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Found my first comic book convention badge from 3 years ago cleaning out my closet last week
It was from a tiny show in a VFW hall outside Portland with maybe 30 tables, and I only bought one beat-up silver age Flash issue for $5, but holding that badge made me realize how far I've come in the hobby since then has anyone else kept their first badge?
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paige_ellis594mo ago
Funny how we all hang onto that first badge like it's sacred, but nobody ever mentions how the badge itself is basically a glorified sticker on a lanyard. I still have mine too, but only because it's stuck to a magnet on my fridge reminding me that I paid $15 to smell like old paper and regret for a whole afternoon.
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emery8795mo ago
3 years ago I found my FIRST badge and it was from a show so small the vendor next to me was trying to sell used Beanie Babies between his long boxes. That Flash issue for $5 sounds like a STEAL though - my first badge got me a mildewed Spider-Man comic that I'm pretty sure had been used as a coaster at some point. Funny how that beat-up book probably means more to you now than any grail you've bought since. I swear half the fun of this hobby is looking back at where you started and laughing at how BASIC your tastes were.
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harper_wright5mo ago
@emery879 you got that backwards though, my first badge was what I bought with the ticket, not the ticket itself.
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