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Comic Lovers look away..
Posted by iggypop on 15 January 2011 - 3:24pm.
I went down into our cellar yesterday to finally bring back up my collection of Marvel comics, saved between 1980--2000. They,d been stored there, in the safest place i could think of, while the bedroom was being re-jigged. So now, after the snow has melted..and poured through the cellar air brick, all i,ve got left is stinking papier mache. Once the numbness has subsided i may have a good cry!!
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The opposite of excelsior
I can but hope I never feel that.
Somewhere in Britain my Dad is fighting a rearguard action against Mum. She wants a clean, uncluttered house.
He's guarding several large boxes of Eagle, Battle, battle Picture Weekly, and sundry others.
If your story happened to us, I think I'd uncork something strong.
Whatever you do, don't bin them...
Use the papier mâche to sculpt something, reminise about the stories you read and admire the unique extravagance of your creation. No one will ever have twenty years of comic history as papier mâche.
Oh my god.... Nightmare.
Oh my god....
Nightmare. Nightmare. Nightmare!
I had a similar but much smaller scale incident a few years ago. Awful as it is, 'tis but stuff.
Heartbreaking
Big supportive hug sent out to you, True Believer.
The same thing happened to me around 20 years ago...
when I stored all my comics and books in a trunk in a cellar that then flooded. I was left with soup. Not good. Not good at all.
that is really grim
really heart breaking
Never fear
..."The New Adventures of Papier-Mache Man" will be huge!
Seriously, I have genuine sympathy. What a bummer.
I hope you have insurance?
A trip to the nearest Forbidden Planet clutching a freshly printed cheque might take some of the pain away.
Condolences. I shall have nightmares tonight, and wake in a sweaty fug.
Thanks you lot..
I don,t usually start threads here, but there,s nowhere better to come to when you need a bit of a boost..good place and great people !!
I will mourn as well
I,ll also keep my apostrophes at half mast today.
At least it wasn,t your 1930-1950 collection!
if you do have insurance
I hear good things of comics on the ipad.
He's iggypop
Of course he's insured.
PS I'm sorry for your loss.
Booooooo.
Sorry to hear that, how very rotten.
My Dad had a similarly treasured collection of comics (stretching from childhood into his 20s), which he entrusted to his father when he left home for the merchant navy.
His father, being somewhat a hard, unsentimental man, took them all straight down to the local tip.
Ouch!
I still mourn a single Spiderman comic left on a coach taken to London in 1978. God knows how you must feel.
Think fedoraboy's idea is a cracking one though!
Oh dear
that must be tough - I think the papier mache is a great idea, though.
From my experience...
All those comics are probably better in your memory than they actually were in the cold light of day
(hey look I'm trying to be slightly Buddhist about this - impermanence and all that)
Now if they had been DC on the other hand...
It could have been worse
Imagine if that had been a complete set of 2000AD?
*shudder* *offers thanks*
Sympathy is thine, mortal
It's a motherf****r, as Mr E so wisely said...
Even worse, I believe I saw a cosmic figure in the sky... watching, but forbidden to interfere...
(gag nicked from Stewart Lee)
That'll be Stuart Maconie
That Watcher...
He didn't exactly stick to his job description, did he? Forbidden to interfere, my arse... he was always bloody interfering! Constantly sticking one up Galactus or some other menace...
Nooo!!!!!!
What a heartbreaker. As someone whose stash of Mighty World Of Marvel (editor: Neil Tennant) was eaten by mice, I can only sympathise.