Judge Dredd, Coming to a Megacity near you!
The angry looking gentleman above is, of course, Judge Dredd, as rendered by the utterly sublime Simon Bisley. Judge Dredd is resident protagonist of the comic book 2000AD, or has been since Prog2 back in 1977.
I started reading 2000AD when I was eleven, around about Prog460, and I read and collected everything until I moved to the US in 1998. My darling parents have held onto that comic collection through thick and thin, fire and rain, flood and…dryness, until now.
Time to move on I am told. So, it was with great heaviness of heart I went through the boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes and… etc., of comics and tidied everything up. There was a spin-off publication called Judge Dredd: The Megazine and I have all of those too. Like a true little collector I bought two copies of any issue that came with a freebie (stickers etc.), or was bagged with a poster. That way I had one copy for my collection and one copy to read.
And I have called around, looked around, sniffed around, swum through ethereal lakes of of phlogiston, spoken to all nine muses, and even called my Dave who runs a comic shop. And I have found that my collection is worthless.
Zip. Nada.
If I want to go through the effort of individually putting items for sale on Ebay I could (eventually) raise a couple of thousand pounds, but I have neither the time, nor the inclination.
Truly a sad time. They’re only possessions, I know, but they are much loved. And they gave me such great pleasure, helped me through hard times, gave me solace when the world was ugly. And they must be sent to Resyk, likely to be turned into munce.
“I am the Law!”
Sorry. Had to be said.
No you aren’t.
Bloody well am, too.
Am not. I am. Just ask that nice Ms Kushnir.
Sorry. Dr Kushnir. Keep up, Gee.
Bugger Off! My blog so I an the Law! <- do you see what I did there?
Y’know, “that film”, which I
refuserefuse to even hyperlink, was awful. But when he did the “I didn’t break the law! I am the law!”, I honestly burst into tears of excitement.This is so over my head. I don’t know why Richard is the law. I don’t know what Resyk is. Nor munce, for that matter. Therefore, I am afraid there is no fair way for me to settle the disagreement. What a worthless PhD I have… Sigh.
Ian, surely you must know some nice 11 year old who would love to be given these, if you can’t be bothered to sell them? One of the Geeminimae for example – always useful for beds for proliferating guinea pigs if nothing else.
Actulaly, I thing the Geemaximii would rather enjoy these. If he didn’t have anything better to do. And the gigglepiglets – what do you think the Eastern Daily Press is for?
Oh, the sadness when that happens. I thought my collection of some obscure magazine back in the days would be interesting too. Not so much :(
Are you sure that you don’t have the friend/crazy person who wants to sell them online for you? For a nice little penny or so?
I really hope you’re not going to throw them away?!!? that is so wrong. Give them away or sell them but don’t let a collection go to the trash bin (or as they should go, into the recycling).
And by the way, 2000 pounds is nothing to scoff at! That’s like… a billion dollars!
I have a related problem. Maybe two related problems. I cleaned up all my books at my parents’ house last week and ended up with two boxes of “things that could go”. One box was full of crap for which I know I won’t get any money (at least not worth the hassle). The other box was full of chemistry and philosophy text books. I spent about $2000 on those books, and I want to sell them. But the only way to get money for them is to painstakingly sell them one by one, and I don’t want to make my mom do that. I promised that I would let her know which ones were potentially easy to sell, and just make her sell those, but still!
And those were just the books. I also have a huge comic book collection with some rare books from the 80s. I don’t know if it’s worth anything, but I think it might be, so I’m
hanging on to itmaking my parents hang on to it, just in case.@Eva: Exactly my pain.
@Asa: If only. That’s the rub.
I have a feeling that all
geeksnerdslonely childrencomic book fans will feel mylawgiverpain@Dr. Kushnir: I KNOW!!!! I’m an inch and three quarters away from declaring bankruptcy (post to follow soon, no doubt), so I NEED these to be worth something so I can eat this month. Literally. Gawd…I thought gone were the days (1995) of having a sumptuous dinner of a beef stock-cube and a bit of toast…
@HGee: geemaximus is welcome to them. I know they’d be
Guineapig literin a good home.@Maxine: Funny you should mention that. My brand new, shiny, fresh-out-of-the-box, precious & precocious little
turdnephew is sat down stairs with his new step father and my new sister-in-law. He’s 11. And if I could drag his bloody face away from his PSP or whatever the hell they call Donkey Kong nowadays I’d try. But I think the thought of actually turning pages is beyond them.yes, I’m answering in stages to get my comment count up.
I regularly take armfuls and sackfuls of books down to local charity shops or the library – they are always grateful for them. I don’t get any money for them but at least someone might read and either enjoy them or find them useful.
It is certainly possible to do quite well selling books, DVDs etc on Amazon (or presumably eBay though I have never tried eBay, Abe books etc). But you have to be prepared to be bothered as the amounts for each item are small as Ian says. However, I have read in books magazines etc about people who do actually make a living out of it – so it might be one of those “if I ever retire to a smallholding in
Alaskathe Outer Hebrides” things. (Oh, darn it, extra postage costs would be incurred!)Ian, you managed three comments while I was writing that one – awesome! You must indeed be the Law, Jude or otherwise.
This is so over my head. I don’t know why Richard is the law. I don’t know what Resyk is. Nor munce, for that matter.
Dear Anna, it really is extraordinarily complicated.
Hoorah for Maxine! My comment count is tumescent due to my cheating and her “cross”-posting!
@Maxine: I’ve thought about it, but I’d need my dad to hold onto them for another 10-15 years and that ain’t gonna happen…In another life time eh? :/
If I were Anna, I’d be even more confused now, in light of your response – for which you should clearly be awarded a PhD.
Well, I don’t see why your Dad wouldn’t hold on to them. I dread to think what lieth in mine attic due to “lethargy being the easiest response to someone else’s battle with sentiment”. ;-)