I'm an old person and I just got back into comics. I like a lot of the horror anthologies like Creep Show and Epitaphs of the Abyss, Superman, the Hulk, Poison Ivy, Department of Truth, anything Godzilla, and I'll grab any "one shot" off the new arrivals.
I’m a 64 year old guy who gets a kick out of seeing those 12-centers, especially those DC’s with the go-go check tops to their covers. They bring back found memories of when you could grab two comics and a piece of penny candy for a quarter.
30 year rule...When I was a kid I collected and played with toys and read comic books...Now 30+ years later I desire to have these things again, so depending on your age some might gravitate to those childhood memories.
I’m one of the few younger Dick Tracy fans out there and it’s legitimately one of the weirdest and coolest comics out there. Chester Ghould was making characters that were more unique than most other pieces of media at a time where that wasn’t happening, and he did a great job at mixing humor with seriousness as well as occasionally surprising amounts of violence
@@MintHunterComicsAgreed. I still love reading vintage Archie and Looney Tunes and Donald Duck comics, they are my macaroni and cheese comics for sad days in the world like today!
I was wondering who you considered to be old folks (read below you mean 80 and up). I'm 67, and your video actually hit several of my buttons. My first comic books at age 8 were Superman, and I still have every one I bought since then. Now that I'm older, I am collecting again after a few decades of dormancy. I have a new appreciation for all GA and War comics. Great video.
It's nice to see the pull of nostalgia for older readers and collectors out there for these genres that were popular way back when. I like picking up older war, western and romance titles when they're cheap and cheerful as well. Those romance titles can be very hard to find though!
Casper, Ritchie Rich, and War books actually sell to rhose with AARP cards as long as its below 20. Really cool that you get thr diversity in the antique shop.
I think that it’s the same as any generation. Everyone loves going back to a time when they were really happy and had no trouble as kids, so the nostalgia hits when they see a boom or game that they remember.
Just based off of how my Grandmother and formerly my Grandfather just watched the Western/Inspiration Channel on repeat all day. I knew Western was gonna be among the top of the list. Non stop Bonanza, Cheyenne, Wagon Train and Gunsmoke in my household.
Being an "old" person and collecting and selling comics at conventions from 1987-1993 I completed the runs that I was interested in except a few major keys that I can't see spending that much money on. I have shifted what I will purchase to 1) $1 or less books that I can resell for profit, 2) more $1 that look interesting to read like all the Millarverse titles or giant-size issues, and 3) dabbling a little in lower priced gold and silver age including Richie Rich which is the title that I first remember reading. I resisted it since I had read a few Archies recently and the humor didn't do it for me and I thought if I read one the rose-colored glasses would be forever removed. I finally read a Richie Rich and enjoyed the ludicrous wealth and uses he would find for his mom's jewelry collection. And if I am ever asked if I am old I will deny it until the day I die.
The closed is the Four Color books. Here in Denmark we have the Donald Duck magazine with different stories that have been going since the late 40s. Sometimes i like to buy 3 or 4 issues from before the mid 1980s, because i remember as a kid in my grandparents home, me and my cousins always read the old Donald Duck magazines they had brought when our parents lived at home as kids. Also the stories are still fun.
I enjoyed Uncle Scrooge comics as a kid in 1960s and regret selling the first two four color issues I picked up years ago when started collecting. It was something about his swimming in his private bank of money :-)...made me want to save and invest!
Seeing old ads from when I was a kid (in the 80's) is why I seek out books from that era. It can bring up old memories you'd thought you'd forgotten. So I absolutely relate to people looking for old books for that reason.
I think it’s fun talking with the older generation about what books they liked when they were younger. And so many say, they wish they had to take better care of them as they were just considered “the funny papers“ back then.
It's interesting to hear what's the popular items from their youth. Dick Tracy was interesting and I know it was referenced a lot during the surge of smart watches. I had no idea about war books until this video. I'm an Army veteran as shown in my profile picture and I can relate to the nostalgia for what you know, such as the military. I am new to the channel but I appreciate the videos I've watched so far. Keep up the great work.
