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Mar. 28th, 2003 10:16 am
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Last night, I met with the guy who I bought several very old comic books from on eBay. It's a huge box full of old Western comics like Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, and Disney's Davey Crockett (as well as a lot of newer trad epaperbacks of stuff like Star Trek and Predator). I paid $50 for the entire box. At just a glance, I am guessing that I got at least $350 worth of comic books in there.

Many people (and you know who you are) are thinking "Great! He can sell those comic books for $350!"

WRONG!

There was only ever one other person I've ever met who understood this. His name was Lurch, and he was stoned out of his mind, but I cary his words with me to this day.

We sat in his "Reading Room"; a room of his house that was full of his comic book collection. He was showing me a large stack of older Fantastic Four comics, when he said it:

"It's not that I can *sell* it for $80... it's that I *have* it, and it's *worth* $80... Y'know what I'm saying?"


Yes, I knew what he was saying.

(by the way... to get the full effect of that quote, you need to envision the next-door neighbor character from "Office Space" saying his line "I figure the type of chicks that would double-up on a dude like me would be in to money". Picture *that* guy, *that* voice, only without a mustache).
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