u should show ur early collection on ur youtube especially if u got kirby or kane on ur books and tell youtube stories on 70s cons

Mark thank you for sharing. I graduated sixth grade in the Bronx in 1977. I began in 1975 also. I’d walk dogs abs run errands to get 25 cents for anything Marvel. Eventually I began to trade in bulk. My relatives where throughout the City so I’d go everywhere to trade and acquire. By 79 I had a respectable collection with early Fantastic Four and Spider-Man and the like. I sold my collection and bought a stereo and albums and had cash for a few years. What I remember the most was Saturdays spent around reading, reviewing and trading at the places we met to trade. In many ways Stan Lee contributed to my wonderful childhood and I love comics and the culture to this day. Thank you for memory lane.

The month before the tv show hit the tube in January of 66 More or less 50 bucks could get a copy. The tv show changed things a lot for back issues.

Yeah, like Jim Steranko, or maybe some of the comix that were being published in those days.

Exactly.

I've been collecting for many years; Jules Feiffer's book "The Great Comic Book Heroes" ruined the hobby in 1965. Then the Batman TV show really ruined it in '66. Then the Overstreet guide totally ruined it in the '70s. Until eBay absolutely ruined it in the '90s. Then Heritage auctions.... well, you get the idea. It's always something :)

Marble River I would have to agree with you, many people proclaim this or that killed the hobby they love. Some of it’s just nostalgia wishing it was like it use to be, which of course it never will be, with anything. It seems to me that a hobby loses its old luster when “ Normies” get involved. For comics, the hobby was fine and fun and conventions felt great, even through the flipping madness of the early 90s and with the internet and eBay in the late 90s. What changed the hobby forever IMHO was the movies. CGI finally made it possible to put our favorite characters on the big screen. With that came comic conventions that morphed into “ pop culture” conventions with huge movie studios gobbling up the floor space that was once a dominated and owned by dealers and hobby geeks talking about stories, artwork, etc. while still there, they have been thrown into backrooms or overshadowed by massive banners and tv screens, “ cosplay” invaded the cons, turning it into a second Halloween. The atmosphere is different, lots of hustle and bustle, less hanging out talking about funny books. Yyyy I’m fine with it. The hobby hasn’t been ruined, it’s just changed, to something I’m not interested in. For many others this is their time now, and they love it. Let them, nobody owns a hobby, and they change with society like anything else.

@@anthonybrink287 go to heroes con it's all about comics not one ounce of Hollywood to be seen

I think it's way cooler nowadays. The grails are real grails, you can't just buy everything you want. Stuff has gotten more and more scarce.

I started in 1977.

my lcs has 50 cent bins and i’ve got some good stufff out if there

Right! As a kid collecting in the ‘70s, I put my comics in a cardboard box I got from my dad’s deli/sandwich shops. Comic bags, boards and boxes weren’t invented yet.

@@kellyleavitt7738 yeah- weird to think about that

@@canonegro666 . Not really, it wasn’t much later that some of the first bags started coming to market. Board used to just be cut down cardboard, and the widespread adoption of “comic” boards happened a little later on.

@@robertt9342 And now the price for bags and boards is through the roof!

Comics without bags? One of my lcs I frequent has their comics raw on the racks.. just like this video.. I usually bag and board em in my car or 🏡

an VF+ copy of Action 1 sold 2 days ago for $3.1 million.

Not an Action 1

There was also a guy flipping through a superman 14. 1941 confirmed.

@@flatlandryan There are multiple copies of the Thor 135, so it was from the new publications of the time.

What are you smoking dude? There are very few shops today with Golden Age stuff like this, let alone all the Silver Age lying around in it.

Man if I new what would comic book values would be now a days I would have bought 10 Batman 1 at $200 a pop..

But wasn’t minimum wage like $2 back then or something with inflammation it’s probably two or three times as much. but still a good deal compared to today

It was only 30 years old then It would be like spending 3000$ on New Mutants 98

Its like cops are useless or something