Comics UK

I've noticed for a considerable while now that girls papers and annuals fetch consistently good prices on ebay and was wondering if this is because there is a thriving market for them amongst female nostalgia buffs or are blokes buying them for their often superior artwork irrespective of their story content. I assume that the answer must fall somewhere between the two but which of these market forces is the greater and is it possible that girls are more interested in revisiting the pleasures of their childhood than was once thought to be the case and that we nostalgia hungry guys are not quite in the majority that we once seemed to be.

Another possibility, Ray - they're being snapped up by the grown-up lads, now that they can read them without fear of being discovered and beaten up by their sisters, or laughed at by their fellow 'closeted' mates, under ebay's invisibility cloak!

I used to read my sister's comics - 'Bunty', 'Mandy', and 'Judy' in the late 70s/early 80s - and she mine!

They did have some good stories and art - I especially liked the perennial 'Valda' and odd SF tale that cropped up.



Kim Stevens, my GACCH co-producer is also quite into girls' comics, a seemingly much overlooked genre, at least with regard to getting info (especially on the internet). If it hadn't been for Kim snapping up a whole batch of cheap girls comics at a local fair a while back, I wouldn't have found the Mike Noble 'Justice of Justine' strips from late 1969.

I find that Girl's Comics always have something to attract the reader.They span many genres-and yes there is an awful lot of destitute orphans-and they are fun.

When selling on eBay buyers are a mix of Men and Women.

I think the prices reached reflects the fact that girls are or were not great collectors.It is a man/boy thing.Ask a women why she did not keep here old comics and she will look at you very strangely.

brian

brisey wrote:I find that Girl's Comics always have something to attract the reader.They span many genres-and yes there is an awful lot of destitute orphans-and they are fun.

When selling on eBay buyers are a mix of Men and Women.

I think the prices reached reflects the fact that girls are or were not great collectors.It is a man/boy thing.Ask a women why she did not keep here old comics and she will look at you very strangely.

brian

Am I the only bloke on here with a wife that is as much a comic fan as I am? Admittedly my first wife barely tolerated my collecting. The girl-friend between marriages (Gawsh! That phrase sounds positively awful!) was a fan, but not an active collector, whereas Karen is not only a fan but actively encourages me to collect! Her reaction to the news that I had bought 300 Warlords was only "That was cheap" when I told her the price!

amazing...
just fainted...

my wife doesn't get my comic collecting though doesn't mind comics piled up everywhere..mostly behind and around my arm chair for quick read between adverts...

Between adverts, Peter? I hope you mean during adverts, or you've got it worse than I thought.

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Am I the only bloke on here with a wife that is as much a comic fan as I am? Admittedly my first wife barely tolerated my collecting. The girl-friend between marriages (Gawsh! That phrase sounds positively awful!) was a fan, but not an active collector, whereas Karen is not only a fan but actively encourages me to collect! Her reaction to the news that I had bought 300 Warlords was only "That was cheap" when I told her the price! [/quote]

No Col you are not! My wife has always been a big fan of the US Marvel comics and still likes to track down the girls paper titles from when she was ever so slightly younger than she is now.

I'm divorced. Twice.

The only girl's comic I really liked was Misty, although I read a few others. I tended to go for Victor and others like that, old (at the time) copies of Astounding Tales, Strange Sories and various others, and 2000AD. Nowadays, I don't look at any girls comics apart from Misty, which has never lost it's appeal for me, but I'm very lucky to have got nearly every issue as a pressie from my hubby last year.

I guess some of the girls comics could be going up as women are trying to re-capture their youth. I don't need to do that as I'm not sure I've ever grown up, and I know my hubby hasn't!

Hi Valeera, If you've run nearly all the issues of 'Misty' to ground maybe you could branch out and give Thomson's similar title 'Spellbound' a go.

Kashgar,

I think I might. The other half has mentioned it before, but I was enjoying my kick on getting back to the good times in my childhood, and as I hadn't read Spellbound it wouldn't transport me to the same degree! Now that between us we have a fair whack of Victors (mine), Misty's (mine), Warlords (his) Actions (his) 2000AD's (ours) and many, many more, it seems time to branch into a new one. My other half has called you the resident evil genius for bringing it back into my mind (what little mind I have, that is).