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Borys13thchampion Posts: 4
2/18/2016
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Well i have been into comics for 30 yrs now , collecting and reading them. But now i wanted to start getting back into a comic book store. So i was talking with this over with my mom , she told me her bf had some comics. So i asked him if i could see his collection , and he hummed and hawed for weeks. Finally he said yea his comics were in the garage somewhere. So if i could find them i could look at them. I went out to the garage of a fairly new house , opened the garage door and wow , it was filled up to about 3-4 feet of crap and garbage. At that point I was very disappointed. But I crawled into the pile of odds and ends. Within minutes I found the comics. Buried under other garbage , in old clear plastic bags of all kinds , dusty , in cardboard boxes with no tops. My heart dropped , after all this time I was worried they were moldy , wet , falling apart. Took them into the house and started going through the bags. Much to my surprise once out of the old , dusty , dirty bags , the comics held up pretty well. I am just going to post some of the key issues , but there are so many , i cant post them all. Anyway , I love that i get to actually get to play with these comics , lol , well bag them and board them. I evened used dr. gloves when doing so , and told my mom not to touch them 
Avengers # 1 - 9 , 11
X-Men # 1 - 8
Strange Tales # 69 , 102 -121
AMAZING FANTASY # 15
Amazing Spider-Man # 1 - 79
Journey into Mystery # 83 - 109
Daredevil # 1 odds and end up to 79
So all in all a really good day. Now i just have to get them CGC and then let him sell them for him. But yea that is my story , and i hope i can tell many more like this. Oh there are still a lot of comics to go through but those are the wow ones , I hope you enjoyed my story
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Borys13thchampion Posts: 4
2/25/2016
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erichey Posts: 31
3/17/2016
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Gilgandra wrote:
Yep! They are now a part of history & history does not look good with some sig. across it 
But like i said before, Bottom inside page somewhere is just fine.
I've only had a couple books signed (by McFarland). In the future, I've thought that I would ask to have the signatures on the inside front page. But I wasn't sure if that is common, uncommon, or acceptable. Like when you get a book signed by the author, they do it on the inside, not cover. I don't want comics signed on the cover because it interferes with the enjoyment of the artwork.
No one would ever ask DeVinci to sign his name across the Mona Lisa with a gold ink pen.
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Robbie Posts: 159
3/17/2016
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erichey wrote:
Gilgandra wrote:
Yep! They are now a part of history & history does not look good with some sig. across it
But like i said before, Bottom inside page somewhere is just fine.
I've only had a couple books signed (by McFarland). In the future, I've thought that I would ask to have the signatures on the inside front page. But I wasn't sure if that is common, uncommon, or acceptable. Like when you get a book signed by the author, they do it on the inside, not cover. I don't want comics signed on the cover because it interferes with the enjoyment of the artwork.
No one would ever ask DeVinci to sign his name across the Mona Lisa with a gold ink pen.
Sig inside is old school.
When the Image boys were still are Marvel, they popularized signing the cover (and writing comics with lots of splash pages to maximize the resale value of the artwork). That's part of what makes them the comic book industry's first rock stars.
Before that, people who wanted signatures thought comics were for reading; like a book. So they would be signed on the inside; like a book. Most of the comics signed before 1988 are on the inside.
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