I'm 55, was never into war or westerns as a kid, went thru a phase 3 years ago and watched as many GOOD westerns and war as I could find. You don't know what your missing until you do the same. Most of these classics hold up very well today.
@mrgumdrops5: The Bravados (1958) is my favorite American Western. So mean spirited one of the Three Stooges asks where he can find a 'lady" for private entertainment then knifes a deputy sheriff in the back. Last I checked wide screen print free on TH-cam.
I'm 72 years old that started buying comic books when I was five I quit around 2000, and started buying again around 2019. I lost multiple copies of almost every Marvel comic in many DC Comics in a flood back in 1993 today I have about 6,500 comics some of them are pretty good as far as Collectibles go my most collectible one is probably Walking Dead number 1. You mentioned pulse yes I definitely buy pulse of the Shadow or Doc Savage or the Avenger or the spider or any of that type I love those and they're before the modern superhero. But the shadow is in a separate category for me it's the greatest of all time but not counting the shadow I would say Silver Surfer, Captain America that kind of stuff are my favorites Superman Batman Green Lantern those are all definitely comic books that I grew up on and love I loved Western Comics like kid colt Two Gun kid and Rawhide kid those were great Billy the kids just any kind of Western was a great comic book I liked War Stories pretty good Sergeant Fury was great I never I'll never stop loving comic books missed an issue.
Interesting that you're 55 like me and never got into war comics as a kid. In 1977 and 1978 when I started reading and collecting comics, I was devouring Sgt. Rock, Unknown Soldier and Weird War Tales. Because I loved to play with my army-men and loved war movies like Force 10 from Navarone.
I Love the old pulps, great covers, one of the most underated collectable out there. I have a hard time moving the old Westerns, whats real pick up is the Romance and girl comic like Millie the Model as more Woman and girls have gotten into comic collecting.
I'm 55 and collect teen humor (Archie, Binky, Debbi, Tippy Teen, Scooter) and working girl (Millie, Tessie, Nellie, etc.) titles. I don't attend the claim sales but do like watching them after. If you ever did one where I knew you were going to do Archie and other similar titles, I'd be there ready to spend. But I know that's not what most are buying. Still, I can hope :)
Great video!!! My father loved western movies and TV shows. In the late 70's and early 80's he would dress me and my brother in cowboy shirts, boots and hats. Since I have gotten older, I've been looking for western comics for my collection. I think because it reminds me of him and my youth.
6:38 - There have been a few weird westerns in the past fifteen years or so. High Moon, A Man Named Hawken, The Sixth Gun, Horror in the West, Deadlands, West of Sundown, to name a few.
The Archie really got me. It is a classic, but not really a great collectors item. Cowboy and war books are really interesting pieces of history, and though may have a more specific appeal, will be timeless.
Besides Western it would Carl Barks and Walt Kelly.For Golden Age it is Comic Cavalcade and Worlds Finest the oversize issues. I have Worlds Fair 39 and 40 plus Big All American and All Hero. Still can't find Dale Evens Westerns. I am 79 and attend the 1964 Comicon.
I agree with some other comments below. People like to buy stuff that they were familiar with from their childhood. Perhaps the things that they or their families couldn't afford when they were kids.
I’m old(er) and yes I love the comics of my youth, but I usually only get the ones I did NOT read when I was young because I was collecting other titles and had favorites and couldn’t afford to buy everything back then. For instance I love to read Silver Age DC because back in the day I only spent my money on Marvel. So now the stuff I didn’t get to buy when I was a kid is fascinating to me. I also read Bronze and Copper and Modern, but I don’t enjoy comics that make me feel depressed as shit after reading them. I don’t need that in my leisure time, thanks. Another great video, James and as usual an interesting topic that no other channels are exploring. You are the best, man! ❤
When I was younger say 7yrs old and buying only a couple new release comics from a spinner rack in a mom and pop newspaper store, I was 95% Marvel, 5% DC Superheros. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a comic store until I was 13. Then, I slowly started picking up more DC. I tended to follow artists I liked. Gil Kane, George Perez, John Romita, Berni Wright's, Neil Adams etc.
