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[Berkfam54]

On 8/18/2024 at 7:13 PM, thehumantorch said:

What's your favorite book Berkie?

Probably my berkfam variant for mighty Morphin #4 signed by me in a cgc 9.8  but if I had to pick a regular book in my collection it would probably come down to 3 books:

brave and the bold 28 cgc 2.0

flash 110 cgc 5.0

Mighty Morphin power rangers #0 1:50 green ranger helmet cgc 9.8

 

I’m just a big DC, Wally west and green power ranger fan. I’ll add pics when I figure out how to register them. What’s your favorite book? 

[thehumantorch]

On 8/18/2024 at 8:13 PM, Berkfam54 said:

Probably my berkfam variant for mighty Morphin #4 signed by me in a cgc 9.8  but if I had to pick a regular book in my collection it would probably come down to 3 books:

brave and the bold 28 cgc 2.0

flash 110 cgc 5.0

Mighty Morphin power rangers #0 1:50 green ranger helmet cgc 9.8

 

I’m just a big DC, Wally west and green power ranger fan. I’ll add pics when I figure out how to register them. What’s your favorite book? 

[Berkfam54]

On 8/18/2024 at 7:00 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Awesome and welcome! There is a back from cgc thread when the time comes!

I am having a hard time finding this thread

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 8/19/2024 at 8:37 AM, Berkfam54 said:

I am having a hard time finding this thread

It was on page 2, hadn't been bumped in a week

 

 

[Cat]

Welcome to the boards, @Berkfam54! I hope you enjoy your time here. 

[Giant Chicken]

Been lurking a while and finally decided to join, mainly because I'm fixing on selling the entirety of my collection and will definitely need to get some of my stuff graded/slabbed and have tons of questions and need to do even more research.  Haven't actively collected anything for quite some time, and the majority of it happened 30-40 years ago, including a brief stint as a part time comic shop employee who was paid in comics.  My collection (which is just under 1400 issues) is ALL over the place; I collected stuff I obviously liked, thought was interesting and especially keyed in on crossovers, first appearances, holograms, etc.  Went all in when Spawn came out (like everyone else back in the day), and would frequently grab multi-packs at the local pharmacy just to see if I ended up with something cool... 

I spent the last few weeks trying to catalog my entire collection over on https://comicspriceguide.com/ where my user name is the same (no space) and the same avatar and getting ready to list everything for sale there, here and eBay.

Hoping that some folks will find parts of my collection to complete theirs and get as much fun and enjoyment out of it as I did back in the day.

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 9/18/2024 at 3:52 PM, Giant Chicken said:

Been lurking a while and finally decided to join, mainly because I'm fixing on selling the entirety of my collection and will definitely need to get some of my stuff graded/slabbed and have tons of questions and need to do even more research.  Haven't actively collected anything for quite some time, and the majority of it happened 30-40 years ago, including a brief stint as a part time comic shop employee who was paid in comics.  My collection (which is just under 1400 issues) is ALL over the place; I collected stuff I obviously liked, thought was interesting and especially keyed in on crossovers, first appearances, holograms, etc.  Went all in when Spawn came out (like everyone else back in the day), and would frequently grab multi-packs at the local pharmacy just to see if I ended up with something cool... 

I spent the last few weeks trying to catalog my entire collection over on https://comicspriceguide.com/ where my user name is the same (no space) and the same avatar and getting ready to list everything for sale there, here and eBay.

Hoping that some folks will find parts of my collection to complete theirs and get as much fun and enjoyment out of it as I did back in the day.

Well that will be a horse of a different color once sorted, I'm glad that the excellence could be found among, surely, so many! That's a lot 😂 

Feel free to post up the pics as laid plans get sorted. That's cool to have them just sitting around for so long.

Nice to hear 

Edited September 19 by ADAMANTIUM

[John Dimm]

Here's my story.

I discovered Marvel in the summer of '64 when I was 10 and my family had just moved to California. One Saturday morning I sat on the floor at the Rexall drugstore and read all the September issues.  Iron Man and Hawkeye, the Fantastic Four and Diablo, Spider-Man and Daredevil, X-Men and the Blob, Thor and Loki.  Soon I was begging my mom for $2 every month to buy everything Marvel was selling.  

I loved the origin stories in Marvel Tales #1 and wanted to know more about how things came to be. I became a collector. At the time Marvel had a back-issue service to off-load unsold and returned books.  I begged for more money and sent in coins taped to cardboard, asking them to pack the comics flat instead of folded in half.  I Used bookstores were the other source of old comics and my mom would often drop me off at one when she went shopping.  

In 1966 we moved back to Seattle and I found a huge stack of early Marvels at the great Tyee Bookstore on University Ave.  There were two copies of Hulk #1 for sale at $0.05. I sent one to my buddy in California and sold the other in 1977 for $60.  I bragged about making a 1,200 percent profit on the 5 cent investment.

When I started going to Junior High School I didn't want people to see me buying comics.  It was a little-kid thing to do and I was trying to be a grown-up or at least an adolescent.  For awhile I reduced my monthly buy to FF, ASM, and Thor, and then stopped even those in 1967.

My collection breaks down into two phases:  before Dec 1964 many of them were purchased at used bookstores. Quality varies and I'm planning to get them pressed.  After that, the second group are the ones I bought fresh at the news stand, carefully picking out the copy with the best spine.  Most of them are in beautiful shape.

