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The good old days (from 1992 catalog)

Artist: Marc Silvestri (Penciller)

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Title:	The good old days (from 1992 catalog)
Artist:	Marc Silvestri (Penciller)
Media Type:	Photograph
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	417
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Comments:	4
Added to Site:	12/11/2020
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First, let me apologize in advance for the pain I am about to inflict on all of you. Especially if you are the current or former owner of any of these pieces. I figured since I have a near complete set of Mitch�s old mail order catalogs, it might be �fun� (if not masochistic) to take a stroll down memory lane. But take heart. For even though most (if not all) of these posts will be almost unbearable and cringe worthy to many of you, just remember that 20-30 years from now, these will be the �good old days� to some new collector just starting out.

I�ve gotten many wonderful compliments from the fine people of CAF about my collection/gallery. All giving me credit for being smart enough to buy all the pieces I bought way back when. Well, now I�m about to show you all what an absolute idiot I was. Keep in mind that many of the pieces that currently reside in my collection came from these very same catalogs. So the next time you want to call me a genius for all the pieces I did buy back then, just take a look at some of the rubbish I DIDN�T buy! In other words, this is the collection I COULD�VE had. (Somebody shoot me now! LOL)

What is very interesting to note here is that during this 9-year span of catalogs (1984-1993), there is nothing here that is priced over (or anywhere near) $1000. Actually (with the exception of the Killing Joke page), nothing even breaks the $500 range. Absolutely incredible for pieces that could all easily be five figures (or more) today!

By the way, I�ve got dozens and dozens of these. So I�ll be posting them in chunks from time to time (to prolong the torture).

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Joshua McCoy
Member Since 2013

Posted on 12/14/2020

Once again I'm reminded that I should have been collecting the art instead of most of the comics I purchased back in the 90's!!!

E DLS
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/14/2020

Joshua McCoy wrote:

Once again I'm reminded that I should have been collecting the art instead of most of the comics I purchased back in the 90's!!! �

I was a comic dealer at this time, so I actually spent more time selling comics than collecting them. The early 90's were the waning days of my business, and by the mid 90's I had basically packed it in. In terms of art collecting, these were my formative years. And while I was about ten years into it, there was still a lot for me to learn. Just like anything else, I think it was just a matter of growth. Back then, I basically bought what I liked, and could afford (which wasn't much). And of course, over the years, the list of things I liked grew (along with my income). So while it's easy enough to say we should have bought this stuff when it was cheap, remember that it only seems cheap NOW. Back then, if you were in the present, the price was just the price and it just came down to buying choices. I'm pretty sure the people who were lucky enough to buy these pieces back then, didn't buy them because they saw them as cheap. They just bought what they liked. I look at all of these piece now and while I love many of them, I probably didn't think much of them back then. Live and learn.

Joshua McCoy
Member Since 2013

Posted on 12/14/2020

E DLS wrote:

I was a comic dealer at this time, so I actually spent more time selling comics than collecting them.� The early 90's were the waning days of my business, and by the mid 90's I had basically packed it in.� In terms of art collecting, these were my formative years.� And while I was about ten years into it, there was still a lot for me to learn.� Just like anything else, I think it was just a matter of growth.� Back then, I basically bought what I liked, and could afford (which wasn't much).� And of course, over the years, the list of things I liked grew (along with my income).� So while it's easy enough to say we should have bought this stuff when it was cheap, remember that it only seems cheap NOW.� Back then, if you were in the present, the price was just the price and it just came down to buying choices.� I'm pretty sure the people who were lucky enough to buy these pieces back then, didn't buy them because they saw them as cheap.� They just bought what they liked.� I look at all of these piece now and while I love many of them, I probably didn't think much of them back then.� Live and learn.��

Too true, Eric. I was just a poor high school/college student during those times. I knew someof these pages were out there, but of course, I couldn't afford them at the time. Still, I wish I had found a page from Silvestri's X-Men run back then and lived on tuna fish for a few weeks! ;)

E DLS
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/14/2020

Joshua McCoy wrote:

Too true, Eric. �I was just a poor high school/college student during those times. �I knew someof these pages were out there, but of course, I couldn't afford them at the time. �Still, I wish I had found a page from Silvestri's X-Men run back then and lived on tuna fish for a few weeks! ;)

Yeah, I pretty much wrote the book on collecting art with a minimum wage job. LOL! I've been collecting for about 40 years and I spent about half of that time making less than $15 bucks an hour ($3.10 when I started collecting in the early 80's). Not sure why, but Marc was probably my least favorite of the pre-Image boys. Well, him and Liefeld. While I prefer Jim, Todd, and Dale's Marvel work over their Image work, I actually thought Marc got stronger as an artist after he started Top Cow. But that's just me.

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