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Bit of a #csb but in the late 90s I was in Forbidden Planet digging in the comic crates when I sense someone watching me and notice an exceptionally fit girl checking me out. Instantly act cool and pretend I’m reading something and take some sly glances… yep fit and yes checking me out. Fuck, don’t panic.
Takes me a couple of minutes of casual browsing to work my way over to her which has given time to think of an opening gambit and just when I’ve built up the courage I realise it’s a life size cardboard cutout of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
I’m still blushing thinking about it twenty five years later. WAC
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I have hoarding tendencies from my mum, she's a post war child, so everything is to be held onto, just in case. So used to keep hold of old magazines (Vibe 93-97), old books etc. Have downsized/given to charity/ chucked most of those.
But the only thing I've collected actively are comics, have over 5k maybe close to 6k, mostly Marvel super hero stuff, the majority from the late 80s - 90s, when most of my money went on weekly buying. Got out of the bulk buying titles, after I stopped buying the X-Men and associated titles (have every issue of the X- Men from 150-300) and when the comics industry got in annual crossover events, and multiple covers by different artists for the same comic issue.
Once I stepped away from that, I started to be a bit more specific and intentional, in terms of buying comics about characters I liked from artists and writers I liked so mike mignola, kurt busiek, chris bacalo, Mark millar, etc,
I was and still am very art led, if I like the artists style that helps overcome the majority of my misgivings about the writing, but this has also led me to collect a load of good looking, but badly written (usually by the artist themselves) creator owned comics that emerged out of the Image publishing revolution.
Still collecting, not sure I'll ever stop to be honest.
My one regret is not buying more original artwork, when comic showcase used to be on charing cross road, it was expensive back in the day, but relatively peanuts to what you'd have to pay for the same work now. Could have had original art from akira, frank miller's batman, x-men, that sort of thing for under £200, which as a student in the mid 90s I'd never have been able to afford, whilst also buying comics. But if i'd brought then, I'd have more to show/display to show the years of collecting, rather than rows of brown boxes on top of ikea shelving units.