Top 5 Things That Make This Hobby GREAT! (And 5 Things That Make it the Worst)
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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This was one of your best videos. I have been collecting comics since 1973. I have 26K comics. I have one room in my house and a storage unit. When I was younger, I went to at least 4 major comic conventions per year. Now I am handi-capped, and my scooter is not a great way to get around in the crowds. I enjoy watching your videos,even the sales. I get to see alot of cool comics, even though I cant afford to buy. Thank you for what you do, I really appreciate it.
The best thing since I got back into collecting is the vast amount of things to discover. I know since I came back into the hobby I have become a cover collector. So many beautiful covers. The worst part is the amount of space my comics take up.
The best things for me personally, are the deals you offer week after week on your claim sales and the community. The worst part is that all my LCS’s can’t compare, so now RUclips is my main comic buying platform.
Best thing is the amazing artwork. Comic books have just the sweetest art.
THE HUNT! Going through dollar bin long boxes of back issues and finding keys and treasures. My absolute favorite thing about the hobby!
With this hobby, you can literally hold history in your hands. Opening a comic book where you can smell the old newsprint and feel the grit of the paper in your hands. It's like opening a time capsule and stepping into another era. It's a truly magical thing when you find a story and art that really resonates with you on a deeply profound and personal level. (Dan Jurgens' work has always been my personal favorite since I was a kid.)
This is truly the greatest medium in the world. There's nothing else like it.
I tell my non collector friends this all the time. The smell of the book, the dialogue, and even the adds make you feel you are back in time in a different era. Simpler times. Enjoying quality entertainment after taking some change to the dime store to get the new issue that just came out.
@@Deadeyecomics gettin' parked beside the spinner rack at the grocery store. Because Mom knows you'll sit there and be occupied and entertained while she got the shopping done... And the hook? "If you're good today, you can get comics!"
Some pretty sweet memories.
@@ryanstoick601 That worked for me for a bit until she realized it was cheaper for me to walk with her and get cereal and Doritos than get comic books at the spinner.
Cinema is a similar art form, in that it's a visual medium, and also narrative-driven. Consider how often popular comics are adapted to movies, and how often popular movies are given comic / graphic-novel adaptations.
@@wylierichardson-tu6zs also, both are collaborative mediums. It's a wonderful thing to see a group of creative people working together to bring a singular vision to life. Although, in comics you can get the rare gem of an entire story by one individual. Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Frank Miller, Jeff Smith... Some truly wonderful art comes from both ways.
Getting older now so the best thing for me is the nostalgia. Doing something I did as a young man brings me back in a good way. All the best James.
My favorite part of the hobby is always finding new things. Either stories, artist, or a part of comic history I didn’t know.
I think the best thing when it comes to comic collecting is simply just how many different directions you can go in choosing what to collect. You can collect your favorite character/s, your favorite artists and writers, you can collect books that are part of major events, books that are part of a particular series, graded books, key issues, first appearances, etc. This variety of things to collect added with the variety of ways to collect make it so that no two collections are the same.
The nostalgia is what got me back into the hobby. Being able to buy a pristine slab of one of my childhood books and having it next to my childhood copy feels amazing
I think something that’s great is the large community. I work at a comic book store and it’s so fun to be around people who like what you like.
Something that sucks though is getting into it now just because so much greatness came out before and it can be hard to find and finish older runs
The best thing for me right now is completing childhood runs. Right now I am trying to finish Batman 400-500 from when I was a kid. Had most of the issues already but I am in the process of tracking the final 10-12 issues of it down. A lot of good memories and fun!
My favorite thing is the stories that you can connect to your real life or talk about with your friends, that what makes it fun, enjoyable, and geeky.
The best thing for me is that there's always a new artist or book to discover. I find something cool I've never seen before every time I dig through a bin, and I love it
The best thing about comics is the community. Reading books with good art, stories, characters, and talking with others about it. Getting into debates about the minutiae of things. Nerd stuff.
The worst thing about comics are people who don’t understand that culture and just want to manipulate it for social agenda or suckering folks out of their money.
Couldn't agree more about the comic community. All discussions are on the table, and all of them are respected. Such a great world to be a part of!
The best thing for me is the thrill of the hunt. That on any given day you could come across a book that you never thought you would hold in your hands. That is truly exciting!
I like that its a timeless hobby. I collected 30 years ago and just started again. Same great feeling getting a new book you were hunting for. Thanks for the great channel and content.
The best thing for me is that it's something I can share with my kids and pass along some day to another generation. I inherited comics from my dad and one day I'll be able to do the same for my son.
