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Killing time at the shop turned into a legit collecting lesson
Honestly, I was just killing time between deliveries at the comic store. Tbh, I overheard the owner explaining how to check for restoration on old books. Ngl, I tried it on a beat-up issue I had, and it totally worked. Now I feel way more confident when I'm hunting for deals.
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rowan2767mo ago
but like, is it really worth stressing over restoration that much? Unless you're dropping serious cash on a key issue, who even cares. I found what I thought was a restored copy of some random 90s X-Men book once, but it was still just a $5 book either way. Feels like people make this hobby way more complicated than it needs to be sometimes.
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the_cameron7mo ago
Wait, you're telling me we're not supposed to treat every comic like it's Action Comics #1? @rowan276 I guess some of us just enjoy the drama of possibly owning a "fraudulent" $5 book.
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quinn_thompson7mo ago
Okay but seriously, what counts as "serious cash" though? Like, is the line at fifty bucks or a hundred? Because I've seen people go nuts over a restored copy of a book like New Mutants 98 before it blew up, and that was a twenty dollar book back then. Does the potential future value change how you feel about it now?
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