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Bob Bretall has read every single one of his over 129,000 comic books. He currently has the largest collection of unique comic books in the world, and he continues to grow this collection every week. Bretall started collecting a child, and he doesn't just look for comic books. He had art, figurines and everything else to do with the comic world. In this episode of The Vault, Bretall explains where he got his passion for all things superhero and comic strip.
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@mattheximer8299 2 года назад

THIS is how you establish a great collection... purchase what you love. Read the books and enjoy the hobby. Forget all the stupid speculation, and remember why comics were so great in the first place.

@aftacomics5865 2 года назад

You hit the nail on the head!!!

@TheComicBookReport 2 года назад

Perfectly said 👏💪

@dougbrowne9890 2 года назад

The guy, in the video, sounds like a Marvel Zombie to me. Guess for once it paid off.

@gingergranttech 2 года назад

Big collection. But super boring .

@goodnightmoon 2 года назад

@@gingergranttech no one asked for your opinion

@emerybraun4698 2 года назад

This guy is a GENUINE comic fan. Love how he kept the old cutout of spider man from when he was a kid

@warnutztheloser Год назад

that must be from the 50s

@eternalabel3966 11 месяцев назад

@@warnutztheloserSpider-Mans first appearance was 1962 so definitely not lol

@PerryComics 2 года назад

love that he still collects and reads new comic book day books

@TheComicBookReport 2 года назад

Isn’t that incredible! Someone who has kept the fire going 💪🎉

@jakub_hricov Год назад

yeah, thats awsm. And very good comic books. Like The Good Asian.

@joseibarra2985 2 года назад

I love warm hearted collectors I feel like they're so kind and passionate.

@Dousch 9 месяцев назад

Finally a collector that actually has some passionate things to say.

@bernarddickson3675 2 года назад

As a lifelong comic reader, I found this deeply moving. Wonderful.

@versewonderstrikes5353 2 года назад

Comics are the reason I read till this day!

@TheComicBookReport 2 года назад

👏👏👏

@VampireA1056 2 года назад

Me too, same with Manga

@liz7893 2 года назад

@@VampireA1056 yep same here manga

@NikeZay2 2 года назад

Same here

@SPEIGHTS78 2 года назад

So love collecting comics 😍

@CesarIsaacPerez 2 года назад

Awesome!!! I started reading comics when I was 15, to this day I love going to the comic shop every Wednesday and buying my new issues, I'm 42 now. I've introduced the hobby to my friends and cousins and their kids.

@arthurtripp6922 2 года назад

GLAD TO SEE ANOTHER OLD TIMER THAT ENJOY COMICS HATE TO TELL YOU I WAS A 10CENT KID AND WHEN I WAS IN VIETNAM MY FATHER SENT ME EACH MONTH A BOX OF GUM,KOOL ADE, LIVESAVERS AND GOOD OLD COMICS AND THE TEAM LOVED IT. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF FROM A WOODCHUCK.

@lukedelrosario5881 2 года назад

Why are you screaming?

@email5023 2 года назад

WHY ARE WE YELLING?!?

@johntomanio3374 Год назад

Dang. I had to stop buying comics when I ran out of room to store them. I only have about 48,000. (Approximately 160 jam-packed longboxes.) Of course I also have a near-complete collection of DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks hardcovers. And about 300 omnibuses. No more room!

@comicsbythebay Год назад

My goodness, what I would give just to walk through and look through this collection, freaking awesome!

@ismaeltorres3975 2 года назад

Wow! You have a wonderful collection. I could spend days looking over your collection . I would eat my Saturday morning sugar loaded cereals and have the tv playing all my favorite 60's cartoons! 😇🥰

@TheTenCentStory 2 года назад

You can still eat those sugar cereals. They have made high protein versions now of the same flavors that are better for you. They are really good.

@deadbookdarling 2 года назад

What a lovely human

@funnystuff553 2 года назад

I could honestly wacth a hour long video of him just showing off everything he has in his collection

@husseinjmakshofi2697 Год назад

Great interview. I am glad to see a loyal reader and collector getting positive attention

@travisguay7061 Год назад

I could listen to him talk about comics forever

@501Michae1 2 года назад

cutting characters out and playing with them. i did the same thing as a kid. 😂

@davidmunoz1809 2 года назад

ME TOO ! I really thought I was the only one 😭 I would draw characters too and cut those out

@csharp57 2 года назад

I never did. I traced over them to try and learn to draw, but I needed to re read my comics over and over

@bathombre9739 2 года назад

I cut out the characters too in bible character comic books, so would have king david and his army vs philistines

@johndavis48076 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing Bob!

