My Top 3 Regrets Collecting Comics 

I would always trade my newsstand copies before direct when I was a kid because I didn't like the bar codes on the cover...

Top 3 regrets. 1: Buying from a dealer. 2: Buying from a dealer. 3: Buying from a dealer.

20 years ago I sold my collection which included the entire Byrne/Claremont X-Men run for my wedding. Divorced and great books gone now! 😂

I regret every comic I've ever sold....... When I think about the books that have been through my now 53 year old hands........I shudder.

Buying a massive "bulk" collection, finding out it wasn't bulk and not maximizing my profit. Selling all my slabs, destroying my uncles collection as a kid.....but the big one. Living right next to Aberdeen Proving Ground and TRADING AWAY all mark jewelers because the ads were "in the way*.

About 12 years ago I sold my AF 15 and not one but TWO Tales of Suspense 39s. I sold for all the wrong reasons, in essence I was shamed being a comic collector. It didn’t take long to realize what a STUIPD mistake it was. I never recovered from that blunder and to this day I buy comics and NEVER sell them.

Learning to deal with my regrets has been a huge struggle for me with collecting comics. Its still worth it in the end. The good always outwears the bad. Thank you Bry!

Leaving the hobby back in 1985 and selling the lot of it to the LCS. No major keys but I remember some juicy books from the 1960s in my collection.

Ouch that ebay sale hurts. I never had it that bad, but sold the DC Masters of the Universe series in high grade,probably for about $20 about 25 years ago.

All great points. The not letting the good books get away is a bit of a trap though. Especially when a lot of deals appear haha

My biggest regret is not bagging and boarding my childhood comics when I got them back then!

Can definitely relate with all the experiences and comments before mine and of course what you went through Bry. Thanks for sharing!

Spidey's greatest enemy. Ragret.

Loved comics when I was a kid and recently after 30+ years got back to the hobby of comic collecting. I don't collect to flip or sell and only get what I really want and can see myself leaving my kids one day. Figured I can't go wrong with that strategy! Keep up the good content Bry, much appreciated from Norway!

Biggest collecting regret was not comics, but toys. Had a full collection of unopened original Thundercats action figures. Left for college and didn't tell my mom not to sell them at a yard sale.

I’m really glad I’ve kept my childhood collection. It’s the full ultimate spider-man run and I don’t plan on ever getting rid of it

Thanks Bry! My biggest regret is not taking better care of my childhood collection.

Top 3 regrets: 1 - after having just decided that I was buying too many Batman titles at the time, I decided not to buy the next issue of Batman Adventures. Just happened to be issue 12. (In my mind, I can still see it sitting there on the rack and making the conscious decision not to buy it.) 2 - being unaware that my brother was selling my father's comic book collection from when he was young (late '50's/early '60's Supes and Bats with some Spidey thrown in, including ASM 4). 3 - Not buying more Silver/Bronze Age (or even Golden) 20-30 years ago. I bought quite a bit back in the day, but, with today's prices, I keep kicking myself that I didn't buy more.

Sigh…my biggest regrets are all too painfully easy to recall. They all occurred in my waaay younger years, when money was tight and my tastes in comic book artists ruled all! 1. I passed on TMNT #1- cheap, b&w money grab on all things x-men. 2. Passed on The Crow #1- angst-ridden, goth b&w trash. 3. Passed on (well, didn’t have the money, which I could have easily gotten from my mom in exchange for future lawn mowing or the like) a pristine collection of FF #s1-100 complete for $100. Special shout out to Jeff, my LCS guy back then, for making those, and many other, great recommendations to a nerdy young woman all those decades ago!

Definitely interested in the retailer regret video.

Mine: falling for the X-Force #1 nonsense back in the early 90s. Oh, I just had to get every variant. Now I just buy comics that have genuine value personally or artistically. That way I'm never unhappy about a purchase.

Hello. The 'only' regret that I have is that I could not buy 'more' issues of the same comics back in the 60s and 70s to not Read and to save for 50 years later and sell.......Man Oh man oh man!

Ahhh, the return of “Capitulate.” 😂

I regret not starting sooner

Great stories, I think most of us have made all of those mistakes at one time or another.

Sounds like this big collection is quite large. Looking forward to seeing it.

Hindsight is 20/20 - don't beat yourself up!

I will, say there was a book that recently sold that I was trying to get as much of the info on it as possible and then it ended up getting bought by someone else. In the end I didn’t think all the value was there although it was somewhat of a unicorn

My only regret is going away the hobby for about 10 years. I grew up reading and collecting books with my dad, and a few years ago started collecting again and began getting into buying slabs and getting some books from my PC slabbed. Thankfully I didn't sell my collection in my time away from collecting and reading comics! Great vid like always, looking forward to seeing the big collection you purchased!

My biggest regret was NOT being a collector as a kid. I was buying comics in the late 60s and 70s but would just read them and not take care of them. They’d usually get tossed by my mother because I’d never keep my room clean. ASM was my favorite so I’m sure some grails slipped through my fingers.

yup, we all have those regrets, bro. but, it's through those mistakes and regrets of the past we learn to grow and become more wiser from them. #ROADTO20K

I think it's fair to say there are more of us who regret NOT making a purchase rather than those who regret making a purchase. Learn from your successes and mistakes but also your regrets...

