THIS is how you establish a great collection... purchase what you love. Read the books and enjoy the hobby. Forget all the stupid speculation, and remember why comics were so great in the first place.
Dang. I had to stop buying comics when I ran out of room to store them. I only have about 48,000. (Approximately 160 jam-packed longboxes.) Of course I also have a near-complete collection of DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks hardcovers. And about 300 omnibuses. No more room!
Awesome!!! I started reading comics when I was 15, to this day I love going to the comic shop every Wednesday and buying my new issues, I'm 42 now. I've introduced the hobby to my friends and cousins and their kids.
Wow! You have a wonderful collection. I could spend days looking over your collection . I would eat my Saturday morning sugar loaded cereals and have the tv playing all my favorite 60's cartoons! 😇🥰
GLAD TO SEE ANOTHER OLD TIMER THAT ENJOY COMICS HATE TO TELL YOU I WAS A 10CENT KID AND WHEN I WAS IN VIETNAM MY FATHER SENT ME EACH MONTH A BOX OF GUM,KOOL ADE, LIVESAVERS AND GOOD OLD COMICS AND THE TEAM LOVED IT. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF FROM A WOODCHUCK.
I got married under age at 9 years well that's married to comic books 😁👍 back in the seventies the Stan the man Lee era where Marvel surely was and shall remain still the house of ideas 😊😉👍
I would ❤ to own my comic collection room one day. I just got back into collecting last year. Been away for decades since the 80s. Nowadays I been buying comics just for the front cover art. There a few I read only.
I find it hilarious that when these marvel movies started to get popular, I hated them. They were so “off” from what I remember reading. Now it’s the reverse. I dislike these new comics and prefer to watch the marvel movies over and over
These days I really go out of my way to avoid comic book movies in general, but I follow news on comics as a medium and their creators and especially on collecting vintage comics more than ever.
@csharp57 With occasional winners like Spiderman No Way Home and Guardians 3, the comic book movies had no where to go after Endgame. The multiverse angle has proven to be a red herring with no gravitas. But the comic books themselves? Eternal!❤❤❤
In all seriousness, they are very bad. No imagination. Nothing thrilling. I remember the last exciting comic I read. It was when Punisher took over the War Machine armor. It was so intriguing. Then they took it away and it was boring again
agree, used to read almost 30 to 40 comics weekly, now I stopped reading comics altogether due to the poor quality of modern comics. Now I prefer movies, anime, and the occasional back issues. There are just better quality in other hobbies than current comics.
@@Eudaimonia239 Could be that writers have stricter guidelines on what topics they can cover. And they also have to be careful of whom they may offend Like it wasn't unusual to see the punisher gun down a few hundred gangsters. Probably can't write like that anymore
Now THIS is awesome!!!! I have about 400 in my collection. Still, I sincerely doubt I could collect as many as you have (not as much money 😅.) Good luck with the continued collecting.
Thats the record i counted all mone a couple years ago and i had little over 132,532 comic books been collecting steady for 34 years.going have to check wirld record out
I wish you the best, Lee. Don't forget to remove all the duplicates from your count. When I did that the first time... after 40 years of collecting, I had 1000s of duplicates. Ended up giving most of them away.
Hopefully he's using a phone app like CLZ to track all of this. I've used it for my collection for about 5 years and it's WONDERFUL. There's dozens of features that make tracking your metrics for personal and insurance purposes really easy (such as CGC/CBCS grade) AND it links to a desktop version of the app for tracking under any circumstances. I use their game, comic and movie apps and I've always been HIGHLY satisficed. They also have others for books and music if you have passions for them as well. I constantly recommend the CLZ apps to other collectors, but nobody ever takes my advice because I'm not a big TH-cam name with a following in the thousands...
2:36 OMG I thought I was the only one who did this 😮😂! I ruined a lot of classic Spiderman books doing this myself (until I finally got a Spidey action figure).
Definitely not the biggest collection in the world, nonetheless a great collection. And comics are doing great right now. People who think they’re failing don’t understand the industry. It’s doing very well and survived the pandemic better than most. Thanks for the vid.
Didn't make final edit with this video but I carefully point out there are lots of people with more comics than me. Many of them buy/sell comics for a living so what is inventory and what is their collection is hazy. I also bought mine one by one and read them... not something everyone with a lot of comics has done. Plus... no counting duplicates. 50 copies of the same comic counts as 1.
@@bbretall are you counting variants or do you only buy 1 copy regardless of the number of variants? What about reprints? Like if you have a complete run of Uncanny X-Men do you count the issues where the book was effectively cancelled and they just ran old stories?
