USER ID DISCLOSURE...WHO ARE YOU?

[40sJohn]

Hot dang, another 40+er on the board. I'm beginning to believe that there must have been a price depression on comics in the early - mid 80's with the number of collectors that dumped their books when we went to college.

 

Greg, thanks for sharing. Enjoy those kids now - they are at the perfect age to be a lot of fun.

[thehumantorch]

I didn't know this thread existed but I love it.

 

My name's Dave, 47 years old, born and still raised in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Married, no kids. I've delivered mail for Canada Post since I got out of high school, not an easy job in this frozen wasteland for 6 months of the year. By the by it snowed today, April 20, about 8 inches. I play ball hockey 3 times a week, my aching knees. I spent five years of night school completing a 2 year tech. diploma in database management, hardware, and networking. I play a ton of on-line poker and do pretty well, occasionally I cash in my winnings to buy comics.

 

I've collected comics since I was 13, once I absorb a comic into my collection it stays there, except for my premarriage chasing girls phase where I sold off most of my 10 long boxes of Bronze for almost nothing. My goal is a complete Marvel Silver collection, about 60% there. I also pick up Barks Disney-best stories ever written, comics with WW2 covers, 3d comics, silver DC when its cheap-legion of super heroes rock, original art- up to 5 pages now, and frankly any comic that catches my eye.

 

I really enjoy this board, the problem with collecting comics is that there are so few people to share it with and I am so far away from the centers of collecting. I hope to travel to a large comiccon in the future and meet some of you.

 

[Owls Head]

 

Nice catch on the Sartre!

 

Being and Nothingness, read that in college...

 

dave wagner

45

starting reading comics around 1969-1970 I guess...

 

Married for 18 years...

 

2 sons - 13 and 7

 

spend a lot of my time coaching kids sports.... baseball and soccer...

 

Owls Head - a Temple University grad and also have spent more than a few summers in Maine: Owl's Head Light

 

 

the "Steal Your Face" is just for the old head that is me, and a wee few to many long strange trips back in the day...

 

 

Grew up in Philadelphia now live about 20 miles outside the city...

work in the city as a medical school librarian

 

i am just a small hobby collector with about 9 long boxes or so... and not a lot of spare time on me hands...

 

Just liked Dark Shadows a lot as a kid, use to watch it in the afternoons after school, don't make shows like that anymore...

[sterlingcomics]

I agree, and that's why I give generic, vague information only. No full names, no addresses, no city names.....just a first name and general location.

 

Hello, I am a human, residing on earth. Na-nu Na-nu.