The best thing about the hobby is the feeling of holding a great book.
The worst is a tie between the money you have to spend and the room it takes up to store your issues
the raddest thing for me in the game is grabbing up my old issues that made me fall in love with comics in the first place.... that I trashed when I was a kid. Worth it.
I think the best thing about the hobby in my opinion is reading comics with my boys and sharing cool nostalgia from my childhood with them.
Best thing for me is the feeling of pride I get from cleaning and pressing an old book. Doesn't hurt that it helps from an investment point of view as well! 😊
My favourite things are the history this all ties to, the short, enjoyable stories encapsulated in so few pages, and the medium as a story telling machine via both words and art is unmatched.
The community is the best thing. I always felt like a geek for liking to read/collect comics, but the community has shown that there are many, many people out there that enjoy the hobby as much as I.
One of my favorite things about the hobby is the ability to find a new favorite artist or storyline when hunting. Giving a book a chance and then finding out how great it is in the writing or the artwork of an artist thats either been around or new on the scene.
For met one of the best things is the passion and wonder, I’m still new to collecting started almost a year ago and I love going through bins filled with books finding things I don’t have and questioning myself “what’s this” or “I wonder what this is about”. Also a big art guy so I love seeing different variants and versions of covers
i have learned a lot more about collecting. When I first started I was obsessed with aquiring every issue. For instance, I had a lot of the wolverine collection 1 through 100 of series 2 along with hulk 180 and 181. I also had Spawn 1 through 90 with various other books that were mostly number 1s etc. I lost that collection during hurricane Katrina and stopped until I became wheel chair bound and got back into the hobby. Since then Ive learned about keys, DC rare prints and limited covers. Most of this I have learned from watching your channel, so ty for the great content and I look forward to more.
Great content! So many things I could mention! One thing I enjoy about collecting comics is the value and preservation of graded comics. On the other hand, I think it's very unfortunate that now those comics cannot be read and the art inside cannot be appreciated if preserved that way. Very kind of you to do these giveaways for the community by the way!
The great thing about comic books is that it’s a medium where you can do just about anything. Storytelling and artistry come together in this beautiful bizarre nebula of imagination and wonder. It’s my favorite form of entertainment. I do hope we can find a way to get generations younger than us captivated by it just as we were. Cheers
Yeah there’s a lot of ups and downs in this game we play, but that’s what makes it so rewarding, when things do go your way
Best thing is friends!!! You can make life long friends just by collecting or enjoying comics. Comics bring people together
The best thing about this hobby is the feeling you get when you finally complete a run after years of hunting for all those books in a specific grade.
The community is a big positive to me. The onslaught of variants is starting to remind me a bit of the late 90s (which made me drop the hobby back then). Let's not repeat history!
I just got back into the hobby about 5 years ago. I just began watching comic videos on RUclips about a year or more ago and discovered this channel. Its been my favorite by far and has really helped me in identifying the smaller keys in dollar bins at pawn shops and was regularly pulling out 15 and 20 dollar books. Thanks James!
One good thing is that there will always be something new to see, whether you find a new favorite writer, artist, new cover, or meeting new people. At the end of the day, as long as you had fun, everything else is a bonus 👍
Being out of the collecting for over 20 years it's amazing to finally going thru your long and short boxes and finding those super surprises of books that have accumulated value over time. Going into the hobby for enjoyment and for investment of..."maybe this will be worth something in the future" decades ago and revisiting it now....is like going back in time and finding that enjoyment again!! DC universe variant logos, newsies, crossing your fingers when you see a big boi book for great condition........NOICE! So happy to be part of such a great community of people. Love your comic channel the Best MintHunter!!!
A think that is great is that you meet so many people that are nice and helpful
My personal choice for good and bad is actually the same thing... Age, I've been reading, collecting and buying comic books for almost 60 years now, and one day I won't. I'm not an invest person, when I'm gone there's going to be a pretty happy charity shop. I'm just sad that I'm going to miss the end of a good story arc,😢 if I get to 73, I will have least finished the Colour version of the Walking Dead, that's my goal!😇 (I didn't get into the black and white until the #1 was a thousand pounds or something crazy like that, so I never bothered!) Two selfish things I know, but I don't worry about grails or first appearances, if I have them that's good, but if I don't that's okay to!
