Why Do YOU Collect Comics?

Haha! For me, focusing on EC is okay with my wife because she loves all things horror. Branching out might need a little explaining.

I think I'm predisposed to collect something, comics just won out over everything else.  I find comics to be a great entertainment resource.  I enjoy the stories, mythos, characters and art of multiple genres.  I like the bit of history looking at an old comic gives me, imagining coming upon say, a Flash, Our Army At War, or Blondie comic in 1960 on the newsstand or spinner rack at the corner candy store and excitedly heading home to read the heroes adventures, the soldier's current dilemma, or Dagwood's folly.  It's exciting to me to think about that sort of thing happening in any era before comics disappeared from the wider marketplace and settled into a neighborhood LCS, removing much of the intrigue and sense of discovery of a new comic book that existed for readers decades prior.

There's a nostalgic element of course.  I remember the joy I felt when I first started buying my own comics in the 4th grade and watching the small piles of issues slowly turn into larger piles until I had a years worth of a title and would spread them on the living room floor to admire the covers and recall the stories inside.  Looking at books I had as a kid takes me to a happy place, reading them even more so. 

Still? Do you no longer have any?

That sucks, but as long as you have some

That's probably the biggest reason for me, too.

I think I'm pretty close to done collecting books, might collect art if I ever make enough disposable income. 

Comics is so far out of the norm for me, I really don't know why I spent 3 years going really hard to collect what I did. I suppose it was nostalgia for me as well