Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 04, 2015

A well thought out plan.

That will probably happen…

Better go check on your other 4 copies Calvin…

This happened to me :-(

Long live Mom’s!

This is the same Mom who buys “collectibles” on the shopping channel and treasures them…along with the rest of the buyers. Know the syndrome well.

The kind of thinking that killed the baseball card market

I’ve often wished I had kept every book or comic I’ve ever read, and opened the most awesome book story in the universe later in life!

My mother threw away all documents and the lease of our flat……

And twenty years later the majority of those “Special Collector’s Edition” comics are still barely worth the paper they’re printed on.

It was my Dad. From junior high on, I had collected the DC comics — Superman, Action, Adventure, Superboy, Supergirl, et al, and kept them stored in a sealed drum.

While I was at college, he was cleaning the storage room and found them. A man across the alley said, “My kids like comic books,” so my dad gave them to him.

Those DC comics from the mid-60s. I can’t even find them online now.

I absolutely love Calvin and Hobbes, and reading about their adventures everyday. Mr Watterson, you have a brilliant mind.

I wish I had my *57 Chevy………….

I used to put Mickey Mantle rookie cards in the spokes of my bicycle because he will never be as good as Joe DiMaggio.

I had almost every Marvel comic from its first issue (except the first Spiderman), safely stored in a box in my closet, about a four-foot stack, if they’d been piled up on top of each other.And then I moved out, and I got the same crap from my mother—get rid of them or they go in the trash. So I sold the whole bunch for $60 and a paper grocery bag full of used paperback books. And I knew it was the wrong thing to do, but I had no way to store them safely anywhere that I was living.

Calvin makes too many assumptions. Lol

I had two large stacks of golden age comics that were passed down from my cousin. My mom tossed them all out.

Yep, happened to me also.

Crying about what Mom & Dad tossed….Lionel Train, Comic Books, Erector set, Tinker toys, etc…boo hoo, sniff, sniff!

pssssst. hey calvin… i have some swampland in Florida specially priced just 4 u…

Put them next to your beanie babies.

Anyone interested in some Beanie Babies? We have hundreds, maybe thousands, in cartons and cabinets scattered around the property…

@masterskrainThe only cars I could have afforded to own when I was in high school would have been scale models. The only car owned by a friend my age was a rusty old piece of junk he could occasionally get to run for a few miles before it broke down.

Six years old and he has a firm grasp of Wall Street logic. He’ll go far……..

Mom’s trash is a kids treasure.

I knew someone who started to collect comic books in the 80’s as an investment, he said by the late 2000’s he could use them to start fires in the fireplace they were so valueless.

Mine would have been the original 1964 GI Joe.

In the 50’s I collected Science Fantasy/Fiction comics with Wood’s great illustrations. At the time a local women’s club of porno censorship clamed all these comics obscene due to an illustration of just a tummy of a beautiful alien female human with no navel.

They were hidden under my mattress with real cheese cake magazines. I loaned them to my brother who also placed them under his bed mattress whew Mom found them, & tossed them out. Mom never found the girlie magazines. SF comics worth a fortune today.

All those years ago, Hobbes asked the question that too many would be ‘investors’ were too blinded by greed to ask.

I got a collection of Calvin and Hobbs comics.

My mom gave away all my Star Wars stuff

that happened to all comics from the mid to late 60’s when I went a way to college. Those would have funded my kids college and my retirement today. Oh well..

I’m pretty sure this came out early enough to actually count as prophetic

Oh, Hobbes… Don’t keep spoiling things.

Even if Calvin does have some stupid ideas! Haha.xxx

thrown out:a) all of my sister’s stuffed animals (while she was off to college)b) my brother’s baseball cards including Mickey Mantle rookie cardc) all of my Revell models (while I was off to college)d) a mint 1909 VDB penny (by my sister for a gumball machine!!)

oh… the lossesi can’t go on

“Crime comics” (which would include most superhero comics) are apparently still officially illegal in Canada under some largely forgotten and ignored law passed many decades ago and thought by many even at that time to be silly. The current federal government has revived that concept of pointless and impractical laws to appear to be making a moral statement of disapproval, with zero consideration given to if or how they will ever be enforced.

I wish I still had all the “Tonka Toys” I played with as a child. These were the metal ones, actually made here in Minnesota, not the cheap plastic made in china crap on the market today!.Oh well, life goes on…

I wonder if he still has it (now in the “Hobbes and Bacon” days)…

Few years? That could take forever!

Smart kid. He has a good head for business.

Wow. It’s like Watterson was predicting the world of Funky Winkerbean!

Lesson: Protect anything you feel may be valuable from your parents!