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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8531291, member: 100459&quot;]My father was in the Army when I was a kid and we moved from base to base almost every year.&nbsp; When I was 17, we were living in Mannheim, Germany in military housing. I graduated from high school in 1965 and got a job at a Stars and Strips books and magazines store on the base.&nbsp; It was about the time Marvel comics were becoming popular.&nbsp; I spent almost all my earnings on the Marvel comics.&nbsp; I must have had almost every first edition of each comic.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember how many I had, but they were stacked about 3 feet high in my closet.&nbsp; </p><p>My father got orders to go back to the states, so I went back to my store and took inventory and locked up with me owing the store about $100 for the comics I bought.&nbsp; When I got home from work, I went to my closet to box up my comics and found that my mother had packed them up and given them to the Army Thrift Store on the base.&nbsp; I rushed over to get my comics back and found that they had already sold them.&nbsp; Back then, there was a weight limit for enlisted men, and my father told me that my comics put them over the limit.&nbsp; Today, those comics would be worth 100&#039;s of thousands of dollars because I kept my comics in mint shape in magazine bags to protect them.</p><p>My son started collecting comics when he was about 12.&nbsp; He worked at a local pharmacy about spent all of his money and allowance on comics, and he, too, kept his comics in magazine bags.&nbsp; When he went to college, he paid his tuition by selling some of his comics.&nbsp; I told him he didn&#039;t have to, but he said he wanted to pay his own way in college, which he did and now his first three daughters are doing the same.</p><p>Now, my collection is for movies, especially the Marvel character movies.&nbsp; I have built a theater and we watch movies and big sports games, especially the NCAA finals, Super Bowl, and World Series.&nbsp; My son lives in Atlanta and when a North Carolina Tar Heels play in a big game, he comes up to watch it in our theater.&nbsp; He says it&#039;s more fun that being crowed in the auditorium.</p><p>Anyway, my parents paid me back for getting rid of my comics.&nbsp; They bought a house in California for $50,000 and when they passed, aside from my father&#039;s coins, I got their house.&nbsp; It sold for $400,000 in a week&#039;s time.</p><p>How do you like them apples?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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