What is the most you ever paid for comix to add to your collection and what was it?
Jason
Title Stated grade my grade price paid seller
Snatch #1 (3rd Print) GM GM 83.11 apexnovelties... an absolutely PERFECT copy!
Zap Comix #1 (3rd Print) CGC 9.2 NM- NM- 84.51 heritagecomics.com
Let me state that I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination and I have started to climb in to the higher ticket items...
A short story... I would say about 3 or 4 years ago the most I ever paid for a comic book was 10 or 20 bucks. In fact the only undergrounds I had bought prior to that were entire collections. So my friend stopped over and shows me a copy of Air Pirates 2 which was still missing from my collection at the time. So I asked, how much did you pay for that? He told I believe at the time around 30, maybe 60 bucks at the most. I was floored... Not because it was or was not worth what he paid but just the sheer fact that he paid 60 bucks for a comic book. LOL! I must have rode his ass for weeks on end about it, why? Because that's what friend are for. ;)
Needless to say... Things seem somewhat ironic now that I am buying books in the tune of 200 bucks! Sometimes I sit back and think to myself, why did I blow all this money on my collection... I have no kids at this time and what if I never do? Who will get all the stuff that I worked hard for over the years?
It's crazy... Sometimes great deals come along but the fact of the matter is, this shit is hard to find and when you want it, you better be sure you are going to pay for it most of the time.
Thank God not everything is a high ticket item but it seems like I am to a point with my collection where it is starting to be.
Being 34 I never had the chance to buy this shit when it came out.
Jason
If you are worried about who gets you collection, adopt me.
Quote from: dr_s on June 23, 2008, 03:54:48 PM
If you are worried about who gets you collection, adopt me.
HAH! I should be saying the same... Infact I did when I was over on Saturday!!
Jason
Quote from: Visitor Q on June 23, 2008, 12:27:17 PM
What is the most you ever paid for comix to add to your collection and what was it?
Jason
$40 for my Plymell Zap #1, bought in 1998 from a dealer going out of business. He was not a UG'er by any means and it was a fluke he had that issue behind the counter next to that issue of Hulk, I think, that had the 1st appearence of Wolverine that the kids love so much, and that fetches high prices, and that there are millions of copies of by comparison....that was his balliwick. With few exceptions every other UG was purchased from publisher catalogs in the day, head shops, second hand book stores and garage sales, or from various estates I had access to since I'm in the second hand book biz...I won't pay more than $50 for pretty much anything these days, cause if I ain't aware of it by now, or don't already have it in my collection, I probably ain't that interested.
HAH! I should be saying the same... Infact I did when I was over on Saturday!!
Jason
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To bad I have to sons, they get first dibs after my wife. Then you have to wait in line after the turtles.
So, are your sons interested in UG? Do they share your enthusiasm? Do they bring their pals by to show them Dad's nifty "smut" collection? Just how did they relate to Dad's most unusual collection? Enquiring minds....
They want $$$$$. Even the turtles are waiting for me to croak so that they can use their inheritance to eat a better grade of gold fish. As for smut, the kids just star in porn movies, comics are too tame.
And my turtles are smut.
(https://headcomix.info/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.static.flickr.com%2F2265%2F2605027365_07e75e8634.jpg%3Fv%3D0&hash=da7ac1439fb61d01792e0815970498624d37f76a)
Watching those turtles is stirring something inside me......I think I need a dose of Pudge The Girl Blimp to cool myself down with...oh and what porn films might I have seen your sons in? Do they use pseudonyms of a catchy nature like Wong Dong S.?
Quote from: wpbooks on June 23, 2008, 05:51:47 PM
Quote from: Visitor Q on June 23, 2008, 12:27:17 PM
What is the most you ever paid for comix to add to your collection and what was it?
Jason
$40 for my Plymell Zap #1, bought in 1998 from a dealer going out of business. He was not a UG'er by any means and it was a fluke he had that issue behind the counter next to that issue of Hulk, I think, that had the 1st appearence of Wolverine that the kids love so much, and that fetches high prices, and that there are millions of copies of by comparison....that was his balliwick. With few exceptions every other UG was purchased from publisher catalogs in the day, head shops, second hand book stores and garage sales, or from various estates I had access to since I'm in the second hand book biz...I won't pay more than $50 for pretty much anything these days, cause if I ain't aware of it by now, or don't already have it in my collection, I probably ain't that interested.