I’m 56. Personally I collect 50s pre code horror and WWII books (superheroes) and that’s because those books were “old” and sought after when I started collecting in 76. I have most the keys from the 60s to early 90s so chasing those classic books is my obsession.
I'm 60 now and started buying US comics around 1975, especially DC (Marvel's were more difficult to find). So whenever I see any mid 1970s DC, especially mystery, war or the 100-pagers, I have to have them. Also the Gold Key titles, such as Boris Karloff, and the Kirby stuff such as Kamandi and Omac. Love all that.
I'm 'that' guy you are referring to. I have a complete set Gold Key comics in high grade, many Dell and love the Harvey books. Looney tunes and everything Hanna Barbara is gold to me.
Born in 61 for me it starts with small little green army men, then the 12" GI Joes, some with 1960's painted hair but most were the 1970 fuzzy hair ones. The great tv shows like Combat and Rat Patrol, and the older movies of war. to many to list. consumed with army stuff, the plastic tommy guns, plastic granades, cap guns, you name it, all the kids had them. soon however I become a Navy Seabee, and life starts to get serious, profession starts and I am receiving expert marksman medals for my m16 skillz and became automatic rifleman for my platoon and at 61 years old I'm back to my forties and fifties war books with some sgt rock and fury sprinkled in. its lives experiences
I actually bought up a decent sized stack of war comics from a local thrift shop, even though most of them came out in the early 70s before I was old enough to read. I prefer the older war comics because they don’t shy away from depicting selfless heroism and patriotism as positive traits.
Used find Little Lulu and Little Dot in collections all the time, but i never seen them anymore. I always loved finding EC when I was younger and now pay a pretty penny for old horror. 😂
My parents are in their 50's. My mom really likes Shazam so when the facsimile of Captain Marvel's first appearance came out, I bought it for her. My dad accompanied me to a comic shop and he found a western comic book in Spanish and snatched it up! When they were kids, he and his brothers got a wooden board, attached a few lines of string to it and hung comics on it. They would take the board to a plaza and let people read them for a small fee
I've been wanting to start a collection of the four color Looney Tunes. Been a fan since I was a kid and think it would be cool to have some graded books on the wall.
I'm 39 and I just started buying ASM - the earliest issue is 39 and I just picked that up last week. I sell comics at an antique mall and 90's era ASM/X-Men moves quickly!
One thing in common with old folks? I am one LOL Maybe not buying Romance old, but old enough that I like deals on stuff that looks old, and wouldn't mind some old Wild Wild West comics or the Long Ranger ones. Also; I have collected All Conan story covers from Weird Tales in the 30's. The painted covers are out of this world!
Just turned 65 last month (October) and mostly what I'VE been reading's a LOT OF manga and indie comics AND a few tp's;"Kaiju No. 8"..."Zorro,Man of the Dead",IDW's "GODZILLA" series....
I think for them a lot is gonna be driven by nostalgia. What do they remember fondly...thats going to bring them back to that youthful feeling? I know im guilty of it.....must haves in my PC were Transformers, Star Wars, Thundercats, Voltron, TMNT, and GI Joe. Those were the cartoons, movies, and toys i remember from my childhood
Ot considering myself old o.e mid 60s, but find tge only new titles worth collecting are Mike Hammer & Gun Honey, which could be considered noir. But also going through a nostalgia phase and picking up old western, war and tv related titles I bought as a kid..even an odd Archie just for the fun of it.. Thanks to your videos I am also reading a lot of yge earlier titles online and generally amazed at all the precode stuff..keep up the good work..
