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Message:: [QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 6515307, member: 100459"]I spent all of my money that I earned, buying Marvel Comic Books.  I was living in Germany and I worked at a Stars and Stripes Book Store.  Every penny I earned (just about) I would buy Fantastic Four, Spiderman, the Hulk, and several others.  I had a collection of over 100 comics in mint shape.  When we returned to the States, I boxed them all up.  That was in 1966.  I had all of them put in the special packages to protect them.  They were stored in a special type of warehouse that cost me $10 a month.  I got drafted in 1968.  Luckily, I was stationed in my home town of Fayetteville, NC, where I had stored them.  I never told my wife about them. I knew that if I did, she would want to sell them.  They stayed in Fayetteville until 1971.  I was married with 1 child going to college on the G.I. Bill and going to college with a family was expensive.  I was weak and I sold my comics for over $10,000.  I wish my coin collection was as productive.[/QUOTE]