Your Comic Collection

[richardlittler]

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I have a loads of comics from 70s/early 80s:
dozens of UK editions of Spiderman, Star Wars, Mad, TV Comic and Indiana Jones.
(and I also have the US editions, particularly)

[spuggybridge]

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Only really collected the Return of the Jedi comics, still got nearly all of them, stuck in a box along with the complete (I think) Street Scene magazines and about 175 Hip Hop Connection mags from the first edition upwards.

[WhiteChristmas]

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Of the funnies, my early favourites were Whoopee! Whizzer & Chips and Shiver & Shake. I moved on to Krazy and Cheeky Weekly.

All the UK Marvels including Dracula and Planet of the Apes as well as the usual stuff.

Warlord, Bullet and the mighty Action.

Then 2000AD became pretty much all I read in the 80s apart from Smash Hits and Kerrang!

I returned to comic fandom in the early 90s and really enjoyed the post Crisis DC universe and the Dredd/Anderson stuff that was coming out at that time, but the film spoiled that.

Any other Action fans out there? Do you know about this? All the stories, all complete (or as complete as they can be). http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/

Of course, if you venture into the ~ahem~ darker corners of the internet, you can easily obtain scans of just about anything.

[JM28Cardiff]

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As a kid, instead of getting pocket money, I would get comics - Beano, Dandy, Topper, Beezer, Whoopee, Wow, Whizzer and Chips, Nutty, Buster (which contained the Leopard of Lime Street strip, remember that?).

From these I graduated to Eagle. Never got into 2000AD though, it seemed too grotesque to me.

Then I got into American comics at 14, but stopped buying them when I was about 30. Chucked all my British comics away years ago, but still have 8 boxes of the American ones.

[Noopypoop]

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I used to buy Rainbow comic every week as a kid; a few years ago I started getting them on ebay and now I have most of them, barring No. 1 and a few other rare ones. I have all the annuals too, I still get them out and read them from time to time

Others I used to love are Beryl the Peril, and Whizzer and Chips (especially store wars and lazy bones)

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One of my all-time favourite comic titles, and still going strong today...

What condition and value is this now?

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Wish it was still 9p - the prices do get ridiculous thesedays for a brand new comic or magazine in shops.

[tony ingram]

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One of my all-time favourite comic titles, and still going strong today...

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Errrrrrr .... viz...

Lol, top marks FLYING SAUCER - we needed a bit of humour in the thread... Speaking of Viz, I did like The Big Sausage Sandwich annual they did, the fake adverts were brilliant - they had a 'cleft cleaner' for 'itchy bums' and the diagrams of 'before/after' were so funny...then there was a super dooper toy called 'STRING' which was the follow up to 'BRICK'...as endorsed by Steve Davies...ahh the memories!

[FLYING SAUCER]

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Errrrrrr .... viz...

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The ones he has shown pics of, some, if in perfect condition would be worth thousands of Pounds....

[darren]

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top stuff tony.
thanks for showing me the superman ones.
i heard a while bk the first issue superman comic i think went for 30 grand.

[tony ingram]

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[tony ingram]

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fantastic mate.
thats dedication.[

you must forhet what u have sometimes..

No, they're all catalogued on an Excel spreadsheet.

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

Yes, regularly. Though there are some I haven't opened in years.

have u any superman,spiderman comics.

Several hundred of each, I expect. At least. I got into comics originally when my Nan used them to teach me to read. Spider-Man Comics Weekly was one of my first titles. I still have most of them, and that ran for 666 issues. These are some more of my favourites, though.

[tony ingram]

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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.

Mylar or the cheaper Mylites do the same job. There's a whole industry out there dedicated to the preservation of comics, you can buy bags, boxes and backing boards tailored for everything from Golden Age American titles to 2000AD.