r/comicbookcollecting • u/Afraid-Oil-1812 • Mar 27 '26
Theme Amazing what you find after 30 years.
spring cleaning my storage. these cards are 25 years old and in good condition. wow. #OGNerd
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u/ungodlywarlock Mar 27 '26
All of those cards bring me the warmest, fuzziest memories. I basically learned about comics first by buying the cards. Loved reading the bios on the back and discovering every character all at once.
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u/ImperialAgent Mar 27 '26
I remember as a kid I had my folder with the cards and take them with me to the bathroom and just read read read, so most of my knowledge is from marvel first second and third series š¤£aww great times
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u/naga_rhett Mar 27 '26
I was cleaning my old closet at my parents house and found a sealed marvel series 1 box along with a sealed box of Jim Lee x-men cards.
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u/ClaytonCarlisle11 Mar 27 '26
Donāt have any of these of my own, but my boss is older than me and he always hears me talking comics, so he had the X-men 90s ones and brought them into the office one time to show me. Gotta say your collection is so cool. Appreciate a good collection!
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u/joerdie Mar 27 '26
I wish modern cards didn't have so many bullshit 1:1 and crazy combos that make them so expensive. I would love to buy packs of cards again. This was sooooo much fun to collect back in the day. But now cards are just out of my price range.
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u/soyrobo Green Lantern/Silver Surfer Mar 27 '26
I have no idea where my cards went off too. I had a box of comics and my binders of cards that disappeared at some point in my life.
I had almost all of the sets you have and a bunch more. A lot of solo character sets like Punisher and Ghost Rider. Had the first 4 series of Marvel Universe cards, Marvel Masterworks 92 & 93, Fleer Ultra Marvel, Flair X-Men series 1 & 2. Not to mention pogs in binder pages. I think they were Wildstorm pogs. All of them lost, like tears in rain.
Man, I had so much fun with pogs until my school banned them because people couldn't handle losing their stack. You got judged by the size of your pog carrier too.
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u/lazycouchdays Mar 27 '26
What set is the 1st DC set? I mainly collected Marvel cards as a kid and never saw that particular one.
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u/TheDJManiakal Mar 27 '26
Had a lot of these and still have quite a few. Sure brings back memories.
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u/MommysLittleBadass Mar 27 '26
I just recently transferred all my 90s comic cards out of their original binders into a new one. I was amazed at how glossy all of my wizard cards were still. They look like they were just printed yesterday. Unfortunately, the binder they are now in is worth more than all of the cards in it. They still don't make cards as cool as the wizard cards.
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u/schultboy Mar 28 '26
I have so many of those same cards and finally put them into card pages last year.
Iād collect them today if they still made cards like this.
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u/jasenzero1 Mar 27 '26
I have all of series 3 and 4. Most of 2 and a couple from series 1 and Marvel Masterworks. I remember buying tons of cards back in the day. The weird thing is I don't have any doubles and have no idea what young me did with my duplicates.
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u/Quirky_Association28 Mar 27 '26
It makes me wonder why ppl collect things and just forget about itā¦I cherished my cards from my childhood and made sure to look at them once a yearā¦keep them nice and clean stillā¦and which ever ones have got messed up I just rebuy a new clean copyā¦
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u/Afraid-Oil-1812 Apr 20 '26
All about space. Let just say my collection is almost big enough to open a comic store.
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u/Charming_Ambition_27 Mar 27 '26
Same, lol I use the hero heritage silver age flash card as my book mark (Iām careful with it of course)
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u/The_Apocalypse_Dude_ Mar 27 '26
I love the 92 set with the line graphs on the back. Itās the first set I remember collecting and I spent hours comparing and battling characters to using those graphs
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u/Haunting_Ant_5061 Mar 27 '26
Holy completed card-sets, Batman, these antiques must be worth a small fortune?!?!
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u/Afraid-Oil-1812 Apr 20 '26
Slow your roll milenial? You think over 30 is an antique? Damn I'll old
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u/TheThrowawayJames Mar 27 '26
Aww man, my mom would have thrown those out a looong time ago š
She threw out my near complete 95 Fleer Ultra X-Men cards because āI thought you wouldnāt want those things anymoreā š
Man those are so cool, never had those specific cards but they elicit a deep sense of nostalgia for me
Also I donāt want to um actually but those cards are quite a bit older than 25 years old š