Quotes About Collectibles

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

Los Angeles, which is where I live, happens to be a great place for junk. People have a lot of it, and they sell it and trade it: At these big swap meets, many, many hundreds of dealers of junk will descend upon a football field on a Saturday and sell all their stuff.

I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

I think the No. 1 universal thing is that everybody's got that silly thing in their closet that they think could be worth money. There's always a chance you could turn on 'Pawn Stars' one day and that'd be on there.

It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.

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To a New Yorker, a 1948 Indians World Series baseball signed by the whole team might be worth only $200 to $300, but to a Clevelander like myself, it might be, like, $1,000 to $2,000.

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.

loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man.

I loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man. The words

I loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man. The words," Daniel Parish says.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.

When I was young, a gatefold album by 'Pink Floyd' or 'Led Zeppelin' was something to get excited about, something you longed for.

One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's memorial service. It's so great. Everyone's in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner's will. I get great stuff.

Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

Shirt Club isn't just a series of shirts that say 'I Love The Monarch' on them.

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.

Shepton Mallet have a really big antiques market that my mum always makes me go to.

I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.