wormboy Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Wow, congrats! It's amazing that your folks read comics too. KryptoSpidey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Architecht Posted June 2, 2017 Administrator Share Posted June 2, 2017 Class of '02 yearbook! https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/search/?&type=core_members&start_after=1009843200&start_before=1041292800&group[4]=1&group[7]=1&group[24]=1&group[12]=1&group[15]=1&group[13]=1&group[28]=1&group[11]=1&group[18]=1&group[9]=1&group[10]=1&group[30]=1&group[22]=1&group[29]=1&group[6]=1&group[23]=1&sortby=member_posts&sortdirection=desc (Hmmmm.... looks like changing pages messes up the search if you just follow the link instead of doing your own search. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingDonut Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 What's my yearbook quote? 2002! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-man Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 coming up on 15...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Wow how time flies, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 On 5/20/2017 at 7:57 PM, G.A.tor said: I don't see it? Joined: June 27, 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burntboy Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 On 5/20/2017 at 10:11 AM, drbanner said: Unbelievably, it's been 15 years to the day since I registered on the boards (Class of '02 stand up!). At that time, there were 2 popular venues on the 'net to share this hobby with other collectors - the usenet groups, and the ebay boards. Neither forum were a big fan of CGC, and as one irate collector commented when the idea of 3rd-party certification first hit the airwaves: "Yep, it's called the "Comics Guaranty Corporation" and I hope it fails miserably b/c as you state, it's simply going to add more $ to a hobby that's already too pricey. I've yet to really see any ads or people putting this stuff on ebay, but you know it's inevitable...and sad :(. Look for the big NY dealers to "unveil" these pre-graded/sealed comics in the next few months, and hold on...hopefully it won't ruin our hobby." And he thought the hobby was expensive back then!?!? Who was that loser anyway? The early years of the boards were a time of enlightenment, a true Renaissance and expansion of thought and experiences amongst collectors, and an abundance of Market Crash threads. I also have to confess that I was responsible for inviting a co-hobbyist I knew through ebay to join the boards. Some of you might know him as greggy...sorry guys. Here are a few embarassing photos of me during my formative Hulk collecting years. Sun's out, guns out! I use to love creating dioramas of the Hulk fighting the Army (note the corner of the classic Snoopy poster). I had cut my hand with an Exacto knife making a B-29 Superfortress model, still have the scar. And here's one of my mom reading comics. Both my parents read comics growing up, and I still have some of their early 50's funny animal books. My mom supported this hobby as it got me reading (she was a teacher back in the day), and would drive us down to the Book Gallery on University Avenue in Gainesville to pour over their boxes of 10-cent back issues. There are a couple boardies that grew up in Hogtown during that time, most notably the scarcely-seen BronzeBruce13. Congrats on 15 years... I have a guess as to Who the "loser" you mentioned was, but need to read the rest of this before naming him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burntboy Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Ok, since no one has guessed at the owner of the anti CGC comments, I'll go out on a limb and say it sounds like a certain guy who always seemed to have a lot of Birthday Money to spread around but rarely did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedigreeMan Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Whole bunch of old-timers crawling out of the woodwork here ... (OG member of the comicinvestor.com boards, too ... That was a magical week. ) electricprune 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbanner Posted June 2, 2017 Author Share Posted June 2, 2017 It's a PedigreeMan sighting! I was on the comicinvestor.com board as well, it had a finite lifetime once the old (good) CGC boards started up. Star ratings, anonymous posters, it was chaos (Captain Chaos, or Kaos, or whatever their name was). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KryptoSpidey Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Class of '07 with almost 10 yrs in myself here saying Congrats on dealing with us all for your 15 yrs here....must feel like a whole lifetime Be well brother!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 On 5/20/2017 at 8:11 AM, drbanner said: Unbelievably, it's been 15 years to the day since I registered on the boards (Class of '02 stand up!) Both my parents read comics growing up, and I still have some of their early 50's funny animal books. My mom supported this hobby as it got me reading (she was a teacher back in the day), and would drive us down to the Book Gallery on University Avenue in Gainesville to pour over their boxes of 10-cent back issues. There are a couple boardies that grew up in Hogtown during that time, most notably the scarcely-seen BronzeBruce13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flikhype Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 wow....15 years in a flash. congrats man.... and I am always envious of one with family members sharing the same love for comics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingDonut Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 22 hours ago, PedigreeMan said: Whole bunch of old-timers crawling out of the woodwork here ... (OG member of the comicinvestor.com boards, too ... That was a magical week. ) Damn! Pedigreeman! OG week. Everybody from the comicinvestor.com boards should standup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricprune Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 On 6/2/2017 at 5:20 PM, PedigreeMan said: Whole bunch of old-timers crawling out of the woodwork here ... (OG member of the comicinvestor.com boards, too ... That was a magical week. ) Woah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricprune Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 39 minutes ago, Woe said: Whoa! Or that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggy Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidpg Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) 14 years here! Jeebus! Edited June 4, 2017 by davidpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromium Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 On 3/6/2017 at 9:27 PM, FlyingDonut said: Damn! Pedigreeman! OG week. Everybody from the comicinvestor.com boards should standup. Amazing to see so many people from 2002 are still here I thought we were down to less than 10....Oh and on the very last day of of the C.I boards I did a full HTML save Too bad the boards had been shut down by then because Vince didn't want to pay for all the scan hosting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
