My Comic Collection

[Troy Tempest]

I'm not sure if anyone here is interested in these or not, I have way too many, I hope someone finds them of interest!

77 Sunset Strip #2 - Feb 1963 (Gold Key)

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Around The World In 80 Days #784 - Feb 1957 (Dell)

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Camp Runamuck #1 - Apr 1966 (Dell)

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Car 54, Where Are You #3 - Oct 1962 (Dell)

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Combat #1 - Nov 1961 (Dell)

[Mervyn Mitton]

Troy - a great collecting field and I believe the early ones have high values ? The ones you show here look very interesting -

do they have high values ? Let's see if others will join in with their collections - to give them incentive - how many do you have ?

Best wishes for 2014 Mervyn

[Spasm]

Ah, the daisy bb gun....lots of US comics in SA when I was a kid. I remember wistfully looking at those adverts of boxes that contained a million soldiers, tanks and ships - everything to start your own full scale war. X-ray specs and grow a monkey.

Was a bit surprised when I got home and remembered that Dennis the Menace really had black hair has a dog called Gnasher and was a proper little hellraiser.

All the usual Marvel and DC Silver Surfer, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc etc but I also remember those comics that retold classical stories that had the really good artwork

Edited January 6, 2014 by Spasm

[Paul R]

I had a Daisy BB gun when I was a kid. Great times!

[Ulsterman]

I had no idea! As you know these are a huge collecting field these days and the new Walking Dead ones are selling for $350 each! There's an article in the WSJ about how comics are being used as a hedge fund alternative. The good ones seem to appreciate at about 7% a year. SAdly my Victor and Beano comics aren't that collectible, nor is Asterix.

[Troy Tempest]

I have thousands of comics, am actually going through a major cull at the moment, getting rid of almost all of them, finally seeing the sense in digital downloads for all my modern comics. I resisted for a long time, but as most new comics will be of no real value, I can read them on a tablet and store huge numbers on external hard drives. It's also cheaper to buy the digital version, and I can still buy almost all the back issues that way as well. Not to mention the ginormous amount of space the comic boxes take up, the Better Half will be happy about that! The only ones I'm keeping are ones that aren't available digitally, or the great colour photo cover US comics from the 60s (Dell, Gold Key etc), and the great (but often racist by today's standards) war comics. Korean war era comics portrayed Chinese as almost ape like and this carried over to Vietnam war era comics to a degree. WWII themed comics are also a favourite as the covers almost always show the Germans as crazed Nazis, oozing evil from every pore As a young boy in the 60s, I used to marvel at the stuff available in the States, according to the ads in comics. I REALLY wanted one of those fully operational submarines that could be delivered to your door. Why couldn't we have cool things like that in Australia, I used to repeatedly ask my parents. Coming from a non-gun culture country, I was amazed at the ads for guns on the back covers a lot of the time. To me, it seemed like everybody in America had a gun, surely that couldn't be true!

Edited January 6, 2014 by Troy Tempest

[Troy Tempest]

Countdown - Oct 1967 (Dell)

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Davy Crocket, Indian Fighter #631 - May 1955 (Dell)

[Stuka f]

Have you ever seen them in Flemish?

;-)

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[Mervyn Mitton]

The short answer to that question is - fortunately NO ! Wouldn't be able to understand a word. Do they have a

collectable value ?

Troy - how is your collection coming along ? I think when I was a boy Hotspur was the main comic - however, with the

War they were printed with few pages. From the early 20th C. The Boy's Own were probably the favourites. Now , over

a hundred years later they have quite a value. Mervyn

[Stuka f]

Hey Mervin,

they are "collectables" but at very low value.

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