1. Trading in two extra CGC copies X-Men #142 newsstand (9.6s) for pennies on the dollar to my LCS (for store credit, even) and keeping the 9.8 direct. I had purchased all three were brand new at release back in the day, but still... 2. Grossly overpaying for a Tomb of Dracula #58 on Ebay, after mistakenly keying in the wrong number (with several minutes left) and not being aware I could retract the bid. 3. Not buying a VF copy of Hulk #181 in the early 1980's when it was more affordable. I don't even remember what it was, maybe $100? Still, that was a lot of money when I was in college.

Great video. I believe most of us have similar regrets.

I think most of us have bought comics at the wrong time, but mainly because we had no idea when or if the price would go down.

I've had a few books that I kinda went back and forth on st an lcs that were sold a day or two later when I went in to buy it

Don't have regrets selling comics, I have only purchased. Might have a problem. Not a hoarder though, would sell if I had more time

As a kid I had to stop collecting ASM for a couple months, so my ASM collection stopped at 359 and restarted at 363

When it comes to regrets, I’m sure we can all relate.

I sold my childhood collection and that is my biggest regret. Since then I've re-aquired most of them but still I wish I had held onto the first ones.

You give me hope as a beginner comic collector! Thanks for sharing your experiences 🙏🏼🫡

Biggest regret: Had some badly beat up ASM comics (66 -103, covers missing, rips and MVS cut out) and sold them at a LCS for next to nothing in the 80s for next to nothing. Looking at what sells on a regular basis on Ebay and other websites I can see I probably could have gotten a good chunk of change for them today.

What I appreciate about you is your high integrity, even when it hurts!

My biggest regret.Not buying more of those hot comics back in the days when they were cheap. And selling them when I had to for my family.lol

Regret selling some of my childhood comics for sure

Looking forward to seeing that large collection.

Oh yeah, Batman Adventures I bought a lot on Heritage and #12 was in the lot, cheap. The book was mint mint, glossy. Sold for $300

Thank you for the advice

My biggest regret is not being on eBay when Bry was selling his childhood comics… I missed out and I would have given excellent feedback 😃

Thanks for the video Bry. It is said, that you regret most the shots you don’t take. I don’t know, it hurts pretty bad seeing the current value of books bought during “COVID”. Keep grinding bro!✌️

It's the books I didn't buy (pre pandemic) that haunt me

My biggest regret was not buying ASM 300 at a flea market... Still remembering seeing it on top shelf for $35.... Sigh

Probably FOMO and paying too much for certain comics when I should have held off for a different copy

One of my biggest regrets is passing on the McFarlane Incredible Hulk 340 (Wolverine cover) because it was like $10 at a Con. Granted, I was only 12 or so when this happened, but the burn still feels fresh all these years later. Lol

Those are some really good points - thanks for sharing those

Both books were NM / M 9.8

Man that feedback was rough.

Biggest regret was selling my ASM 129 and Hulk 181 30 yes ago

Sick spider Gwen annual slab in the giveaway

I've changed my focus often. I started by selling my childhood toys, for good $. Jumped in to vintage Star wars figures. Flipped to high end Diecast which I sold to jump on To modern figures. All while stashing comics in the vault to revisit. Over time I've had many scores, a few misses and fails. A few that hurt was, trading my 80s wolverines to my cousin as a kid, getting rid of some hot wheels that each now sell for 5-18gs each and selling my go Joe ss flag and my 1st appearance black suit spider mans, ASM web & secret wars to one buyer about 3 years ago for $200. We live we learn collecting remains FUN. Today I'm taking advantage of the buyers market of slabs. 1st Graded comic the end of this March and today I'm at 🤘23 slabs🤘

My greatest regret was not buying New Mutants 87 and 98 when it first came out.

Definitely some lessons to be learned here. Thanks for sharing.

No regrets yet, but I'm sure there will be some when I start selling some of the books I bought during the boom! Therefor, I'm not selling them!

Yep, I also sold my childhood collection for about 25 cent per book. Still hurts….

It would be great to watch such video Bry. Biggest regrets as a retailer?? Go for it please!!

As an on again, off again collector for over 40 years, the regrets are many :)

I guess comic book collecting is a lot like fishing. The ones you remember most clearly are always the ones that got away. I’ll never forget under bidding in a raw, pristine pence copy of ToS 39. The only defect was a slight indentation in the spine from the cord used to tie a stack of books together when being distributed to the local newsstand. The book was an easy 9.4 or maybe even a 9.6. I didn’t know about pressing at the time but who knows with a good press what the book would have topped out at. That book sold for less than $5000 and I was ready to pay significantly more but put in a way too low bid at the last few seconds. At the time, I didn’t know that if one was going to try to snipe one has to snipe big, meaning putting in your max offer and not an offer that is just a little bit more than the current price. I find that when my sniping bid is at least 2 fold higher than the current price the chances of a successful win are quite good. That rule of thumb doesn’t always work because one never knows who else is sniping. Live the channel and live the store even more. Thanks so much for all the great books I have purchased from Bry’s Comucs over the years: not a single regret among them (even for that copy of Vengeance #1 in a 9.8😂). Cheers!