My favorite thing about this hobby is when the market is down, u can tell who the real collectors are in down times. I also love filling runs, digging through a long box that smells like a musty basement and finding an old Hot Stuff comic (don’t judge me lol), and grabbing a graded grail that is slightly out of my budget for a good price. Don’t yuck someone else’s yum and collect what u like and you’ll never lose
I enjoy the books and the good information you share. It was 32yrs since I was into collecting comics. And this month marks a year since getting back into it and making some AWESOME friends. Thank you very much. 👍😁👍
I think the negative for me is that a very big part of the market is speculators and dealers playing hot potato with rumoured books causing unjustified price inflation. It prices so many collectors out of the market for books they would really want.
I think the mark of a truly excellent content creator is someone who can have me interested in a hobby I never indulged in. I've never bought a comic other than to read it and, in one case, frame it on my wall. But James always garners my interest when he puts new video up.
Your comment about hiding your love of comics as a child resonated with me strongly. Growing up as a person of colour in the ‘80s (and my older siblings who grew up in the ‘70s) - it was very common to hear from people that “black people don’t read comics”. From fellow children and adults alike. The absurdity of such presumptions drum up memories that are surprisingly bittersweet.
Furthermore, finding comics with heroes who looked like myself back then proved to be a significant challenge. Luckily, one or two LCS took surprising interest on the topic and made efforts to stock some characters of interest. It was a very interesting, engaging, awkward and transformative process for my siblings and I to have to - for the most part - educate and inform adults who were supposed to be highly knowledgeable about comic book history and the comic book world at large. But that’s how it starts - a willingness from both sides to sit down and have frank, honest and factual conversation.
It never stopped us from pursuing any of our interests, but I was fortunate to have found a small circle of friends who’s passions transcended the boundaries of race and class.
I left the hobby for many years but got back into it a year or two ago - only because while going through and organizing my storage I stumbled upon my childhood collection. I forgot how many I had! I was also surprised to frequent those same LCS that I engaged with as a kid where the proprietors recognized me and recalled me by name and had recited my run lists from memory after decades of not visiting!
So my siblings and I frequent them once more, and continue to support them to this day!
A great thing about this hobby for me is the RUclips community - I’ve learnt so much since I’ve got back into the hobby about everything from grading to investing from content creators ( and passionate collectors ) like yourself 👍
Great list bro! I would say that an additional good one is how the community comes together to support one another. I see videos all the time about a need that arises and how much people came together to help out. Seeing all of the AOKs are great too. On the bad side of things-people really need to accept the fact that there is no one way to collect! Just because they don’t prefer to collect this that or the other doesn’t mean that it’s not ok for someone who chooses to go that route! If everyone collected the same way, how boring would that be!
As a brand new collector of comics, the thing I like the most is the sheer quantity of the number of comics to collect and/or read. I am a long time record collector, but I find it easier to enjoy more of a variety of comics and their art rather than specific music genres/artists.
What's great about this hobby is there seems to be a limitless amount of information to discover - puts you on a continual learning cycle. Very cool. What's not so great - vultures ready to pounce on momentary lapses of that knowledge. Buyers and sellers need to be transparent when it comes to transactions.
I think a positive for me is sharing the heroes and favorite stories of mine with my daughters passing on the tradition and hobby.
As someone who’s going to college and has a part time job the one thing that sucks about the hobby is how expensive it is for a young collector. I have a pull list at my LCS but it’s only 3 titles which is like paying for a Netflix subscription. When it comes to buying key issues for my PC, I find it difficult to pay the prices that older collectors are willing to pay.
The best part about this hobby is that there are so many great titles, keys, classic covers or runs to collect. There is something for everyone, no matter your collecting style. The worst part about the hobby is all the above. It’s endless, and can be exhausting if you take it too seriously. Buy what you like, how you like is my motto for happiness.
I love that you can go into a comic store and get great recommendations on new books from employees and customers there.
I think you have some valid points there - This is a great time to be a collector - especially with prices being low
Dude honestly! there's $120-150 books that are selling as low as $50 or less lol
My favorite is accessibility of everything! Whether it’s reading digitally, with trades or single issues. Easy to find and enjoy
You are right, this way of ‘investing’ is definitely the most fun. And the community! Damn I love the comic book community.
Good stuff man, agree, we have a good community. I guess the best annoying thing for me is the "good ole boys" at cons where the dealers and artists, etc. often (certainly not all) are in it to make each other money and the fans get squeezed out and end up being the source of the inflated signed copies, or whatever. There are stories but too long for comments. Hope you have a great man
On the good side: the joy of the hunt and finding something that you've been searching for, even if it's not necessarily valuable. On the bad side: Seller's remorse. I sold so many great books about 20-25 years ago, thinking I needed to. I sure wish I still had them.
