Popular Post TSwift25 Posted June 14, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2018 (edited) What a great idea for a thread! I have four that are too sentimental to sell. All have to do with my father starting my collecting habit. ASM 19 was the first 12 cent Spider-Man I ever got, and ASM 28 was a personal grail. When Stan Lee was in South Florida my dad took me to meet him and he signed both books for me. X-Men 1 was the first mega-key I ever had (a birthday present) and FF 48 was the last book my dad bought me as he'd pass away a few weeks later. All this was within about a year of each other. It's a whirlwind and a bittersweet memory. All too sentimental to ever let go. Edited June 14, 2018 by TSwift25 mec3437, Larryw7, PUNYHUMAN and 6 others 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2018 When I first met Judy and she was a single Mom, I was quite surprised when first visiting her place that she had posters on her living room wall that were comic related. One was of Barry Smith's Gorblimey Press edition of "Pandora's Box". The other was from the cover of this comic that came from boardie Eggs Ackley (R.I.P.) …….. This book is SO not for sale.... GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Norrin's lawyer, Larryw7, mec3437 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2018 (edited) This one here came from Michael...…. at the time he was board member Alanna, but he now goes by Flex Mentallo. Some of you may have checked out his thread in GA called "Tales From the Island of Serendipity"..... about his humanitarian work in India, even though he himself resides in England. This cover always makes me think of his dual world hopping.... like Adam Strange. I picked it up from him many moons ago, and I think about him and smile every time I look at it.... and for the longest time, it was still in the bag that had the price in pounds sterling on it. GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Edited June 17, 2018 by jimjum12 mec3437, Norrin's lawyer, MusterMark and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2018 (edited) This came from my pal Jerry Ringi (R.I.P.) ……. one of only a couple of folks I actually knew who owned an Action Comics #1. His leopard gecko, "Elton" still lives with me, as his wife Kathy would cry when she sees it. This book is the last book I own from the RJ Long collection ….. this collection walked into Jerry's shop...… the first were a couple of hat boxes full of old Gene Autry's and Roy Rogers comics... the old guy figured they were worth the most.... he'd bought them off the rack at, IIRC, his pop's Pharmacy. He was having some health issues and needed some money..... hoping Jerry might give him a buck a piece for the 2000 books that he had. Jerry, not exactly overjoyed at the idea of adding a pile of old westerns to his inventory told the fellow to bring them all in and he'd see what he could do. A few days later Jerry got around to finally going though all the hat coxes and Apple cartons.... and started noticing how nice condition they were.... and began hitting some Super Hero books..... 10 cent D.C.'s...… some war books......then he came to the ASM 1 at the bottom of one pile..... then the JIM 83, the TTA 27, the AF 15, etc, etc.... Jerry was always a good guy, and told the fellow there was no way he could give him 2 grand for the books.... they were just worth way more than that. Mister Long, impressed by his honesty, agreed to consign them to him..... the keys ended up in what I think was the first Heritage comic auction. The ASM 1 came back a CGC 9.2. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Edited June 17, 2018 by jimjum12 KirbyJack, Larryw7, mec3437 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 I have many,but i'll name a few. First,the Contact book in my sigline.That's a book my dear uncle Joey(board member Ghost Rider) bought 'from under me' when I didn't quite have the money about a decade ago.He let me keep it in my boxes(we had tonnes of each others comics),but always teased me it was his.He's gone now,and the friendly arguments we had over that book make it far more valuable to me than any of his others I have,light years ahead of the AF15 ect.RIP Joey. Number two,a silver,is the sweet TTA 93 I bought from 'new old backstock' from my local mag and comic shop way back when I was twelve in 1989.Still a pretty NM- even after my papa and I read and reread it.That is the first comic that got me into old back issues seriously,before that it was what turned up at yard sales ect.I blame my hoard on that one! The next are some copper age Conans my dad bought for me from a local depaneur.137 is the earliest comic I remember ever having from a store,and that and the 172 are all the books I have from him from childhood.I'll always thank @cheetah for hooking me up with the 9.8s that go with my rags.RIP Papa And these two.First comics I ever remember buying at a yard sale with my grandfather,likely around 1982.I loved dinosaurs,and that Steve D cover scared me for years!RIP Umpa (not my copies) KirbyJack, mec3437, Larryw7 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 (edited) Richard of Bedrock City is a guy that buys and sells books that most people only dream of .........Pedigees ……..Mega Keys ……… rarities ….. and is a dealer I greatly admire for all his visits and information sharing on this very forum. So many guys want