Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 21, 2023

Well, for once I’m on P*m’s side. The first 14 issues of “Amazing Spider-Man” in just good/very good condition could easily fetch $35,000 to $50,000. On the other hand, how many times between old FW stories and this strip is Batiuk going to go back to the “Someone’s mother threw out their childhood comics” well?

If they were that important, maybe you should have brought them with you when you left your mother’s home instead of expecting her to keep storing them free of charge forever.

Had Spider-Man, Batman, and Superman comics from the late 60’s and early 70’s. Mom threw them out when I joined the Air Force in 1973, said she thought I wouldn’t want them, now that I was grown up and all…

Sold mine from the 50s and early 60s in the 90s. They funded my daughter’s sophomore college year.

It was probably Pam who really threw them out and she’s just trying to help deflect away from herself.

Someone (normally mom) throwing out old comic books is one reason they are rare, thus valuable.

I never gave mom the chance to throw mine out

Moving them got to be a bigger problem as the collection grew, but I always managed

My son has them now, they still take up a lot of room but that’s at his house

SOME Jfffff? You mean she missed trashing all of the ‘books?’

My mother once took it upon herself to go through my books. She disposed of 99% of the books my father gave me. I never forgave her for that.

What, ‘Spray’ Pmmmmm? Does the dead woman continue to pester you? Still channeling the deceased’s energy spirit?

The truth will come out. They WERE there til someone found them and sold them for extra cash.

And odds are he may have pulled in a whopping $100 at the most, since odds are they weren’t in pristine condition and he didn’t own all the rarest copies.

How long are moms expected to store things for their adult children?

Well, I for one miss the old Crankshaft……..

Join the club

She owed both nothing AND she is dead. Bad form for both of them…..

Did not have this situation, but had one sort of like it. My mother inherited some money and decided to move. We moved into an older house that had an attic and a basement. This is most unusual for California, but it was an older house. In the attic I found a trunk that had old newspapers. The previous owner had been a civil engineer who had retired and later passed away. The papers were from the 1950s and 1960s and most had articles concerting BART and the campaigns for and against. The San Jose papers, the Mercury and the News (This was before the acquisition of the News by the Merc) both editorialized against BART going into Santa Clara County saying that this was a little farming community and did not need a futuristic, new fangled, train when we had 4 lanes on Highways 101 and 17. Now, 50+ years later BART can’t get there fast enough because they have basically reached a limit on highway expansion in the area. We used the papers for starting fires in the fireplace. Big old crafty, crafty house.

Yeah parents are the worst when it comes to this crap!

Considering his “mother” stuck a butcher knife into one of them how does this at all surprise you? She was a horrible creature.