Can def say some war books can be awesome. Like weird war tales and absolutely Blackhawk. I can only imagine what I will be collecting by the time I hit that age
I'm an old person. What I buy in comic shops is what I read back in the 80s. ROM, Blue Devil, the DeMatteis run of Justice League. Is it worth a lot of money? No. But I enjoy reading it and that's the important thing.
I'm not sure how old, old is, but I'm up there in age. And I've been to your shop several times. Each time I was mostly looking for Bronze Age stuff, and the occasional early 80s. Also, it's hard to pass anything up for $1.
I'll grab anything with a 10c cover on it. But I prefer "sword" stories. Robin Hood, King Arthur, knights in general, all that kind of stuff. I'll also grab Lone Ranger. But my main interest is 1970s comics.
My most expensive comic book is Four Color #375 9.4 CGC KEY: 1st solo John Carter (From John Carter, Warlord of Mars written by Edgar Rice Burroughs!) It's the highest grade in the world: File Copy! $10K Shipped
I'm a younger millennial, and I have collected some of each of these categories 😂 guess I'm an old-codger at heart. Lately, I've been grabbing up old Casper the Friendly Ghost comics.
I’m a 51 year old Gen Xer. I’m a huge Western and War comic fan. I actually bought a nice stack of Western Comics today for a decent price. While I do love Horror as well but it can be pricy. I go to a lot of Comic shows. One thing I’m noticing now is Western Comics and even some War comics have been selling well nowdays because thanks to the Marvel Movies a lot of Superhero Comics are way pricy so people (of all ages) have been raiding the often cheaper Western and War comics with MUCH better artwork and stories than a lot of modern comics tend to not have. Just my Observation..
I'm an old person and I just got back into comics. I like a lot of the horror anthologies like Creep Show and Epitaphs of the Abyss, Superman, the Hulk, Poison Ivy, Department of Truth, anything Godzilla, and I'll grab any "one shot" off the new arrivals.
Old Wonder Women comics made a great gift for my wife's grandmother, who read WW comics as a kid.
Any Wonder Woman comics make a good gift for me ❤
I’m a 64 year old guy who gets a kick out of seeing those 12-centers, especially those DC’s with the go-go check tops to their covers. They bring back found memories of when you could grab two comics and a piece of penny candy for a quarter.
30 year rule...When I was a kid I collected and played with toys and read comic books...Now 30+ years later I desire to have these things again, so depending on your age some might gravitate to those childhood memories.
I’m one of the few younger Dick Tracy fans out there and it’s legitimately one of the weirdest and coolest comics out there. Chester Ghould was making characters that were more unique than most other pieces of media at a time where that wasn’t happening, and he did a great job at mixing humor with seriousness as well as occasionally surprising amounts of violence
@@Biscuit-Triscuit Have you read the new run yet from Mad Cave? It is excellent.
Archie and Four Color comics are great for passing down through the generations.
YES - anything looney tunes is always fantastic too
@@MintHunterComicsAgreed. I still love reading vintage Archie and Looney Tunes and Donald Duck comics, they are my macaroni and cheese comics for sad days in the world like today!
I hope old folks are buying comics they had that brought them joy as a kid 😊
Even better is getting to read the comics you MISSED as a kid cuz you couldn’t afford to buy them back then!
I was wondering who you considered to be old folks (read below you mean 80 and up). I'm 67, and your video actually hit several of my buttons. My first comic books at age 8 were Superman, and I still have every one I bought since then. Now that I'm older, I am collecting again after a few decades of dormancy. I have a new appreciation for all GA and War comics. Great video.
All the old guys at my LCS are dropping fat stacks on wall books and major keys.
I think that's old COLLECTORS - I was wanting the shed more light on Old folks that don't know the hobby
@@MintHunterComicsahh yeah. I see them going for the cheap bundle bin. I think like a lot of us, they also like a full story.
It's nice to see the pull of nostalgia for older readers and collectors out there for these genres that were popular way back when. I like picking up older war, western and romance titles when they're cheap and cheerful as well. Those romance titles can be very hard to find though!
