Last weekend, my husband and I were going through his childhood -- baseball cards, along with other sports paraphenalia, and a few old comic books, to be precise. For him, it's a trip down Memory Lane. For me, it's a large pile of possibly profitable collectibles, and strange antiques that I will probably never understand.
It's OK. He wouldn't understand my unhealthy love of my first copy of "Pride and Pejudice" or the Care Bear I've had since I was a baby.
But it turns out he was the smart one. As soon as I heard the news that a near-mint edition of Action Comics #1, with the iconic image of the caped superhero lifting a car over his head, had sold for $1 million in auction, I looked through the collection on the dining room table a tad more carefully.
No dice.
The likelihood that your comics collection holds a similar gem is pretty small. Then again, if you wait around for 70 years, who knows what could earn you a cool million, too.