For me personally, I’ve found a lot more joy out of collecting runs rather than investing in keys. Runs I’m currently working on include the Defenders, Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two In One etc
I collected comics in the 80's for like 5 years.
Then collected GI Joe in the early 2000's (lol).
I started collecting again 2 years ago and this time I collect keys only for characters I like.
I also like the grading aspect by CGC.
I think it's great to have books graded because eventually I will sell my small collection and whether it's me selling it or my children, my books will have been graded professionally and there won't be much arguing about grade and value.
We didn't have a grading service back in the mid 80's when I started.
The Internet has enhanced collecting for me exponentially!
It's great time to be a collector!
What’s great is that you have so much choice in collecting. You can collect keys, first appearances, Classic covers, runs, gorilla covers, good girl, certain characters, rare obscurities, slabbed, raw, variants, 9.8s, mid grade, low grade, moderns, stuff you just like, you name it! The bad is that sometimes other collectors hate because you don’t collect what they think you should and that your collection should look like the top 40 or full of expensive silver age first appearances or you’re not a real collector. This is an egalitarian hobby with room for all types of collectors
all great points. i want to add that this hobby is supposed to be fun. if you feel overwhelmed, take a step back and take a deep breath. comics will still be here after you take a break.
Honestly, one of the pluses is the conversations you can have with sellers and vendors, not just about comics, but life in general.
The best thing for me about the hobby is the thrill of the hunt. 20 years collecting, and it never goes away!
Love how your collection will never be complete. Always finding comics I have never seen before and so many to choose from makes it exciting
I love the community and how so many people are willing to pass on their knowledge to teach & help others.
Probably the worst thing for me is the time that I lost based on being a female and feeling unwelcome in a lot of nerdier hobbies. I remember being in school and I commented on another kid's Star Wars toy and was told I couldn't like it since I was a girl. It just seemed like I was always judged harsher for my interests than my brother and pushed in different directions. It genuinely feels so good to know that little girls today will never have to go through what I had to, so at least that is a positive to look forward to 😊
I know the feeling. The first 5 comic book shops I went into made me feel as if I was a stranger in an unwelcomed land. Otherwise I'd have been into them right around 1992. I didn't get into them until about 8 years later and have been in them ever since. Embrace what you love in life! You only get one time around this ball of dirt, so may as well enjoy yourself while you're here.
@@thepickle2535 absolutely! I stopped caring about that a long time ago and have more than made up for lost time. I had a DC comics encyclopedia as a kid and I read that thing to death. I loved learning about the world and characters, but actually reading the comics felt so out of reach for some reason.
Best thing, having a chance now on collecting what I didn’t when I was a kid… not so good, the current woke and activist superhero tampering market/writers messing up our childhood superheroes… Thanks for another great video James
One great thing about this hobby is the variety of ways to do it. Slabbed or Raw, Cover art or Story, etc. and there is no "Right Way" to do it. The community supports people on however a person wishes to do.
For me the best part of the hobby is having a library of backstories for family and friends that might be curious to learn more about the characters and the industry overall.
Great video James. My books arrived today from your Batman claim sale and they look great. Thank you very much sir and looking forward to the next one!
Best thing is having the ability to get books I had as a kid. All those back issues my Mom threw out would be impossible to collect without the internet.
Worst thing is spec and scammers everywhere. Have to be very careful. Great video as always.
The worst thing is the difficulty in trading its far easier, either sports cards. Best thing is the nostalgia.
One of the best things is I always have a destination to visit when I travel. Love seeing the local comic shops in other cities.
I love the people I’ve met that share the same passion for the art.
I am going to give you the good, and the bad about our hobby. Good: I get to spend time with my eight-year-old doing something that we both love. He always asks if I will take him to our LCS all right when I come home did I get him a new book? The time we spent together is priceless. Now the bed: it’s just not enough space for all the books that we have and want to get. Comic books add up quickly and take up lots of space. One box soon becomes 20 boxes. You attain someone else’s collection and add it to the clutter that you already have. not everyone can afford to have storage lockers and those often are not safe. When you collect comics space is at a premium and your wife is always asking where she could have some space…
Ok, I'll give a great: treasure hunting! Searching through bins, exploring shops, visiting garage sales, checking local ads, browsing eBay, even traveling to new places, there are so many potential treasures, that is comics, out there just waiting to be found by collectors! There's nothing like going out and simply searching... hunting...for comic books!
Best thing for me is my local shop…they’re the best and my safe space. Also the community in general and channels like yours James. It’s inspired me to start my own channel (Madmage-Collector if you’re ever curious 😊)…I’m a humble little channel and it’s been a fun experience so far. Thanks for what you do!