Some years ago a man had his gigantic collection of original MAD magazine art on display at a museum in Orange County, California. A few years later he died and his family auctioned off all of the art so it is now scattered to the four winds. The same thing happened when Ray Bradbury died and his 60 year collection of original art (much of it from his own stories published over the years) was auctioned off by his family. Put in a museum? Not when there's money to be made!!!
Well that's how Chuck found the Edgar Church collection. His family wanted all his stuff out of the house to sell. He even found some of his art in the trash cans out back that Chuck recovered.
"Largest collection of AMERICAN cartoons" - not the worlds largest. I know people who have all the comics released in Norway from 1900-2024. He had to move into a larger house, cause he could not move around in his old. And then you have all the Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, French, English (UK), Belgian, Italian, Finnish, German, Spanish etc. etc. If you collect comics you collect from every region. Then this guys collection would look small compared to a completist that collects EU comics. Every country had their own unique series or compilations. Back in the 50s up to 80s you also had the import of American superhero comics, like Marvel, Disney, etc. Then the European writers and artists was flown over to the US and started take over the show for the big US publishers. Europe is the centre of quality comics. American's printed on bad quality paper (re-used pulp). European had glossy paper from Tintin, Prince Valiant, etc. and upwards until today. We took comics serious.
Nice to see someone who ENJOYS the medium for the LOVE and not just Market reports and investment. Imagine buying 30 to 40 new comics a week, Hope he gets a decent discount....
that's it!! the key!! comic books are BOOKS!!😉😁 they are as varied in subject as prose only books and art as varied as any drawings or paintings!!!😊😉✌✌
Largest collection in the world? Hmmm. I would have thought the number would be much higher than 129,000 considering I have more than half that many in my collection and mine is almost all silver age. I've always imagined that a collector older than myself with a collection that spans both the golden age and silver age would have more than that.
hey I got the 1939 Superman it's in good condition all pages are there just the front cover got your little tear on top I'm looking for a good offer on it
BTW, it looks like BB might have many of his books lingering in old school poly bags, which are non-archival and not oil resistant. He really needs to make the upgrade to strictly mylar bags, pronto!
There are various things i look for when considering buying a comic, one of the strongest ones for me is cover art I love and the good asian variant cover we got a glimpse of in this video instantly made me want that particular book and see what else the series has to offer. I really enjoy those love at first sight moments.
I think a comic book dealer does not qualify for the Guinness book record. Also I believe the only true personal books that Chuck had were the SPIRITS From the 40s and Red Raven #1, both of which he sold to fund his giant Warehouse. Not sure how many new comics Chuck still reads if any. This guy sold venture to Mike High and meet Chuck, would make a nice Video.
I'm mostly a Marvel comics reader but it brought me so much joy when he showed the independent comics at the end and in the stack i spotted "Geiger" and "Karmen".... Both great independent and non-superhero reads! There really is a comic for everybody.
I WOULD KILL FOR A COMIC BOOK COLLECTION LIKE THIS Like him having all those comics, action figures, Replica's is so amazing Its like my room on steroids
Si tiene una colección que solo le queden dos rompa un sólo de los dos y haga lo público al hacer lo con cámaras en vivo con perioditas me gustaria ayudarlo pero soy una loca
THIS is how you establish a great collection... purchase what you love. Read the books and enjoy the hobby. Forget all the stupid speculation, and remember why comics were so great in the first place.
You hit the nail on the head!!!
Perfectly said 👏💪
The guy, in the video, sounds like a Marvel Zombie to me. Guess for once it paid off.
Big collection. But super boring .
@@gingergranttech no one asked for your opinion
This guy is a GENUINE comic fan. Love how he kept the old cutout of spider man from when he was a kid
that must be from the 50s
@@warnutztheloserSpider-Mans first appearance was 1962 so definitely not lol
love that he still collects and reads new comic book day books
Isn’t that incredible! Someone who has kept the fire going 💪🎉
yeah, thats awsm. And very good comic books. Like The Good Asian.
Finally a collector that actually has some passionate things to say.
I love warm hearted collectors I feel like they're so kind and passionate.
Comics are the reason I read till this day!
👏👏👏
Me too, same with Manga
@@VampireA1056 yep same here manga
Same here
cutting characters out and playing with them. i did the same thing as a kid. 😂
ME TOO ! I really thought I was the only one 😭 I would draw characters too and cut those out
I never did. I traced over them to try and learn to draw, but I needed to re read my comics over and over
I cut out the characters too in bible character comic books, so would have king david and his army vs philistines
if I was Rich like Elon musk this stuff is what I would buy
As a lifelong comic reader, I found this deeply moving. Wonderful.
