At the height of my comic collection era I had four(4) copies of Hulk #181. This is the first issue that Wolverine appears in a comic storyline. I bought this comic at every turn of my economic fortune. From my first paper route up until the point I was traveling O.T. to Virginia and North Carolina with them “things”. I had the comic in several different grades. My mint condition copy was bomb-proofed in a mylar plastic bag with an acid-free backing board in a stiff vinyl sleeve.
When I had to sell off my collection my heart was broken in half to lose the copies of the JOHN BYRNE X-Men run, the FRANK MILLER Daredevil run, the NEAL ADAMS X-Men, the NEAL ADAMS Batman run, the one-offs and cameos of my favorite characters and artists in different titles. I was given several hundred bucks for well over a thousand issues with books like X-Men #94, Daredevil #158, Hulk #181 the individual Dark Knight Returns series and several more issues with multiple copies.
Marvel Comics is returning the love back to me and all of their classic storyline fans by creating direct to DVD animated origins episodes. COMBAT JACK sent me this link from a preview at ComicCon 2008…
Old fanboys like myself and young new stans can rejoice together as our favorite characters are pulled off the pages and given new life on the screens. And I don’t feel too bad about selling off all of my books now.
I don’t usually mark for that stuff but that looks dope.
Yo, Iron-Man the recent animated joint is kind of . . . meh. Those new Avengers DVD also looks kind of wack. I guess I’m not impressed with the animation because it looks really stale . . . while the old-old animated joints from back in the day based on Kirby’s drawing are still hot to me.
The NEW Batman animated DVD is HOT!! (Think Animatrix).
You HAD the entire Byrne X-Men collection. Darn, that’s kind of sad. I wish I had that run when it was out.
Yo, where would you sell your old comic collection. I still have a GANG of old comics that I have no problem parting with. I AlSO have John Byrne’s run at SUPERMAN. I believe issue 1 – 3 or 4? I don’t remember. Even though, I’m really not trying to sell my comics yet. Is E-Bay a viable spot to sell old comics and get decent bread?
on some shit. i have that Hulk that you have pictured still. in the archives in atl. i had to save them once from a nephew who thought he was a comic dealer with my fucking books. dope episode in that one. still got some old X-Men and even some new Mutants in the stacks and the First 15 Wolverines. dont think or know if they are worth a lot, but i love knowing that i still have them.
VEE:
Nobody wants to buy comics anymore. Unless you got stuff from the 60’s 70’s you’re better off holding on to em or giving them to the seeds.
Thanks Dallas…I just creamed in my pants at work.
or some other comic book Nerd. LOLOLOLOL.
i used to love comic books back in the day. i was just getting into it, but my collection was never that tough. i liked some offbeat shit, like THE MAXX, and i still have my copy of the comics when superman died/came back, but i gave a lot of my favorites to my cousin, who proceeded to fuck them all up. he did the same shit to my psx. i hate that nigga on certain occasions…
that Todd McFarlane hulk reflection/in wolverine claws is hella dope. damn that dude could draw. too bad he was a greedy asshole who fucked up comics.
I read the majority of my old comic books so much that I end up giving them to my cousins and my nephew. Certain ones will never leave my collection. That joint looks ill. One of my favorite all time books was Hulk #181 and the one where Wolverine appeared in the Daredevil and cut that dudes nuts off with his claws.
I have a few old comics from the 60’s as well. Captain America fighting AIM and Hydra next to Sub Mariner and villains like Paste Pot Pete are running around an’ shit. I hate Superman…
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You might come up on a fiend over the eBay system but the truth is that anything post 1986 isn’t even worth the paper it is printed on. The publishers printed too many issues back then, plus I feel like the trade books allow the pedestrian collector to piuck up an entire storyline in one pop.
My Byrne collection was outstanding. From X-Men #108 – #142 with doubles throughout because I would upgrade to a mint book when my paper came around. But I went in on shit like Doomsday + 1 and Rog2000 as well (his OG Charleston titles).
Shout to my nigga Combat Jack who straight laced me with an original printing of the Art Of John Byrne. I got that shit on ice.
i just shed a single tear remembering my foolishly sold comic collection.
but i thank god for trade paperbacks that allow me to relive the stories and even catch up on the ones i missed.
Man where the hell have I been? Sleeping I guess.
I still have all my books from when I was microsized and I still snap up all the new stuff I get my mits on.
That said I have been flirting with the notion of unloading my collection for sometime now.
Im a reader not a collector so I would prolly end up holding on to only my tippy-tops. I have almost the complete run of Punisher (me and Frank go waaaay back) so I wouldnt be getting rid of that. But I have a LOT of that 2099 shit which I dont think I will be able to give away.
Did anyone else get caught up in that FOIL COVER BOOOLSHEET?
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