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Tbh I regret buying all those polybagged 'collector' comics in the 90s
Honestly, I spent about $300 on them thinking they'd be worth something, but most are still worth cover price. I kept them sealed for 25 years for nothing. Anyone else have a box of 'investments' that just took up space?
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lisar143mo ago
Feel my pain, I have a closet full of those 90s foil-cover X-Men books still in the bags. I was so sure my copy of "Superman #75" (the death one, you know) was gonna put a kid through college. Now it's basically a fancy doorstop. All that careful storage just turned them into really expensive time capsules of bad financial choices.
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gavine413mo ago
Look at it this way, you got to own a little piece of that era. I kept a few of mine sealed too, but I opened most of them. The fun was in reading them back then, not in waiting for a payday that was never coming. That box is full of stories you liked, not just bad bets. Sometimes the hobby part is the real point, not the value part.
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noah_barnes1mo ago
My buddy Mike had a whole longbox of early Image comics from the 90s. He thought he was sitting on gold, kept them in those plastic bags with the cardboard backs. Last year his kid threw a baseball through his garage window, and the rain soaked the box. Most of them just turned into a moldy brick of paper, he didn't even bother checking what survived.
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