Do you regret not holding onto your old comics?

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October 6, 2016, 4:35 pm

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Im sure some of us are kicking ourselves rite now, if we had comics as kids and didn't hold onto them. I was looking around my closet a few years ago and i had comics from the 80's just laying around and my wife said to me "You better hold onto them" well needless to say i did not take her seriously. One of the comics i had was the 2nd edition ever made of wolverine back when he had the yellow and black suit. That comic is worth a few hundred bucks now and its gone! The wife was rite again and she made sure she told me this was an "I told you so situation" lol. Either way i let it go and now im kicking myself, have you guys ever been in the same situation? They don't have to be comics but what abut baseball cards or anything like that? Something you should of held onto that you didn't.

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Happyflowerlady

Happyflowerlady

Since I grew up back in the 1950's, I had comic books from back in that era, mostly Roy Rogers and other western heros of the day; but some were space-oriented ones, too. My mom actually saved them for along time, even after i was too old to be reading comic books anymore and had gone on to reading regular books. I have no clue what they would be worth today; but I am sure that some of them would be quite collectible too.
Another thing that every kid had, and none of us saved (or very few did) was baseball cards. They came in packs of gum, and gum was only a few cents a packet back then; so we kids always had gum. Some of the boys who were interested in baseball kept those Mickey Mantile and Babe Ruth cards, and some of the others who were popular back then; but most of the time, what we did was put them in the bicycle spokes because it made a "motor noise" when we rode our bikes down the street.
I bet there are a bunch of us oldsters now who wish we had saved those baseball cards and comic books !

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Beverly

Beverly

My dad always talked about owning some of the original Green Hornet comic books and how he wished he'd kept those. And, I'm sure they would be worth a lot now, assuming pristine condition. I have never collected comics, but had a few over time that I would read. I'm not as much into them now or then but I can see the attraction. Many of my friends were into comics, same people that like World of Warcraft and related MMORPG games. All that seems to go hand in hand. Do you regret not holding onto your old comics?

Do you regret not holding onto your old comics?

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CryptoGuru

CryptoGuru

Absolutely they work hand in hand together. World of war craft is probably one of the best RPG games on the internet today. I remember back in the day when you had no option to go online but you could play sandbox mode and just destroy everything lol! Green Hornet is probably one of the more popular comics to hold onto. The original spider man comic book went for over 100,000 dollars at auction. Few years ago i started collecting hot wheels and i have not looked back because some of the ones when i had as a kid are upwards to $10 a pop. When my kids are older and i have totes full of unopened hot wheels they might be able to sell them to buy a car. Who knows im sure people collected things that are worthless today.

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Lynne

Lynne

Oh my I used to have a load of comics but I only ever had Archie and what was the other one Veronica and someone else.

I can't remember any others I had. Would those also have ben valuable now? I doubt they would be as sought after as the Wolverine ones.

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CryptoGuru

CryptoGuru

Archie comics are probably one of the most collected comics to date. If you have Archie number #1, #114, Archie Girls Betty, and Veronica #1, or a few others you could be looking at tens of thousands of dollars or at least a few thousand depending on which one it is. Below is a site you can check out what they are worth.

http://www.sellmycomicbooks.com/archie-comics.html

If you have #1 you looking at no less than 50 grand. I would go digging for what you have pretty soon. You might have a car or house just sitting around. South Africa is cheaper to live than in the USA so this could make your life very easy for the next 10 years. Check it out Good Luck! Thanks for Sharing.

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JoeMilford

JoeMilford

I absolutely regret not holding on to them. I had tons of comics when I went off to grad school, and I had some really rare and semi-valuable stuff. That being said, the real value in the comics was the love and nostalgia I had for them. I ran into some hard times in my second year of my Masters degree, and I resorted to selling all of my comics to a shop near where I lived in Iowa City. I still regret this decision to this day, and I wish I could take that move back.

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felabruno

felabruno

I think there are many things that become expensive with time and if we were to collect everything (not knowing what will become worth more) we would have hard time with finding space for it. I have collected some magazines and comics for kids when I was young but when I wasn't interested in them I throw them out.

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wallet

wallet

I sure regret that I donated all my comic books when I had around 20 years old, I didn't think that in one day I will have kids and it may be a boy...I wish I could have my old comic books and give them to my son to read them, I am sure he would like them very much. I have bought him a few new ones but the new comic books are not having the same attraction, or my son doesn't like them at all.

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tophew

tophew

Yes some of my comics are gone i absolutely regret it that i throw it away because right now comics alone are so expensive and the old school feel is gone. but still i manage to keep some of my old comics like spider man , batman and superman.

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augusta

augusta

I think it not just about comic books, even other valuable things. One will be surprised at how much things goes for later in years to be.Things that were brought for few cents are now costing few dollars. It quite pathetic.

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