drbanner Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 There seems to be a perception that the only people that collect golden age are old fogies that grew up reading the books, or that assimilated their silver age collections off the newstands. Is this accurate? Please take a look here and let's get some numbers together for the age of us golden age collectors! ChillMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozer Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 What happened to 51 to 54? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddog4063 Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 i am 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CW Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 19 and counting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esquirecomics Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 37 1/2. Been buying GA since I was around 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 36, but I need to buy some more GA books so I can actually feel right about calling myself a GA collector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybolt Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I'm 33 years old. I purchased my first GA book 2 years ago (Action Comics #120 in FN+ condition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1962 Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 42, bought my first golden age book about 25 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 37, but started collecting seriously in my early 30s. All connected to income: I would have started collecting GA in my 20s if I'd been able to afford it. I think getting new collectors interested is entirely a matter of providing information. By following the boards, I have learned a lot about comics that I never saw the appeal in (or even knew existed) before. As a direct result, I am looking to expand my collection into these new areas. I have heard many other board members express similiar experiences. I think the internet is going to play a huge role attracting a new generation of GA collectors and can only see interest and prices picking up substantially as information becomes more readily available. I personally feel an obligation to share the best books in my collection (along with the stories behind them) with anyone interested, and I've been extremely excited to see people like timely, jb, esquire, centaurman, nearmint, buttocks, pedigreeman, and many others joining in and sharing with the rest of us. Thanks to all of them, a whole new world of collecting challenges has opened up to me. As a direct result of people posting here, prices for certain early DCs are soon going to go up a bit further because of me, just as I suspect they will for many other GA titles that collectors are becoming aware of. I think the future of GA collecting is looking very promising indeed, and this trend can be accellerated by current collectors/experts helping the new and coming generations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thegoldenage Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 40. Been collecting since 1976. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thegoldenage Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I think the Internet has played a huge role. Sites like ebay have helped LOWER prices on a lot of books, not raise them. I have a large collection of Golden Age comics, and you know what? I hope the market crashes. That way I can get the books I need for cheap. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUNYHUMAN Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I'm 47 & loving it !!! Been collecting Golden for at least 15 years !!! Still collect my Silver & occasional Bronze!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentaurMan Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 34. Never been older, never will be younger. Been collecting comics forever, GA for around 8-10 years (once I got out of business school and got a real job). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomerjay Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 46 Been collecting since 22 BUT I only started collecting GA a couple of years ago. I think largely because I gravitate towards things I don't know well, I like how GA books date themselves, there is more a sense of history, and this is the pre-code era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*paull* Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 33 Only been collecting GA for a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 45 - bought my first GA in 1971 - a bunch of Quality Blackhawks for a quarter apiece - a year later I bought 3 GA books off a kid in the neighborhood for $9 (including a mid-grade Green Lantern #38) - it wasn't long before I was selling off my SA to buy old ECs, and selling them to buy More Funs,and then selling them to buy weed --oops! I sold the last of my GA in the early 80s - and got sucked back in again when I started buying old pre-code crime books for $3 apiece at some huge comic store in NYC (Forbidden Planet? - I can't recall the name) - in the mid 80s - very slowly I expanded into more expensive pre-code crime, then horror, then oddball stuff, and eventually super-hero GA by the mid 90s. I still only buy maybe 10-20 GA and pre-code books a year and mostly in the $20-$200 range - It's a hobby and not something I feel comfortable sinking alot of money into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghoulaid Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I started buying Golden Age when I was 16 (1971). I had a paper route and I had money to burn. The first was Batman #18. Over the next 10 years I acquired just about all the GA comics I have today (several hundred). So ... I think MOST people who collect GA are not old fogeys looking to recapture books they read as kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dm226 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I'm 35 - got more silver than golden, but would buy more if I had more $$$. I do have a Captain Marvel Jr. #1, and a FC #29 but not much else other than ducks. I got my first GA books when I was about 12 when a neighbor gave me a box of comics, including a Great Expectations Classic Comics and a Blonde Phantom #17... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FFB Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I started buying Golden Age during Wizard World Chicago last summer when Sid (BassGMan) pulled a golden age scuba cover book out of a bin and showed it to me for my girlfriend's collection. I've purchased a few odd crime books here and there since then. After reading a few old Sotheby's catalogs recently, I am thinking about putting more resources there though, and would like to pick up some raw Church books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantern Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Started collecting ECs in my mid 20s. I am now 32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
