Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 26, 2025

That’s what usually happens…..

Because those copies aren’t in airtight plastic bags for a few years.

Seems like a sound investment.

As your mom will when she finds them!

But they still have fingerprints on them from handling them.

Air tight bags, Seal-a-meal.

A lot of things somehow become more and more valuable over time. Recently, I learned a rare sealed hangtag copy of the first ever Castlevania game was Sold for over 90 thousand dollars!

There is a theory that as baby boomers die off, old comics may decline in value.

I have an attic full of baseball cards from the late 80’s. The “Junk Wax Era”. By now, they were supposed to be worth enough I could buy my own yacht. I couldn’t sell them all for a pack of gum. Everyone else has an attic full of them too.

and here i am still with some of my boys’ stuff and they are in their 40s lol

I have the original Barbie, I guess I should look into how much it’s worth now.

Like hundreds of thousands of supermoms, my mom threw out my first edition Spider-man #1.

She claimed she was “just doing her job”, but I sued her anyway.

Years ago I used to get a UK “boy’s comic” called the “Hotspur”. Great comic, almost impossible to find these days.

Never got into comics. Do own a few rare video games though. Turns out you want a sound investment, go for PS2 horror games.

Rule of Rose: Thousand bucks.Haunting Ground: 300-500.Silent Hill 2 and 3: 150-200.

Very wise, Calvin. Its called an Investment and how people become wealthy and Liberal losers whine because they are not as financially enhanced and demand a part of your money because they’re entitled to it because they’re… any number of things. God Bless America.

Oh, you and your wild fantasy!

Reminds me of the Beanie Babies® craze!

It’s all up to you, Mom!

I showed my mother what the values of the comics she threw away was. She was shocked!

My folks were constantly on me to get rid of my old comics. I finally did, and of course, you know what happened.

…….and what year mite that be??

Good luck, Calvin. I’m thinking your plan is sheer speculation. I never quite understood those who pay thousands of dollars for comics, pokemon cards, or even old baseball cards. I suppose it’s so they could boast about owning a small, thin, piece of cardboard with someone’s picture on it.

Which your mom may do when she cleans out your closet.

I can just hear the wailing of those reaching retirement age, realizing they banked their retirement wealth in worthless non-fungible tokens.

I had many saved comic books from the 1950s on, and a ton of ’50s and ’60s baseball cards. Some autographed by later Hall of Famers. And a gift I was given of a Babe Ruth and a Ty Cobb baseball card that had come with cigarettes way back when. When I was reported as MIA my mother, in her grief, threw it all away. We figured it was all eventually worth over $1 million.

I had one of the Marvel comics with the Spiderman origin story back in the 7th grade. Needless to say, my mom disposed of my future retirement. In looking at current prices, that cardboard box would now have been worth several million dollars if it existed today.

not the worst theory – especially if other moms are like mine. (she actually threw out all my brother’s baseball cards from the 50s including a Mickey Mantle Rookie card.)

i had Beatles trading cards and football and bat man trading cards and mom threw them out

That’s what they used to think about old National Geographics;

The guy that said “I used to be a millionaire and then my mom threw away by baseball card collection”

My mom threw away my 7Up glasses (they were upside down from the iconic coca-cola glasses).

I wonder what my early collection of Easy Riders, National Lampoon and Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers would be worth today?

Yeah, pretty much.

I believe this is how hedge funds work.

My grandmother threw away years worth of MAD magazines while I was in college, back in the ‘60s. I can’t imagine what they’d be worth today…

Sad, but true. When I went into the Marine Corps, everything that I owned, that my mother thought was little value, she either gave away or threw away. A friend of mine sold an apple IIe on ebay for $30K. Trouble is, it was mine and my mother gave it to him. So, I am with Calvin. Hide your stuff that you think is valuable, or your mother will get rid of it, the moment you leave the home for good.

Recently, at Pawn Stars a Superman Comic from the 1950s was assessed at $ 50.000.

Sounds like a plan

My husband really needs to see this one. It’s paid off a couple of times, but it’s like winning the lottery – you spend more trying to win than you get back (at least on the small games)

My mother made me get rid of 3,000 comics. I was gutted.

I’ve managed to find most on ebay.

My Dad told us about coming home from a hitch in the Army and finding that his mom had tossed his baseball card collection. Truly, I cannot comprehend doing something like that without ASKING first!

I have about a half dozen Big Little Books from the ’30’s and their worth? About the same as a small lunch.

Well, that’s what my Mom did – 1st issue of Spiderman, Silver Surfer, bunch of others. Of course, they weren’t exactly in mint condition – we actually read them

There was a time in the early 80’s I purchased & sold comics. A place I purchased older books was a garage rummage sales. It played out like this. Young boomers were devoted comic book fans. Then many left for college. They returned for Christmas & Easter. They traveled in the summer or got internships. They graduated taking jobs not near home. Parents got tired of saving the shrine that used to be the son’s bedroom. Then they told their child to come get his “stuff” or it would be sold or trashed.At the rummage sale I sometimes found fairly valuable comic issues. Many times I purchased older books. A few times I even pointed out comic book stores might give them better prices. Very few followed my advice.I left the comic trade as it took too much of my time. I think of comics that I resold for $50-$100 now selling for a lot more.

My mom and my brother took it upon themselves to throw away most of my comics.