Maybe overpay is the way? :) 2 2

[jimjum12]

On 8/26/2024 at 1:13 PM, jimbo_7071 said:

 Either you started in elementary school, or you're a lot older than I realized!

pushing 70 ... I should have done WAY better  First Action 1 I saw was raw, unrestored and $1800. It did NOT sell that day. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Robot Man]

On 8/26/2024 at 10:18 AM, jimjum12 said:

pushing 70 ... I should have done WAY better  First Action 1 I saw was raw, unrestored and $1800. It did NOT sell that day. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

First Action 1 I saw I was in 8th grade. My friend Gary Coddington, had a complete Superman collection. He was probably a sophomore in HS then. I got to read it, Supe1 and others on the floor in his bedroom. His older brother had a Detective 27 which I also read. I was much more impressed with Batman.

First Action 1 I ever saw for sale was from Bert Blum at Cherokee Books. Price…$300. Might as well been a million dollars then. I think he just wanted to brag or rub it in my dirty little face…

I have seen what seems like thousands now and I’m just not that fixated on it anymore. I’m frankly over it…

[Robot Man]

On 8/26/2024 at 10:18 AM, jimjum12 said:

pushing 70 ... I should have done WAY better  First Action 1 I saw was raw, unrestored and $1800. It did NOT sell that day. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Mitch bought it…

[jimjum12]

On 8/26/2024 at 1:51 PM, Robot Man said:

Mitch bought it…

 I think that one was right after Mitch. You could damn near buy a new Camaro for that back then. GOD BLESS ... jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Robot Man]

On 8/26/2024 at 10:53 AM, jimjum12 said:

 I think that one was right after Mitch. You could damn near buy a new Camaro for that back then. GOD BLESS ... jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I’d have taken the Camaro hands down. What is hard for me to understand is how a guy that young could scrape up that much cash back then. I moved out of my parent’s house when I was 17. Got a job as a box boy making probably $2. an hour. I scraped by and finished HS. Money was tight but old comics were cheap. Garage sales, flea markets, used book stores ect so I was able to still collect a bit. An Action 1 was a unicorn…

[jimjum12]

On 8/26/2024 at 2:00 PM, Robot Man said:

I’d have taken the Camaro hands down. What is hard for me to understand is how a guy that young could scrape up that much cash back then. I moved out of my parent’s house when I was 17. Got a job as a box boy making probably $2. an hour. I scraped by and finished HS. Money was tight but old comics were cheap. Garage sales, flea markets, used book stores ect so I was able to still collect a bit. An Action 1 was a unicorn…

I was still working my paper route at 10 bucks per week, and shows maybe coming 3 times a year. I was high rolling if I had 50 saved up. You could buy a quarter mil at today's prices for 50. Paid 20 for an unread FF 5 at one show. My whole collection dropped a grade. You could send 75 cents to Crestohl for a VF+ warehouse copy of FF 48. It was a LOT of fun back then ...  who wanted to sell?, they were just too cool. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

Edited August 26 by jimjum12

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

On 8/26/2024 at 1:15 PM, jimjum12 said:

I was still working my paper route at 10 bucks per week, and shows maybe coming 3 times a year. I was high rolling if I had 50 saved up. You could buy a quarter mil at today's prices for 50. Paid 20 for an unread FF 5 at one show. My whole collection dropped a grade. You could send 75 cents to Crestohl for a VF+ warehouse copy of FF 48. It was a LOT of fun back then ...  who wanted to sell?, they were just too cool. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

I’ve read your post 3 times and can’t connect the picture. So either there’s an FF 5 in that jalopy, or that’s you on the guitar 

[jimjum12]

On 8/26/2024 at 2:22 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I’ve read your post 3 times and can’t connect the picture. So either there’s an FF 5 in that jalopy, or that’s you on the guitar 

That's Jimi Hendrix, another of my interests back then, and still. He was 15 there. His albums were 5 bucks. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

On 8/26/2024 at 1:26 PM, jimjum12 said:

That's Jimi Hendrix, another of my interests back then, and still. He was 15 there. His albums were 5 bucks. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

