Up... and ON A MISSION!

[captain_slinky]

Molly fell asleep just before midnight, I should be sleeping as well but now i can't (took DayQuil instead f NyQuil, of course).

Now I feel absolutely COMPELLED to scour Craigslist looking for people who are selling "HUGE COMIC BOOK COLLECTION $200 FIRM" but all they have is a stack of 20 quarter-bin comics from the 90's (lots of "Death of Superman" tie-ins, Valiant Comics, X-Force, X-Men 2099... all the stuff that was GUARANTEED to be a HUGE COLLECTORS ITEM). I... I want... I want to *educate* them. I want to let them know that this is not $200 worth of comics; it is not even $2 worth of comics. It's barely worth the cost of gas for somebody to come pick them up.

Y'know where the real value in those comics is, Mister? Go find a kid and give 'em to the kid and tell him not to let his parents know because they'd be pissed. Or just give them to SOMEBODY who would maybe read them or at least thumb through them without seeing dollar signs in their eyes!

That's kind of like ne of my big undisclosed Pet Peeves in life... friends and family (mostly family) will buy me comic books at Garage Sales and, when they give them to me, they look at me expectantly and ask "Well? What's it worth? Did I do good?" First of all, yeah, you did good... you bought me a comic book and it makes me happy! That's all that matters :)

Comments

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. When I worked at the comic store, I used to tell the kids not to worry about the stuff labled 'Collector Item'. Just buy the stuff that they liked. The shiny stuff was pretty to look at, but it didn't make up for poor writing. (And hey, don't knock all the 2099 stuff. The first year of Punisher 2099 was awesome.)

I also hated it when the parents would bring in the kids, buy them an action figure and then tell them 'Oh no, you can't actually PLAY with the toy. It's a collectible!' Always thought that was cruel.

[aurora77]

Comic books are meant to be read! Buy them because you think they're cool, not as an investment, because chances are, if you thought of buying it, so did everybody else. So few issues become worth much at all. A few bucks if they're well-kept if you're lucky. I don't buy them to be collector's items. I buy them to read and to have on my shelf afterward and occasionally loan out.

In fact, I own more comics as trade paperbacks than as actual issues, so I'm obviously not in it for the collecting aspect, or I'd be buying the original issues. XD