Love this video. Still proves amount of thought and effort u put into each video. My favorite channel on YT!
Finding an awesome key or even a grail at a garage sale or your local flea market is great feeling! Can never get tired of finding a cool book for $2
This was a fun list to watch play out. I think one of the best things about this hobby is that everyone is different and u can collect/read what u like and ignore the noise from speculators and investors.
My one great thing is the art. Even though two of my favorite artists died too soon (Darwyn Cooke and John Paul Leon), the pencilling and inking and coloring of modern art are amazing. Some artists I like are Darick Robertson (pencilling & inking), Diego Rodriguez (coloring), Dave Stewart (coloring), Michael Allred (pencilling and inking), Laura Allred (coloring), Brad Anderson (coloring), Gary Frank (pencilling & inking), Jamie McKelvie (pencilling, inking, and coloring), Ron Garney (pencilling and inking), Bruno Redondo (pencilling and inking), and Adriano Lucas (coloring).
For something on the ups is getting people into the hobby! I just got my girlfriend into it through the Night Terrors stories that are coming out right now and all she wants to do is find comic shops, go through back issues and find a horror story or something that peaks her interest.
Top thing that makes this hobby the worst are the RUclips influencers and speculators. They trashed it by artificially inflating prices
GREAT Content as usual Jimmy Boy ..... GREAT to see your Journey from the hirricane to job loss to turning ot around to your Business Model and selling at the Antique Store. AWESOME.
A good aspect about comics is that they allow you to escape reality for a little while and experience an adventure. A bad aspect is the over saturation of certain characters and titles along with the constant renumbering of titles.
One of the best things about collecting comics is that it’s fairly easy to make the hobby fund itself. With some knowledge and research it’s easy to flip books to make money and spend that on the ones you’re chasing
I recently started collecting/reading again this past year and it’s by far the most rewarding/fun hobby I currently have. I’m always looking forward to my biweekly trips to my LCS.
One of my favorite things about comics is the people you meet at the stores and conventions
1 bad thing, it can def be daunting to feel like you know basic info about a character that you really like. They are always being retconned, changed, or dying/resurrecting. Tough to keep up sometimes!
The best thing about this hobby for me is that there are issues and runs that fit every budget and can be enjoyed. I have a dollar bin budget but still find a lot really nice keys, all be it not in the best condition.
What sucks is how insanely jealous people get over this stuff. I see a lots of hateful comments on you guys’ channels from people who just can’t stand to anyone score a nice issue at a good price, hate on guys who get a better grade on their books than they do, and make brutal comments to content creators simply because they have more disposable income or capital that they’ve put the work in to obtain.
But, to quote the great Taylor Swift, haters gonna hate.
I like collecting specific artists’ cover art, and of course, reading solid story lines.
Biggest bad thing for me is the weight of the books. I'm having to break down my long boxes to short boxes.
Best thing is the hunt. The anticipation of flipping through a box and finding something new. Or finally completing that run you have been working on.
I’ve always loved the idea of superheroes and comic books but being a more serious collector now I enjoy it more than ever. I’m always excited for the new comics I get and am now addicted to the weekly claim sales for the enjoyment of getting those awesome books at really good prices as well as being in the community with everyone here. My LCS has turned into a happy place for me, it’s almost relaxing to go and scroll through all of the back issues looking for some nice pickups.
The only thing I’m having an issue with now is money and the space I need for my collection. Other than that this hobby is fantastic and is one I don’t think I’ll stop doing.
I just love the hobby ever since I was 12. So I’ve been through all you talked about
Best thing is having so much knowledge available and the access to different sites to be able to search and purchase these. Down side is over priced comics and so called dealers selling At ridiculous prices. I live in UK and our prices are 10/20% higher than in the US. I do buy from US too
My bad experiences buying comics so far (buying on and off since 1995) has been sellers misrepresenting their comics and/or failing to disclose restoration😅
Best thing about modern comic book collecting is access to more avenues to find issues now than when I started as a Louisiana country boy in mid 1970s...worst thing now is collecting for prestige books only and too many variant copies...seems there is a loss to enjoying the book stories....
Great video. Definitely love the community. I wish I had made it to the back deck comic fest. One thing I hate is the cost of supplies. Boards, bags, top loaders, etc.
For me it’s comic conventions taken up with tables in Artist alley who are selling stickers and badges of artwork which isn’t their own, and absolutely killing it in sales. Meanwhile comic book artists’ tables are a ghost town.