It’s one of those days when your brain is filled to capacity but your mind is blank. I pulled up Word and couldn't write a thing. I couldn't get anything out of my head. It was overflowing, brain synapses were firing away, but it was just too filed I had to close my eyes just to get refreshed. I would have slept till morning if I didn't hear Vin Scully talking about Brad Penny getting thrown out of the game in the 3rd inning. Damn Ump.
So here I am, after a ten minute nap, writing... I finished a three page scene for Dale, well, I rewrote the shitty first draft and forwarded it on. Its for two actors. A piece for their reel. Read it here if you'd like: First Class Tickets (a pdf file)
I took a deep breath, leaned back and thought about the good old days of summer once again.
I was thinking about how great these really hot summer days were as a kid. I remembered biking up to Another World Comics in Eagle Rock and spending an afternoon going through some of their back issue boxes. There I found a comic book that I have till this day.
This was a historic comic book released in 1965 and I was shocked to see it stuffed in a box for nobody to see. I immediately took my three dollars and bought it. It has been a gem in my collection for more than twenty years. One, because it’s a great comic book, and two, I bought it while searching through old boxes at a comic book store. Could I call it a gem if I bought it last year in mint condition from a comic book store? Yes. But it wouldn’t have the same meaning as it does now. And I'd be easily turned on to selling if I purchased it a year ago. Making it a childhood gem, a Wonder Years story, makes me want to hold on to it forever.
History was made with this comic book as Susan Storm and Reed Richards, the first super-hero couple, walked down the aisle.
The near mint value of this book is approximately $225 I believe. My copy is in VF+ + grade so its value is probably around the $180-$200 range.
I love to look at the covers of these older comic book covers. To me, these are the best comics out there to collect. If I were to start collecting again, I’d buy anything and everything produced from 1965 thru 1979. It’s hard to believe these comics are 30-40 years old and they are out there ready for me to buy!
Another gem is the one comic I bought for just a few bucks from a college guy. I was around 14 or 15 years old and my cousin’s friend from UCLA would come over and we’d chat about comic books. He was selling some of his X-Men comics so I jumped at the chance to buy them. I bought several books from him - notably The Uncanny X-Men #94 (and several comics from #94-110). He sold them to me for a very low price of $30.00. It was all the money I had but I knew it was worth it.
I still have these comics and X-Men #94 is now worth around $400.
The guy I bought these from continued an "X" career for himself as a media columnist and critic for Variety and is also the author of two authorized companion guides to the Fox series "The X-Files." He graduated from UCLA in 1984.
Too bad we didn't hang out more... Either I'd have all his comic books in my collection or I'd be on the career path I want to be in now. As a writer.
So at least I got some things out of my head. It was really beginning to wear me down.
Now I can catch the end of the Dodger game and fall asleep on the couch.
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