I find that most people in my life have at least one “thing” they are collecting. It is often an insight into their personality and it is fun to hear people talk about something they are passionate about.

  • @jordanlund
    67•10 months ago

    Comic books. I learned to read when I was 2, but there wasn’t a ton of reading material for 2 year olds.

    Back then, comic books were only a quarter and soooo… 52 years later…

    The big one:

    I also run the comic books community on lemmy.world. Pop by and say hello!

      • @jordanlund
        3•10 months ago

        I didn’t, but the video is kind of strange for me because from at least the 80s forward everyone knew who Carl Barks was. There were compilations under his name and all sorts of reprints and such.

        Bonus: At the end of his life, he lived like 80 miles away from me. (!)

    • Lunch
      4•10 months ago

      What an awesome collection! Funny question, but do you by any chance have these backed up? Personally would be so scared that anything of the physical copies would be damaged or ruined by a house fire for example… Guess I’m a little paranoid 😅

      • @jordanlund
        4•10 months ago

        Insurance, bug-out boxes, and digital copies. Yes. :)

        • Lunch
          2•10 months ago

          Cool thanks!

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
      2•10 months ago

      I donated one to charity a couple years back, but I used to have two copies of the Spawn EWU cover variant. I suspect I was the only person on the planet to have two of those. Not sure what to do with the other one it’s the only comic I own and I’ve never even opened it

        • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
          4•10 months ago

          Finding proper value on it has been difficult because there are so few you almost never see them for sale. The most I’ve ever been offered for mine is $7k, ungraded. I’ve definitely seen them sell for way less though it’s just so rare I think the data isn’t very reliable. Very much a ‘how much is it worth to the specific collector at that time’

          Edit to add, how tf do I actually get this thing graded? I tried years ago and they sent it back to me after months of back and forth because they couldn’t figure out how much it was worth so they didn’t know how much to charge me. The whole situation was a mess

          • @jordanlund
            4•10 months ago

            The grading isn’t about assessing value, it’s about condition. There are multiple grading companies out there who will grade the book and seal it to prevent it degrading.

            You can talk with them directly or go through a local comic shop who does grading to get it done.

            CGC is the big one:
            https://www.cgccomics.com/

            CBCS is #2:
            https://www.cbcscomics.com/

            There are others, but for terms of increasing the value of the book, you want one of those two.

            https://www.pfadvice.com/2023/04/18/the-6-best-comic-book-grading-and-slabbing-companies/

            • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
              4•10 months ago

              The fee CGC charges though is based on the value of the item. The reasoning I got was because they couldn’t determine a value they didn’t know what to charge for their fee and eventually I just told them to send it back (this was after months of trying to figure it out). It has been a while though so maybe better luck this time around? I didn’t know about CBCS either so might just try them thank you for the suggestion