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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- A.J. is the epitome of a super collector; for him, only the most perfect pristine comics will do.
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i wouldn't want him in my store touching every comic lol
Who in the world just goes to the comic shop and checks it to see if they are not damaged it's nothing wrong with the books
@@christianchappell4193 no lives
So according to this guy, being a collector is only one of two things:
1. Acquiring things to sell later for a higher price.
2. Being OCD.
I collect because I like it.
What OCD??
A comic you bought today will be 50 cents in 10 years lol.
Same 😂
@@djgates06 Obsessive- compulsive disorder
@@BodaciousBob66 you clearly have no idea what Ultimate Fallout #4, or first Spider-Gwen goes for in a 9.8. Go sit down, boy.
Everything has to be in perfect condition says his haircut
And his fingernails
@@skooter6235 and his pot belly
🤣🤣
Comics are for reading!!!!
MaddMardigan collection too
"It's not the condition or how old the comic is that matters, it's the story inside that makes it worth while." -me
So your telling me if you got action comics 1 which is half a million dollars that you wouldn’t care you would just read it like it’s worth big money that’s why people mostly collect instead of reading all of them
If your just going to buy comics just to let them sit there that's a waste of money
Some you read but ones worth big money you let sit for years to ride in value over years
I admit, I do not buy comics for financial advancement. I just read my favorite comics because I enjoy them. I keep my comics in good condition but more times than not I buy the trades or graphic novels. As they are always on sale and I don't mind reading stories months or even years later than the latest as they hit the stores.
Same, I think I've got one comic, a 2000AD judge dredd comic, I prefer graphic novels, even the big omnibus editions, I'm too fast a reader for 25 page comic, I'd finish it in less than five minutes lol.
I love how mr mint condition manhandles all the comics.
Derek Cavin well obviously if he damages them it decreases the number of high grade books available, making his more rare.
I owned multiple stores, customers like AJ drove me crazy. I had one guy where I'd have a hundred of an issue on the shelves and none were good enough, he'd want me to order more. It's those guys that makes me happy I got out into the land of normal people.
yeah, I don't get this obsessive perfection hunt either, all it takes is 1 wrong turn or move or touch and byebye goes perfect condition anyway lol
"Everything in my life must be... in perfect condition.." apart from his hair...
SomeGuy his dead anyway
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh his hair is definitely a part...
"Everything has to be in perfect condition"
Good luck getting a girlfriend with that attitude😂
its stupid if you don't read them
agreed
Surprised he's not handling the comics with a level 3 bio-hazard suit
He looks like he is a Biohazard
1:13 “everything in my life must be in perfect condition” says the lunatic with scribbles of ink all over his hands.
Everything must be in perfect condition, folds the cover nearly in half
why comic collectors don't READ his comics?
John Smith because there morons, they spend money on books and even read them.
Because they dont have time. smh
Stupidity. I read all my comic books
Bro not all of us are like that, I collect and read my comics
@@Tricker-the-licker bro stfu
He said he doesn't have time to read 'em, but if he does, they won't be in the pristine condition he requires them to be in. Hey, you oughta see what the mailman does to my magazines by shoving them FOLDED into the mail box!
This guy would hate my comics then, I look after them enough by my standards and sometimes you just gotta take me how it is.
When i go to my comic shop i look around for a little bit until i decide what i want
i collected in the early 90's comic boom....as did everyone else. SPAWN #1? worthless.
Death of Superman? worthless.
its the classics and the real vintage stuff that will be worth most....everyone keeps everything now, and thus nothing is truly rare, aside from the odd variants or recalls.
A comic being featured on Atop the Fourth Wall or having a movie made probably will increase the value briefly until the hype dies down, and with AT4W suddenly everyone wants to find Rob Liefeld comics from the early 90s to see how bad it is for themselves.
In It To Spin It this is false.
Watch ComicTom101 or Comics with Bueller for example.
