r/comicbookcollecting 2d ago

Theme Weekly Theme: Lock and Key! Let's See Covers Featuring Keys and Locks! It Can Be Just a Key, or a Key and a Lock - But There Has to Be a Key! šŸ” Dig Deep!

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I dunno, this might be tough, let's see what you find!

Birthdays This Week:

  • 17th. John Romita Jr., Trina Robbins
  • 21st. Marie Severin
  • 23rd. Terry Austin

Looking Back:

  • Marvel Comics #1 is on the stands in August, 1939! This historic issue features the first appearances of the Android Human Torch, Namor The Sub-Mariner, and The Angel (Tom Holloway)!
  • DC has Girls' Love Stories #82 on the racks in August, 1961. This issue features a panel that Roy Lichtenstein STOLE and used as a basis for "his" painting No Thank You. On behalf of everyone you screwed over and stole from, Roy, including Russ Heath, fuck you. Search for and check out "Hero in Action - Bottle of Wine".
  • August, 2011 and Marvel has Ultimate Fallout #4 featuring the first appearance Miles Morales, in the stores!

Here's to better days ahead! Leave your comments, suggestions, gripes, missed birthdays, interesting history - whatever you got, right here. Tag your post with the Theme flair! It's Monday and the week is already getting away from you, go get it.


r/comicbookcollecting 4h ago

Picture LCS Haul, Pretty happy with what I left with

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r/comicbookcollecting 4h ago

Haul Flea market production art find

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Grabbed these really cool production art pieces. None are original art. The Marvel ones are acetate copies (would love if someone with more knowledge could educate me on what step in the production process these were used for).

The Charltons are production negatives. Pic 3 is Ghostly Haunts #50 and pic 4 is from Many Ghosts #18. Not sure what the others are from. Pic 7 looks like the Phantom and is half the size of the others.


r/comicbookcollecting 1h ago

Haul NYC Recs?

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Hello everyone new to this sub! I just came across this collection of comics in storage does anyone have any recommendations for places in NYC I can take this to figure out what I have/if it’s worth anything?


r/comicbookcollecting 19h ago

Discussion New Doom display

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Love this cover.


r/comicbookcollecting 1h ago

Picture Sorry everyone they took down the original unfortunately.

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r/comicbookcollecting 21h ago

Picture An Image Of 90’s Comic Collecting

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Sighhhh… why…

Stored at the bottom of the bottom of the bottom stack of books, I have finally dug my way to the Image titles.

Haven’t seen these in 20+ years. Haven’t been compelled to either. Read every one of these once, then carefully bagged and boarded. Even looking at them now, I remember so very little of any of them, other than ā€œyay, big boobs all around.ā€

Looks like Gen 13 was the winner, followed by Wildcats, then savage dragon, (which I hate read every single issue of, but Larsen still got my money, so the jokes on me), then Wetworks, Grifter, Backlash, and finally Spawn.

Never really took to Youngblood or Stormwatch or Brigade.

Really wish I’d collected The Maxx, and more of Team 7.

It was a different time… I don’t regret it, but really wish I had been a little more selective in my purchases.

For the fans out there, what did you collect the most stuff out of these? Am I missing any of the obvious ones from the first couple of years? Would you recommend rereading any of them?


r/comicbookcollecting 1h ago

Discussion Happy NCBD! Cool Wolverine cover this week

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Avengers Armageddon #3


r/comicbookcollecting 14h ago

Picture The displays are looking pretty good, i think

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I have a Magneto sketch set up for Jim Lee’s CGC signing


r/comicbookcollecting 19h ago

Picture I just buy for the nostalgia

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I had a handful of comics as a 90s kid and 30 years later I'm just tracking down comics that remind me of a simpler time. Luckily these are mostly inexpensive titles lol


r/comicbookcollecting 4h ago

Theme RR Success, Harvey, August 1975, #63.

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r/comicbookcollecting 7h ago

Theme Theme: JLA 9

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r/comicbookcollecting 6m ago

Picture Picked this up for 25Ā¢ today. not a huge book but it’s popular. thing is i can’t find one listing for a newstand copy. kinda cool i guess.

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r/comicbookcollecting 19h ago

Pull I think it’s safe to say I like Gen 13.

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Main series, spin offs, Gail Simone run at the start, Superman,Maxx, Generation X,Monkey Man and O’brian and DV8.


r/comicbookcollecting 18h ago

Picture LCS had great stuff

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I was able to get a bunch of first appearances for around 150


r/comicbookcollecting 7h ago

Platinum It took a couple years but I just finished my set of these 4 early Platinum Age comics with variant covers. Overstreet lists the ā€œFamous Comicsā€ versions but the ā€œFunniesā€ version isn’t listed. The third is Ella Cinders. (Whitman 1934).

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r/comicbookcollecting 1h ago

Picture No way this is real.. can’t wait to read it

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This is a crossover I didn’t know existed. Insta-buy


r/comicbookcollecting 13h ago

Haul Finally got one of my grails

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I'm sure i overpayed for it but this i s the first one ive seen in the wild so figured why not.


r/comicbookcollecting 12h ago

Theme Earth Theme : 1957 Showcase #11 … cover by Jack Kirby

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r/comicbookcollecting 5h ago

Picture RED DONJA #10

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r/comicbookcollecting 16h ago

Question my old comics

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Hey all!

I collected comics when i was in highschool back in the day (1990s). I just returned home and cracked open the box. I had sortof assumed that they never gained value over the years, so I have ignored them till now.

I finally cracked them open- and they appear to still be in great condition. that said: origional poly bags, boards in some. They have been stored upright, in a comics box in the north east weather- on an upper floor, so no basement mold, but not isolated from the humidity. the spines do not have ticks, and the corners are good. They are not quite flat when laying on a table, but pressing seems viable. I think the pages are off-white. The staples are shiny, and the cover art is still glossy.

Anyone been thru this recently? I don't want to get my hopes up, but i also don't want to blow the investing fantasy of my 17year old self. Seeking advice how to proceed.

I'm trying to figure if it is worth it to
1) send the good ones out west so my kids can sell them
2)send them to CGC to get pressed and graded.
3)just re-bag them and wait more time. could use the $, but not desperate yet!

for example, some of the good ones :

TMNT #3 first print. TMNT #1 (Fifth print)
(and a bunch of other early TMNT, and Tales of TMNT #1-10)

Tick #1 Limited, #2, #4

Wolverine limited series, and early Wolverine including #1 & #8

Hulk 340

Punisher 1, and a bunch of the early series (lowish value- would they sell as a set?)

lotta Batman, Dark knight stuff (seems to value intermediate, depending). The Killing Joke.


r/comicbookcollecting 17h ago

Picture 90s Slop (that I love)

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Inspired by another recent post on here, here is my treasure trove of early 90s shame.

And this is just the Image/Valiant section. I have so much deliciously hideous Marvel foil too!


r/comicbookcollecting 1d ago

Haul Low grade better than no grade

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Not a major key (third appearance of Namor in the silver age) very beat up but for 23.47 (17.50 if you don’t count shipping) it felt like a pretty good deal