A couple months ago I finally closed out my rented storage room. The bulk of what was in there was comic books from my mis-spent 80s-early 90s youth and I was looking forward to re-reading some and hoping to sell others (anybody wanna buy some comics?). Imagine my dismay when some of the ones I’d been most looking forward to re-reading were missing.
Flash-forward to last night. I’m digging around in a stack of boxes looking for a particular old magazine, open up a box and it’s stuffed full of comics. Wasteland, Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children and other Pirhana Press imprint titles. The three-issue adaptation of Rocky Horror. Spawn. Emerald Dawn. But the series I most wanted, Grimjack, wasn’t there. I check the other boxes and my hopes dim as each one fails to reveal more comics. Finally, the last box, I open it up and there are all of my Grimjacks adn a bunch of other stuff.
I’ve been having flashes of anger and depression about some of these books since I discovered they were missing. Now I have days and days of blissful re-reading ahead of me. I have absolutely no memory of putting the books in these boxes. They aren’t comic boxes, just regular old ones that were originally for Xerox paper. They’ve been sitting in a closet for the last five years while I though they were over in my storage room the whole time. I can’t figure out why I would’ve taken them out of the longboxes and stored them as I did. And I can’t figure out why I would’ve pulled some of the books I did. Why the first two years of Alpha Flight? Why random issues of What If?? Why Chrome and War of the Gods and Spider-Man vs Wolverine and Secret Wars 1 and 2? What connected these titles and partial titles in my head five or six years ago that I pulled them and stored them separately?
Still can’t figure out wht the hell happened to, say, all my Avengers and Fantastic Four and some other titles, but still, yay found comics!
I was joking about that as I don’t want to violate board rules and I don’t think you’re supposed to solicit Dopers to buy stuff. Lemme ask the Mods if it’s OK to ask interested parties to email me.
It’s OK for you to ask folks to email you for this.
We generally do NOT want the Boards used for commercial advertising, or instead of eBay, or whatever. But we are willing to allow some such from time to time. So, don’t clutter the boards with 'em, no listings, let those interested email you.
Anyone who’s interested, my email’s in my profile. It’s stuff from the early to mid 80s up through the early 90s. There’s a very very little bit of 70s stuff but nit much. Mostly Marvel and DC but some other companies too. A fair amount of Comico. It’ll take me a while to come up with a list but if there’s anything you’re specifically looking for let me know and I should be able to figure out pretty quickly if I have it.
A few years ago I was staying with an old friend of mine who has some of my stuff stored in her basement. I decided to inventory my old comics. I was especially interested in what my X-Men would be worth, as I had everything from just before #94 & the Giant-sized issue which introduced the new X-Men. The collection starting there was 100% complete, all carefully bagged, etc.
All the older stuff was gone. After thinking about it I realized before I joined the Army I stored the oldest stuff with either my brother or my sister. I’d already retrieved everything I’d stored with my brother so I knew it wasn’t there.
My sister has five kids, plus step-kids, plus grand-kids now. Nothing of mine that was stored with her survived.
All my old X-Men. All gone. :mad:
Even worse is knowing my sister & her family wouldn’t have known their value and wouldn’t have sold them. The kids would simply have torn the boxes open, read all the comics until they were trashed, then tossed 'em out.
Write the little !@#%$ outta your will. Leave a message in the will, explaining why. Invoke the Curse Of The Great Bird Of The Galaxy upon their pointy l’il noodles.
