Books from your personal collection, slabbed/graded FOR your personal collection? 2 2

[Qalyar]

On 10/28/2021 at 9:16 PM, Mike22 said:

I was friends with Herb Trimpe before he passed away.  He was a Vietnam Veteran who flew Huey's during the war, I was a Captain in Special Forces.  He used to write me on email when I was deployed during the early day of the wars in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraq during Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF).  I had him sign this book for me, that I bought raw, and draw a sketch for me.  After Herb signed it and drew a sketch on it for me I figured I would get the entire creative team of Wolverine to sign: John Romita Sr., Len Wein, and off course Stan.  I love this book, one of my favorites in my collection 

I'm normally sad to see interesting books -- like relatively high grade MJI copies -- end up signed. But you know, I'll absolutely give you this one. Fantastic story resulting in a fantastic book.

[Azkaban]

I always felt that my comics were in nice shape but didn't really know for sure, so when I came back to the hobby I sent in four to get graded. I tried to pick one from each run that I collected

Avengers #57, one of the best stories in comics and awesome cover 

X-Men #15, my earliest issue of the run at the time

Cap #100, because it had the Avengers 

and Iron Man #1 probably my favorite superhero and book that I kept laying out in my room at all times right next to my commodore 64 which somehow got something on it from either myself or my sister 

also they haven't been pressed or cleaned, they were stacked in loving piles in my closet  until I grew up and realized they needed to be bagged and boarded 

Edited October 29, 2021 by Azkaban

[Azkaban]

these next three are the only other books from my collection that I have had graded plus one from my friends collection

Hulk #180 Wolverine's first app, and another favorite 

Avengers #15 you know why  my favorite group

TTA #48 date stamp love

and the X-Men #6 was one of my best friend Don's comic which will now stay in my collection forever   

[Gaard]

On 10/28/2021 at 8:04 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Walked in to the LCS to see this cover, expecting a higher price for Campbell cover. I looked at it close it was beat, looked at it closer it was a Newsstand Edition, looked at the price that said $10 on the tag.

Picked it up went to check out, and the clerk said, "oh I found this and the owner said throw it away it's so beat, and I told him its Campbell and will sell!"

Long story short, I saved it from the trash! For $10 plus the cost to grade Haha:shy:

 

It's bad enough that moms throw comics in the trash, but LCSs? Sacrilege!

Edited October 29, 2021 by Gaard

[sevans1979]

Wow awesome books and even better story’s  thanks for sharing 

[Math Teacher]

I don't have any pictures, as I'm at work. However, I have slabbed many of my books (valued over $500), because a) I don't want to take the risk of any damage to these books, b) I like how they look in a slab, and c) having my books slabbed will make it much easier for my wife and children to sell them when I pass away.

Edited October 30, 2021 by Math Teacher

[WEBHEAD]

Bought at my LCS   wish it did not have that chip or marvel chipping  but what the heck

Edited October 29, 2021 by WEBHEAD

[WEBHEAD]

I got this years back from my LCS   and  it was in bad shape.... but I decided eventually to slab ( pressed and cleaned so happy with the results )

 

Edited October 29, 2021 by WEBHEAD

[jsilverjanet]

I had a nice run of Byrnes X-Men that were the last set of books I brought from my youth. When I began selling books (about 7-8 years ago), I sold most of the raws but kept the 141 and 142 because i loved the story so much. Eventually i got them graded during the hype of the movies etc and sold them. I regretted it immediately and finally reached out to the buyer to see if i could buy them back. I offered to pay more or trade him for other copies but he knew my sentimental value and wanted a significant amount more so i passed. They weren't high grade etc in case anyone was wondering.

when i see one posted, i always look to see if it's mine since it had a pencil mark of the price i paid for each of them on the back.

[Cushing Fan]

On the left is my Incredible Hulk 250 that I bought off the rack as a kid. Read it plenty of times (did some color touch on the cover as kid with a pen to keep it looking "new" lol). Years later I found a high grade copy of the same issue and got it signed by both Sal Buscema and Al Milgrom. Both books will never leave my collection.  