@Chamorru0341 2 года назад

I would ❤ to own my comic collection room one day. I just got back into collecting last year. Been away for decades since the 80s. Nowadays I been buying comics just for the front cover art. There a few I read only.

@arthurmorgan8991 2 года назад

Sad that so little of it is readable, but glad you enjoy collecting!

@papalikescomics 2 года назад

Pretty much the same age that I started reading comics. Awesome to see him still picking up new books!

@luedanger561 2 года назад

Impressive!! I'm a little over 3500 books. Amazing Fantasy 15 is my grail

@Sora-o 2 года назад

Thats a lot of comics lol I just started collecting i hate it... it's too addicting.

@818Vallero 2 года назад

@@Sora-o Same just another addiction I've added to the arsenal lol

@Sora-o 2 года назад

@@818Vallero lol, yeah I also got into collecting pokemon cards.... big mistake.

@matthewvaniman0 Год назад

@@Sora-o I’m starting to collect comics I have 5 normal comics and TWD omnibus Vol one and injustice omnibus Vol 1 and 2

@markmichel3855 2 года назад

I read comics every day. I appreciated there was no mention of comic book movies

@csharp57 2 года назад

I find it hilarious that when these marvel movies started to get popular, I hated them. They were so “off” from what I remember reading. Now it’s the reverse. I dislike these new comics and prefer to watch the marvel movies over and over

@markmichel3855 2 года назад

@@csharp57 the only modern marvel comics I follow are the X books and anything with Conan in it. I do read trade paperbacks of other marvel titles

@cha5 4 месяца назад

These days I really go out of my way to avoid comic book movies in general, but I follow news on comics as a medium and their creators and especially on collecting vintage comics more than ever.

@nunyabizness6595 16 дней назад

@csharp57 With occasional winners like Spiderman No Way Home and Guardians 3, the comic book movies had no where to go after Endgame. The multiverse angle has proven to be a red herring with no gravitas. But the comic books themselves? Eternal!❤❤❤

@akaBoG Год назад

Started buying comics when I was about 10. Currently I have over 10,500 single printed issues I my collection.

@jacobkusnerik8809 2 года назад

Now THIS is awesome!!!! I have about 400 in my collection. Still, I sincerely doubt I could collect as many as you have (not as much money 😅.) Good luck with the continued collecting.

@HardlineSoul 2 года назад

I'm just shy of 1600....this guy is a legend!

@comichaulcrew 2 года назад

Beautiful Collection!

@nunyabizness6595 16 дней назад

The writing is great but its when you marry a great writer to a great artist, thats when the creative sparks fly.❤❤❤

@BallerinaPocketNews Год назад

Stunning Collection Of Comic Books Bob! 👏🏻

@batmanrogues1670 2 года назад

As a Comic fanatic who reads and collects this dude is who I want to be when I am older

@DarkChyld333 8 месяцев назад

I'm mostly a Marvel comics reader but it brought me so much joy when he showed the independent comics at the end and in the stack i spotted "Geiger" and "Karmen".... Both great independent and non-superhero reads! There really is a comic for everybody.

@venomsymbiote7555 2 года назад

Damn this dudes collection of comics is my goal

@jbernal682 2 года назад

This is awesome

@aftacomics5865 2 года назад

What's amazing is the memorabilia you have that is so connected to the books themselves! Fantastic!!!

@thundergodd6086 2 года назад

Yeah, nearly as good as yours. ;)

@aftacomics5865 2 года назад

@@thundergodd6086 Hahaha! You sir are great!!!

@johngulino2651 Год назад

That’s it: the combination of art and story. He says it perfectly, right there. ❤️😂❤️👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿👍🏾👍🏼

@kenjohnson2650 2 года назад

OMG so remember cutting up comics to have "action figures"! I have a nice collection today but try to forget those cut-up days lol

@theayatollahofrockandrolla 2 года назад

This is my grandfather.... he just doesn't know it yet.. love you pa pa..

@chrisliles1668 2 года назад

thats awesome i love them too

@petermotta1623 2 года назад

Great stuff.

@blackrook29 Год назад

cutting spiderman out that was genius idea. gave me some ideas actually.

@nativeamerica9254 2 года назад

I got married under age at 9 years well that's married to comic books 😁👍 back in the seventies the Stan the man Lee era where Marvel surely was and shall remain still the house of ideas 😊😉👍

@walrusman70 Год назад

awesome!

@daverichards9141 2 года назад

I'd love to chill with Bob. I liked the spectre big clix fig and veruka pop too.

