I started collecting comics in New York City in 1975. Comic book stores back than pretty much looked like the store in the video. You could get comics in bulk from the sixties for like a couple of bucks. the comics in 1975 that were worth a lot were early dc and timely. Most of the superhero books from the forties. And also early marvel issues. It was a really great time to collect. I also use to go to the early creation comic book shows in New York. First time I got Stan lees autograph was in 1977 on a copy of marvel tales number one and a copy of amazing spider man number 8. Boy I miss those days.

@khany82

3 жыл бұрын

u should show ur early collection on ur youtube especially if u got kirby or kane on ur books and tell youtube stories on 70s cons

@greggonzalez859

2 жыл бұрын

Mark thank you for sharing. I graduated sixth grade in the Bronx in 1977. I began in 1975 also. I’d walk dogs abs run errands to get 25 cents for anything Marvel. Eventually I began to trade in bulk. My relatives where throughout the City so I’d go everywhere to trade and acquire. By 79 I had a respectable collection with early Fantastic Four and Spider-Man and the like. I sold my collection and bought a stereo and albums and had cash for a few years. What I remember the most was Saturdays spent around reading, reviewing and trading at the places we met to trade. In many ways Stan Lee contributed to my wonderful childhood and I love comics and the culture to this day. Thank you for memory lane.

It's still mind-blowing to me. A little over 50 years later, and Batman #1 has jumped from $200 to over a million. And there are books from the time of this broadcast that are thousands of dollars. I only hope some of the books in my collection make that jump in price.

@jmen4ever257

Жыл бұрын

The month before the tv show hit the tube in January of 66 More or less 50 bucks could get a copy. The tv show changed things a lot for back issues.

George Olshevsky became an important marvel and comic historian!!!

Thank you for posting this history!

When the avid collector was talking about modern he was referring to Silver Age ie Fantastic Four, X Men, JL etc... Wow!

@RoberSoul77

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like Jim Steranko, or maybe some of the comix that were being published in those days.

Geez, what a great video. I remember those days of old comics in boxes, and being affordable.

Love it look at the racks of mint bronze age comics and the golden age in the opening video wow. Remember quarter bins anyone.

@donaldvonglitchenberger4108

Ай бұрын

my lcs has 50 cent bins and i’ve got some good stufff out if there

I started reading and buying comics in 1972

@zoso73

3 жыл бұрын

I started in 1977.

Nice memory of when it was still affordable before the investors and speculators highjacked the hobby.

@SpecialDad

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@marbleriver3365

4 жыл бұрын

I've been collecting for many years; Jules Feiffer's book "The Great Comic Book Heroes" ruined the hobby in 1965. Then the Batman TV show really ruined it in '66. Then the Overstreet guide totally ruined it in the '70s. Until eBay absolutely ruined it in the '90s. Then Heritage auctions.... well, you get the idea. It's always something :)

@anthonybrink287

4 жыл бұрын

Marble River I would have to agree with you, many people proclaim this or that killed the hobby they love. Some of it’s just nostalgia wishing it was like it use to be, which of course it never will be, with anything. It seems to me that a hobby loses its old luster when “ Normies” get involved. For comics, the hobby was fine and fun and conventions felt great, even through the flipping madness of the early 90s and with the internet and eBay in the late 90s. What changed the hobby forever IMHO was the movies. CGI finally made it possible to put our favorite characters on the big screen. With that came comic conventions that morphed into “ pop culture” conventions with huge movie studios gobbling up the floor space that was once a dominated and owned by dealers and hobby geeks talking about stories, artwork, etc. while still there, they have been thrown into backrooms or overshadowed by massive banners and tv screens, “ cosplay” invaded the cons, turning it into a second Halloween. The atmosphere is different, lots of hustle and bustle, less hanging out talking about funny books. Yyyy I’m fine with it. The hobby hasn’t been ruined, it’s just changed, to something I’m not interested in. For many others this is their time now, and they love it. Let them, nobody owns a hobby, and they change with society like anything else.

@usa-pu9mh

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonybrink287 go to heroes con it's all about comics not one ounce of Hollywood to be seen

@Q-Bits8

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's way cooler nowadays. The grails are real grails, you can't just buy everything you want. Stuff has gotten more and more scarce.

Nice blast from the past. Funny to think back to when Wolverine was just that latest "one shot" foe of "this month's" Hulk who was annoyingly interrupting my Wendigo story and 1950's Flash comics were at yardsales cheaper than "new" ones because they were just old.

If only we'd known back then ...❤❤❤❤❤

Hard to believe it wasn't always taking seriously as both a serious form of art and highly valuable collectibles

Wow, what an interesting video - the first I see like this! This video definitely helped me to contextualize my collection of books from this time. Thank you for sharing!