Biggest regret is selling books I didn’t want to, because I needed money at the time🤦🏼‍♂️

My ComicLink bid history goes back to January 2018.

I usually regret skipping out on a good buy more than anything else. It does make it that much better when you finally get the book though!

Thx for sharing Bry

Love your content...great stuff thx!

So I lost most of my comics from when I was young. However, I never really took care of comics back then, so I don't regret that. That being said, I've spend money on some things that I can't, for the life of me, seem to move. Just takes one buyer, and I'm trying hard not lower my prices too far while I wait.

I still make this mistake each time. If you find that book you are looking at a con, get it!! If you say I am going to walk around first, it will be sold or, if the con is big enough, you will forget the booth you saw it in.

Letting go!

Selling my Marvel Family #1 CGC 5.5 for $500 a few years before all the Black Adam talk started

Sooo many regrets, hard to identify biggest. I’d say jumping back into comic book collecting, since childhood (I’m in my 40’s), during the COVID bubble, without researching and learning how much has changed. That alone cost me double digit thousands, quickly. I made so many mistakes. Tough couple of years for sure, but I’m much wiser now. Learning from our mistakes is often the best lessons/knowledge gained. Love your content, always. Thanks.

Great video! Good info!

Only 2 I. can think of. 1. Told my friend from high school he could sell my Star Wars 1-6 if he wanted. He was the only one of us into comics and comic shops after growing up. It was the 90's and he said the shop said they were only worth a couple of bucks. It's possible they were the cheaper Whitman variants dunno. I don't regret giving him the books of course. I gave another buddy my AD&D 1st edition Dieties & Demigods with Elric and Cthulhu. I regret that I didn't know anything about comics to tell him not to get scammed if it was just a bad LCS buyer. I'm gad though that he didn't sell them my #42. I still have that one and most of my comics from when I was a kid. 2. I didn't really touch comics after I grew up other than walking into a shop maybe once or twice. I just got back into funny books in the last year. I don't at all regret that I focused on my life and work. I do wish I had stopped into a shop or bookstore to grab a trade or comic to read every now and then along the way. I'm glad I've lived long enough to see comic stuff get popular and to go back and collect a couple of the books I missed along the way.

Would love to hear it.

Buying an ASM1 over 20 years ago. It was expensive at the time for me and went for around 3/400 UKP. If only I had stretched myself!!!

I guess my regret is cutting the Marvel Value Stamp out of Incredible Hulk 181. Ugh.

My biggest regret was selling my Avengers run from 25-175. And selling Uncanny X-Men run starting at issue 40- 191 😢😢 Also you was in my neck of woods buying a collection 😊 Florida.

My biggest regret is buying modern raw exclusives and getting caught up in the cool cover hype wasted so much on exclusives

First, great video - yes share the content of the new collection soon and congratulations! Second, reliving nausea - not buying Batman 1, the 4.5 in 2006 at 14.5k. A close next - EVERY 30 and 35 cent price variant in two long boxes including SW1 and the Doc Strange and Hulks for….1k in 2011. I weep daily. And often. If I read my Heritage auctions history I’d lose it. Thank you for the self deprecation. Fun…yes do the retailer so we feel better!

My biggest regret is trying to collect captain america. Lol there is way to many expensive books.

I hear you on these

I’ve sold many things too soon. But they were still at a net positive so I can’t be too upset

Not comics but one time years ago I was at a flea market and came upon a white label promo of The Stooges self-titled LP. I asked the guy how much, he said $5, I said, "Can you do $3?". He looked at what I was holding and grabbed it from me and told me he's not selling it. Very foolish of me to try and save $2.

i never regret the comics i buy, I just regret the ones i didn't.

Getting out of the hobby and waiting so long to get back in.

Great video Bry!

Regret not focusing on condition when buying a key

my biggest regret was leaveing my collection in my moms house! lol all gone, she gave em away to some guy for mowing her lawn.

I am now entered into the contest - hello from Nyobi, Pick us up at LCS

Having a family that does not understand the obsession of collectors at times

My biggest regret was not buying a few high grade copies of ASM 129 when they were going for around $300 back when I was a teenager. Another was in 2018 when someone was selling copies of UF4 still in the polybags for $20 each.

great video!

Top regrets. 🤔 1) My first 10 book submission to CGC. While a few came back the 9.8 & even one surprised me & came back a 9.8 I also had like 3 that I should have known better. My Hellblazer #1 for instance. It came back a damn 7.5. Ouch!! I was thinking 9.4. 2) Sold my ASM 14 in a 5.0 that I won on a giveaway back in ‘21. Really would rather still have that book. 3) Couldn’t afford to bid higher on a very rare Schomburg Gayety magazine from 1941. Ended up barely losing out on this book I’ve only seen for sale once in the last 5 yrs. Ouch!

Having to sell my silver age comics when I got divorced in the 90's