@joehong1681 2 года назад

Wow it like a grail for comic collector.

@robertmurray0302 Год назад

Awesome collection👍👍

@BobBob-kr5wr 2 года назад

Must be nice to have that level of expendable income.

@ccsportsfan7886 2 года назад

Excellent

@jamiecoe__3682 2 года назад

I love comics and I really want to read them but I don’t know where to start and when I start to look I get really overwhelmed

@fedenciogonzalezjr9051 2 года назад

I would cut the pages out not the characters bit the page that had amazing artwork and put it on my wall like a poster

@Hairylionproductions Год назад

If you are a Marvel fan, check out this animated film Silver Sable: Pride on RU-vid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sjn-JAAGrcQ.html

@comicbooksgalore8582 Год назад

That AF15 is restored.

@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319 Год назад

Hopefully he's using a phone app like CLZ to track all of this. I've used it for my collection for about 5 years and it's WONDERFUL. There's dozens of features that make tracking your metrics for personal and insurance purposes really easy (such as CGC/CBCS grade) AND it links to a desktop version of the app for tracking under any circumstances. I use their game, comic and movie apps and I've always been HIGHLY satisficed. They also have others for books and music if you have passions for them as well. I constantly recommend the CLZ apps to other collectors, but nobody ever takes my advice because I'm not a big RU-vid name with a following in the thousands...

@TheEmperorjun 11 месяцев назад

❤❤❤wow...legendary!!! The godfather of such hobby...only wishful thinking here 😊😊😊

@jarredmorris9749 Год назад

love it

@mariuszadamczyk7766 Год назад

Passion ❤️‍🔥

@Whalewraith 2 года назад

Brilliant I thought i was the only one who made cardboard cut outs of rare comics 😆

@fbgduval 2 года назад

and i thought my stepdad's comic collection of 39k+ (and still growing) books was a lot.

@rickytoddbotelho9555 2 года назад

I have a lot of comics too. Almost this many in my RV.😄

@haljordan6476 2 года назад

I WOULD KILL FOR A COMIC BOOK COLLECTION LIKE THIS Like him having all those comics, action figures, Replica's is so amazing Its like my room on steroids

@investorbettor505 Год назад

I recently became a comic fan via sports cards and veve. Kudos to this guy

@MrEdWeirdoShow 2 года назад

He still regularly buys current comics? Then I'm very impressed at this man's incredible threshold of pain.

@csharp57 2 года назад

In all seriousness, they are very bad. No imagination. Nothing thrilling. I remember the last exciting comic I read. It was when Punisher took over the War Machine armor. It was so intriguing. Then they took it away and it was boring again

@agathisrobusta 2 года назад

If you guys can't find a good comic to read these days you aren't looking very hard at all.

@Eudaimonia239 2 года назад

agree, used to read almost 30 to 40 comics weekly, now I stopped reading comics altogether due to the poor quality of modern comics. Now I prefer movies, anime, and the occasional back issues. There are just better quality in other hobbies than current comics.

@csharp57 2 года назад

@@Eudaimonia239 Could be that writers have stricter guidelines on what topics they can cover. And they also have to be careful of whom they may offend Like it wasn't unusual to see the punisher gun down a few hundred gangsters. Probably can't write like that anymore

@jermiester7772 Год назад

Him creating characters with cutouts. I used to use my hockey cards as characters and create a whole small world and my imagination run wild.

@TheComicBookReport 2 года назад

Great video and story 🎉

@steve-ec5wp Год назад

COOL,VERY,VERY,COLL!!!!!😀!!!!THANK YOU!!!!!

@ryannarvaez6484 2 года назад

Bob! I need a AF15!

@ajteach4562 2 года назад

Would love to visit there and spend an eternity reading them...

@deveraalmestica5838 2 года назад

Wow he his a big collection of comics. Cool.

@1marvelfan707 2 года назад

i really need to get all my collection set up in one place, have ot in 5 buildings, over 400 screen used props from marvel movies, and just about everything seen here, minus the statues, love it all, bit all these collections lack movie props, which would really add to the wonder of it

@animhaxx Год назад

2:47 everyone did that at some point🤣

@aj1more Год назад

What a legend

@Randomcomicsfrommyspinne-xt5kq 5 месяцев назад

I had that early period of cutting out figures from the comics because Marvel didn't license out a lot of stuff for games and toys

@cattameme 2 года назад

I want that shield carpet.

@ayarozerdem3535 2 года назад

Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!

@isaiahfreeman 2 года назад

There are various things i look for when considering buying a comic, one of the strongest ones for me is cover art I love and the good asian variant cover we got a glimpse of in this video instantly made me want that particular book and see what else the series has to offer. I really enjoy those love at first sight moments.