to just take the money and run, but not Rick Bedrock ….. he comes round and slums with the rest of us …… anyway, I'm a huge Neal Adams fan and this issue that is my "Bedrock Comic", isn't a high grade Gerber white space book or a Mile High..... it isn't even actually a SA book..... It's a Bedrock 9.2 that I still can't really find anything wrong with it.... and it came out in the early to mid 70's, when it was way to late for me to escape the gravitational pull of comics fandom...GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) ….. I also have another Bedrock Book ……. this one was also speculated to be by a "young" Neal Adams ….. I saw him at a show and got him to sign a couple of GL/GA books for Judy and I showed it to him..... he said, "My God.... I had forgotten about that, I think I was 19 when I did it...." ……. case closed. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Edited June 17, 2018 by jimjum12 mec3437, Larryw7, MusterMark and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 PS,Jim,I highly,highly doubt i'll ever let that Menace#4 I got from you when I first joined up here!One of the first books I purchased online,my first precode Atlas horror,and the start of a long friendship,although we have not met yet. Larryw7, jimjum12 and Norrin's lawyer 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 (edited) 6 minutes ago, porcupine48 said: PS,Jim,I highly,highly doubt i'll ever let that Menace#4 I got from you when I first joined up here!One of the first books I purchased online,my first precode Atlas horror,and the start of a long friendship,although we have not met yet. …..I'm no where near as handsome as you likely imagine I would be..... but I would spring for a soft serve cone at the purveyor of your choice...…. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) …… some of that Atlas PCH is just disturbing ….. oh, how I love them. Edited June 17, 2018 by jimjum12 Norrin's lawyer and porcupine48 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2018 Here's that ASM 1 that my pal Jerry Ringi found at the bottom of a hat box...… I wish THIS was my Jerry Book..... but I'm sure it's making someone happy somewhere.... GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Bomber-Bob, Not A Clone, mec3437 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2018 This one is especially prized ….. and it cost me exactly nothing. It's appeal began many, many years ago, when my Aunt, then a rookie High School P.E. teacher, pulled into my Grandparents yard and popped the trunk of her Chevelle to unleash piles and piles of old comics that her students had donated to send to the troops in 'Nam. It turned out that the postage for them all would be WAY more than she could possibly afford, and the kids told her to just find someone who wanted them.... I guess they had all discovered girls or something. Anyway, that's where me, my sister, and my two cousins came in..... we split 'em up. Every now and then I'll see a comic that was in those piles that I haven't seen since that day in '67 and it really opens the old nostalgia floodgates. This is one of those books. I saw it in a paperheart thread and made a comment about it and how I really wished I cold afford it. Lo and behold, several days later a package arrived and this was in it. I contacted Mike and told him it might be a while before I could pay, only to learn that it had been bought FOR me. I found out later who did this..... an infamous Archie collector who I had once bought a book from, requesting to please not let any Archie comics touch the book I was buying..... so he sends it sandwiched between TWO Archie comics @143ksk …… this book is also, SO not for sale...… GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) KirbyJack, porcupine48, Larryw7 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 37 minutes ago, jimjum12 said: This one is especially prized ….. and it cost me exactly nothing. It's appeal began many, many years ago, when my Aunt, then a rookie High School P.E. teacher, pulled into my Grandparents yard and popped the trunk of her Chevelle to unleash piles and piles of old comics that her students had donated to send to the troops in 'Nam. It turned out that the postage for them all would be WAY more than she could possibly afford, and the kids told her to just find someone who wanted them.... I guess they had all discovered girls or something. Anyway, that's where me, my sister, and my two cousins came in..... we split 'em up. Every now and then I'll see a comic that was in those piles that I haven't seen since that day in '67 and it really opens the old nostalgia floodgates. This is one of those books. I saw it in a paperheart thread and made a comment about it and how I really wished I cold afford it. Lo and behold, several days later a package arrived and this was in it. I contacted Mike and told him it might be a while before I could pay, only to learn that it had been bought FOR me. I found out later who did this..... an infamous Archie collector who I had once bought a book from, requesting to please not let any Archie comics touch the book I was buying..... so he sends it sandwiched between TWO Archie comics @143ksk …… this book is also, SO not for sale...… GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Comic book people are the best! I got the feels... Larryw7, jimjum12, 1950's war comics and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2018 This is my Blazing Bob book...