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You can keep only 1 comic from your collection, which would it be ?

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oldmilwaukee6er

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If I HAD to grab one book in a fire or retroactively could wish one back, it would be my 1st print Zap Comix #1.

It survived the 1969 Mowry's Opera House fire that burned ~500 copies (CGC 2.5), so it likely would not survive another one.

Even though the #2 Heads First Miscut is soo HTF, this one would be hard to replace.

I do keep a "fire box" of comix and after I woke the wife and grabbed the cat...

I would grab that small box.

 

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RedFury

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Although I have many others that are worth far more I would keep Superboy 226 (1st appearance of Dawnstar).

 

She's my favourite hero character and the cover is awesome.

 

The one I'm paying for right now. Hope to have it in hand within a couple weeks :wishluck:

 

Can't wait to see it! :applause:

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dscott

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If I could keep 1 book I would probably keep my TOS 39 or my Xmen 1. I would have to upgrade them though from the 4.5/6.0 that they are to a 7.0 at least.

 

However I would sell them before getting rid of this

 

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it would probably the last piece of comic related memorabilia to be left in my collection.

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DiceX

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I can't narrow it down to one, but I can narrow it down to two. :cloud9:

 

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I remember you telling the tale of Evel Knievel, why does the HOS #94 rank along side that, did you get it signed personally?

 

Back in my early days on the boards I was on the hunt for a nice copy of this book as it's my favorite Wrightson cover of all time. After searching high and low, I happened to acquire a beautiful copy from Shiverbones and I was beside myself with joy.

 

A few years later I was going through a divorce and my world was in shambles to say the least. During this time I liquidated every comic I owned aside from about 30 books that were dear to me, or otherwise worthless to anyone but me. This book was one of them. At least I thought it was. About a year later when I finally had my wits about me enough to start being interested in comics again, I noticed that my prized HoS book had somehow been sold. I couldn't remember selling it but it was gone.

 

Earlier this year I had a chance to get a few books signed by Wrightson. The one book I wanted to have signed more than anything was a HoS 94 but I had never replaced my old copy. The book is, in my opinion, the toughest Bronze HoS book to find in grade. I looked all over and the few I could find were ridiculously high priced. No way in hell could I afford to buy the book AND be able to get them signed and slabbed.

 

With only a few days to spare I'd already picked a few other books to have signed and given up on a HoS 94. One of my best friends in the world owns a LCS and although I know almost every book in his store like the back of my hand, he does acquire nice books from time to time so I thought I'd give him a call in a last ditch effort to pull a rabbit from my hat.

 

He says, "I don't remember having one but let me look in my computer as I just finished inventorying all my back issues and have them in a spreadsheet."

He says, "Yeah, I have a copy. Hang on and I'll go pull it and see what it looks like."

I'm thinking...6.0? 7.0? Nah...probably 4.0 or so. :cry:

He comes back to the phone and says, "Wow, this one was in a Mylite 2." Then he pulls the book out and says, "Wow, it has not one but TWO Fullbacks behind it. Someone took care of this book."

Then he opens the book and says, "This book is nice. Holy mess, someone even went to the trouble of putting buffer sheets behind each cover."

At this point, I'm drooling in disbelief.

 

Then he goes silent for a second and then says, "You know where I got this book? When you were getting divorced you brought several boxes of crappy books in here and I bought them from you. This book was in there with them."

I'm like... :o Completely in shock. He found my book! The one I bought from Matty!

 

I asked how much he wanted for it. I'd buy it back. He says, "Hell, I'll just mail it back to you and you can have it."

I almost sobbed I was so happy.

 

And I'll keep it until I die. My kids can sell it.

 

 

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