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Don't you love it when you find a box of comics that you forgot you had?

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I once found a Daredevil 132 that had fallen off the stack and was up against the wall with the white backing board showing so I didn't see it until I moved the shelves. So I know exactly how you feel.

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I haven't been able to find my Conans for the past 5-6 years. I can't wait to be reunited with them. All I've got left is 1-24, so I must have stuck them in a box with some other title.

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I haven't been able to find my Conans for the past 5-6 years. I can't wait to be reunited with them. All I've got left is 1-24, so I must have stuck them in a box with some other title.

 

I'll check my storage locker. Maybe they're there.

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Not quite the same thing, but I recently went through my collection for the first time in 2 years. It's amazing how many books I completely forgot I owned. Almost like finding a new collection.

 

We're so busy trying to acquire new books, we don't appreciate the ones we already have!

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A couple of years ago, I was cleaning out a closet in my Moms house when I found a hard plastic brief case. Inside were a bunch of retailer posters from my first store, circa 1984. There were also two manilla envelopes marked Keepers. The first one contained a Primer 2 and a B&W Grendel #1.

The other had a #2 and #3 TNMT from the original run, and they were signed and inscribed to me on the splash page by both Eastman and Laird. They were guest at a show I did, but I'd completely forgotten about these books. The Grendels got slabbed- 9.2 and 9.0.

 

A few months ago, I finally bought a copy of Hulk 180. Been looking for it for awhile. It was a slabbed 5.5 and when I went to put it in the box with my other slabbed Hulks, right where I went to put my new book was a CGC 6.5 copy of Hulk 180.

Someday, I'm going to get organized.

Someday. Just not today. Nor tomorrow.

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I don't find boxes of comics, but I do find misplaced comics that I'd forgotten I bought. I opened a box one day and saw a copy of CBG with the title torn off. It was slid into a box of comics on it's side. It was some store's unsold copy. I looked at it in disgust and thought "I have too much stuff, why am I saving like this!" A trash can was nearby and I held it over the trash can and was about to drop it in. I decided at the last second to see if there were any interesting articles in it. I flip it open and sandwiched inside is a raw Hulk #5. It was low grade, but it was still a Hulk #5. It was at that moment that I actually remembered buying the comic and sandwiching the comic in the magazine to protect it on the drive home.

 

I was sorting through boxes one day and realized I had a second copy of Hulk #181 that I didn't remember buying. I have a dozen or so EC's that I didn't remember buying. If I think a comic is cool and the price is right, I used to have no problems buying "just one more". I had a tendency to buy any Captain America #117 I saw. I'd buy any Thor #193. When I'm sorting, I start realizing that I have a couple more than I thought I had.

 

DG

 

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lizards2

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Not quite the same thing, but I recently went through my collection for the first time in 2 years. It's amazing how many books I completely forgot I owned. Almost like finding a new collection.

 

We're so busy trying to acquire new books, we don't appreciate the ones we already have!

I'm guilty as charged. The worst part is when I go to put away purchases after not being able to inventory (due to a busy life - kids, hunting seasons, etc.) and finding I've purchased three copies of the same issue.
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Logan510

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Not quite the same thing, but I recently went through my collection for the first time in 2 years. It's amazing how many books I completely forgot I owned. Almost like finding a new collection.

 

We're so busy trying to acquire new books, we don't appreciate the ones we already have!

I'm guilty as charged. The worst part is when I go to put away purchases after not being able to inventory (due to a busy life - kids, hunting seasons, etc.) and finding I've purchased three copies of the same issue.

 

When it gets to three, it means you're a hoarder :grin:

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Back in 2005, I bought an Avengers SA lot on eBay. And I guess I put the box of books in a side drawer in my computer desk. I gave the desk to my brother soon after. He was in the process of moving last month and just returned the box to me. It included issues 35-36, 53-61, 63-65, 70, 72-79, 81-83, 87-88, and 117 to be exact. I always thought that I placed these books in a comic box and mixed it in with my collection somewhere, which I could never find. Drove me nuts for years.

 

 

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