Now I am a septuagenarian and must pass things on to the next generation.  I slabbed a few and sold them but slabs make me sad.  How can you really enjoy a comic interred in a plastic coffin?  I am hoping to sell the rest of my collection as raw books.

I'm also a developer and wrote a nice react/nextjs app to show my collection of 400 silver age marvels as a wall of comic covers that you can slice and dice, with the scans and photos I have taken so far.  It's at silverage.vercel.app.  No adds, no e-commerce.   If you see something interesting there let me know and I will take all the photos you want.  (Moderator:  feel free remove this paragraph if it violates the rules)

[thehumantorch]

On 10/5/2024 at 6:54 PM, John Dimm said:

Here's my story.

I discovered Marvel in the summer of '64 when I was 10 and my family had just moved to California. One Saturday morning I sat on the floor at the Rexall drugstore and read all the September issues.  Iron Man and Hawkeye, the Fantastic Four and Diablo, Spider-Man and Daredevil, X-Men and the Blob, Thor and Loki.  Soon I was begging my mom for $2 every month to buy everything Marvel was selling.  

I loved the origin stories in Marvel Tales #1 and wanted to know more about how things came to be. I became a collector. At the time Marvel had a back-issue service to off-load unsold and returned books.  I begged for more money and sent in coins taped to cardboard, asking them to pack the comics flat instead of folded in half.  I Used bookstores were the other source of old comics and my mom would often drop me off at one when she went shopping.  

In 1966 we moved back to Seattle and I found a huge stack of early Marvels at the great Tyee Bookstore on University Ave.  There were two copies of Hulk #1 for sale at $0.05. I sent one to my buddy in California and sold the other in 1977 for $60.  I bragged about making a 1,200 percent profit on the 5 cent investment.

When I started going to Junior High School I didn't want people to see me buying comics.  It was a little-kid thing to do and I was trying to be a grown-up or at least an adolescent.  For awhile I reduced my monthly buy to FF, ASM, and Thor, and then stopped even those in 1967.

My collection breaks down into two phases:  before Dec 1964 many of them were purchased at used bookstores. Quality varies and I'm planning to get them pressed.  After that, the second group are the ones I bought fresh at the news stand, carefully picking out the copy with the best spine.  Most of them are in beautiful shape.

Now I am a septuagenarian and must pass things on to the next generation.  I slabbed a few and sold them but slabs make me sad.  How can you really enjoy a comic interred in a plastic coffin?  I am hoping to sell the rest of my collection as raw books.

I'm also a developer and wrote a nice react/nextjs app to show my collection of 400 silver age marvels as a wall of comic covers that you can slice and dice, with the scans and photos I have taken so far.  It's at silverage.vercel.app.  No adds, no e-commerce.   If you see something interesting there let me know and I will take all the photos you want.  (Moderator:  feel free remove this paragraph if it violates the rules)

Welcome to the boards.  You have some lovely books and you were inspired by the same books I was inspired by.

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 10/5/2024 at 7:54 PM, John Dimm said:

Here's my story.

I discovered Marvel in the summer of '64 when I was 10 and my family had just moved to California. One Saturday morning I sat on the floor at the Rexall drugstore and read all the September issues.  Iron Man and Hawkeye, the Fantastic Four and Diablo, Spider-Man and Daredevil, X-Men and the Blob, Thor and Loki.  Soon I was begging my mom for $2 every month to buy everything Marvel was selling.  

I loved the origin stories in Marvel Tales #1 and wanted to know more about how things came to be. I became a collector. At the time Marvel had a back-issue service to off-load unsold and returned books.  I begged for more money and sent in coins taped to cardboard, asking them to pack the comics flat instead of folded in half.  I Used bookstores were the other source of old comics and my mom would often drop me off at one when she went shopping.  

In 1966 we moved back to Seattle and I found a huge stack of early Marvels at the great Tyee Bookstore on University Ave.  There were two copies of Hulk #1 for sale at $0.05. I sent one to my buddy in California and sold the other in 1977 for $60.  I bragged about making a 1,200 percent profit on the 5 cent investment.

When I started going to Junior High School I didn't want people to see me buying comics.  It was a little-kid thing to do and I was trying to be a grown-up or at least an adolescent.  For awhile I reduced my monthly buy to FF, ASM, and Thor, and then stopped even those in 1967.

My collection breaks down into two phases:  before Dec 1964 many of them were purchased at used bookstores. Quality varies and I'm planning to get them pressed.  After that, the second group are the ones I bought fresh at the news stand, carefully picking out the copy with the best spine.  Most of them are in beautiful shape.

Now I am a septuagenarian and must pass things on to the next generation.  I slabbed a few and sold them but slabs make me sad.  How can you really enjoy a comic interred in a plastic coffin?  I am hoping to sell the rest of my collection as raw books.

I'm also a developer and wrote a nice react/nextjs app to show my collection of 400 silver age marvels as a wall of comic covers that you can slice and dice, with the scans and photos I have taken so far.  It's at silverage.vercel.app.  No adds, no e-commerce.   If you see something interesting there let me know and I will take all the photos you want.  (Moderator:  feel free remove this paragraph if it violates the rules)

Inspired by the love, the return and the will to "grow up" even if just for the interim for priorities. Lessons learned we as children still need that childlike faith to experience the seemingly adult thing, lest we despise our youth. Love that it is impressed in yourself to write and code! Admirable feet's, hope you enjoy.