I find that most people in my life have at least one “thing” they are collecting. It is often an insight into their personality and it is fun to hear people talk about something they are passionate about.
Comic books. I learned to read when I was 2, but there wasn’t a ton of reading material for 2 year olds.
Back then, comic books were only a quarter and soooo… 52 years later…
The big one:
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Hey just wondering if you saw this video about the Donald Duck artist by matttt?
Just happened upon it yesterday so it coincedentally makes me think you and your community might like it.
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this video about the Donald Duck artist by matttt
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What an awesome collection! Funny question, but do you by any chance have these backed up? Personally would be so scared that anything of the physical copies would be damaged or ruined by a house fire for example… Guess I’m a little paranoid 😅
I donated one to charity a couple years back, but I used to have two copies of the Spawn EWU cover variant. I suspect I was the only person on the planet to have two of those. Not sure what to do with the other one it’s the only comic I own and I’ve never even opened it
Only 400 copies of that made, not super valuable given the limited run:
https://www.keycollectorcomics.com/issue/spawn-232-2,314047/
You could send it out to have it professionally graded, that would help.
Finding proper value on it has been difficult because there are so few you almost never see them for sale. The most I’ve ever been offered for mine is $7k, ungraded. I’ve definitely seen them sell for way less though it’s just so rare I think the data isn’t very reliable. Very much a ‘how much is it worth to the specific collector at that time’
Edit to add, how tf do I actually get this thing graded? I tried years ago and they sent it back to me after months of back and forth because they couldn’t figure out how much it was worth so they didn’t know how much to charge me. The whole situation was a mess
Steam library
^ This. I have 3,225 games on Steam and I’m always finding more that I want to try out.
I collect hobbies.
I collect unfinished projects.
I don’t understand “collecting”
Don’t get me wrong, there are a few categories of things I have a lot of, like film cameras, but that’s because I started with cheaper ones, and kept getting better ones as I became more sure that film photography was a thing I wanted to do.
But, for instance, I have friends who collect MLB bobbleheads just for the sake of collecting, and I’ll never understand that.