51 here, I go for the books that were around in the 80's when I was a kid. Thanks
My introduction to comic books was 2 full crates of Sgt Rock comics I found in my uncle's basement in the early 90's.
Casper, Ritchie Rich, and War books actually sell to rhose with AARP cards as long as its below 20. Really cool that you get thr diversity in the antique shop.
I think that it’s the same as any generation. Everyone loves going back to a time when they were really happy and had no trouble as kids, so the nostalgia hits when they see a boom or game that they remember.
Just based off of how my Grandmother and formerly my Grandfather just watched the Western/Inspiration Channel on repeat all day. I knew Western was gonna be among the top of the list. Non stop Bonanza, Cheyenne, Wagon Train and Gunsmoke in my household.
Being an "old" person and collecting and selling comics at conventions from 1987-1993 I completed the runs that I was interested in except a few major keys that I can't see spending that much money on. I have shifted what I will purchase to 1) $1 or less books that I can resell for profit, 2) more $1 that look interesting to read like all the Millarverse titles or giant-size issues, and 3) dabbling a little in lower priced gold and silver age including Richie Rich which is the title that I first remember reading. I resisted it since I had read a few Archies recently and the humor didn't do it for me and I thought if I read one the rose-colored glasses would be forever removed. I finally read a Richie Rich and enjoyed the ludicrous wealth and uses he would find for his mom's jewelry collection. And if I am ever asked if I am old I will deny it until the day I die.
The closed is the Four Color books. Here in Denmark we have the Donald Duck magazine with different stories that have been going since the late 40s. Sometimes i like to buy 3 or 4 issues from before the mid 1980s, because i remember as a kid in my grandparents home, me and my cousins always read the old Donald Duck magazines they had brought when our parents lived at home as kids. Also the stories are still fun.
If I find old collections, its Archie and Westerns. But when I do find a superhero book in there, it makes me really appreciate it.
I enjoyed Uncle Scrooge comics as a kid in 1960s and regret selling the first two four color issues I picked up years ago when started collecting. It was something about his swimming in his private bank of money :-)...made me want to save and invest!
I love collecting old romance, westerns, duck books and some Archie covers, got some serious deals on all those over the years, I am 36 btw
Seeing old ads from when I was a kid (in the 80's) is why I seek out books from that era. It can bring up old memories you'd thought you'd forgotten. So I absolutely relate to people looking for old books for that reason.
I think it’s fun talking with the older generation about what books they liked when they were younger.
And so many say, they wish they had to take better care of them as they were just considered “the funny papers“ back then.
It's awesome how every type of comic has It's collector.
It's interesting to hear what's the popular items from their youth. Dick Tracy was interesting and I know it was referenced a lot during the surge of smart watches.
I had no idea about war books until this video. I'm an Army veteran as shown in my profile picture and I can relate to the nostalgia for what you know, such as the military.
I am new to the channel but I appreciate the videos I've watched so far. Keep up the great work.
Archie has great holiday covers. So if I'm out and see one I like, I'll pick it up.
My dad sometimes asks about war comics. Sargent Rock was his jam. I try to keep an eye out for them when I'm in less focused antique shops.
I love Archie comics. Actually spent over a decade searching for one particular issue
One thing I like about 90s comics are the ads from my childhood. So I can relate to the older buyers on that point.
I'm 55, was never into war or westerns as a kid, went thru a phase 3 years ago and watched as many GOOD westerns and war as I could find. You don't know what your missing until you do the same. Most of these classics hold up very well today.
Definitely interested in hearing your recommendations on good westerns and war movies!
@mrgumdrops5: The Bravados (1958) is my favorite American Western. So mean spirited one of the Three Stooges asks where he can find a 'lady" for private entertainment then knifes a deputy sheriff in the back. Last I checked wide screen print free on TH-cam.
