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Converting the youth to comics
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I got my girlfriends kid into comics. One of the first gifts I got him was Bone and Usagi Yojimbo. He’s read all the Usagi Yojimbo books now and the first two Elfquest Saga and a handful of classic super hero trades. He donates the books to the class library and they’re a huge hit with the other kids, boosted his popularity quite a bit

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I have on numerous occasions given away comics for Halloween. Many shop owners are receptive to the idea , and will give you great pricing on (age appropriate} stuff. Lots of times they will have left over Free Comic Book Day stock. I started this at my sister's house; 2 years in a row, and her kids were known thru the neighborhood for it! 

I was surprised how much the kids liked it.

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When I was teaching at a magnet school, I brought a short box of old comics for my classroom, dime box stuff. A few kids were interested, until they got their hands on them. Turns out, high aptitude middle schoolers have a keen ability to detect drek.

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I had a short box of comics sent to me, when our house burned in 2010.  A good friend of my wife's son was really intrigued by them.  He knew most of the characters.  I gave him the entire short box, before going through them myself.  

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my nephew likes tennis shoes. He showed me some "Air Jordans" that "are worth thousands." And that Kanyea West creep has some shoes that "are worth thousands." You can't wear them of course. 

The whole philosocial angle about if nobody wants it it's worthless escaped him

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12 hours ago, kav said:

Gave a stack of BA Caps to middle school student after I saw he made a cap shield out of construction paper and was wearing it around school lol 

This is a nice idea. My son works at a group home with an autistic kid who constantly fashions Mjolnir out of whatever happens to be laying about and likes to wear a cape. I think I'll do the same. He's already wrangled a few Star Wars LEGO sets out of me for this young man to build. What's a few comics?

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1 hour ago, KirbyJack said:

 

I have on numerous occasions given away comics for Halloween. Many shop owners are receptive to the idea , and will give you great pricing on (age appropriate} stuff. Lots of times they will have left over Free Comic Book Day stock. I started this at my sister's house; 2 years in a row, and her kids were known thru the neighborhood for it! 

I was surprised how much the kids liked it.

Ooh, I like this idea too. 

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1 hour ago, KirbyJack said:

 

I have on numerous occasions given away comics for Halloween. Many shop owners are receptive to the idea , and will give you great pricing on (age appropriate} stuff. Lots of times they will have left over Free Comic Book Day stock. I started this at my sister's house; 2 years in a row, and her kids were known thru the neighborhood for it! 

I was surprised how much the kids liked it.

there's some LCS that do this a Halloween kind of free comic book day. 

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2 hours ago, NoMan said:

my nephew likes tennis shoes. He showed me some "Air Jordans" that "are worth thousands." And that Kanyea West creep has some shoes that "are worth thousands." You can't wear them of course. 

The whole philosocial angle about if nobody wants it it's worthless escaped him

There are adults who still look at Ebay asking prices for unsold items and say "I have one!  Look what it's worth!" but there aren't any that have ever sold at that price.

Kids who don't get it are just younger versions of the same adults who don't get it.

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My nephews (ages 5-12) started collecting over the past couple of years. They receive them rarely because of the distance to the LCS and, well, new comics are relatively expensive. I bought a couple of collections in December 2018 and filled a longbox of late bronze/copper Marvel and DC and let them have at it for Christmas. Comics seemed to be their favorite gift for sure. 

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Love these boardie stories.  An update: My cousin's son was mesmerized by the covers, hardly even looked at me to say thank you. lol  I mentioned 8 years of age was about when I'd started reading comics.  Kid was always more of a Darth Vader fan than Jedi... so I figured he'd prefer Venom over Spidey (just like me!).

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1 hour ago, exitmusicblue said:

Love these boardie stories.  An update: My cousin's son was mesmerized by the covers, hardly even looked at me to say thank you. lol  I mentioned 8 years of age was about when I'd started reading comics.  Kid was always more of a Darth Vader fan than Jedi... so I figured he'd prefer Venom over Spidey (just like me!).

Pull a run of $1 Darth Vaders from the dollar-bins for him! The 2015 series was pretty good actually!

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