@ponrix Год назад

cover art?not about story or the artist/inker? just"i like the cover"

@VampireA1056 2 года назад

I wanna be this guy's friend

@Rozz7362 2 месяца назад

Living my dream life

@markmichel3855 2 года назад

Cool that cerebus number one made the video

@leepritchett5568 2 года назад

Thats the record i counted all mone a couple years ago and i had little over 132,532 comic books been collecting steady for 34 years.going have to check wirld record out

@cardsfan5100 2 года назад

Wow, that’s an amazing collection. I hope you get the record. I only have 15% of yours. What’s your system for storage and cataloging?

@bbretall 2 года назад

I wish you the best, Lee. Don't forget to remove all the duplicates from your count. When I did that the first time... after 40 years of collecting, I had 1000s of duplicates. Ended up giving most of them away.

@TA3DArtist 2 года назад

11x17 to allow for a 10x15 safe area but regardless of that very cool video and it’s neat to see someone who enjoys the actual medium.

@nativeamerica9254 2 года назад

What is the batmobile scale and make that is in the perplex glass?

@mulemule 2 месяца назад

*Does anyone know what Bob did/does for a living that underwrites such a massive, ongoing, venture?*

@silviarosa4791 2 года назад

Que las colecciones sean cada una mas grande que la otra

@loubromberg4976 2 года назад

Nice to see someone who ENJOYS the medium for the LOVE and not just Market reports and investment. Imagine buying 30 to 40 new comics a week, Hope he gets a decent discount....

@austinwhitehead16 2 года назад

Fb Third eye Comic and Collections. They have some really cool Comics and related art work and toys

@davidmartin2572 Год назад

I did same thing to mine then use foam board backing on character I cut out!!!!!!!!!! God I want to see his collection

@husseinjmakshofi2697 Год назад

Dear MCU, alternate universe Collector appearance recommendation right here.

@ElArlequin 2 года назад

I have close to a 1000 comics in between trade paperbacks, floppies and hardcovers and I thought it was a lot... hahaha.

@esentertainment7368 2 года назад

This guy is a god

@elombowman3810 2 года назад

2:36 OMG I thought I was the only one who did this 😮😂! I ruined a lot of classic Spiderman books doing this myself (until I finally got a Spidey action figure).

@Hairylionproductions Год назад

If you are a Marvel fan, check out this animated film Silver Sable: Pride on RU-vid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sjn-JAAGrcQ.html

@ThomasWilliams848403 2 года назад

Hii...Great video

@exo84 2 года назад

i did the exact same thing of cutting comicbooks and play with them as toys too... only if i knew lol

@tmargosian 2 года назад

Definitely not the biggest collection in the world, nonetheless a great collection. And comics are doing great right now. People who think they’re failing don’t understand the industry. It’s doing very well and survived the pandemic better than most. Thanks for the vid.

@Criner05 2 года назад

It said he has over 129,000 unique comic books. That doesn't include reprints or variants.

@bbretall 2 года назад

Didn't make final edit with this video but I carefully point out there are lots of people with more comics than me. Many of them buy/sell comics for a living so what is inventory and what is their collection is hazy. I also bought mine one by one and read them... not something everyone with a lot of comics has done. Plus... no counting duplicates. 50 copies of the same comic counts as 1.

@joncarroll2040 2 года назад

@@bbretall are you counting variants or do you only buy 1 copy regardless of the number of variants? What about reprints? Like if you have a complete run of Uncanny X-Men do you count the issues where the book was effectively cancelled and they just ran old stories?

@makeracistsafraidagain 2 года назад

My mom threw mine away when I enlisted in the '70s.

@mysterymac38 2 года назад

I won't tell you how much money you probably lost. You probably don't want to know.

@neonniteridr294 2 года назад

good

@sergiobarrera1729 Год назад

hey I got the 1939 Superman it's in good condition all pages are there just the front cover got your little tear on top I'm looking for a good offer on it

@Jimvanhise 2 года назад

Some years ago a man had his gigantic collection of original MAD magazine art on display at a museum in Orange County, California. A few years later he died and his family auctioned off all of the art so it is now scattered to the four winds. The same thing happened when Ray Bradbury died and his 60 year collection of original art (much of it from his own stories published over the years) was auctioned off by his family. Put in a museum? Not when there's money to be made!!!

@daviclar867 2 года назад

Well that's how Chuck found the Edgar Church collection. His family wanted all his stuff out of the house to sell. He even found some of his art in the trash cans out back that Chuck recovered.