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Thumper
I can never retire and move to a smaller house because I have so much junk. Some of the junk is "good junk" though.
I haven't been able to get rid of most of my books, except for a batch that were destroyed in a move many years ago. Don't have as many as you, but I still have a calculus book from a course taken in the 1960's... (which still has the stab wounds I inflicted on it when homework study problem #1 didn't look anything like any of the examples given in the chapter).
If you ever decide to retire, you could open a "book store" or an "antique shop". But, in your case, it'd probably be more correctly called a "curiosity store". Ha.
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I'm always interested in what other people have got on their bookshelves...mine show an evolution (or as some would have it, a devolution ) of my tastes over the past 40 years..i cringe when i look at some ot the stuff but can't bring myself to throw any of it away
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... three years ago, I gave away approx. 1500 good hardbound books to help start up a library in Montana ... wow, what a relief that was not to have to haul them south to Arizona when I moved here in 2011. My wife still has all her paperbacks. Still ... I had boxes and boxes of stuff dating back to god knows when and am slowly going through the stuff ... while simultaneously downsizing from two separate houses to one. I keep about 50%. This creates new boxes, but I have half as much. Storage is an issue.
The issue is not going away ... but a hoarder I'm not. At least I don't think so.
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<3,000 comic books....>
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I have only about 500... but they are all silver or bronze age.... and about 70 Mad Magazines/books.
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Pecos
Well, a bit more than 3,000 actually. I started collecting back in the late '60s but lost about half of what I had at the time to flood damage and theft while I was in the military (gold and silver age). It was a heavy hit and still hurts to this day. Most of what I have now is about 60/40 silver/bronze with a couple gold left and a small handful of modern era. For me, modern era is just not interesting.
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I'm curious..what's the Gold/Siver/Bronze mean ?
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Gold = 50's and earlier
Silver = 60's
Bronze = 70's
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Thumper
I use to get the HULK comic in the mail, had a subscription as a kid. This was in the 70's. I would give anything to have them back.
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DC or Marvel?
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Which was your favorite.... I assume you have both
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Pecos
Back in the day DC was Action Comics and Detective Comics, they switched to DC later. I liked the standard fare; Batman, Superman, the Justice Society and some Captain Marvel. But to me, Marvel Comics' Captain America was da man!!! They had some great scary stories back then too. I loved it.
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thumper...
Lets swap some comics... lol
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I've been looking through the books that I have in my "library", for the oldest. I exempted unpacking the old crated books in the garage. It seems my oldest is the 1953 "The Spirit of St. Louis", by Charles Lindbergh.
It is a little worn on the edges but looks like it could have just recently been stolen out of a library. But, it was given to me by my Father-in-Law many years ago and I am quite certain that it was personally purchased by him back then.
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Pecos
One of my favorites today is one sent to me by my (now passed) uncle from Chicago back in '77 or '78. It's the .35cent Star Wars #1. It's in NM condition and is well protected. I like it because it came from him to his favorite nephew... me. I'll never get rid of it.
I just got a shock. I just looked it up online and OMG!!
>The first Star Wars comic, published by Marvel Comics in 1977 actually had two editions. There is the standard edition with a 30-cent cover price, and a 35-cent variant.
A recent check of eBay auctions showed a CGC 9.4 copy of the 30-cent version that was priced at $70.00 with no bidders.
However, in June of 2011 a 9.6 CGC graded copy of the 35-cent variant sold for $21,805 at auction.<
Holly crap!!! I may be able to retire after all. Excuse me while I go do some pricing...
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Good luck thumper.
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Softie
You need to make sure you protect books like that. They won't come again. If they printed 10,000 in '53 there may only be a couple thousand left in existence. Each year there are less due to fires, flood, neglect, etc.. And that doesn't speak to the sentimental value which could be off the charts.
You may have noticed, I love old books. The older the better.
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