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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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letsgrumble

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TIL that if you can lose a box of comics, you have too many comics.

 

:grin:

 

 

 

-slym

 

I'm always afraid that one day a camera crew from Hoarders will show up at my door.

 

Though, I haven't yet found a dead cat in any of my comic boxes, so I guess I'm still under control.

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Gatsby77

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I once lost a handful of Valiant variants that I bought at Capital City Comics (Madison, Wisconsin) for four years. Loved when I found it again--included Unity Red, Chaos Effect Gold, Armorines 0 standalone, and Hard Corps 1 Gold.

 

And this weekend while home in Philly I found a random box that contained a high school yearbook and some Death in the Family issues bought years ago--Batman 426 9.8 (red label) and Batman 429 9.8 (blue label).

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Junkdrawer

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Closest I can come is a time when I bought a 1959 set of Topps baseball cards. I bought the set to break and ebay the cards individually. I had pulled about 20 or so that I thought could grade out at 8.0 - 9.0 through PSA and planned to send in. Went out latter one evening and I dont like things laying out in the open so I put the cards in a pocket of a black leather sport coat that was in the closet. A good 2+ years later I had actually put that coat on again and there they were. God only knows how I let them slip off my grid like that and yes its easier to misplace than a box of comics. Does blow the mind about how they could get forgotten more so than the happiness of the find.

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nearmint

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Very cool. If only that could happen to me. What grade is the Bats 176?

 

It's a strong 9.4 with an outside shot at 9.6.

 

(worship)

 

 

The 176 is on its way back from CGC. It's a 9.4 OW-W. I also sent in the Batman 208, which is coming back 9.6 white. :whee:

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vaillant

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To me, it has happened with single comics, as – like Lizard – I never sit down and properly compile my checklists or wishlists.

 

But the most pleasing thing which happened as I restarted collecting Marvel comics a pair of years ago (or less) was to find, because of my improved grading skills, that a good deal of books of a Sub-Mariner #1-40 run I bought twenty years ago quite cheap were in the VFNM to NM+ range.

My first thought was to sell them, but then I realized that I never read them, and this prompted me to do so. In the end, I saw Sub-Mariner is super-cool, and I can’t sell them… :(

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Diamonddave

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I did this with a small list of Copper's I was going to send to CGC around 2005. Incredible Hulk 340, Uncanny X-men 266, X-men 141 and few others. I placed them in an enveloped along with the paperwork and check for payment but never got to the Post office to send them to FL. I poured through my long boxes trying to figure out what I did with them. Fast forward 5 years and I stumble across an envelope with the CGC paperwork inside and a check for the grading and shipped fees and the books.

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