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Topics => Entertainment => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on May 04, 2012, 02:47:43 PM
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Check out your local comic book store for a free one tomorrow! Haven't ever participated before but if I can fit it in I'll take the kids.
store locator link here (http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992)
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I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is. ::thinking::
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I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is. ::thinking::
I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .
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My dad did me an inadvertent favor when I was young. He threw out my comic book collection once when we were moving. I was really torqued at the time but it served to break the early hoarder spirit in me (don't worry - it reasserted itself later on!).
Nowadays I can still appreciate a well-crafted "graphic-art" story but the spell is broken on mindlessly collecting them. And with no children to share them with or bequeath to what's the point?
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I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is. ::thinking::
I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .
As well as Cracked & National Lampoon? ;D
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Nowadays I can still appreciate a well-crafted "graphic-art" story but the spell is broken on mindlessly collecting them. And with no children to share them with or bequeath to what's the point?
Oh, I think you could always find a willing taker. Many a comic shop started with just such a collection.
Of course, even in my younger days I was so cheap I would wait for Cerebus to be published in a "phone book" collection rather than buy individual issues - much to the Chagrin of the indie shop that produced it. I was always way more interested in the story than in collectibility.
Did you know that Spiderman 583 was reissued 5 times with different covers? I guy I met at a customer ran a comic shop and he showed them all to me. It was his best seller at the time, and these collectors would reflexively buy each time a new cover was offered. Same issue. New Cover. Over and over. $5 a pop, and more once its shelf time expired. Looks like the collection is running at $8 an issue now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMAZING-SPIDER-MAN-583-1-2-3-4-5-NM-CONDITION-/150810924695?_trksid=p4340.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D15%26pmod%3D251002451877%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8249568023607414814#ht_500wt_1080 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMAZING-SPIDER-MAN-583-1-2-3-4-5-NM-CONDITION-/150810924695?_trksid=p4340.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D15%26pmod%3D251002451877%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8249568023607414814#ht_500wt_1080)
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I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is. ::thinking::
I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .
As well as Cracked & National Lampoon? ;D
Gee ... I didn't know "Cracked" was still being published !
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I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is. ::thinking::
I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .
As well as Cracked & National Lampoon? ;D
Gee ... I didn't know "Cracked" was still being published !
Hell if I know. But those three are about all I read as a kid.
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I recently bought myself the complete National Lampoon and Mad Magazine on DVD. Great memories.
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I recently bought myself the complete National Lampoon and Mad Magazine on DVD. Great memories.
Spy vs Spy rocks! ::cool::
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I recently bought myself the complete National Lampoon and Mad Magazine on DVD. Great memories.
Spy vs Spy rocks! ::cool::
::thumbsup::
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I can vividly remember in grade school and Jr. High it was Mad magazine. Then came High School and National Lampoon. Of course it was only for the articles. ::angel::
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Yeah, and I liked those Rigid tool calendars just for the...umm...tools! ::evil::