Which comic books did you throw away as a kid, but are now collectors?

When I was a kid, I had a massive comic book collection. I didn’t really collect them, per se, but I would buy em, read em, and then toss them in a box in my closet. I had several hundred of them. One collectors comic I had was the first Edition of Howard the Duck. There was also a series of comics called “House of Secrets”, and “House of Mystery”. I had the first several issues of both of these comics.

Of course, I didn’t really consider them valuable. I got rid of them because my brother talked me into selling them to a used comic book store to get money for pizza. I remember I only got about a nickel apiece for them. Barely enough to go out and get pizza:(

Dunno what it would be worth now, and not sure I want to know (especially if it’s a lot), but I had the #1 issue of the original Star Wars comic books.

I’m one of those sad souls who bought Marvel comics in '62 and 63 and '64–early Spidermans, FFs, Thors, Hulks–that got pitched around the time I realized how valuable they were. Oh, the utter frustration, anger, maladjustment. I haven’t forgiven the aunt who pitched them–and she’s been dead for twenty years.

Sigh. I had several hundred, mostly DC comics from about 1955 through 1965… and my mother gave them all away when I went to college.

I still have my Carl Barks’ Uncle Scrooges et al, though.

I did worse than throw them away…I tried that Silly Putty trick where you lift images from newspaper or comic strips. I also drew and colored in them. And this includes the Spider-Man comics where 1)the Punisher was introduced, 2)Gwen Stacey died, and 3) Spidey was cloned by the Jackal, all of which are worth quite a bit.

“I’m one of those sad souls who bought Marvel comics in '62 and 63 and '64–early Spidermans, FFs, Thors, Hulks–that got pitched around the time I realized how valuable they were. Oh, the utter frustration, anger, maladjustment.”

Preach it, brother. Daredevil when he still wore yellow, Captain America vs. The Skull, Dr. Strange, The Flash,…I could go on but I won’t.

I kept a good percentage of my 60s era comics – my mother never threw them away. Unfortunately, I loved to read them, so most lost their cover.

I did much better with baseball cards, though. I saved nearly all of them, and happened to do most of my collecing in 1976 & 68, which last I looked were the most valuable ones to have. I do have a Rod Carew rookie card that I tore up (I kept cards by team and the card had two players from different teams, so I tore it into two cards), but the pain is reduced by the fact I have an intact one.

I hope nobody (besides Rikwriter) is failing to realize that condition plays a major role in a funny book’s value, let me put your mind at ease. I would assume that these were treated as we treat magazines today, read, put down,sat on, used as coasters… etc. Plus many people assume that just because a comic is old it is valuable, which is definitely not always the case. Even eternally popular characters such as Batman have issues (no pun intended) from the '60s that aren`t even worth more than $30.00, and that would be for a copy in better than average (NM) Condition, and nobody knew you had to take good care of these things.

Mile High Comics has it for $24 in fine condition, $28.80 in very fine. Don’t feel bad. But if you had the 35 cent variant… whoa! Crazy collectors!

I bought X-Men #95 - 2nd of the new version, featuring the death of Thunderbird, liked it so much I went back and bought #94 for $.25 and even ponied up gasp $5 for Giant Size X-Men #1. I also traded a bunch of not worth much other books to get a bunch of back issues - Steranko Sentinels, issues back in the #20’s and #30’s.

Sold 'em for peanuts when I was 17. To buy a guitar amp.

:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:

I had that entire run of X-Men, as well as the Claremont/Byrne run after that, all the way through a couple of years after Byrne left the series. Death of Phoenix, the whole nine yards.

They’re still here. They’re still in reasonably good shape. My kid went crazy for the X-Men cartoon when it came out on TV, so I gave them to her. She loved them.

She lost her MIND when they did the Phoenix Saga on the TV cartoon.

She still won’t sell 'em. They’ve been an integral part of TWO childhoods, now…

I still have most of mine, but my father once let a repairman go through my collection and take what he wanted.

Sob!
X-Men #1; Avengers #1; Amazing Fantasy #15!
(Still got my Fantastic Four #1, though.)

I had copies of the original Elfquest series, including the “original” #1, and issue #21 which was mostly letters.

And yes, I did have the full set of them in plastic, with backing boards as to keep them in near mint condition. I always bought 2 - one to read, the other to save. Haven’t the slightest idea where they are now. :frowning:

I had a copy of X-Men #1. I still have several boxes of comics from the late 80’s to early 90’s that I should probably sell off, but I figure they’re probably not worth enough to make that much of a difference.

I had all the Star Wars comics. Up until the time when my brother decided to re-color all the light sabers.

I’ve kept my Legion of Super-Hero collection, which is now 40 years old. And I still buy them.

I knew a girl who collected thousands of comics, and kept them in the shed behind her house. When she left home, her mother burned down the shed with the comic books in it.

I had:

The first Spiderman.

The first Fantastic Four.

The first Avengers.

The first X-Men.

The issues of “Tales to Astonish” that featured the first stories with Thor, Iron Man and the Hulk.

The first Hulk.

The first Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos.

The first Magnus, Robot Fighter.

Not really sure, but I seem to remember having the first Turok, Son of Stone.

The first Metal Men.

The first Doom Patrol.

The first Challengers of the Unknown.

I also had * all * the early numbers for these titles, right up to about numbers 40 or 50 when I decided I was getting too old for comics. I was very religious about buying every issue as they came out, sometimes stealing them when I had no money. I don’t remember if I gave 'em away or threw 'em out.

I don’t even want to know what they’d be worth today if I’d kept 'em and taken care of 'em. It would hurt too much.

Well, I feel a little better now.

My collection was mostly comprised of early ‘70’s era horror comics (Ghosts of the Haunted House, Witching Hour, House of Mystery, etc.), but I also had a fair number of Neal Adams’ Batman, the DC Captain Marvel revival, and a goodly supply of Carl Barks’ Uncle Scrooges. Plus a few of the Disney Holiday Digests.

Fortunately(?), while I look back with regret at the loss of these sentimental treasures, I can at least console myself with the fact that they were all purchased secondhand to begin with, and thus were in no real condition to appreciate significantly in value. So I don’t have to beat myself up about that, anyway.

maybe someone can tell me if these were worth anything

New Teen Titans #1
Camelot 3000 Maxi-Series when Baxter paper was still rare #1-12
Vigilante #1-30
a shitload of Teen Titan annuals
i got em ripped off by some neighbor who I hope has rectal cancer now

Man, comic books were a deliciously evil indulgence when I was a kid. They were frowned upon at our house as, for what they are, pulp garbage that would rot your brain and, of course, we loved them!

Faves that would be classics were Superman (no brainer)
and Batman. Other personal fave that may or may not be a classic was Sgt. Rock.

Oh, and I didn’t throw them away, Mom did. So it’s her fault.