Comments on: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

By: Tony Florence

Tony Florence — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:37:20 +0000

Yeah…I’m hoping that instead of calling this particular time the “Post Modern Era of Comics” they’ll call it the “Era of the Readers” or something along those lines. Most of the speculators are gone (at least in comparison to the early 90s) so most of the people who are collecting comics are just in it for the good read.

By: David And Alec Hensley

David And Alec Hensley — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:33:22 +0000

As you guys know, Alec and I started reading comics about 2 years ago. When we started, I told Alec that we are reading comics for the stories and the characters. We were not buying them in hopes of having a fortune materialize from them in 20 years. I think this approach has allowed us to jump from one character to another and follow many different story lines. Our motto is “Stop reading comics you hate”. If the storyline in any book doesn’t appeal to us then we drop the title and move knowing that we can always come back again if we decide we were wrong. The fact that you can get almost anything in trades allows you to back up easily. This is way different than when I cillected forty years ago and you lived and died by single issues. Thanks to you guys at the store. You have been a big help in getting us started and restarted in comics.

By: Elizabeth Schwarcz

Elizabeth Schwarcz — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:30:12 +0000

Because I’m a teenager: IN IT TO WIN IT!!!!1111!!!!
Because I’m a person: I know I haven’t gotten around to spending the gift certificate I have, but believe me, I have plans that will probably end in it all being spent in one trip, especially since AvX is in a big book thing and Uncanny Avengers and Hawkeye and stuff. I blame you all for getting me into this, thoug you all have been awesome in helping me find a place to start reading comics! Astonishing X-Men is fantastic!

By: Shonda

Shonda — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:33:56 +0000

You made my son’s LIFE– not just day on Free Comic book Saturday… when he met Spiderman… still talks about it. We are life long Collectibles, Etc fans!!

By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:33:01 +0000

I just recently got back into collecting and made my first trip to the store a little over a week ago and I gotta say it was a great experience. I picked up #14 of Batman the new 52 on the recommendation of the guy working the counter and Deadpool #1, after a few pages of Batman I was hooked and had to track down the rest #0-13. I realize they may not be the most valuable but it’s been a long time since I enjoyed reading a comic front to back and then jumping right to the next one. I still have all my old X-men from the 91 set and I realize I’m not sitting on a goldmine but they’re nice flip through from time to time.

By: Kevin Whitten

Kevin Whitten — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:36:20 +0000

There aren’t many(any?) products out there that will ever be worth what you paid for it when you bought it new. That being said, with comics at least you have a chance…For example, I asked to be put back on Batman for the new Joker storyline. I came in to get my books and the Catwoman #13 was in there. I mentioned that I don’t read catwoman, and Jake promptly told me that it was a connected story arc and that he would put the book back on the shelf but it was already going for like $20 on ebay. I gladly kept the book and asked to get all other books in this arc. The point is there are modern books that in my opinion do gain or at least hold there value, u can get pretty decent $ out of about any new 52 title if u want to get rid of your 1-13 or whatever. I like to put together runs and full series, 1. because i want to read them, but 2. because I have found that Brubaker’s Captain America 1-50 complete is much more valuable than 50 random books from the same time period. BTW, thanks to CE for selling me the Cap series at such a great price! I do sometimes struggle with the idea of paying $4 for a single new issue when I can walk over to the 50 cent books and get 8 books for the same price. But I tell myself that I may eventually pick up the next Walking Dead 1, whatever that may be, and I think that with the tv and movie exposure growing, there may even be a greater chance of that new Image series(or whatever) becoming a hit. Until then, I just want to fill up my long boxes!

By: Jereme Hiestand

Jereme Hiestand — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:18:02 +0000

Well now you’ve convinced me to bring in my old comics, kinda. Also, the store looks incredible after the re-modeling, nice job fellas. ZOMG Cyber Mondayz !!!1111one1!1!!

By: Ryan Utterback

Ryan Utterback — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:21:57 +0000

Well, at least after reading this I can rest easy that I didn’t lose out on big bucks by not taking care of my Warrior #1(written by the Ultimate Warrior). What a relief.

By: David Groves

David Groves — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:11:17 +0000

Being a former owner of a baseball card shop, I recieved many of the saem type of calls. Someone always thought they had something of substantial worth only to be disappointed.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:07:28 +0000

This can also be applied to why your box of Magic cards in your basement is also probably pretty much worthless.