What a great pic! I’d have never in a million years connected him to Hendrix 

[jimjum12]

On 8/26/2024 at 2:29 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

What a great pic! I’d have never in a million years connected him to Hendrix 

I immediately "stole" it when I saw it. Once I knew, I could see it. I read his biography several times. He packed a lot into 27 years. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[fishbone]

Overpaid for several key GA in the mid-2000's ........ value-wise, always became many multiples by 2015, 2020, now ..........., 

[tth2]

On 8/27/2024 at 2:26 AM, jimjum12 said:

That's Jimi Hendrix, another of my interests back then, and still. He was 15 there. His albums were 5 bucks. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Relatively speaking, LPs were insanely expensive back then.  It's why my friends and I had massive cassette collections, because we would decide who was going to buy what LP and then everyone else would tape everyone else's LPs.  It's the only way we could afford access to even a fraction of the music we wanted.  

[tth2]

On 8/27/2024 at 2:29 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

What a great pic! I’d have never in a million years connected him to Hendrix 

He's a lefty.

[buttock]

On 8/26/2024 at 8:02 AM, Point Five said:

I think I get the thinking in the original question. For collectors who come to GA collecting from SA/BA/CA collecting, there’s a lot of muscle memory to overcome… ideas like ‘the book will always be there if I want it’ or ‘OPG pricing (or even recent past sales) is the right metric to evaluate every purchase’ likely need to be discarded. GA books can be unique in many ways. We all have some regrets where we passed on a book and the same opportunity never quite came around again… even if the book came around again, maybe it wasn’t the right condition, the color strike wasn’t as strong, etc etc. 

You have to evaluate what the opportunity (or passing on it) is worth to you personally. Without knowing the particulars of the book you’re looking at, a $50 ‘bump’ for something you’ll enjoy long-term does not seem unreasonable.

 

The longer I collect, the less I concern myself about paying up for something that I haven't seen.  After over 30 years I have a pretty good idea of what will and won't come back around.  

[woowoo]

On 8/26/2024 at 10:51 AM, Robot Man said:

Mitch bought it…

Nope he paid $1801.

[Robot Man]

On 8/26/2024 at 11:15 AM, jimjum12 said:

I was still working my paper route at 10 bucks per week, and shows maybe coming 3 times a year. I was high rolling if I had 50 saved up. You could buy a quarter mil at today's prices for 50. Paid 20 for an unread FF 5 at one show. My whole collection dropped a grade. You could send 75 cents to Crestohl for a VF+ warehouse copy of FF 48. It was a LOT of fun back then ...  who wanted to sell?, they were just too cool. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

Yep, JimI with his first electric guitar. A cheap Danelectro single pickup model. If he only knew then what was to come.

Being a MAD fan, this is one of my favorite photos of him.

[Robot Man]

On 8/27/2024 at 6:41 AM, woowoo said:

Nope he paid $1801.

With “juice”…

[jimjum12]

On 8/26/2024 at 11:04 PM, tth2 said:

Relatively speaking, LPs were insanely expensive back then.  It's why my friends and I had massive cassette collections, because we would decide who was going to buy what LP and then everyone else would tape everyone else's LPs.  It's the only way we could afford access to even a fraction of the music we wanted.  

Yeah, the first album I ever bought with my own money cost $3.50, I was a kid still, and that was a LOT of yards and leaves, pre paper route days. ASM 6 was 5 bucks downtown then. It was worth it, though. That first album was Led Zeppelin III. It started my lifelong love affair with that band. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Robot Man]

On 8/27/2024 at 7:42 AM, jimjum12 said:

Yeah, the first album I ever bought with my own money cost $3.50, I was a kid still, and that was a LOT of yards and leaves, pre paper route days. ASM 6 was 5 bucks downtown then. It was worth it, though. That first album was Led Zeppelin III. It started my lifelong love affair with that band. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

My first album with my own money was the 2nd Beatles album for $1.89. Yeah, a lot of lawns…

My first exposure to Zep was their first tour in LA. I was in high school doing light shows for Thomas Edison Lights at the Rose Palace. Had never heard of them. After set up during their sound check I was on the phone to all my friends!