[William Martel]

That's the way it ALWAYS works. But, look on the bright side - at least your mom didn't give it away for $0.10 in the same manner my grandma gave away all my dad's classic comic books...

[Fedora]

That's the way it ALWAYS works. But, look on the bright side - at least your mom didn't give it away for $0.10 in the same manner my grandma gave away all my dad's classic comic books...

Argh! :) The same thing happened to my uncle: my grandma gave away his 1940s-1950s comics while he was in Vietnam. I've only met one guy who managed to keep his old comics--owned every issue of Batman back to the beginning (!).