So love collecting comics 😍
Dang. I had to stop buying comics when I ran out of room to store them. I only have about 48,000. (Approximately 160 jam-packed longboxes.)
Of course I also have a near-complete collection of DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks hardcovers. And about 300 omnibuses. No more room!
Impressive!! I'm a little over 3500 books. Amazing Fantasy 15 is my grail
Thats a lot of comics lol I just started collecting i hate it... it's too addicting.
@@Sora-o Same just another addiction I've added to the arsenal lol
@@818Vallero lol, yeah I also got into collecting pokemon cards.... big mistake.
@@Sora-o I’m starting to collect comics I have 5 normal comics and TWD omnibus Vol one and injustice omnibus Vol 1 and 2
Awesome!!! I started reading comics when I was 15, to this day I love going to the comic shop every Wednesday and buying my new issues, I'm 42 now. I've introduced the hobby to my friends and cousins and their kids.
Wow! You have a wonderful collection. I could spend days looking over your collection . I would eat my Saturday morning sugar loaded cereals and have the tv playing all my favorite 60's cartoons! 😇🥰
You can still eat those sugar cereals. They have made high protein versions now of the same flavors that are better for you. They are really good.
GLAD TO SEE ANOTHER OLD TIMER THAT ENJOY COMICS HATE TO TELL YOU I WAS A 10CENT KID AND WHEN I WAS IN VIETNAM MY FATHER SENT ME EACH MONTH A BOX OF GUM,KOOL ADE, LIVESAVERS AND GOOD OLD COMICS AND THE TEAM LOVED IT. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF FROM A WOODCHUCK.
Why are you screaming?
WHY ARE WE YELLING?!?
I could honestly wacth a hour long video of him just showing off everything he has in his collection
I got married under age at 9 years well that's married to comic books 😁👍 back in the seventies the Stan the man Lee era where Marvel surely was and shall remain still the house of ideas 😊😉👍
Must be nice to have that level of expendable income.
My goodness, what I would give just to walk through and look through this collection, freaking awesome!
"The largest comic book collection" proceeds to only show a few actual comics...
I would ❤ to own my comic collection room one day. I just got back into collecting last year. Been away for decades since the 80s. Nowadays I been buying comics just for the front cover art. There a few I read only.
Sad that so little of it is readable, but glad you enjoy collecting!
I read comics every day. I appreciated there was no mention of comic book movies
I find it hilarious that when these marvel movies started to get popular, I hated them. They were so “off” from what I remember reading. Now it’s the reverse. I dislike these new comics and prefer to watch the marvel movies over and over
@@csharp57 the only modern marvel comics I follow are the X books and anything with Conan in it. I do read trade paperbacks of other marvel titles
These days I really go out of my way to avoid comic book movies in general, but I follow news on comics as a medium and their creators and especially on collecting vintage comics more than ever.
@csharp57 With occasional winners like Spiderman No Way Home and Guardians 3, the comic book movies had no where to go after Endgame. The multiverse angle has proven to be a red herring with no gravitas. But the comic books themselves? Eternal!❤❤❤
He still regularly buys current comics? Then I'm very impressed at this man's incredible threshold of pain.
In all seriousness, they are very bad. No imagination. Nothing thrilling. I remember the last exciting comic I read. It was when Punisher took over the War Machine armor. It was so intriguing. Then they took it away and it was boring again
If you guys can't find a good comic to read these days you aren't looking very hard at all.
agree, used to read almost 30 to 40 comics weekly, now I stopped reading comics altogether due to the poor quality of modern comics. Now I prefer movies, anime, and the occasional back issues. There are just better quality in other hobbies than current comics.
@@Eudaimonia239 Could be that writers have stricter guidelines on what topics they can cover. And they also have to be careful of whom they may offend
Like it wasn't unusual to see the punisher gun down a few hundred gangsters. Probably can't write like that anymore
and i thought my stepdad's comic collection of 39k+ (and still growing) books was a lot.
Started buying comics when I was about 10. Currently I have over 10,500 single printed issues I my collection.
Wow it like a grail for comic collector.
Great interview. I am glad to see a loyal reader and collector getting positive attention
Damn this dudes collection of comics is my goal
I would cut the pages out not the characters bit the page that had amazing artwork and put it on my wall like a poster
If you are a Marvel fan, check out this animated film Silver Sable: Pride on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/sjn-JAAGrcQ/w-d-xo.html
Now THIS is awesome!!!! I have about 400 in my collection. Still, I sincerely doubt I could collect as many as you have (not as much money 😅.) Good luck with the continued collecting.
