Most valuable comic you HAD as a kid...then lost/traded. 7 7

[Aweandlorder]

My subscription to IH ended with #180 does that count?

[Bird]

Just now, Aweandlorder said:

My subscription to IH ended with #180 does that count?

IH 180 in grade is a valuable comic!

But no. The answer to your question is NO!

[Badger]

42 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

yeah i think your memory is a bit off because i remember buying both those issues for a buck each maybe even 50 cents each  at a LCS in the early 80's

Could be. Maybe in my mind I softened the memory by splitting out the 2 books? Nonetheless, the sale took place, i spent it all on fun stuff, and the money was gone before the end of the day!

Kinda like any sales money I make now. 

[1950's war comics]

6 minutes ago, Aweandlorder said:

My subscription to IH ended with #180 does that count?

terrible luck .. do you still have the originals from your subscription??

[Aweandlorder]

3 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

terrible luck .. do you still have the originals from your subscription??

No I was only joking..

but imagine the bad luck!!

i did subscribe to batman when I was a kid however, and it ended with 365 

[lizards2]

6 hours ago, Blastaar said:

Was "high grade" a consideration in the 60's and 70's to those that collected?

I started collecting back issues in 1972, and even though the definitions of grades have changed, I was always trying to get the highest grade possible.

The downside was that it was way easier to find later issues in HG, so that was where the money was focused, and now, at the end, I don't have those earlier issues that were super hard to find in HG.

[newshane]

Throughout the 90s and 00s my best friend and I swapped a copy of Wolverine 1 - Limited Series around several times. Ripping each other off every time. It was also the first book that I ever had graded by the CGC. Can't believe I ended up selling it. 

Really nice copy purchased by his grandparents somewhere in Alabama. 

I owe him a perfect copy. Maybe a retrograde gift for his 40th. 

[lizards2]

5 hours ago, kav said:

I saw a huge stack of GL 76 at the drug store in high grade and I didnt buy them all.

Of course - it was poopy DC

[newshane]

7 hours ago, Blastaar said:

I saved up all summer in the late 80's to buy a Hulk #1 that was probably a 2.5. Paid $100 for it, traded it later that year for a Roger Clemens rookie card. 

OMG. 

[newshane]

5 hours ago, Gaard said:

Sold my complete run of DDs when I went off to college. Before that I sold plenty of early Spideys (issues 10-20) and early FFs (issues 8-up) , not to mention other Marvels, for cars, drugs, and girls.  This was back in the 70s.

Meh...sounds to me like it all evened out in the end. 

[Semicentennial]

I was helping someone at a comic convention back in the early 80s and I wound up buying a Hulk 181.  As I was showing my friend what I bought at his booth, someone came up and offered me double of what I paid for the book.  I think I sold it for $40.  I know it's low by today's standards, but I was able to buy an Xmen #1 in a G/VG for $30 in the early 80s.

[lizards2]

I'm not sure what my most valuable lost/traded was.  

My brother used to buy tons of comics when he was on fire watch in the woods for the local mill.  I got rid of the Swamp Thing 1, as it held no affinity for me.

I did have multiple copies of Special Marvel Edition 15 in about 9.0/9.2 that I picked up at a con.  I unloaded all the extras here, close to when I first joined.  Even though I sold all those spec copies, I did manage to keep the best one for myself.

I remember when Overstreet first had the quarterly updates around 1989/90(?) and books like Captain America 100 were $10 in NM in the main guide, and were $110 in quarterly.  I picked up books like that and Iron Fist 15, and quickly rolled them for 10 x to 15 x the purchase price, which by today's standards was a pittance.  I remember looking at the price guide (I was doing wildland fire at the time, and was off in the winters) around 1987/1988 and thinking values were crazy - all that early DC stuff including early 60s #1s, were supposedly worth $30-40 in NM.  All the later issues of TOS, TTA, ST were $2 in NM (got a NM TOS 59 for $2), etc.  I was buying all I could.  I remember being in Boise in the winter of 1989 freezing my @zz off, and the road plows were on strike, and my dealer got in a big bunch of HG silver age, and I told my wife, "I know this may not make sense, but I'm taking $500 out of savings, and buying as much as I can."  I got Spider-man 50-65, for example, for about $150 to $200.  The #50 isn't NM, but it is 9.0, last I checked.

I wish I had the prescience to act in the early 1970/80s, when dealers had stacks of books like Hulk 102, Cap 100, IMSM 1, etc. for cheap.

I've told this before, but I remember being at a con in the late 80's, and one dealer had all these three packs of NM books.  They were kind of spendy at the time, but I wish now that I had the $ to buy them all.  I picked up a three pack of NM ASM 100-102 for about $25 to replace my well loved copies that I had purchased off the newsstand.

Arrgh - I could go on, and on.

 

[Bird]

"HAD as a kid" thread and..."told my wife" post. Hmmm...is your wife's maiden name Letourneau?

 

[lizards2]

18 minutes ago, Bird said:

"HAD as a kid" thread and..."told my wife" post. Hmmm...is your wife's maiden name Letourneau?

 

 

 

 

[porcupine48]

Had an 8.5ish Hulk 181 I gave to a family member to take care of,safe keeping when I first moved out at sixteen.Never saw it again.

[dupont2005]

Pretty much any early 90’s X-Men or Spider-Man related key. Didn’t lose any of them but sold them for a couple bucks

[dupont2005]

I did lose a box of Archie digests and a box of Conan mags though 

[kav]

I had a copy of Woodgod at one point.  

[comicnoir]

I kept my Conan 1 and Vampi 1

[Brian48]

A high grade copy of Hulk 181. A loooong time ago.