Plus, last year the USDA announced that copies of "Death of Superman" were approved to use as cattle feed, so long as they didn't constitute more than 5% of the animal's total nutrient consumption by weight. So you can now sell your unwanted copies for about 10 cents for every 100 pounds, and it's okay if the black plastic bags are still on them.
I payed $25 for a spawn #1 🥲
For his GEM book, he destroys every other collectors book. Lmao.
I was in the store in February. It is the best comic book store in the world.
His mind is far from mint condition.
AJ is amazing
I collect comic books and still go through the motion of placing them in plastic and in boxes but I just like reading them. Very few comics you buy today have any real after market value that would require you to make sure your comic is in mind condition like that. This guy is stuck in the mentality of the pre comic book crash where back issues had resale value (and it was a bubble back then that burst).
Whole reason I do the bag, board and box thing is: I have pets.
His holding his comics while wearing a level 3 biohazard suit 😂
I think everyone is forgetting-it's more than likely the producers of the show just asked this guy to pretend like he was a crazy, obsessive person. Reality tv is ALWAYS fake.
and another poster here says that he knew actual people just like him - i.e. perfectionists who wont settle for anything less than their impossibly high standards. If you think all reality TV is fake, ask one of the folks caught in those NBC Dateline 'sting' operations how their lives are going.
@@wylier "Reality TV" has scripts, has people redo scenes, etc. It's all fake.
Honestly. I just buy the comics book but not to sell for profit , not to collect but to just simply read them. I don’t care for “collectors “ unlike them. I have a lot of comic books but that’s because of me “collecting” but from past experiences of reading every single one. Some I own are worth a lot of money but I’m not selling them .
Comics are freaking awesome
i could''ve bought a house. he was thinking should've bought a house
Love Midtown Comic. Great store.
RIP AJ
Rest in Peace AJ. You were a good dude.
Wait he died
what?
@@alexkelly6449 Yep, about ten years ago.
I don't want a.j.s sweat on my comic books.
I'm sorry but somethings wrong if you care that much about it being a perfect 10. No matter how hard you try time is going to take toll on it. Nor is any modern comic ever going to be worth over 50 bux
lol ok
AJ is a total poser :))))
"It can be VERY addictive!" --- understatement of the century.
AJ would be perfect for a job at CGC
Dude whatever makes you happy bro you ain't hurting anyone
Phenomenal as always . The love of your genius comics. you can't be stopped..
Just lock me in this store for a year , & give me some Sunshine, Fresh Air, water, food & clothes. 🤗
He is me and I am him.
>spends thousands on books
>doesn’t read them
Why tho?
Amazing
Interesting film
You can tell that the dude with the long hair is extremely intellectual and charismatic. He's probably rich working for some big wig computer company.
laskolasko not
Why try find in mint shape they won't be after you read them
i really really wanna see his collection
Buying comics not to read them. Can someone explain to me the purpose (except the hypothetical rarity) ?
that is called 'speculation', basically.
I always thought that the regular comics were the only ones that could be invested I never knew that the novels can also be invested
I dont know big the market is for 'second hand graphic novels', but I dont think it's as big as the back-issue market.
I seen 20+ comics on that rack that are now 500$ or more
AJ is a bit of a saddo
You can't sell heroes. 👍🏾👍🏾❤
A.J. died last year.
AFTA Comics really
Yes. I think they have a channel where Metroplus comics does a memorium to him.
1:24
Don’t pick your nose and touch the comic books guy in the back
Just Imagine if he goes to a pawnshop and he gets $10 dollars for all his collections.
There’s profiteering and hobbyist concepts.
Super-Collectors are expecting comics to appreciate like a stock which is frivolous thinking especially if the book is commonplace in a current digital book market.
Some 40 year old books could be worth merely double or less than their original purchase.
The thousands they spend could be used to build a business or an appraisal company that rates the very books they overpay for now.
