does anyone else here want to kick their own *spoon* for spending way too much money in the early 90's buying multiple copies of acetate covers, foil covers, glow in the dark covers, variant covers, hologram covers, tattoo in comic, 3d glasses in comic, trading card in comic, (did I miss anything?) instead of taking all that money and just buying the single best copy they could afford of AF15 or some other comparable grail ? I think I spent about 10k-15k on that hyped up early 90's *spoon*. I had bought a Fine AF15 back in 1993 for $2700 so 15k would've bought a real nice high grade copy back then, and what would that be worth today? A down payment on a house!
Never got suckered by the shiny covers.
I do, however, have multiples of other hyped books, like X-Force 1.
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Lessons need to be learned. No one starts in a hobby making only good decisions, even when they are given the best advice. Consider the 15k an investment in your comic education, with that education, you can now go out and flip books to work toward that af15.
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Originally Posted By: 500Club
Originally Posted By: Davenport
Yep, I got my School of Hard Knocks diploma(s).
Shiny. With dinosaurs.
Super cheap tuition by today's standards.
$3.50 a pop? Not so cheap.
Half that or less pre-ordered at the time. I still consider that extremely cheap tuition compared to what I see some books going for today, damn near before the ink's had time to dry. Such as THIS (a 'sketch variant' listed at $425 )
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Originally Posted By: 500Club
Originally Posted By: Davenport
Yep, I got my School of Hard Knocks diploma(s).
Shiny. With dinosaurs.
Super cheap tuition by today's standards.
$3.50 a pop? Not so cheap.
I bought five copies of that book when it came out in 1993...I remember the guy in the LCS gave me a contemptuous look when I paid for them. I was planning to buy more but had already gotten wind that Valiant had printed an absolute bucketload of them, so I knew I was throwing my money away even before I parted with my cash. At that point it was a given that the bubble was about to burst, and that this book was the final straw.
Still have them lurking in a box somewhere. The hologram has probably come unglued from the covers in that time. The book did look nice, though.
Nothing too "dangerous". Just bought the multiple copies of McSpidey #1 so I could get the bagged copies and the signed by Todd, store spider-stamp copies.
I think it was 20 copies of each (green, silver) at $1/ea and then an extra $25/ea for the signed books.
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The 90's will seem like the seeding grounds for the real overpay'in era when you account for the way graded comics ushered in an era of incremental value increases by grade point, followed by the nosediving of those values in the face of grade bumps, pressing and the 9.8 being the new 9.4. Not even Intel could have engineered such an ingenious marketing platform for throttling speeds and maximizing returns on its computer chips.
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Originally Posted By: chrisco37
Nothing too "dangerous". Just bought the multiple copies of McSpidey #1 so I could get the bagged copies and the signed by Todd, store spider-stamp copies.
I think it was 20 copies of each (green, silver) at $1/ea and then an extra $25/ea for the signed books.
You couldn't move for those Spidey 1 variants / printings etc. at British shows in the early '90s. Every dealer had at least a box of them. Oddly enough I only bought one copy at retail (the silver one).
When I started buying collections (from 1994 onwards), coming across a pile of McSpidey 1s every time was more or less inevitable. Which is why I have a box of them somewhere (along with X-Men 1 and X-Force 1), although I would've paid virtually nothing for them.
I also remember buying the Platinum edition of Spidey 1 for about £10, several years after it was a hot book (a dealer only, limited to 10,000 must-own collectible, as I recall). I still have that book as well as I thought it was worth keeping as a marker of the era.
Hell, I have some stories about seeing huge Valiant / Image / Malibu / Defiant only collections in the late '90s when the owner thought he could cash out with them long after their expiry date. Strange days.
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Originally Posted By: comicwiz
The 90's will seem like the seeding grounds for the real overpay'in era when you account for the way graded comics ushered in an era of incremental value increases by grade point, followed by the nosediving of those values in the face of grade bumps, pressing and the 9.8 being the new 9.4. Not even Intel could have engineered such an ingenious marketing plan for its computer chips.
You would think I would've learned my lesson from that era.
