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How did you become a VALIANT collector?

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Jrdawg
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Starting collecting comics when I was 12 in 1987. My older brother gave me my first 3 books, Amazing Spider Man 293,294 and 298. For the most part after that I was pretty much a "make mine Marvel" collector. None of the Independents appealed to me and DC was seemed, at the time, like a lil girls comic book. Once in a while though, I picked up a Firestorm or a Dark Horse book that looked cool.

My cousin actual turned me on to Valiant shortly after it launched but I got into it too late to be able to afford all the back issues. I remember there was a contest Valiant had as far as advertising them and such. My other brother was a printer so I came up with the idea of desinging a cool bumper sticker. I forget what it said but I had the V logo with Solar across the background. It was actually really cool and looked authentic. He made about 200 of them and I gave most of them to the owner of the comic store and he was supposed to take pics and enter me into the contest. Dunno whatever came of it but I regret I never saved at least one :cry:

Anyways, just around 2000-01, I had about 10k comics in my collection and managed to get a majority of all the valiant books up to '96. I came across financial troubles and had to unload all of my books and fast. I sold'em for about 10% of book value. After that, I kinda gave up collecting, even when there were no longer money issues. Mostly out of frustration that I lost so much money and effort.

Now here I am and I can thank my 9 year old boy for getting me back to collecting. :clap:
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Post by Draco »

So cool dude,

welcome back to comics and more importantly Valiant !!

Im sure you know you wont find a shortage of folks here ready to help fill those gaps for ya.

cheers

Ian
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Post by Daniel Jackson »

That's too bad that you had to get rid of your collection, nice to see that your son got you back into the game.
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Post by jedimarley »

10% of book value. Ouch.
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Post by myron »

jedimarley wrote:10% of book value. Ouch.
...that's what happens when you have to unload to an LCS...bastedges...


oh, welcome! :thumb:
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Post by TKWill »

I wouldn't mind seeing that bumper sticker, too bad.
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Post by Rufusharley »

Welcome jason.!;)
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Post by steverino »

I would'v'e liked to have seen one of those bumper stickers. They sounded pretty cool.
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Welcome :thumb:
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Post by Elveen »

jedimarley wrote:10% of book value. Ouch.

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Post by caxiotis »

Welcome
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Post by terreth »

Welcome to the boards, even though you have been here longer then I have.
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Welcome abroad!



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slym2none wrote:Welcome abroad!



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Post by JustCallMeAric »

:o 10% of their value thats rough
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Post by siren3-4 »

Pikachu is a little yellow rat that has the power of Thor . . .
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Post by Elveen »

siren3-4 wrote:Pikachu is a little yellow rat that has the power of Thor . . .

But how does he compare to Spyro?
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Post by siren3-4 »

Elveen wrote:
siren3-4 wrote:Pikachu is a little yellow rat that has the power of Thor . . .

But how does he compare to Spyro?
Barney had sex with Hydra the five headed dragon . . . it wasn't pretty . . .
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Post by jedimarley »

Dude. You're not normal.
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Post by xodacia81 »

siren3-4 wrote:
Elveen wrote:
siren3-4 wrote:Pikachu is a little yellow rat that has the power of Thor . . .

But how does he compare to Spyro?
Barney had sex with Hydra the five headed dragon . . . it wasn't pretty . . .
Barney couldn't have done that. Hydra was female and Barney swings the other way.
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Post by myron »

xodacia81 wrote:
siren3-4 wrote:
Elveen wrote:
siren3-4 wrote:Pikachu is a little yellow rat that has the power of Thor . . .

But how does he compare to Spyro?
Barney had sex with Hydra the five headed dragon . . . it wasn't pretty . . .
Barney couldn't have done that. Hydra was female and Barney swings the other way.
nice job turning the thread gay... :thumb:


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Snarf + Barney = Tinky Winky
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Post by X-O HoboJoe »

Jrdawg wrote:Snarf + Barney = Tinky Winky
:o Who's the top?
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