Marvel and DC should issue one ounce Silver ingots in limited edition of all their super heroes and villains. That would be a collectible that I would pull my wallet out for.
Wow. I bet his collect is worth a million bucks!
So you but comics every week and skip on majority of them.....where's the logic here??
There are always rules. Don't steal in that store. It is a honor to read a comic. As good as a fighter as I am I think it would hurt them if had the audacity to steal one of ours. Todd is not from here
the hell they do for a living?!
YOU GUYS SHOULD CHECK OUT Mr. Yexel Sebastian's toy collection. He even made a museum for his loot. :)
Awesome!
Why would you buy comics if you're not going to read them
In order to keep himself in mint condition this dude sleeps in a plastic bag and he is also boarded too
Great topic, terrible representation and choice of people.
Give me your comics I’ll read them all for you
I am like this but for video games
Rest in Peace, AJ.
he passed away?
@@warnutztheloser I'm afraid so...Sadly, he committed suicide back in 2012.
@@SteelPhoenix78 wow didnt knw
@@SteelPhoenix78 How did you find that out?
@@user-si6yx9he8c I can’t remember how I originally found out, but it mentions it on the Wikipedia page for him (under the name C.C. Banana, the character he was known for playing).
Really? A super collector? No, any collector worth his salt buys 3 titles. 1 Personal read, 1 for your sibling/child to read, 1 to store away. Conditions of each of these titles goes: Mint (store), Near Mint (personal), Good to Near Mint (sibling/child).
DarkenIrishWolf your stupid
I would say comics are not a great investment unless you got some ultra rare comics lying around.
And yet when you order from MidTown online their shipping is horrible for collectors looking for high quality books.
Wow
Phenomena I can't dol time when I go places disappear too momentarily have travel more than once use custom technologies to be there and hologram back and forth
Dope
AJ is not a perfect example.He buys comics and he never reads them.
he buys comics but doesn't read them? thats just sad.
It appears to me that his obsession is in my view misplaced. The video shows him examining trade paperbacks. Sure, I can see wanting a good copy, but tpbs rarely appreciate in value. I understand however being fairly observant of individual comic issues. Sometimes you can sell them for a nice amount. However, the real big money is to be found in silver and golden age books, the ones that are seen in the video in the hard plastic slabs in the beginning of the video.
I only have like four Spiderman comics lol
All comic book fans should check out “Comic Book Geezers” on RUclips. It’s a talk show about silver & Bronze Age comics. And they show comics from their collections.
Oh yeah, it is....the back cover may be torn completely off because of shoving them in the box....there's one of those double hook things under it to lie a magazine in, but NOOOO. And then there's the one, that had been dropped in the MUD. I'd rather have not even SEEN it that to get it that way! :
Collector's like him bring crashes and flood the market later. Thats what happened in the 80s-90s. Imagine his house. Spending all his money. What if his place caught fire.
you should have bought a house!
Passion or obsession
Im like AJ
And here in India we don't even have a comic store.
it would be if he conditioned once in a while!
I’m with this guy. How many of you “real comic collectors” purchased Ultimate Fallout #4 “just to read the story”? Guess what? That book goes for 1k in a 9.8. And let’s not even discuss the Variant because you’ll have a heart attack. What’s a 9.8, you ask? It’s the kind of book this guy looks for. You people who purchased that book “just to read” while you are on the toilet, just dumped (pun intended) 1k down the toilet.
Last person is sad human being.
i bet many of you have AJs finger prints on your comics
Oh that soy spots all over the comics
wooot!
He might have OCD 🤷🏾
BRUH, what's the point if you don't read the comics.
Who tf checks trades lmao. You're gonna get that tpb graded?
That's how you know this guy doesn't read comics and they wrote this segment. The whole thing was fake.
I'm the same way but with football cards.
Anime Japan ???
Why does he look like Kevin Feges less older brother
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sigma collector
He doesn't know how to handle comic books especially with ink on his hands