How old and how long have you been collecting Undergrounds?

[Reverend]

 

(Some of these smilies crack me up!)

[50Cent #II (1st print)]

Welcome fishnuts, won a couple of your smaller auctions, but always get outbid on the good stuff...

[Visitor Q]

(Some of these smilies crack me up!)

Yeah... They really make the board fun.

I'm glad you enjoy them.

Jason

[dr_s]

Got any of the comix you used to get from me in the days?

[fishnuts]

Yes, I do.
Plus a bunch more.
Less what I sold already.
But nothing off your wanted-list, Jeeze!
We had (since I'm not active anymore)about six wanted books in common...I figured that together we been looking for them for seventy years plus.  I got depressed.  So I shot myself.
Then I was depressed, with a gunshot wound.

[dr_s]

What are the common 6? Want to sell the others? I don't get drepressed oover them, If I got them all, then there would be nothing left and I would get drepresseed and sell them. That's what happend when I got all of the Disney comics.

[fishnuts]

I misoverestimated, dr.  It was five: Dirtie Girdie, Fat Lip Funnies, Foos, inferior Funnies, Das Kampf.
Also on my last list were: Capt. Joint, God Nose '64, Lenny '65, Wild!, and APA #35.
Let me make it clear...I am not hunting for any comix.  Original comix art, yes.  No comix.

[dr_s]

When my wife and kids kill me, you can get the art from them. I am still buying art when I can get it. Mostly covers unless it's a nice Corben page. Can't come close to matching  the Barks that you had but I got the covers to Jesus, Ozone 1, Bijou 3, Powermowerman, Arcade 4, Ilustrated check list, Seattle SImpleton 2, Checkered Demon 1, etc. About 50 pieces. Not like our fellow collector in PA who has 1100 pieces, but I'm happy. If you ever want to sell the comix I'm missing let me know. I also have a want list from a collector I know. I pay high for the stuff that I want.

[fishnuts]

Eleven...hundred?  Comix art?
Who has a Sugar Daddy that size?

You seem to have some nice and significant pieces, bro dr.  Nice job.  Way past my accumulation of sketch/drawing
/painting/house ads pieces. I maybe have a high number but...  And I have not picked too much up lately, either, while I have been buying paintings from trading card games like Magic the Gathering & Legend of the Five Rings.

As he slowly stumbles down the hall muttering, "Eleven hundred..."

[oldmilwaukee6er]

fishnuts i pretty much owe my Zap 3 & Am Splendor 1 & AP 1-2 to u.
i bought two sets of Air Pirates 1-2 BIN for $85,
kept the best set (#1 9.4 #2 9.2 tied the Fred Todd copies) &
traded the underset at San Diego for AS #1 in 8.5 & Zap 3 (1st) in 9.0.

[dr_s]

Except toe the Todd Bode cover the Vampy 3 and the last Corben Raven page I got, never paid more the about a k for any of them. The Arcade, Simpleton, Consumer Comics, Checkered demon were $50 each and the Ozone and my 1st Raven page were about $100 each. Go the cover the What if 27 (Frank Miller) and the cover to X-men classics 1 for $100 each also. Paid $400 the splash for the first Carnage (Spidey 361). It's not luck, I'm just old.

[gump]

I am 47 or 48, I forget. I was born on the last day before a new year. Anyway, I've been collecting UGs for a little over a year. I am totally uninterested in any other comics, except maybe Mad and Cracked. My mom used to buy them for me every time we went to the mall. I loved Mad! My dad was a gearhead, a Hot Rod fan, and a Playboy collector, and occasionally his world and mine would meet. I read Little Annie Fannie long before I knew what they were talking about. The Crumb 'Keep on Truckin' stuff was all over the place. Then I grew up. I didn't wake up until many years later, long after college, when I became interested in underground newspapers (journalism degree). But it was Terry Zwigoff's film that re-sparked my interest in Crumb, and through Crumb I found that there was a whole world of stuff that I had missed out on -- being born just a tad late. I bought a bunch of crap on e-Bay for too much money. Then I found CPG.com; lurked the forums; scoped out several of the references the members suggested; and I now have at least enough info at hand to make semi-intelligent decisions/mistakes. I see some of the same names here -- so I'd like to say thanx!

[50Cent #II (1st print)]

Welcome Gump,
Looks like you and me started collecting UG's about the same time (I started, excluding about a dozen I bought in the mid 80's, around Nov. of last year).

Always like to see a lurker converted into a poster...

[Visitor Q]

Welcome aboard gump. 

Jason

[Sir Real]

Heya Gump!  Welcome to our most unusual family!