Superb video, lovely seeing the shelves full of all those classics of Marvel / Timely / DC etc and at sort of reasonable prices. $200 would have been a little beyond my pocket money and that sort of shop, did they exist in the UK ?? Nice to see the Astounding SF !

What a great video......wish I had a time machine.......being a collector nowadays is impossible, unless you’re rich....😓

What a wonderful clip!

Awesome film, thanks for the post!

holy time machine!!! thanks for this video!!!

200 bucks for batman #1 and 125 bucks for superman number #1. Man that would be the luckiest deal a anyone could ever make!

Well done!

Best artist & story tellers

Now in 2022, 70s and 80s comics are quite valuable.

Have a bunch of Captain George's pubs. Great stuff. When I started collecting there were no specialty shops just your local drug store.

Man, wish I had a time machine. Also, no bags and boards?!

@kellyleavitt7738

3 жыл бұрын

Right! As a kid collecting in the ‘70s, I put my comics in a cardboard box I got from my dad’s deli/sandwich shops. Comic bags, boards and boxes weren’t invented yet.

@canonegro666

3 жыл бұрын

@@kellyleavitt7738 yeah- weird to think about that

@robertt9342

2 жыл бұрын

@@canonegro666 . Not really, it wasn’t much later that some of the first bags started coming to market. Board used to just be cut down cardboard, and the widespread adoption of “comic” boards happened a little later on.

@canonegro666

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertt9342 And now the price for bags and boards is through the roof!

Memory Lane indeed!

very cool

Really nice video my friend. I wonder what all the comic books on those shelves are worth now? Lol

It’s interesting how different language is used compared from then to now. Even more interesting is how comparable the LCS experience appeared to be then to now…

New York Comicon started in 1964 by Bernie Bubbles and Ron FRADKIN.

This reporter asked an owner and fans actual questions. I thought reporters were supposed to ask other reporters what they all agree on. But seriously, it was interesting to see comics without bags.

@boombapdoom493

2 жыл бұрын

Comics without bags? One of my lcs I frequent has their comics raw on the racks.. just like this video.. I usually bag and board em in my car or 🏡

i went there when i was in central tech .

painful to see comics without bags or boards back then

Stan has seen it all before.

What were all the comics with the white covers? The whizbang. Were they fanzines?

A grade 0.5 sold for 13,500$ in 2020. The fair market value for 9.8 is over 6 million dollars in 2020

2:13 and Christopher Walken narrated this!!!!

0:53 is the guy flipping through a copy of Thor 135 publish date of December 1966, so this video is from around October 1966.

@flatlandryan

2 жыл бұрын

There was also a guy flipping through a superman 14. 1941 confirmed.

@zoso73

2 жыл бұрын

@@flatlandryan There are multiple copies of the Thor 135, so it was from the new publications of the time.

LOL, I was in high school then and still have them comics $$$$, only the "good" stuff of about 300 or so. It was 15 cents then!!

Action Comics #1 in mint condition just sitting there above his shoulder, lol

@zoso73

3 жыл бұрын

an VF+ copy of Action 1 sold 2 days ago for $3.1 million.

@chrisramsey6725

8 ай бұрын

Not an Action 1

Except for the pricing this could have been filmed at any comic book store today. In fact, for a second I thought it was a spoof vintage reel.

@dougbrowne9890

Жыл бұрын

What are you smoking dude? There are very few shops today with Golden Age stuff like this, let alone all the Silver Age lying around in it.

5million dollars worth of comics now a days

Wow if they seen comics now...

$200 is comparable to about $1650 today. What a bargain.

who the name of the host

Batman 1 for $250 damn

@alberto-gj5oi

3 жыл бұрын

Man if I new what would comic book values would be now a days I would have bought 10 Batman 1 at $200 a pop..

Man I had 100's of the kids comics in the earl 70's as a kid...one day after I moved out mother dumped the lot at the garbage tips thinking I had grown out of it...at the time I was annoyed...as a cartoonist now I wish I had taken those damn boxes with me...all kids comics like Donald Duck, Warner Bros and Hanna Barbara stuff..no Superhero stuff as that didn't interest...it was all so cheap back them...a couple of dollars pocket money bought five or six comics back then...

On the shelves: do not open up and read people: copy that

All those x men on the newsstands batman 1 200 bucks 125 for Superman 1

Wow 300 dollars for a Superman number one

@boombapdoom493

2 жыл бұрын

But wasn’t minimum wage like $2 back then or something with inflammation it’s probably two or three times as much. but still a good deal compared to today

@youtubeguest3242

Жыл бұрын

It was only 30 years old then It would be like spending 3000$ on New Mutants 98

Hard to take the theft seriously, that’s still the case in with values in hundreds of thousands.

@liluglymane5676

4 ай бұрын

Its like cops are useless or something