What a lovely human
When he hits the dirt his heirs will make a mint.
I wanna be this guy's friend
This is my grandfather.... he just doesn't know it yet.. love you pa pa..
I could listen to him talk about comics forever
Thanks for sharing Bob!
Thats the record i counted all mone a couple years ago and i had little over 132,532 comic books been collecting steady for 34 years.going have to check wirld record out
Wow, that’s an amazing collection. I hope you get the record. I only have 15% of yours. What’s your system for storage and cataloging?
I wish you the best, Lee.
Don't forget to remove all the duplicates from your count.
When I did that the first time... after 40 years of collecting, I had 1000s of duplicates. Ended up giving most of them away.
As a Comic fanatic who reads and collects this dude is who I want to be when I am older
Hopefully he's using a phone app like CLZ to track all of this. I've used it for my collection for about 5 years and it's WONDERFUL. There's dozens of features that make tracking your metrics for personal and insurance purposes really easy (such as CGC/CBCS grade) AND it links to a desktop version of the app for tracking under any circumstances. I use their game, comic and movie apps and I've always been HIGHLY satisficed. They also have others for books and music if you have passions for them as well. I constantly recommend the CLZ apps to other collectors, but nobody ever takes my advice because I'm not a big TH-cam name with a following in the thousands...
2:36 OMG I thought I was the only one who did this 😮😂! I ruined a lot of classic Spiderman books doing this myself (until I finally got a Spidey action figure).
If you are a Marvel fan, check out this animated film Silver Sable: Pride on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/sjn-JAAGrcQ/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant I thought i was the only one who made cardboard cut outs of rare comics 😆
I'm just shy of 1600....this guy is a legend!
Definitely not the biggest collection in the world, nonetheless a great collection. And comics are doing great right now. People who think they’re failing don’t understand the industry. It’s doing very well and survived the pandemic better than most. Thanks for the vid.
It said he has over 129,000 unique comic books. That doesn't include reprints or variants.
Didn't make final edit with this video but I carefully point out there are lots of people with more comics than me.
Many of them buy/sell comics for a living so what is inventory and what is their collection is hazy.
I also bought mine one by one and read them... not something everyone with a lot of comics has done.
Plus... no counting duplicates. 50 copies of the same comic counts as 1.
@@bbretall are you counting variants or do you only buy 1 copy regardless of the number of variants? What about reprints? Like if you have a complete run of Uncanny X-Men do you count the issues where the book was effectively cancelled and they just ran old stories?
OMG so remember cutting up comics to have "action figures"! I have a nice collection today but try to forget those cut-up days lol
Dude needs to invest in a nuclear bunker~
I love comics and I really want to read them but I don’t know where to start and when I start to look I get really overwhelmed
Some years ago a man had his gigantic collection of original MAD magazine art on display at a museum in Orange County, California. A few years later he died and his family auctioned off all of the art so it is now scattered to the four winds. The same thing happened when Ray Bradbury died and his 60 year collection of original art (much of it from his own stories published over the years) was auctioned off by his family. Put in a museum? Not when there's money to be made!!!
Well that's how Chuck found the Edgar Church collection. His family wanted all his stuff out of the house to sell. He even found some of his art in the trash cans out back that Chuck recovered.
Pretty much the same age that I started reading comics. Awesome to see him still picking up new books!
This guy is a god
thats awesome i love them too
Hope he have a dry fireproof gadgets
"Largest collection of AMERICAN cartoons" - not the worlds largest. I know people who have all the comics released in Norway from 1900-2024. He had to move into a larger house, cause he could not move around in his old. And then you have all the Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, French, English (UK), Belgian, Italian, Finnish, German, Spanish etc. etc. If you collect comics you collect from every region. Then this guys collection would look small compared to a completist that collects EU comics. Every country had their own unique series or compilations. Back in the 50s up to 80s you also had the import of American superhero comics, like Marvel, Disney, etc. Then the European writers and artists was flown over to the US and started take over the show for the big US publishers. Europe is the centre of quality comics. American's printed on bad quality paper (re-used pulp). European had glossy paper from Tintin, Prince Valiant, etc. and upwards until today. We took comics serious.
Nice to see someone who ENJOYS the medium for the LOVE and not just
Market reports and investment. Imagine buying 30 to 40 new comics a week,
Hope he gets a decent discount....
Comics are one helluva drug..
that's it!! the key!! comic books are BOOKS!!😉😁 they are as varied in subject as prose only books and art as varied as any drawings or paintings!!!😊😉✌✌
❤❤❤wow...legendary!!! The godfather of such hobby...only wishful thinking here 😊😊😊
I have close to a 1000 comics in between trade paperbacks, floppies and hardcovers and I thought it was a lot... hahaha.
