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How old are Golden Age Collectors?

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If you collect Golden Age books, how old are you?  

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  1. 1. If you collect Golden Age books, how old are you?

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action1kid

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Hey Rick.

We continue with[its a small world] between the both of us.

I also have a winter home in Fort Lauderdale where I very frequently visited Tropic comics.Its a while but was it on u.s441 or university. Ive been in that back room too.Awesome books.Was it John Chruscheski if I remember.Nice vintage toys too.

They closed up and moved tp P.A

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capt_comics

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Been collecting SA since the SA (1961)

 

GA since 1979

 

Remember buying my first two GA books in late 1979. A Planet # 39 for the then staggering price of $35 and a Batman # 66 for $7

 

woohoo those were the days :banana:

 

Still have both books

 

 

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pennynike1

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I will be turning 28 in a few months. I began collecting comics when New Mutants #87 was being aggressively publicized by Wizard. Purchased it for $65, then the value of the book plummeted :(

 

I will have been collecting high grade GA books for 2 years as of September.

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adamstrange

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I am 30, and have just started collecting GA. I recently completed the full run of EC Frontline Combat, and have all but two of the Two Fisted Tales ( I thought war comics would be a good place to start.)

 

War books are a great place to start and EC has published some of the best!

 

Welcome to the Boards! :hi:

 

 

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drbanner

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I'm 37 and started collecting GA in my late 20's...first Barks, then Schomburg, then LB Cole, then????

UPDATE: it's been over 3 years since I started this thread, so now I'm in a new bracket (one that is much wiser than before)!! :acclaim:

 

I seem to have digressed however, in that I've picked up a few Barks Four Colors this year after not buying any for at least 5 years... hm

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Detroit MIke

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I'm 40 too. I got heavily into comics in 1979 and have collected a majority of the years since. My uncle, who also collects comics, took me to my first con in San Francisco in 1981. I bought my first golden age book, a Young Allies #20. It was a VF for $20. I accidentally pulled the cover off when I was reading it. After that, I traded it away for practically nothing because I couldn't handle the sight of it.

 

In 1995, I started buying golden age books on a regular basis after I landed a teaching job. I'm a sucker for WW II covers... DC, Timely, Fawcett, they're all good.

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G.A.tor

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I'll be 44 on Monday.
holy cow...were you around when dirt was invented :baiting:
:pullhair: See, this is why my hair is falling out. :cry:

might have something to do with the pulling of it lol

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