I'm 72 years old that started buying comic books when I was five I quit around 2000, and started buying again around 2019. I lost multiple copies of almost every Marvel comic in many DC Comics in a flood back in 1993 today I have about 6,500 comics some of them are pretty good as far as Collectibles go my most collectible one is probably Walking Dead number 1. You mentioned pulse yes I definitely buy pulse of the Shadow or Doc Savage or the Avenger or the spider or any of that type I love those and they're before the modern superhero. But the shadow is in a separate category for me it's the greatest of all time but not counting the shadow I would say Silver Surfer, Captain America that kind of stuff are my favorites Superman Batman Green Lantern those are all definitely comic books that I grew up on and love I loved Western Comics like kid colt Two Gun kid and Rawhide kid those were great Billy the kids just any kind of Western was a great comic book I liked War Stories pretty good Sergeant Fury was great I never I'll never stop loving comic books missed an issue.
Interesting that you're 55 like me and never got into war comics as a kid. In 1977 and 1978 when I started reading and collecting comics, I was devouring Sgt. Rock, Unknown Soldier and Weird War Tales. Because I loved to play with my army-men and loved war movies like Force 10 from Navarone.
I love finding stuff in the dollar bins that look old as well! Definitely the bronze stuff that you mentioned
I buy war books because they remind me of my dad serving time in the military.
wish he had collected comics too in the 60-70's.. lol
I Love the old pulps, great covers, one of the most underated collectable out there. I have a hard time moving the old Westerns, whats real pick up is the Romance and girl comic like Millie the Model as more Woman and girls have gotten into comic collecting.
The great depression? And let's not forget the invention of fire! Great times, I was there. That's why I love to read The Flintstones. 😉
Considering this list is in reference to 80+ year olds, yes that would actually be applicable! Haha
😂😂😂😂😂
That is why I love comics so much, they transcend time!!
I'm 55 and collect teen humor (Archie, Binky, Debbi, Tippy Teen, Scooter) and working girl (Millie, Tessie, Nellie, etc.) titles. I don't attend the claim sales but do like watching them after. If you ever did one where I knew you were going to do Archie and other similar titles, I'd be there ready to spend. But I know that's not what most are buying. Still, I can hope :)
Great video!!! My father loved western movies and TV shows. In the late 70's and early 80's he would dress me and my brother in cowboy shirts, boots and hats. Since I have gotten older, I've been looking for western comics for my collection. I think because it reminds me of him and my youth.
6:38 - There have been a few weird westerns in the past fifteen years or so. High Moon, A Man Named Hawken, The Sixth Gun, Horror in the West, Deadlands, West of Sundown, to name a few.
The Archie really got me. It is a classic, but not really a great collectors item. Cowboy and war books are really interesting pieces of history, and though may have a more specific appeal, will be timeless.
I like the different POV of someone running a shop very cool
Besides Western it would Carl Barks and Walt Kelly.For Golden Age it is Comic Cavalcade and Worlds Finest the oversize issues. I have Worlds Fair 39 and 40 plus Big All American and All Hero. Still can't find Dale Evens Westerns. I am 79 and attend the 1964 Comicon.
It’s cool that you’re doing what you love for living.
I agree with some other comments below. People like to buy stuff that they were familiar with from their childhood. Perhaps the things that they or their families couldn't afford when they were kids.
I am 47 and I am starting to look after these Romance comics covers.
43 here, sort of on the cusp on being old, and really love tracking down cheap dollar silver, Bronze Age stuff. Avengers, Thor, fantastic four mostly.
I’m old(er) and yes I love the comics of my youth, but I usually only get the ones I did NOT read when I was young because I was collecting other titles and had favorites and couldn’t afford to buy everything back then. For instance I love to read Silver Age DC because back in the day I only spent my money on Marvel. So now the stuff I didn’t get to buy when I was a kid is fascinating to me. I also read Bronze and Copper and Modern, but I don’t enjoy comics that make me feel depressed as shit after reading them. I don’t need that in my leisure time, thanks. Another great video, James and as usual an interesting topic that no other channels are exploring. You are the best, man! ❤
Thinking of my Dad in his late 50s and when he was a kid, his favorite comics were war comics. He also had some Superman and Hulk.
