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A True Collector
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| what are your plans once your have moved on? My kids will inherit mine. I have no plans of selling them or trading. I would give them to my wife but one of you would be able to trade the whole collection for some beany babies she needs. Jesse James 
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A True Collector
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The kids can read them, continue to collect them or sell them, it won't matter to me at that point. My collection is not going anywhere before I die for my retirement or any other reason. I'm in the hobby strictly for the enjoyment and I love being able to say I own a copy of this or a copy of that when I think about my collection.
My reasons for collecting have not changed from what they were as a child, the sheer joy of reading and owning them. Value gives bragging rights, but the higher they rise just means the more proud I am to own the book, not what could I buy if I sold it.
Buying and selling is never a philosophy I will follow when it comes to comics whether it's a dollar book or less or a thousand dollar plus book. I put a lot of money into the hobby, but I'm not looking to get money back out of it. I like to keep my hobbies and work SEPARATE and if I was selling books that is what comics would be to me, work.
Now that I have 2 boys I'm hoping they will one day have the same love of comics as I do and take as good care of the collection when it is theirs, but if not, oh well, I will have had my enjoyment from it.
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A True Collector
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| Got that right sherlock. i just wish we had this type of forums available to us in the 80's as well. i would have had a better collection if I had a better source back then.. i actually ordered a lot of my back issues from mile High when the used to advertise their full page adds in all the comics back then. Later Jesse James Ps. the half priced books in bellevue (crossroads mall) has a .10 cent sell going on right now. There about 3 long boxes full I got 140 comics yesterday. Don't know how far you are from that one. and the renton one has a .25 sell going on a well. 
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A True Collector
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Pass them on to my son and whatever he wants to do with them is his choice. I'll be selling a few here and there like I am right now but the bulk of my collection from the 80s will stay with me.
--------------------------------------------“I don’t do this for the Commander in Chief. I do this for my country, and I will continue to do so.” "They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative." "Why," my soldiers asked of me, "surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?" I could not answer. - Gen Douglas MacArthur
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| No freakin idea...Never really given it a thought to tell you the truth.
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Master Collector
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My daughter would not have any real interest in the collection, some individual books or series maybe. Now if she had a son, she might pass them on to him if he showed an interest. I do like that thought that my collection could become the starting point for someones elses.
Where does he get those wonderful toys!
I have yet begun to surrender.
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the stuff my dad left will go to my kids...as for the rest i'm thinking -viking funeral
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