Archie was going through some of his old toys and I sorted out the Star Wars figurines. This isn't even half of what he has, however, but I thought it was worth sharing. Roughly half of them are the original runs, including the Leia, CP3O, and Vader.

Pardon if the picture is HUGE....

http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj427/kratsina/FILE0298.jpg

Awesome!

Many of those I don't see much these days.

Alas my personal collection (from when I was a kid) was stolen years ago.

All of my old toys were thrown out by the parents. I still regret losing my G1, original release, die-cast metal Optimus Prime with all of his attachments and trailer extras.

My uncle had a ton of comic books and baseballs cards he gave to his lil cousin when he was a kid. He had Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth and some other big names in the cards. In the comics he has the first five original Batman's and first two Spidermans. And a couple upper 10 Supermans.

Why are neither of them rich? When the nephew grew up, his wife threw them away. They were 'icky boy things' and she didn't want them in the house because they had daughters. Didn't want her girls touching 'icky boy things'.

Luckily Archie has me and I love going through all this stuff. He's probably got about another dozen Star Wars figures, but it's the GI Joe he has a ton of. There's probably about 50 figurines or more now that we've sorted them. The crazy thing is he still has all the helmets and tiny little guns too.

Since he was an only child, he had all the big playsets too. The Ewok forest villiage, GI Joe base, the original AT-AT, X-Wing and this enormous GI Joe Blackwing fighter jet that is about 3 feet long...

That is an incomprehensible level of stupid on the part of that wife.

Seriously. I thought it was an American pop culture thing that baseball cards at the very least are incredibly valuable?

I really hope said cousin wasn't badly effected by the recession, because if I was suddenly poor and my idiot wife threw out over $100K+ worth of collectibles? Bad times.

Considering about 8 years ago, she murdered him, it's a pretty good guess to say she threw them away because she was flipping insane.

But she did throw those things away over 30 years ago at the beginning of their marriage.

And yes, I have a soap opera family. They can go about a decade before someone somewhere does something gloriously WTF.

My lil brother buried our original Darth Vader in the sand in Corpus Christi. We almost murdered him.

We were all little kids but man... it was Darth Vader.


I remember my dad getting me a Snow Speeder as a present. You put two "C" batteries in an engine compartment and the guns light up and made a shooting noise. There was even a harpoon with string attached on the rear gun. Alas, as little boys, we never did figure out the monetary value of our toys until it was much too late.

:(

aaaaaaaaaaaaand... we have one of those... the snow speeder is what Luke was driving when he flew around the AT-At's legs right? don't know if it takes batteries though...

I have a bunch of first issues of mid 80-90 comic lines, as well as an old black and white Superman #11. Sadly when I found it for sale at a garage it was all but torn and ripped - but I tried to maintain what little quality it still had.

I also have BattleTech #3, from it's 80s release.

My most prized possession, in terms of comics, is my 'The Phantom #1'. It tells the tale of how Kit's forefather became stranded on the island, became the eventual Phantom and gave a rundown of the line of Phantoms. And I got that along with 4 boxes of equally old Phantom comics for doing some tiling for a guy. Not a bad trade-off, especially considering I got paid, too.

I also have a Phantom comic that has no issue number. It's quite the oddity.

The problem is, you are the first person I heard of with a phantom collection of any kind.

Or really, any caring for the Phantom in general. :P