When I was younger say 7yrs old and buying only a couple new release comics from a spinner rack in a mom and pop newspaper store, I was 95% Marvel, 5% DC Superheros. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a comic store until I was 13. Then, I slowly started picking up more DC. I tended to follow artists I liked. Gil Kane, George Perez, John Romita, Berni Wright's, Neil Adams etc.
I’m 56. Personally I collect 50s pre code horror and WWII books (superheroes) and that’s because those books were “old” and sought after when I started collecting in 76. I have most the keys from the 60s to early 90s so chasing those classic books is my obsession.
I'm 60 now and started buying US comics around 1975, especially DC (Marvel's were more difficult to find). So whenever I see any mid 1970s DC, especially mystery, war or the 100-pagers, I have to have them. Also the Gold Key titles, such as Boris Karloff, and the Kirby stuff such as Kamandi and Omac. Love all that.
I’m always a sucker for any Wonder Woman
And you’re pretty damn old 🤪
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My mom (born 1940) loved reading Little Lulu. I guess that was Four Color as well
I have been buying a lot of the Lone Ranger Dell comics...those painted covers are amazing.
I'm 'that' guy you are referring to. I have a complete set Gold Key comics in high grade, many Dell and love the Harvey books. Looney tunes and everything Hanna Barbara is gold to me.
Born in 61 for me it starts with small little green army men, then the 12" GI Joes, some with 1960's painted hair but most were the 1970 fuzzy hair ones. The great tv shows like Combat and Rat Patrol, and the older movies of war. to many to list. consumed with army stuff, the plastic tommy guns, plastic granades, cap guns, you name it, all the kids had them. soon however I become a Navy Seabee, and life starts to get serious, profession starts and I am receiving expert marksman medals for my m16 skillz and became automatic rifleman for my platoon and at 61 years old I'm back to my forties and fifties war books with some sgt rock and fury sprinkled in. its lives experiences
I actually bought up a decent sized stack of war comics from a local thrift shop, even though most of them came out in the early 70s before I was old enough to read.
I prefer the older war comics because they don’t shy away from depicting selfless heroism and patriotism as positive traits.
Very interesting video. It’s nice to see people are picking up and reading a variety of different comics! 👍🏼💙
Used find Little Lulu and Little Dot in collections all the time, but i never seen them anymore. I always loved finding EC when I was younger and now pay a pretty penny for old horror. 😂
I'm 39. And I also love things that look old for a buck.
My parents are in their 50's.
My mom really likes Shazam so when the facsimile of Captain Marvel's first appearance came out, I bought it for her.
My dad accompanied me to a comic shop and he found a western comic book in Spanish and snatched it up!
When they were kids, he and his brothers got a wooden board, attached a few lines of string to it and hung comics on it. They would take the board to a plaza and let people read them for a small fee
I've been wanting to start a collection of the four color Looney Tunes. Been a fan since I was a kid and think it would be cool to have some graded books on the wall.
I gotta say I’m pretty fond of grabbing up older books for a dollar too! 😊
EC of course, but also Silver Age Atlas monster books, mostly with the Kirby covers, I'm 72 years old
I’m sliding into geezer-dom, I’m still on my 70’s grind! Gen-X4 life 😂
I'm 39 and I just started buying ASM - the earliest issue is 39 and I just picked that up last week. I sell comics at an antique mall and 90's era ASM/X-Men moves quickly!
The 90s is where it’s at!
One thing in common with old folks? I am one LOL
Maybe not buying Romance old, but old enough that I like deals on stuff that looks old, and wouldn't mind some old Wild Wild West comics or the Long Ranger ones.
Also; I have collected All Conan story covers from Weird Tales in the 30's. The painted covers are out of this world!
I'm 60. I collect anything pre 80s. Mostly super heroes. But I get romance, western, and war comics too.