Edited October 29, 2021 by Cushing Fan

[Fisionbomb]

On 10/29/2021 at 7:00 PM, Cushing Fan said:

On the left is my Incredible Hulk 250 that I bought off the rack as a kid. Read it plenty of times (did some color touch on the cover as kid with a pen to keep it looking "new" lol). Years later I found a high grade copy of the same issue and got it signed by both Sal Buscema and Al Milgrom. Both book will never leave my collection.  

Your raw copy looks great for so having stayed with you since you were a kid!

Took me a minute to find the sneaky Buscema sig on the graded copy, lol. Gnarly books, thanks for sharing!

[jsilverjanet]

On 10/29/2021 at 9:53 AM, jsilverjanet said:

I had a nice run of Byrnes X-Men that were the last set of books I brought from my youth. When I began selling books (about 7-8 years ago), I sold most of the raws but kept the 141 and 142 because i loved the story so much. Eventually i got them graded during the hype of the movies etc and sold them. I regretted it immediately and finally reached out to the buyer to see if i could buy them back. I offered to pay more or trade him for other copies but he knew my sentimental value and wanted a significant amount more so i passed. They weren't high grade etc in case anyone was wondering.

when i see one posted, i always look to see if it's mine since it had a pencil mark of the price i paid for each of them on the back.

years later, when buying comics, my cousin who collected with me asked if i'd be interested in buying his books. he had about 5-6 books left. but one of them was a book i sold him when we were collecting in our late teens. ASM 135. I still have that book raw. That was a nice return for me as that was the first spider-man cover I saw (on a folder, those who are old enough to remember those Marvel folders).

 

[Poekaymon]

This bad boy.  And don't pretend like you guys aren't jelly.

 

 

Edited February 1, 2022 by Poekaymon

[Tom's Hulks]

When I was a kid, I loved the Incredible Hulk TV show.  I was  visiting my grandfather in Asbury Park, NJ in 1978 and I'll never forget him coming in the house in his police uniform and he gave me this comic.  The book itself was published in 1975 so I'm not sure if he went to a comic shop to get it or someone had it.  As you can tell.  I might have read through it a few times.  But I kept it cause he died very soon after.  I decided to send it to CGC about 10 years ago just to keep it a little more protected and see what a 6 year old could do to a comic. At least back then I knew not to write my name or try to add some more color to it.  

[ExNihilo]

My dad got me into comics.  Unfortunately, part of his collection was lost when his parents (my grandparents) basement flooded, save for one box.  These were the two biggest keys in that box so I sent them off to CGC for preservation and because I knew I would never part with them.  I told my sister (since I don't have any kids of my own yet) that I don't care what she does with my books, but hang on to dads and pass them down.

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 10/30/2021 at 3:13 PM, ExNihilo said:

My dad got me into comics.  Unfortunately, part of his collection was lost when his parents (my grandparents) basement flooded, save for one box.  These were the two biggest keys in that box so I sent them off to CGC for preservation and because I knew I would never part with them.  I told my sister (since I don't have any kids of my own yet) that I don't care what she does with my books, but hang on to dads and pass them down.

 

[Fisionbomb]

On 10/30/2021 at 4:13 PM, ExNihilo said:

My dad got me into comics.  Unfortunately, part of his collection was lost when his parents (my grandparents) basement flooded, save for one box.  These were the two biggest keys in that box so I sent them off to CGC for preservation and because I knew I would never part with them.  I told my sister (since I don't have any kids of my own yet) that I don't care what she does with my books, but hang on to dads and pass them down.

Excellent telling, thank you for sharing! 

[MetalPSI]

I had this given to me on my birthday one year

[MetalPSI]

This one I picked up in '96 or '97

Apocalypse had just become my favorite villain after the Age of Apocalypse Xmen crossover run 

I called around looking for this issue, and went to a store I've never been to before.

I was disappointed in the condition, but picked it up for 20 bucks. Decided to have it graded a year or so ago, and now it's part of my permanent collection 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 10/30/2021 at 8:12 PM, Dr. Dank said:

I had this given to me on my birthday one year

I get that in a lot of Josie searches!