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Post by iastagehand on Mar 2, 2007 9:38:58 GMT -5
i know everyone probably has one. Mine is a doozy. When I was around 8 or 9 I got a ton of books from my dad (divorced parents) and wanted to check out what they were worth. There was a book store that had comics next to my church so my grandfather ended up selling them for $5 bucks. I had a run or X men for 100 to 120 and tons of other goodies. I cried for a week! i went to the store about a week later and the stooge/thief was selling each of the X men books for about $20 a pop. Man was I pissed! To this day I refuse to let anyone near my books!
Anyone else have a simillar story about loss or just getting burned over bad trades?
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Post by Bored Yesterday on Mar 2, 2007 9:56:58 GMT -5
That story makes me sick to my stomach -- the betrayal!
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Post by iastagehand on Mar 2, 2007 10:06:57 GMT -5
Tell me about it! Didn't talk to my grandfather for weeks!(Hey i was only 9 and pissed!)
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Post by sharkar on Mar 2, 2007 10:50:56 GMT -5
Stagehand- - that's an awful story!!  I had a huge collection (500+) of Silver Age comics as a child, which I kept in a big cardboard box in my room. Whenever I would not eat my vegetables--burnt string beans and the like (I love her but she is an awful cook!!)- - my mother would punish me by throwing away some of my comics. She would just grab a few from the top of the pile and toss them. So I got smart and started to put "expendable" comics on top, like Archies (I admit I read some of those too, I was a comics junkie). But my valuable comics (Marvel and DC) were saved from my mother's destructiveness! It bothered me because I was very organized and liked to store my comics in chronological order and by publisher. I was ashamed to display my Archies on top! Of course years later when I went off to college, that's when she got rid of my collection. To this day I cry thinking about it. What would possess someone--your grandfather, my mother-- to get rid of someone's cherished stuff? edit: both sets of my grandparents were great, because they loved to spoil me and would give me money to buy whatever I wanted--you can guess what I spent it on... |
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Post by The Night Phantom on Mar 2, 2007 21:23:19 GMT -5
Huh. From the title, I would have guessed this thread was about abrasions and muscle pain caused by lifting and carrying comics-laden boxes. Well, your stories hurt, too.
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Post by Tana Nile on Mar 3, 2007 13:37:09 GMT -5
My worst burn? That's easy: when we had a fire in our house. No, my comics didn't burn, but many had smoke damage. If you've never had a fire (and I hope you haven't) you would not believe all the damage smoke does to clothes, furniture, and yes, comic books. This was in 1978 and unfortunately back in those days, my books were not bagged. To this day I will go pull an old comic out of my boxes and see that the cover looks dark or shadowy, which tells me it was one of the books sitting out during the fire. I also have quite a few where the cover must have been partially covered, as only a portion of the cover has this shadow on it. Unfortunately one of those is X-Men 94!
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Post by The Night Phantom on Mar 4, 2007 10:36:07 GMT -5
My worst burn? That's easy: when we had a fire in our house. No, my comics didn't burn, but many had smoke damage. If you've never had a fire (and I hope you haven't) you would not believe all the damage smoke does to clothes, furniture, and yes, comic books. This was in 1978 and unfortunately back in those days, my books were not bagged. To this day I will go pull an old comic out of my boxes and see that the cover looks dark or shadowy, which tells me it was one of the books sitting out during the fire. I also have quite a few where the cover must have been partially covered, as only a portion of the cover has this shadow on it. Unfortunately one of those is X-Men 94! Just tell people it’s a hot collector’s item! [*ducks*]Do the smoke-damaged comics retain an unusual smell (beyond the usual old-comics smell)? A few years ago there was a fire in the building adjoining the one I work in, and some damage, including smoke damage, was incurred at my workplace. As I recall, we had the first three days off, but there was still cleanup to do in the weeks following the return to work. For a while, the office had a general scent that I likened to smoked cheddar cheese—not altogether unpleasant, actually! |
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Post by Tana Nile on Mar 4, 2007 13:13:28 GMT -5
My worst burn? That's easy: when we had a fire in our house. No, my comics didn't burn, but many had smoke damage. If you've never had a fire (and I hope you haven't) you would not believe all the damage smoke does to clothes, furniture, and yes, comic books. This was in 1978 and unfortunately back in those days, my books were not bagged. To this day I will go pull an old comic out of my boxes and see that the cover looks dark or shadowy, which tells me it was one of the books sitting out during the fire. I also have quite a few where the cover must have been partially covered, as only a portion of the cover has this shadow on it. Unfortunately one of those is X-Men 94! Just tell people it’s a hot collector’s item! [*ducks*]Do the smoke-damaged comics retain an unusual smell (beyond the usual old-comics smell)? A few years ago there was a fire in the building adjoining the one I work in, and some damage, including smoke damage, was incurred at my workplace. As I recall, we had the first three days off, but there was still cleanup to do in the weeks following the return to work. For a while, the office had a general scent that I likened to smoked cheddar cheese—not altogether unpleasant, actually! You know NP, originally they had a very strong odor to them, but over the years it has faded and with most of them, the 'musty comic book smell' is stronger than any smoke residue. I just wish the visual damage had faded too! |
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Post by dlw66 on Mar 4, 2007 17:42:34 GMT -5
I can't really compete with the ones above. My biggest gaffe was trading away a bunch of 12-centers for a huge pile of then current 35-centers when I was around 12 years old. Unlike those of you with heretical parents, my mom actually scolded me for having done so!
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Post by The Night Phantom on Mar 4, 2007 19:01:08 GMT -5
I haven’t much to tell either. I don’t have tales of parents throwing out my comics, but I chalk that up to my A) generally keeping them organized in my room when I was a kid, B) not having many until my high-school years anyway, and C) taking them to college with me. (Not so with my video games, which my mother got rid of without my knowledge and consent, despite her agreement to hold onto them for me.  ) Thanks, Tana, for sharing your tale of woe. I’m a little hungry for smoked cheddar, though… |
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Post by sharkar on Mar 4, 2007 21:17:06 GMT -5
Unlike those of you with heretical parents, my mom actually scolded me for having done so! I envy you, dlw. Imagine having to hide your comics...or having to pretend you didn't spend your lunch money on FF, Avengers, X-Men, JLA, etc...because parents hated the fact that I loved comics, I developed classic addict behavior!  |
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Post by dlw66 on Mar 5, 2007 14:54:05 GMT -5
To this day, my mom and my mother-in-law still buy me the occasional comics-related gift for my birthday, Christmas, etc. I also usually have good fortune with putting comics stuff on a list and getting it later. When my wife and I had only been dating four months, she gave me a Super Powers Superman for Christmas. She doesn't like comics, but supports that I do.
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Post by Doctor Bong on Mar 5, 2007 15:34:31 GMT -5
You are truly blessed, dlw66...! And I don't mean beacause you happen to love comics, but because of what this says of her as a person..
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Post by Shiryu on Mar 7, 2007 4:43:18 GMT -5
Indeed !! Does your wife have any younger sister/cousin leaving in the south of England at the moment ? ;D I haven't had any burn with Marvel comics, my parents were quite good to stay away from them (if anything, because they had paid for them in first place  ) but I remember having a lot of my Mickey Mouse comics thrown away when I was little. I used them to make big mountains for heroes (Master of the Universe action figures) to climb on top and fight, and they would stay there overnight. This made cleaning somewhat difficult and my comics paid the expenses the first 2 times |
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