….. you just DON'T see this book in any kind of grade. Bob is one of those dealer's who will actually spend 20 minutes chatting with you if you call his number … and he's seen it all. I remember when he first fired up his website...… just a few dozen books then.... he had a FF 11 in CGC 8.5 for around 900..... oh, how I wanted that book... and Bob is FF Fan #1...….. GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) rjpb, MusterMark, mec3437 and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post jimjum12 Posted June 17, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2018 And no collection of boardie books would be complete without a skipinkblu book ……….. this one is from that enormous collection of overspray books from several years ago.... I always loved these Kirby Challengers..... and 'ole June.... that's how I imagine Sharon to be.... and the charity threads, what an example of what a human being SHOULD be.... GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Larryw7, porcupine48, frozentundraguy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, jimjum12 said: This one is especially prized ….. and it cost me exactly nothing. It's appeal began many, many years ago, when my Aunt, then a rookie High School P.E. teacher, pulled into my Grandparents yard and popped the trunk of her Chevelle to unleash piles and piles of old comics that her students had donated to send to the troops in 'Nam. It turned out that the postage for them all would be WAY more than she could possibly afford, and the kids told her to just find someone who wanted them.... I guess they had all discovered girls or something. Anyway, that's where me, my sister, and my two cousins came in..... we split 'em up. Every now and then I'll see a comic that was in those piles that I haven't seen since that day in '67 and it really opens the old nostalgia floodgates. This is one of those books. I saw it in a paperheart thread and made a comment about it and how I really wished I cold afford it. Lo and behold, several days later a package arrived and this was in it. I contacted Mike and told him it might be a while before I could pay, only to learn that it had been bought FOR me. I found out later who did this..... an infamous Archie collector who I had once bought a book from, requesting to please not let any Archie comics touch the book I was buying..... so he sends it sandwiched between TWO Archie comics @143ksk …… this book is also, SO not for sale...… GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) That is a great story, and an awesome show of generosity from a great boardie. I've never seen this one, because I would have a copy of it if I did. Great cover, and I love how Batmania seeped into nearly every DC book in '66 and '67. Edited June 18, 2018 by Larryw7 jimjum12 and 1950's war comics 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted June 18, 2018 Author Share Posted June 18, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, Larryw7 said: 18 hours ago, jimjum12 said: That is a great story, and an awesome show of generosity from a great boardie. I've never seen this one, because I would have a copy of I did. Great cover, and I love how Batmania seeped into nearly every DC book ...I finally met Steve in Baltimore last year and was just too overwhelmed to think to invite him to dinner with Lewis and I …….. He's awesome...even before the free book. I hold him in the highest regard... GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Edited June 18, 2018 by jimjum12 Larryw7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Larryw7 Posted June 18, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2018 This isn't a SA book, but it is the one book that I will never sell. When I was really sick a few years ago, a wonderful boardie had a book I wanted to buy from her. As I got sicker and sicker, she said she'd send me the book when I was home from the hospital. True to her word, this was waiting for me when I came home after a heart transplant. For free. How can you not love Sharon? mec3437, Not A Clone, frozentundraguy and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted June 18, 2018 Author Share Posted June 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Larryw7 said: This isn't a SA book, but it is the one book that I will never sell. When I was really sick a few years ago, a wonderful boardie had a book I wanted to buy from her. As I got sicker and sicker, she said she'd send me the book when I was home from the hospital. True to her word, this was waiting for me when I came home after a heart transplant. For free. How can you not love Sharon? I'd literally have that placed IN my coffin some day..... but not TOO soon. GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Larryw7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bronze age fan* Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 All of them. Dave2739 and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlowUpTheMoon Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 On 6/5/2018 at 12:19 PM, Jerkfro said: I really don't consider anything too sentimental to never sell. I suppose I did when I was younger but not now. However, the two most likely candidates would be my copies of OAAW 83 and Richie Rich 1 Cool pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
