Your Comic Collection

[darren]

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fantastic mate.
thats dedication.[

you must forhet what u have sometimes..

i assume u check them to see how they are.
and do u read anyof them.


have u any superman,spiderman comics.


QUOTE=tony ingram;167977]Two rooms, basically. Boxes stacked three to six high around the walls.

Oh, yes-still buying about thirty American titles a month, plus 2000AD, Commando, Doctor Who and the Beano.Since I was about seven. So, about 1976.[/QUOTE]

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Forgot to say, if anyones been in any memorabilia shop/retro store that has reams and reams of old comics you can smell that musty smell - my local one doesn't store comics away properly - even copies of Eagle from the mid 80s smell a tiny bit, and they accumulate dust...

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I used to do that with my US comics - in protective bags, tapped down, and many with the board behind them...then I got sick of the whole idea and felt it was a form of hoarding so got rid as I said a few pages earlier in the thread...

[Richard1978]

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I've read 1 or 2 books on collecting comics which suggest bagging & boarding comics as the best way to keep them. The bags ideally need to be made of mylar, & the boards acid free card.

[tony ingram]

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I wasn't sure if it was that or just being stored in damp places.

I've not noticed any of my old Beanos smelling at all, but some old books my parents kept in the garage for years smelt very musty. I'll have to sniff the Giles annuals I save from going in a charity bag a few years ago.

If comics are stored properly (bagged and boarded in a cool, dry atmosphere) they don't smell musty or deteriorate half as quickly. That only tends to happen if they're carelessly stored in a damp atmosphere.

[tony ingram]

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im really impressed with those ones you showde mate.
thats some collection 26 thousand comics that must take up a lot of space mate even thiough comics are quite thin.

Two rooms, basically. Boxes stacked three to six high around the walls.

what other publications have you beano dandy etc and do yopu collect comics that come out now.

Oh, yes-still buying about thirty American titles a month, plus 2000AD, Commando, Doctor Who and the Beano.

so how long you been collecting mate

Since I was about seven. So, about 1976.

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I did love the old newsprint comics by IPC Magazines like Battle Action Force or 2000AD of old though, sometimes the ink would still smudge on my fingers like a newspaper, freshly printed...

[Richard1978]

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The worst thing about old comics is they begin to pong - after years. Its the wood pulp paper thats beginning to deteriorate over time, you know, that musty smell...ergh.

I wasn't sure if it was that or just being stored in damp places.

I've not noticed any of my old Beanos smelling at all, but some old books my parents kept in the garage for years smelt very musty. I'll have to sniff the Giles annuals I save from going in a charity bag a few years ago.

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The worst thing about old comics is they begin to pong - after years. Its the wood pulp paper thats beginning to deteriorate over time, you know, that musty smell...ergh.

[darren]

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im really impressed with those ones you showde mate.
thats some collection 26 thousand comics that must take up a lot of space mate even thiough comics are quite thin.


what other publications have you beano dandy etc and do yopu collect comics that come out now.
so how long you been collecting mate just 4 yrs.

[CitizenKeyne]

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When I moved inot my current house I did the obligatory get in the loft to see if the previous owners had left any bodies or interesting stuff lurking in the darkness and I came accross a box that had 5 years of Smash Hits magazines from number 1 onwards and those that had free gifts attahced to the front STILL HAD said gift attached to the front. I took them to a magazine specialist in Camden and he offered me £300 quid for them but I declined and they still sit happily in my loft in a box ! Probalby get them re valued soon as it goes as that was over 12 years ago !

[tony ingram]

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ve been collecting comics (mostly British and American) since the mid 1970s, and went into business as a comic dealer about four years ago. My personal collection currently runs to about 26, 000 comics, ranging from Asterix to the X-Men. I love comics. It's a medium you can tell any kind of story in.

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Major Eazy was more like an American in characterisation than a Brit Officer - he was such a precursor to DREDD! I used to love reading Charlies War in the pages of Battle Action Force, I learnt so much about WW2 and WW1 from the stories...its a shame there isn't a market for comics like that among kids today...they'd learn so much about the history of both wars...I also liked a strip called The Nightmare about some boy and a sole surviving Commando teaming up - they'd argue sometimes but it all ended brilliantly with the final strip...I didn't really like Johnny Red much...but still read it. It was mainly for the Action Force stories my Dad would buy it for me. I had a massive comic collection once - B.A.F, then the Marvel UK Action Force and Transformers weeklies and then I started buying US comics - G.I.JOE ones and their offshoots and then X-Men and other offshoots amongst others, then when Image Comics came along their titles as well as Todd MacFarlane comics...but got sick of their overly serious nature and overly sexualised imagery of female characters...it all became dull and dreary. I loved the simplicity and gore of the older comics like 2000AD and Eagle as it used to be in the 1970s/80s - the cruder artwork...comics grew up with their readers but they became duller to me and dreary - and all the ret-conning of origins or deaths/ressurections...yawn. I either sold mine off or threw the US ones away. Still got some - my Joe comics and some of the 'epic' Transformers UK stories - TARGET: 2006 (tied into the 1986 film!), SPACE PIRATES, THE LEGACY OF UNICRON and a Titan reprint of some other story about a mad Transformer scientist long thought dead, an army of ressurected zombie transformers and the threat of destroying Cybertron - LEGION OF THE LOST or whatever its called...I do also have some reprints collected in volume form of the earlier and superb G.I.JOE MARVEL US comics too...comics were better way back when compared to today...Oh and I also still have some JUDGE DREDD ones: THE CURSED EARTH SAGA, YOUNG DEATH - BOYHOOD OF A SUPERFIEND...

[darren]

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i used to collect comics when i was a lot younger.
the beano,dandy etc.

actually had a lot of them at one point.

i had others just cant think of the comics name.

[Wil]

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I had a few TV21s and the spin-off Joe90 comics in the late 60s, then some Countdowns and a lot of humour titles (Whoopee, Whizzer & Chips etc.) before finally settling on the Marvel UK weeklies in '72 with The Mighty World of Marvel. By '77 I'd moved onto the US versions and started getting 2000AD. Comics pretty much sums up my 1970s childhood. Some of my happiest summer holiday memories are sitting out in the garden, in the sun swapping comics with my mates and trying to draw my own.