You think you have all you want? Guess you never saw Arnold's collection...
Jason
I saw his wares at SD in 2000 and yes, it was very impressive, and while I'm somewhat envious of his holdings, I always go back to the old "there's only so much time" and I've got more than I can read, watch, listen to, etc. than I need, as it is, and I need to sleep, work, hang with the wife, eat and all the other aspects of life that I just can't devote myself to accumulation like I used to. If you saw my comic library of books and bound volumes, mostly not about UG and add that to just the periodicals, it might perhaps rival the GDr...then again, maybe not but, oh well...if the stuff comes my way, it comes my way, if not, I go home and pull out my copy of The Art of Richard W. Sprang (200 copies total) or one of my 3 copies of R.Crumbs Comics (Black Sparrow Press - 226 total copies) or one of the many editions of CFA-APA, read another chapter, sigh and then decide what movie I'm going to watch before bedtime....or wander about San Francisco in search of kicks with the better half....
I cheat, I got most of my stuff by buying collections or buying wholesale from dealers like Stroud. By the way, do you have a CFA APA 13 for sale or trade? The only one I need.
Quote from: wpbooks on June 23, 2008, 10:50:21 PM
I saw his wares at SD in 2000 and yes, it was very impressive, and while I'm somewhat envious of his holdings, I always go back to the old "there's only so much time" and I've got more than I can read, watch, listen to, etc. than I need, as it is, and I need to sleep, work, hang with the wife, eat and all the other aspects of life that I just can't devote myself to accumulation like I used to. If you saw my comic library of books and bound volumes, mostly not about UG and add that to just the periodicals, it might perhaps rival the GDr...then again, maybe not but, oh well...if the stuff comes my way, it comes my way, if not, I go home and pull out my copy of The Art of Richard W. Sprang (200 copies total) or one of my 3 copies of R.Crumbs Comics (Black Sparrow Press - 226 total copies) or one of the many editions of CFA-APA, read another chapter, sigh and then decide what movie I'm going to watch before bedtime....or wander about San Francisco in search of kicks with the better half....
That's a pretty good attitude I think.
Jason
Quote from: dr_s on June 23, 2008, 11:29:39 PM
I cheat, I got most of my stuff by buying collections or buying wholesale from dealers like Stroud. By the way, do you have a CFA APA 13 for sale or trade? The only one I need.
Which one is #13.....who is the featured artist? I believe my earliest one is the Kurtzman themed issue, and I can't remember which one that is. I don't have anything close to a complete set, but I have around 25 of them which i purchased from the various compilers when they had extra issues for around $10-20 each. Luckily, haven't had to buy them on Ebay or for the prices they seem to fetch these days. Can't do it for the same reasons listed above.
I need the Dick Sprang issue (Dick Spang????) #13. Kurtzman is #18. Here is the link
http://cfa-apa.blogspot.com/2007/09/cfa-apa-issues.html (http://cfa-apa.blogspot.com/2007/09/cfa-apa-issues.html)
Issues 73 and 74 have been issued to add to this list. Who did you know in the group? I know Larry Shell, Richie Halegua, Kamen, Jim Kelly, and the guy who published the Tales from the Plague. Probably a few others from my days in real comics.
I didn't know anybody actually...a guy I know had a copy that I happened to see one day, and I copied down the address and sent a letter to I believe Bob Koppany, who was the compiler at the time, and he sent me a list of the issues that were still available. I was also able to track down the Dick Sprang book he issued as a supplement to one of the issues, that DC only allowed him to produce 200 copies of (a beautiful hardcover 300+ page, w/ color plates signed by Sprang/Ltd ed) that went to members and a few libraries only. I think Roger Hill, who I used to correspond with also supplied me with a few copies, and there might have been someone else who was the mailer at another time whose name I forget now....it was all 7-10 years ago so I don't have many of the more recent editions.
The prices started to go crazy once I started collecting. $300-$400 for some issues. I bought a load for about $50 each. Now it seems back to $50-$150. I will still pay $200 for the 13 if anyone has one and can send a scan.