11x17 to allow for a 10x15 safe area but regardless of that very cool video and it’s neat to see someone who enjoys the actual medium.
I'd love to chill with Bob. I liked the spectre big clix fig and veruka pop too.
Largest collection in the world? Hmmm. I would have thought the number would be much higher than 129,000 considering I have more than half that many in my collection and mine is almost all silver age. I've always imagined that a collector older than myself with a collection that spans both the golden age and silver age would have more than that.
*Does anyone know what Bob did/does for a living that underwrites such a massive, ongoing, venture?*
Pretty sure dude that owns mile high comics has over 12 million comics. This guy's collection is like one row in his 65k sq ft warehouse in denver.
I would love to know what he thinks of the storyline “One more day in the Amazing Spider-Man.
Disliked! I’m sure I still have more Epic Collection, at 277, than he does.
How I'm trying to be in the future!! This is one of my goals. It's a hobby as well as an investment. Good for him!
The movie... "The 40 year old Virgin" comes to mind he had a lot of comics and toys. Like if you agree
*looks up Cerberus the Aardvark* my goodness not even suprised its worth thousands
I did same thing to mine then use foam board backing on character I cut out!!!!!!!!!! God I want to see his collection
I had that early period of cutting out figures from the comics because Marvel didn't license out a lot of stuff for games and toys
hey I got the 1939 Superman it's in good condition all pages are there just the front cover got your little tear on top I'm looking for a good offer on it
The writing is great but its when you marry a great writer to a great artist, thats when the creative sparks fly.❤❤❤
This is awesome
awesome!
I want sell around 400 comic books I been collecting for 45yrs
Dear MCU, alternate universe Collector appearance recommendation right here.
Tell me you're a bachelor without telling me you're a bachelor.
Colección infinita ---\
----/ es todas las peliculas nuevas que van a salir
I can’t be the only one who’s considering stealing that entire room right?
Wow he his a big collection of comics. Cool.
Amazing what a true collection
I'm pretty close to this guy in age. I cut characters out of comics too omg lol.
BTW, it looks like BB might have many of his books lingering in old school poly bags, which are non-archival and not oil resistant. He really needs to make the upgrade to strictly mylar bags, pronto!
Teach me. Why? Many of mine are still in poly
@@csharp57 mylar preserves them and keeps out the elements in the air
@@comichaulcrew These guys are totally right about Mylar; I did the same thing---but imagine the cost! Hello, I need 120, 000 please!?!
What's amazing is the memorabilia you have that is so connected to the books themselves! Fantastic!!!
Yeah, nearly as good as yours. ;)
@@thundergodd6086 Hahaha! You sir are great!!!
There are various things i look for when considering buying a comic, one of the strongest ones for me is cover art I love and the good asian variant cover we got a glimpse of in this video instantly made me want that particular book and see what else the series has to offer. I really enjoy those love at first sight moments.
cover art?not about story or the artist/inker? just"i like the cover"
If only this man knew about VEVE...
That’s it: the combination of art and story. He says it perfectly, right there. ❤️😂❤️👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿👍🏾👍🏼
I want that shield carpet.
Tho, the room looks very uncomfortable, way too much stuff around
Spoken like a true non collector.
i was heading down the road collecting video games.
I think a comic book dealer does not qualify for the Guinness book record.
Also I believe the only true personal books that Chuck had were the SPIRITS
From the 40s and Red Raven #1, both of which he sold to fund his giant
Warehouse. Not sure how many new comics Chuck still reads if any.
This guy sold venture to Mike High and meet Chuck, would make a nice
Video.
I'm mostly a Marvel comics reader but it brought me so much joy when he showed the independent comics at the end and in the stack i spotted "Geiger" and "Karmen".... Both great independent and non-superhero reads! There really is a comic for everybody.
I WOULD KILL FOR A COMIC BOOK COLLECTION LIKE THIS
Like him having all those comics, action figures, Replica's is so amazing
Its like my room on steroids
I have a Charlton comic would like to sell
Cole ccion ano nimo m e gus taria ayu darte pe ro so y u na lo ca
The grandfather of all consoomers.
This room is for "Display only." Children keep out. ARRGGH signature on AF#15.. Shudder👀 .
I recently became a comic fan via sports cards and veve. Kudos to this guy
What does this man do for a living?! 🤣
Bob! I need a AF15!
Si tiene una colección que solo le queden dos rompa un sólo de los dos y haga lo público al hacer lo con cámaras en vivo con perioditas me gustaria ayudarlo pero soy una loca