Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02473
Today I drove up to New Hampshire to Double Midnight Comics to sell a huge lot of Transformers toys. I'd been collecting these toys for well over 40 years. After college I bought a ton of them and kept buying them. In 2007 I had them all out and did a photo shoot with the local newspaper because a Live Action Transformers movie was going to be released. The local paper was doing a story on people who were Transformers fans and I got into the mix. At one point I had 19 very large boxes of Transformers, many that were still in their own boxes.
Today I sold about 300 toys to Double Midnight. They were split up into 23 boxes. I photographed every one of them and wrote in the descriptions and dates they were released so that Scott at Double Midnight could look them over and decide if they wanted to buy. He gave me fair price for them and so yesterday I got my ad's van and Andy and I loaded up all the boxes and I drove them up today.
While I was there I checked out the store. It is a great store with so many things inside. I did a quick look for back issues of Transformers. I'm still missing Issues 61, 64-77 and 80 of the original comic series from Marvel in the 80's. I'm on the hunt for those to complete my collection. Otherwise I have a complete collection.
I did keep many of my Transformers figures. I have all my originals. My expanding collection of Wheeljack and Optimus Prime ones and the G.I. JOE/Transformers Crossover vehicles. And I did order the Jetfire/Void Rivals set that was put out for San Diego Comicon this year. but I am much more selective of my collecting.
I also couldn't leave without buying something so I picked up two copies of Transformers #1 by Skybound. They had a special Sound Chip Edition. I'm not sure if they were motion sensistive or what but all the way home the Transformers transforming sound was going off as I rumbled and rattled down the highway for home.