Mystery box of approx 150 - 200 GA Comics arriving today

[Buck Biggins]

I expect a full report by 7:30 of the contents.

[divad]

Honestly, i didn't want him touching them too much...the guy used to be a butcher, not sure he has gentle hands. I didn't even feel good about him boxing them up. The words that caused me to have him mail them out were...150-200 1940s comics and some Batman in there, plus the BLBs. That was enough for me.

 

Don''t mess with my stuff!

[Aces]

With the amount of rain we are getting today I hope the box is waterproof.

 

Yeah!

My God it's bad here!

The thunder is shaking my house!

[nik]

I'm having trouble believing that a comic collector with market awareness waited patiently for 8 months for 150 original owner G.A. superhero books to be sent out to him.

 

If this is a hoax though, it's definitely one of the more entertaining.

 

April 1st is 3 weeks away

[krighton]

Concerning the 'waited 8 months observation' our family are notorious procrastinators. My dad usually gives us our christmas presents a year late (no lie and he only lives a couple hours away.) and apparently my Uncle has inherited the gene. He lost his job recently...he's 75 and has no pension, so i'm guessing he finally decided to send the books and hope he gets some money for them.

 

I told him it's worth a shot, they may not be worth much, they may be worth quite a bit. We'll see....course now i have to leave the acceptance of the package up to my children for 30 minutes or so, let's hope they can open the door and sign for a package.

[Illiterati-migration]

Concerning the 'waited 8 months observation' our family are notorious procrastinators. My dad usually gives us our christmas presents a year late (no lie and he only lives a couple hours away.) and apparently my Uncle has inherited the gene. He lost his job recently...he's 75 and has no pension, so i'm guessing he finally decided to send the books and hope he gets some money for them.

 

I told him it's worth a shot, they may not be worth much, they may be worth quite a bit. We'll see....course now i have to leave the acceptance of the package up to my children for 30 minutes or so, let's hope they can open the door and sign for a package.

 

A year late? How do you know he didn't just skip Christmas the first year you were alive?

[Dick Pontoon]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

My dad was a contractor. Sometime in the mid 70s, not long after I’d started collecting, he came across a pile of comics in a basement of a house he was gutting. Thinking of me, he took a whopping total of 3 books.

 

They were Strange Tales #91, TEC #365 and a SA Blackhawk - the issue # escapes me, the cover is The Man in the Iron Mask. I was naturally overjoyed but beside myself at the thought of a entire pile sitting there. The funny thing is, he was aware that comics were collectible but didn’t grab them all since they were far from mint. Realizing he should have just taken them, he intended to get the rest but when he returned to the site the next day they were gone.

 

I still have them. They’re not pretty and are about about 1.5s, but they have sentimental value.

[action1kid]

You can see my ad on page #44 this year[full page,full color.

Superman collector seeks. You will see my costumes,movie posters ,an Action 1.

Its a nice ad.I am not selling anything.Just Buying.

[action1kid]

Wrong section,sorry!

[divad]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

[Red Hook]

[Illiterati-migration]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

I found a ton on my grandparents' farm when I was a kid... all Archies and Dells from the 50's and 60's. They were stashed in wooden crates in the loft space over their garage and everyone had forgotten they were there.

[FlyingDonut]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

When I was in high school, my hometown had these giant paper recycling dumpsters. My friend and I would go diving in them to find stuff. We only found a few comic piles, but we did find lots of porn.

[blutobc]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

I thought you were too busy with your head in tomato boxes to be looking anywhere else!!!!!

[Zonker]

My story was finding a dog-eared copy of JLA 57 (the UN-brotherhood issue) thrown out with the trash by the curb while walking home from school. This was the mid-1970s before I had ever heard of places selling back issues. I was interested to see the clean-shaven Green Arrow from this then-six-year-old comic, and even more interested to see the ads for the 1967 versions of the Batman TV show and the Superman/Aquaman cartoon hour, both shows I fondly remembered watching as a kid of four or five.

[FlamingCarrot]

Man, it must be a slow news day for some people to actually believe what this guy is shovelling.

 

Every single one of us would've gotten in a car/jumped on a plane 7 months and 29 days ago if we had a relative who discovered TWO HUNDRED golden age comics.

 

 

 

In the words of our great Vice President "quick draw" Cheney, "go yourself!"

[nik]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

You are not looking in the right places,

 

eg

 

LCS

Shows

Internet

 

etc, etc

[Dick Pontoon]

I found a ton on my grandparents' farm when I was a kid... all Archies and Dells from the 50's and 60's. They were stashed in wooden crates in the loft space over their garage and everyone had forgotten they were there.

 

The father of one of my best friends had a wooden chest full of ECs he bought off the rack. I never saw them, but they were supposed to be in great shape. When he passed away in the mid 80s, my friend’s mom threw them out.

[nik]

I found a ton on my grandparents' farm when I was a kid... all Archies and Dells from the 50's and 60's. They were stashed in wooden crates in the loft space over their garage and everyone had forgotten they were there.

 

The father of one of my best friends had a wooden chest full of ECs he bought off the rack. I never saw them, but they were supposed to be in great shape. When he passed away in the mid 80s, my friend’s mom threw them out.

 

[skybolt]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

No kidding. I once came across a coverless copy of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch #1 inside a desk drawer in our old apartment's storage room. Does that count?