The Top 40

See? We shoulda paid more attention to Eugenics when we had the chance. Now all our breeding stock is aging and there be no suitable replacements. The Baby Boomers were our last chance at perpetuating the greatness of this nation.

When the space aliens come down and explore the ruins of Earth a few hundred years from now they will ponder long and hard over why we let ourselves devolve.

Marvel Comics has been so meticulous and concerned about continuity that its become a burden for writers and the company. To make matters worse, the continuity contains horrible mistakes and ugly episodes like the Spider-Man clone stories, the Civil War storyline, and many more. They could do with a reboot.

I did my bit! Four big ornery kids and four grands! All rational real people.

I had that issue as well as a bunch of others from around that time. Wish mom hadn't thrown them away when I went to college.

Welp, I'm putting about 1000 of em on the auction block next week, Marvel, DC, Image, Valiant, and loads of independents, all Wizards from #1-#100 with inserts intact - 8 short boxes worth. Most are 1st issues, all bagged and boarded in archival boxes in a controlled environment from the beginning. But I'll keep my "Death of Superman" series.

bradoplata- That's what Moms do.Mine tossed all the baseball cards from the '40's and '50's and comics because they were taking up space in the basement and they were junk.

Later on in life she did come to realize what she did.

lol at all the rough, tough people that post here being collectors.

I really miss my issues of Walt Simonson's Thor and Eagle Comics Judge Dredd.

Never thought of myself as rough n tough but I collect lighters too, have several hundred I suppose, some might be worth some coin. If nothing else, when the lights go out I'll still have some, so I can see who's loling.

And stamps.
And coins.
And vintage audio equipment.
And knives.
And tools.
And, and, and.....
Life is one big collection.

We're in the process of unloading our thousands of comics. I loved many of them and wanted to read them but never got around to it, so they just sat in long boxes in a room taking up a lot of space. We've started getting trade paperbacks of stories instead of reading the comics. They take up less space and target specific story runs we love.

Same here, I never read any of them. I liked the covers. In 1992 our 13 yo son was interested in comics and the local dealer wanted someone as a 50/50 partner so we bought him into it. We were then privy to extreme discounts on subscription services. At one point our son and I had more than 10,000 comics in our private collection. Every few years I sell a few thousand of them, now all that's left is the top shelf material which is what I'll be selling next week.

This was about the time that we started home schooling him and he *graduated* high school 2 years early, sold the comic store and used the profit to pay for all of his 4 years of college which he completed in 3.

So yeah, sometimes *tough and rough* people can turn something fun into profit, over and over again.

I also have several thousand comic card collections with chase cards (holograms, prisms, etc.) in archival sleeves in binders, ash cans, TPB's, and all manner of comic related collectibles. It's all taking up a lot of space and I just want to liquidate all of it.

My uncle Louie Lozko, we all called him "Letsgo Lozko", he raised bantam chickens. Being a man of the world he was a collector as well. He started a screw collection back in 1946, after he had come home from the war. At first he had included bolts but he soon saw that screws deserve their own niche. He passed his collection on to me before he died and I have been keeping it up ever since. I have wood screws, sheet metal screws, pan head, round head, flat head, many of them in baby food jars. The longer ones are kept in coffee cans. There are slot, Phillips, Robertson, or square drive, allen heads are rare so they are more valuable. I keep detailed logs of all the varieties and I'm able to get date confirmation on many of them as well.

it's about time to sell them off. I figure I'll auction them on eBay. take some photos, write up categories, so forth. Any of you readers that are interested contact me.

Incidentally, this whole article is very worth reading, if you have any interest in all in comics. It does a terrific job of examining what has caused them to go from great fun to misery (other than a general shift from writing to fancy art and coloring).

Seems like some rough, tough people also have sand in their vag.