Just turned 65 last month (October) and mostly what I'VE been reading's a LOT OF manga and indie comics AND a few tp's;"Kaiju No. 8"..."Zorro,Man of the Dead",IDW's "GODZILLA" series....
two titles I collect for my PC are Weird War Tales and Classics Illustrated
I think for them a lot is gonna be driven by nostalgia. What do they remember fondly...thats going to bring them back to that youthful feeling?
I know im guilty of it.....must haves in my PC were Transformers, Star Wars, Thundercats, Voltron, TMNT, and GI Joe. Those were the cartoons, movies, and toys i remember from my childhood
Ot considering myself old o.e mid 60s, but find tge only new titles worth collecting are Mike Hammer & Gun Honey, which could be considered noir.
But also going through a nostalgia phase and picking up old western, war and tv related titles I bought as a kid..even an odd Archie just for the fun of it..
Thanks to your videos I am also reading a lot of yge earlier titles online and generally amazed at all the precode stuff..keep up the good work..
Can def say some war books can be awesome. Like weird war tales and absolutely Blackhawk. I can only imagine what I will be collecting by the time I hit that age
I'm an old person. What I buy in comic shops is what I read back in the 80s. ROM, Blue Devil, the DeMatteis run of Justice League. Is it worth a lot of money? No. But I enjoy reading it and that's the important thing.
Aint No Grave and Blood Borthers Mother are two western books that are worth reading.
Cool video…I’m older and always looking for books from my youth…a lot of these books are a generation before my time.
I'm not sure how old, old is, but I'm up there in age. And I've been to your shop several times.
Each time I was mostly looking for Bronze Age stuff, and the occasional early 80s. Also, it's hard to pass anything up for $1.
Love the War books!!!!
At 55, I'm not sure I'm the old you're referring to, but mostly silver and bronze marvel that I grew up on.😃😃😃
Hope to see war comics back in vogue at some point - great to see romance books do popular :)
When I first started collecting comics soldier comics where my guilty pleasure
Glad I'm not considered too old based off of most of these books. Some of these covers are awesome tho.
Those Archie books are timeless
I'll look through a dollar bin quick and that's because I have such good luck when I do
I hope I'm still collecting when I'm older. Til' the day I die I hope lol.
I'll grab anything with a 10c cover on it. But I prefer "sword" stories. Robin Hood, King Arthur, knights in general, all that kind of stuff. I'll also grab Lone Ranger. But my main interest is 1970s comics.
I wish my grandparents had read comics that I could one day inherit.
My most expensive comic book is Four Color #375 9.4 CGC KEY: 1st solo John Carter (From John Carter, Warlord of Mars written by Edgar Rice Burroughs!) It's the highest grade in the world: File Copy! $10K Shipped
I'm a younger millennial, and I have collected some of each of these categories 😂 guess I'm an old-codger at heart. Lately, I've been grabbing up old Casper the Friendly Ghost comics.
I am very far from collecting any of these (except an occasional Superman) so I must be very far from being old! Thanks!
@Mint-Hunter Comics Are you going to make a video on what the people who are between the ages of 20 - 49 are buying?
Dick Tracy is the most underrated comic book character around today
I wasn’t very surprised by any of these comics. Never been into the War Books.
Appreciate the knowledge.
Love you show. Keep it up
i always grab old war books
Westerns, Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid, Two Gun Kid
I’m a 51 year old Gen Xer. I’m a huge Western and War comic fan. I actually bought a nice stack of Western Comics today for a decent price. While I do love Horror as well but it can be pricy. I go to a lot of Comic shows. One thing I’m noticing now is Western Comics and even some War comics have been selling well nowdays because thanks to the Marvel Movies a lot of Superhero Comics are way pricy so people (of all ages) have been raiding the often cheaper Western and War comics with MUCH better artwork and stories than a lot of modern comics tend to not have.
Just my Observation..
Great video!
I want that slab.
This is fascinating 👏🏼
Excellent topic! But I wonder how your thumbnail model feels having her face right next to those two particular comic covers? 😮