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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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 😅
Insurance, bug-out boxes, and digital copies. Yes. :)
Cool thanks!
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
The grading isn’t about assessing value, it’s about condition. There are multiple grading companies out there who will grade the book and seal it to prevent it degrading.
You can talk with them directly or go through a local comic shop who does grading to get it done.
CGC is the big one:
https://www.cgccomics.com/CBCS is #2:
https://www.cbcscomics.com/There are others, but for terms of increasing the value of the book, you want one of those two.
https://www.pfadvice.com/2023/04/18/the-6-best-comic-book-grading-and-slabbing-companies/
The fee CGC charges though is based on the value of the item. The reasoning I got was because they couldn’t determine a value they didn’t know what to charge for their fee and eventually I just told them to send it back (this was after months of trying to figure it out). It has been a while though so maybe better luck this time around? I didn’t know about CBCS either so might just try them thank you for the suggestion
Oh, yeah, but I was able to find an estimated value in like 2 seconds, you could point them here:
https://www.keycollectorcomics.com/issue/spawn-232-2,314047/
Low - $150
Mid - $500
High - $1.5k
I collect unfinished projects.
Ubisoft and EA: Mmmm fresh meat.
Do you create your collections or inherent them?
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.
An ex had a collection of anime figures that cost him around 15,000 usd in total. Actual worth?
I’ll give you three fiddy.
“Ooo… This is neat. I want it.”
“Ooo… That one is neat too. I want it.”
Bam! Now you’re a collector.
Vinyl records. I like to own copies of music I like. It’s much more satisfying to go through and find something to listen to.
Bottle openers from breweries I go to. Fairly small and they have by the bar. I don’t drink as much beer as I used to so that’s slowing down.
Same here with the Vinyl. Started DJ big back in the 90’s and haven’t stopped collecting since.
I collect games I do not play lol
As a kid, we were so poor, it was scary. I remember living in a car, having to choose between going hungry or eating food that was past its prime, and learning Santa wasn’t real too young (I couldn’t understand why my friends got expensive dream gifts… I thought I had been good)
After going through all that and my mom overdosing, I started collecting things that would accumulate value or were an investment. Comic books and figurines are my go to, but I’ve also got machines for creating cosplays (as that’s my career now). I won’t buy anything that I can’t pawn off in an emergency to survive, or use it to make money. I really should have been collecting coins/gold/silver, but I picked what was fun.
Also, shoutout to my elementary school’s lunch lady, who noticed a tiny, thin girl using the free lunch program, and offered her seconds, after everyone else had been served. I don’t think she knows how much she touched my life.
My wife and I collect souvenir lapel pins from places we travel to. We write the date on the back, and keep them in a shadow box on the wall in chronological order.
It’s nice as it’s not very expensive to buy them, and they don’t take up a lot of space to keep, and we have a nice little history of our travels at a glance.
I collect vintage computers. I have a bunch of laptops from 2000 and earlier, as well as an Atari 800xl, an emachine, and a ti 99/4a. The reason I started was because when I started studying computer science, I fell in love with the history of computing
I collect decks of cards from different countries/places. Usually if someone from my family/friend circle travels just buys me one at the airport of that country, but I also have a few special ones, like the Norwegian Ice Hotel, or a spicy sexy one from Greece.
It started randomly, I realized that I have 3-4 decks from random places and that was it, I became a collector.
Carnaval Emblems! In the province of Noord-Brabant, Netherlands it is customary to decorate your carnaval coat or “boerenkiel” (farmer’s coat?) with emblems from carnaval events or clubs.
I started because I completely fell in love with carnaval! Below is an example of such a traditional “boerenkiel”.
I’ve never seen these before! Thanks for showing a pic. I always like collections that show off artwork/creative design.
Tiger R-Zone games, and the consoles. It’s a nice collection, because the library is pretty small.
As far as I know, I’ve got one of the most-complete, if not the most-complete collections out there, and one day I’d like to donate it to an archive or museum for caretaking. At this point, the only confirmed game I’m missing is the incredibly rare soccer game (“Football”, as it was sold—and rightfully so).
The system brought me a lot of joy as a kid, despite its simplicity, and I think the difficulty to collect it makes it easy to be forgotten to history.
I collect ttrpgs! I love reading how mechanics work together and I’ve never found value in collecting things I don’t use, so ttrpgs it is. Plus there are some really wild ones out there that are fun to look at. It started with 3.5/Pathfinder but eventually I branched out to a couple other games that I like to play. I spend the most effort on my Car Wars collection, think I’m going to try getting a complete set of ADQ on that front next.
My single prized book so far though is a copy of HōL’s supplement buttery wholesomeness. Specifically the second printing of it with the cover that’s written like BUTTery HOLsomeness which ended up being so hard to track down over like 5 years that I started to question if it even had a physical printing or if it was just in PDF form. Finally found the thing though last year
Always love the feeling of finally tracking down a grail :^)
Any scifi ttrpg books you’d recommend from your collection? I always love reading those.
Depends what you’re in the mood for:
- I personally love Paranoia. It is very much a comedy game but it can be played with a serious take with the right work. Plus it is just a fun read even if you don’t play it.
- Rifts is pretty baller conceptually but I don’t have first hand experience playing it.
- GURPS has a Car Wars crossover making it objectively one of the best games, can be played with any level of tech, and has buckets of supplements.
- The Burning Wheel is more fantasy but the book is basically a philosophy of play which could be adapted to lots of things, and the same author wrote Burning Empires which is more scifi but I haven’t acquired that one so can’t give first hand info on it either.
- Can’t forget Car Wars. It is scifi though it is a mix of ttrpg and strategy/board. If you want to drive a car off a cliff while dropping mines on a helicopter as you go by and have your robot gunner leaning out the window shooting lasers at a tank it is the way to go.
- Finally I’ll pitch HōL because the game is just so unhinged. It is all hand written and scanned, it’s edgy and crass, and is a great parody of roleplaying games. It’s engaging and fun to read with great art but realistically quite difficult to functionally play because the rules are intentionally a mess. The Buttery Wholesomeness supplement added character creation rules which don’t exist in the base game because it is a mess.
Sounds like a dope collection if you have this much of one genre! Thanks for the recs.
I’m rather proud of it. Resolution isn’t great but here we go:
Main roleplaying shelf:
Board games and box sets:
I’ve also got all 3 books for Monsters of Murka, limited covers, signed by several of the people who worked on it. I think my copies of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Mork Borg are on other shelves. Finally, an unopened box set for Boat Wars which I’ll be opening sometime soon so I can pretend I lived in the 80s and just came home with a box from the lgs.
House and techno vinyl records - got about 800 or so and always on the lookout for more.
Also, home shirts (and some away) for my football team, Dunfermline Athletic - got every home top going back to 1986.
What’s your favorite record you have, and is it “Baby Wants to Ride”?
Ha, it’s not, although I do have it (two versions actually, one where it’s the b-side of Your Love)
Favourite record is a tough one. Impossible maybe. One I finally got a couple of weeks ago, that I’ve wanted for ages, is Go by Moby. Probably still not my favourite, but I was delighted to get it :-)
Actually, make that 3 versions - just bought a 12" with remixes including the wonderful House of Trix mix, my favourite version of the tune.
I seem to be collecting vintage lenses. I stared by getting an adapter for my mirrorless camera and I just fell in love with the lovely character their ‘flaws’ give them.
