

 

During this discussion I had a couple $100 type sales and then I sold

nice copies of FF 10, 14, 17, 26 and 28 to one guy. As I jammed the

pile of $100 bills into my Batman cash bucket she realized that grown

men were spending hundreds or even thousands of $$ on funny books

before her very eyes. And she could see that my cash bucket was

absolutely stuffed with big bills.

 

I also explained that it was a good idea to submit a signed book to CGC

to ensure the signature was verified.

 

And I told her she had raised a great kid and collecting comics was

a wonderful hobby and that comics were an art form.

 

I gave her my card with a link to the CGC message boards and him to

come here and read about comics and I told her if he wanted to sell the

book back to me at any time I would give him all his money back and I

told her to contact me if they ever had any questions.

 

The whole time that kid had a silly, happy, I'm in heaven look. He was

totally digging comics and the show and our discussion and he'll be a

comic collector and fan for a long, long time - unless they chain him to

a cow.

Thanks for the repost. (thumbs u

[MagnetoWasRight]

This excellent post was buried in a Comics General thread but thought it apropos to the topic.

 

My next customer was a very shy 14 year old boy. He asked how much the

Avengers 1 was. We had my low grade copy for $400 and 500club's nice copy

for $2600. He looked at mine and then gave it back. I'm a bit of a joker and

teased him about something and he just turned and walked away. Oops, didn't

mean to scare him off but there's no way he's buying Avengers 1.

 

He came back and like a fool I teased him again and he again walked away.

 

He came back a few minutes later and handed me $400. I must say I was

surprised. I gave him the Avengers and asked him if he liked Spider-man.

He did so I gave him a decent copy of ASM 252. He was thrilled. I gave

him my card and told him to call me if there was any problem and I thanked

him for the sale. And yes, I'm sure I teased him again.

 

He walked off and then came back an hour later and purchased some

Marvel Star Wars.

 

Next time I saw him he was with his mother. She could not believe he had

bought a comic for $400. More shocked than mad but I'm sure the thought

that I had ripped her son off was in the back of her mind. She was also

concerned that he had been convinced to send the comic to CGC after

Stan had signed it.

 

Turns out they are farmers and he earned the money milking their 60 cows

every day and he spent almost all of it on one comic.

 

We had a long discussion about collecting comics and why certain comics

were worth so much. She didn't mind her son spending $5 on a Star Wars

comic; but $400 for one comic? I told her she had it backwards. The Star

Wars were relatively low demand books and the Avengers 1 was an

important old key book featuring popular characters and an easy book

to resell.

 

During this discussion I had a couple $100 type sales and then I sold

nice copies of FF 10, 14, 17, 26 and 28 to one guy. As I jammed the

pile of $100 bills into my Batman cash bucket she realized that grown

men were spending hundreds or even thousands of $$ on funny books

before her very eyes. And she could see that my cash bucket was

absolutely stuffed with big bills.

 

I also explained that it was a good idea to submit a signed book to CGC

to ensure the signature was verified.

 

And I told her she had raised a great kid and collecting comics was

a wonderful hobby and that comics were an art form.

 

I gave her my card with a link to the CGC message boards and him to

come here and read about comics and I told her if he wanted to sell the

book back to me at any time I would give him all his money back and I

told her to contact me if they ever had any questions.

 

The whole time that kid had a silly, happy, I'm in heaven look. He was

totally digging comics and the show and our discussion and he'll be a

comic collector and fan for a long, long time - unless they chain him to

a cow.

Thanks for the repost. (thumbs u

 

Definitely a great story to read. Its kids like this that will keep our hobby going long after we've all turned to dust. Plus, he's got good taste in comics.

[Illustrious]

I wish I would have had that foresight to buy Marvel Silver Age keys when I was 14 back in 1993.

[buuduh]

i was 10 when i started reading comics, and now i am 24 i started getting into the SA comics when i was 14 and haven't looked back since!

[Clouded9]

28 years old and I'm a sucker for SA books. My first one being a Daredevil #7 at 7.0 a few years ago that has long since been sold.

[Illustrious]

When I was 13 back in 1992, I found this comic below at an antique shop for $4.00. It was my first Silver Age book, and was the "cornerstone" of my original collection I acquired from 1988-1994. I still have it, and in the past few weeks it's become a more important book from what I hear.

 

 

[chrisco37]

I'm not young anymore, but I've always collected SA Marvels ever since the first trip to an LCS (way back in 1987). My uncle grew up reading them and he would always tell me about the stories (mostly FF).

 

He took me to the shop that first time and bought me a few of the Stan/Jack FF's. I was hooked from that point on.

[dscott]

Thanks, it was made by Anthony Castrillo.

 

Ah one of the lucky ones who got his order

[Arsenalherd]

31 and now into the SA goodness