r/comicbookcollecting

This past weekend I went to fan expo in Chicago, specifically to meet Mr Golden and get some books signed. That particular issue of Micronauts is the first comic book that I bought with my own money at the age of 7. I'd had plenty of Comics before that, my uncle would give me piles of books but that was money I made mowing someone's lawn haha

MF #1 was a book that I had a couple copies of throughout my childhood because I wore it out reading it. Spider-Man and mutated dinosaurs? Come on, that's every kid's dream combo.

He could not have been a nicer guy. I showed up half an hour before he opened up his booth so I got some time to shoot the shit with him. This guy was literally what made me start drawing because I thought his stuff looked so cool. I would trace over panels and pages over and over. He even knocked about 30% off his rate because it was clear that I was not getting these signed for resale by any means. They tell you to never meet your heroes, but in this case I am extremely glad I did. It's rare that you get to shake the hand of somebody who had a genuine impact on your life.

Avengers Armageddon #3

I finally have the *real* first appearance! How many Stan Lee sigs has everyone seen with a year or date with his sig? And if this Came out in Oct of '74, he had to have signed this within a year of it's release about!

I loved Jhonen Vasquez when I was a kid. I had the book with all of the comics included, but couldn't find that one.

Hello everyone new to this sub! I just came across this collection of comics in storage does anyone have any recommendations for places in NYC I can take this to figure out what I have/if it’s worth anything?

This is a crossover I didn’t know existed. Insta-buy

Another addition to the Artgerm Marvel virgin ratio collection

Grabbed these really cool production art pieces. None are original art. The Marvel ones are acetate copies (would love if someone with more knowledge could educate me on what step in the production process these were used for).

The Charltons are production negatives. Pic 3 is Ghostly Haunts #50 and pic 4 is from Many Ghosts #18. Not sure what the others are from. Pic 7 looks like the Phantom and is half the size of the others.

Love this cover.

Sighhhh… why…

Stored at the bottom of the bottom of the bottom stack of books, I have finally dug my way to the Image titles.

Haven’t seen these in 20+ years. Haven’t been compelled to either. Read every one of these once, then carefully bagged and boarded. Even looking at them now, I remember so very little of any of them, other than “yay, big boobs all around.”

Looks like Gen 13 was the winner, followed by Wildcats, then savage dragon, (which I hate read every single issue of, but Larsen still got my money, so the jokes on me), then Wetworks, Grifter, Backlash, and finally Spawn.

Never really took to Youngblood or Stormwatch or Brigade.

Really wish I’d collected The Maxx, and more of Team 7.

It was a different time… I don’t regret it, but really wish I had been a little more selective in my purchases.

For the fans out there, what did you collect the most stuff out of these? Am I missing any of the obvious ones from the first couple of years? Would you recommend rereading any of them?

I had a handful of comics as a 90s kid and 30 years later I'm just tracking down comics that remind me of a simpler time. Luckily these are mostly inexpensive titles lol

Main series, spin offs, Gail Simone run at the start, Superman,Maxx, Generation X,Monkey Man and O’brian and DV8.