My Top 3 Regrets Collecting Comics

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[@antoniocar596]

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

[@bronzevillecomics2581]

Who are you supposed to buy from?

[@jamesjordan3051]

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...

[@paytonardoin688]

I never liked the barcodes either lol. Oops

[@Darth.Shredder]

I ran a shop in the 90's and we couldn't give away newsstand versions of comics. Even hot books that sold out would collect dust if all I could get was newsstand versions. Luckily I wholesaled to actual newsstands and could dump them off. It's amazing that people pay more and chase after them these days.

[@the4deadlyvenoms]

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! 😂

[@GLPCOMICS75]

Damn

[@TheBastardsNetwork]

I sold my Neal Adams Batman books for a down payment on an engagement ring. Good thing the jewelry store let me return it after I caught my ex talking to someone else. But I'll never get those Batman books back at the price I aquired them for.

[@leelewis5730]

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.

[@bobtrottier8178]

@@leelewis5730 This one hit me right where it hurts most...it's incredible the books I've HAD, and don't HAVE.

[@razorod6540]

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

[@louben987]

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

[@ericcasagrande]

A big AMEN to that!!!!

[@bobtrottier8178]

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*.

[@dandelatorre1870]

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.

[@brandonmohammed9141]

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

[@coolworldpopculture]

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.

[@jeffstanley6013]

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.

[@BrysComics]

😫

[@GearRob]

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!

[@bronzevillecomics2581]

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.

[@theclarks6280]

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

[@rgi_comics]

Definitely interested in the retailer regret video.

[@joe3019772008]

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

[@nerdyoldwoman9651]

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!

[@clintstevens6831]

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.

[@button71]

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

[@charlessteele7904]

Thank you for the advice

[@victorjacobsen4447]

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!

[@Kirok2005]

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.

[@craig8687]

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

[@jhernandez3038]

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

[@BrandonMcIntyre541]

Ahhh, the return of “Capitulate.” 😂

[@BrysComics]

😂😂😂I will always drop that in from time to time now lol

[@JimChurchSr-lu2pq]

Those are some really good points - thanks for sharing those

[@bigal6347]

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!

[@rmrtnzstn]

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!

[@BrysComics]

You’re in good company lol

[@sidneyrivera3578]

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!✌️

[@RJGraye]

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.

[@SBAVoltronProdt]

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

[@robmobs]

Looking forward to seeing that large collection.

[@collectplayandenjoy2800]

Talking about the biggest regrets as a buyer, the time I bought an ASM 28 at a wonderful price and got so excited and I bought it before. I actually read the full description and found that it was missing two wraps. The seller disclosed it, but I just didn’t read the entire description.

[@lindaknapp674]

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

[@BrysComics]

👍💯

[@tomwaits6287]

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

[@harvey0812]

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

[@kevinjameson7817]

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.

[@JSSBrooklyn]

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!

[@BrysComics]

Oh man oh man oh man!

[@jmourgos55]

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

[@bestcore1214]

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!

[@user-ze5jb4rk1u]

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

[@brucecree9170]

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!

[@corso_kid]

I regret not starting sooner

[@user-pi4bv2lo2t]

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.

[@johnobrien5253]

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🤘

[@franktiodor1223]

Both books were NM / M 9.8

[@user-cb3xt2nn5p]

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

[@SBAVoltronProdt]

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

[@lukeorloki]

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.

[@Comics_Recovery]

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.

[@darynyamada502]

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

[@wildeman79]

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.

[@BrysComics]

🙏🏻

[@GymLeaderRay]

I hear you on these

[@DBattyJr]

Would love to hear it.

[@DrAnthonyCaruso]

Thx for sharing Bry

[@williammiles8021]

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

[@Fenimore.Cassidy]

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...

[@Rhoninscomics]

Regret selling some of my childhood comics for sure

[@keithskomics8649]

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.

[@zachbrobst9473]

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

[@BrysComics]

Yup

[@dfurfaro13]

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!

[@shytweedabone2663]

Letting go!

[@cowbelltv4865]

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

[@GLPCOMICS75]

Oh No

[@rogerfleming1782]

Wish I watched more of these videos before I discovered live streaming sites. Got caught up in all the exclusives at the beginning.

[@anthonythomasexperience]

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.

[@franktiodor1223]

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

[@dradatzke]

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

[@dandare1270]

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

[@jknowstheway1462]

Spidey's greatest enemy. Ragret.

[@berkfamily54]

Sick spider Gwen annual slab in the giveaway

[@terrygillard1672]

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.

[@DarrenCarman]

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!!!

[@jodyhickerson5167]

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

[@ThePinkfloyd51]

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.

[@musicalman76]

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

[@williamsmallwood794]

Love your content...great stuff thx!

[@pulp420]

My ComicLink bid history goes back to January 2018.

[@BrysComics]

That is so weird 🤷‍♂️

[@koschei1975]

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!

[@CedRed]

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

[@corso_kid]

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 😃

[@Tryndal76]

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

[@DaleofSuspense]

My biggest regret was not having an extra $900 so I could purchase a ToS39. Was a super clean copy but it was a detached cover. I was able to hold it though. LOL

[@Forza_Juventus_48]

Great video Bry!

[@rogerw1521]

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

[@collinf33]

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

[@MrMugs75]

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

[@franciscomarquez3678]

Awesome content Bry.. keep up the good work buddy.

[@hockeymike15035]

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

[@lngambino]

I've got a question and an idea for a video. I have about 8,000 comic books. But I don't remember what's in those long boxes. Is there an app or an easy way to catalog/inventory them? Or do have to make an excel sheet and manually list everything? Could you recommend some apps and share with the community what you do with your stuff?

[@Chris_TheDreamcatcher]

Can't wait to see your new acquisitions.

[@breakbeatz309]

Man that feedback was rough.

[@gregm7269]

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

[@user-sc8mm8to3s]

So much should of could of !! We live we learn 🙏

[@Rush_yt1]

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.

[@everydaychallenges2282]

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

[@KenKravec-fq5gy]

Great video! Good info!

[@lorddjarjar2836]

great video!

[@jakobmercier3]

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

[@bensaunders2370]

Thanks for that eBay story!. Don't feel bad about following through on the sale, though. It speaks volumes about your personal integrity that you would honor the deal. I have no doubt that your honesty is one of the reasons you seem to be well regarded in this business (which is full of cowboys). It's the sort of story that makes me more inclined to want to do business with you one day! (I'm a good six years away from selling my own collection, but I do plan to let it go when I retire ...) I have so many regrets about not buying things when I could've done -- probably the biggest would be seeing Watchmen and Dark Knight pages for sale at the UKComic Art Convention in the mid 80s and not buying them (it would've eaten up my whole budget for the weekend -- but compared to what those pages sell for today, it would also have been the greatest investment of my life)!

[@BrysComics]

Those dark night pages are INSANE!

[@benjamingonzalezjr9294]

Passing up buying a book or comic. Now i just buy it if i can afford it. Passed on an invincible #1 for 100, thought it was too much., LCS estimated at a 9 9.2. Ended up buying a copy slighlty better condition raw for $260. Honorable mention Neca Tmnt Splinter