Posted on 11/17/2017 12:02:11 PM PST by mairdie
At least your mom gave yours away, mine just tossed them in the trash ... were comics from the 30s which I bought ($0.01-0.05 each) at the annual rummage sales in the late 40s and early 50s.
>>Understood, and appreciated!
Always. I love different opinions from my own and I love teasing and I love learning what other people love.
If comic books weren’t your thing when you were young, you must have collected something. I collected everything that didn’t move, and only cleaned out my drawers when the miniature food collection started moving when the honey spilled out of the little glass bottle.
I bought a couple of things from those old comic book ads. One was a super large balloon which we filled with the exhaust air from a vacuum cleaner. It grew to almost the size of a fair sized living room before it exploded. Stunning, but short-lived fun.
Gosh, I hadn’t thought of paper drives in forever.
Now I’m worried that soon nobody will print newspapers anymore, and what will I line my bird cages with?
That’s heartbreaking. I’m assuming mother gave them away. I can’t remember now what she said when I looked for them and they were gone.
Mother SHOULD have loved them. She was a fine arts major at U of Chicago and she taught me to draw art deco in the black Chicago dirt by smoothing it and drawing just a few lines to make me mentally fill in the rest. When I got to U of Chicago and studied in the same studio, the teacher had us draw a nude upside down. So I guess mental games with art was the thing there. But somehow comics weren’t art to her, where they are to me.
I bought all of the Fantastic Fours in the sixties...yep, mom, move, trash.
WOW!!!!!
Lee’s stuff is good, I started collecting as a kid in early 1970’s, the work on Batman by Denny O’Neil, Neal Adams and Dick Giordano is something any Batman Should check out. They also did a great Run on Green Lantern starting with Issue 76 to about 88 or 89.
eBay has some for sale at a pretty penny. I can’t link directly to eBay but if you search “old coke bottles “ you’ll get some photos. If I’d kept mine, they would be worth two to four hundred dollars each. I didn’t realize that before I went looking for a photo a couple minutes ago. Ouch.
I had ISSUE #1 of the Silver Surfer!..........................
An incredibly sad discovery. I will look. I’ve kept three soda cans that were sealed empty. I’ve got a few small bottles but my favorite piece is a slightly broken cup used to test gold ore. My grandfather was a gold miner.
Friend of mine collected all the baseball cards of 1950`s and 1960`s...All in mint condition...In 1980`s, he was a single, young man in los Angeles having a great time and his mom calls and asks what he wants to do with the cards....Toss them,so she did.
Year 1990 and he has wife,house and 2 young kids....I ask him what the cards would be worth..He says I don’t even like thinking about them..He figures he could have sold them and sent his kids to the best colleges....
I can still taste the bubble gum. That was the only way I knew anything about baseball, reading the cards. Yes, better not to know.
I re-read a lot of mine until they fell apart. Plus silly putty taking its toll.
Still, I gave my son five long boxes of sleeved comics when he left home.
I re-read a lot of mine until they fell apart. Plus silly putty taking its toll.
Still, I gave my son five long boxes of sleeved comics when he left home.
I don’t remember Jim Lee. I met Stan Lee at a Creation Con in NYC and got his autograph. I was just searching through my autograph collection and couldn’t find it. Frustrating. In trade for showing my music videos in the big auditorium, I got to get in first and save front seats for the talks so I sat through comic book talks waiting for Star Trek talks and enjoyed them more than I expected.
YES! That was the first thing we did when silly putty came out - press them onto the comic pages. I’d forgotten. How wonderful to have that memory back. Great gift. He’ll tell your grandchildren about that someday.
I forgot about Dick Giodano. I bought his works too and he’s amazing.
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