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[Cavebear]

The Comstock card dates from '88.  It was produced by a company called ProSet, which specialized in minor league cards.  He was a pitcher for the San Diego minor league team when that picture was taken.  And if one has one and you paid more than a buck for it, you were swindled.

I was just reading and article about faked cards...  I do shudder to think about the money I wasted putting the cards on my bicycle though...  I wonder if I had a Mickey Mantle rookie card.

[Mike Cl]

I was just reading and article about faked cards...  I do shudder to think about the money I wasted putting the cards on my bicycle though...  I wonder if I had a Mickey Mantle rookie card.

Just think, Cavebear, you could have ground up over a half million.  I think the most expensive card sold for over 4/5 million.  To demonstrate how card collecting has changed; that Mantle rookie right out of a pack would command from 20 grand to over 100 grand.  That is called its 'raw' state.  To make the huge bucks, one needs to have it graded.  That means you send it off to a grading company who then examines it with a microscope and grades it.  Top grade is a 10.  If one had a 10 graded Mantle rookie, it would get hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Being called 'mint' is no big deal any more. 

[Cavebear]

Just think, Cavebear, you could have ground up over a half million.  I think the most expensive card sold for over 4/5 million.  To demonstrate how card collecting has changed; that Mantle rookie right out of a pack would command from 20 grand to over 100 grand.  That is called its 'raw' state.  To make the huge bucks, one needs to have it graded.  That means you send it off to a grading company who then examines it with a microscope and grades it.  Top grade is a 10.  If one had a 10 graded Mantle rookie, it would get hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Being called 'mint' is no big deal any more.

And forget the comic books.  I had Fantastic Four #1 in hand and read it to death.  Who knew?

[Blackleaf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znzIslrQXg

[Mike Cl]

And forget the comic books.  I had Fantastic Four #1 in hand and read it to death.  Who knew?

My dad was an avid reader of comics.  But he read ones like Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Plastic Man, Cpt. America, and for one of my early birthdays I got a year of Red Ryder (and Little Beaver).  Never collected them tho.

[trdsf]

And forget the comic books.  I had Fantastic Four #1 in hand and read it to death.  Who knew?

I fear to think how much of my potential retirement could have been covered by all the comics my mom threw away...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Unbeliever]

I fear to think how much of my potential retirement could have been covered by all the comics my mom threw away...

Yeah, I had a 3 or 4 foot stack that's gone the way of all flesh, too. I don't even remember what all I had, but I doubt my mom would've known how valuable they might have been!

[Mike Cl]

Yeah, I had a 3 or 4 foot stack that's gone the way of all flesh, too. I don't even remember what all I had, but I doubt my mom would've known how valuable they might have been!

It's because of our moms that those comics are now valuable. :)

[Unbeliever]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CejUmxp-U2A

[Baruch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKrGaMSGD0

Ciao

[trdsf]

Yeah, I had a 3 or 4 foot stack that's gone the way of all flesh, too. I don't even remember what all I had, but I doubt my mom would've known how valuable they might have been!

I know I started buying them for myself when there were still a couple 12¢ and 15¢ titles.  I was an early reader of classic literature.  :D

[Unbeliever]

I guess I learned to read with comic books, since that's the first thing I remember reading. Hell, I thought a man really could fly! I told God once that if he's let me be able to fly I'd believe in him. Well, I never could fly, so now I don't believe in God.


:-P

[trdsf]

I guess I learned to read with comic books, since that's the first thing I remember reading. Hell, I thought a man really could fly! I told God once that if he's let me be able to fly I'd believe in him. Well, I never could fly, so now I don't believe in God.

I don't really remember any of those early comics very well... but I do remember the stack of late-50s/early-60s MAD Magazines in the guest room at Grandma and Grandpa's that I was going through certainly by '66 or '67, when I was three or four.

Speaking of classic literature.  :D

[Unbeliever]

If Mad Magazine hadn't existed, someone would've had to invent it...