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Inside the world's largest comic book collection with Bob Bretall
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Jul 29, 2024
Meet Bob Bretall, the record-holder for the world's largest comic book collection, and explore his incredible collection of over 138,000 comics, including rare editions and artist's editions.
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Hi, I'm Bob Breetall
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I have the record for world's largest comic book collection.
I have over 138,000 comic books as we record this
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And then I buy and read and
add to my collection every week
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Welcome to my main, I call it the comic book room.
I got myself a copy of Amazing Spider-Man number 88
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in the summer of 1970. And that
was the first one. And I loved it
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The ball kept rolling from that point. And
I just started getting more and more series
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and reading more and more comics. I read
probably 100 comic books a month still
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a little over 100 new comic books a month. And
of that, maybe 25 to 30 are superhero books
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And then I read like 70 plus just independent
books that are in those sci-fi, crime, romance
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other kinds of genres. Down
here, I've got just loads of what
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are called artist's editions. And
what an artist's edition is, is it
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reproduces the art at 100% of real
size. It's a scan of the original art
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Any page of John Romita's Spider-Man
art probably is several thousand dollars
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if you wanted to buy an individual
page, if you could even find one
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But this book cost me, it was like $125 or
something. But that's a pretty good deal when
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you're talking about getting probably a
couple of hundred pages of original art
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And it's just a fascinating thing for a fan and collector
like myself to be able to read and see the original art
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And I've got quite a few of them you can see
here. These are called Marvel Masterworks
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And there are right now 331 of them.
But I can pull those off these shelves
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and I can read them whenever I want.
Along the top, I have a bunch of comics
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that were all cover dated March
1962, which is the year I was born
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So these are all Marvel comics to
go with the Marvel Masterworks
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My little shrine to Stan Lee. I credit
Stan with getting me into comics
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He wrote the very first comic
that I picked up off the stand
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and read. And this is a huge book
that the company Toshin put together
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that talks about Stan Lee. And
this is actually signed by Stan
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It takes me 10 to 15
minutes to read a comic book
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In the amount of time that it takes someone to
watch a football game, I can read 10, 15 comic books
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And nobody asks them, how in the world do
you find the time to watch a couple of sport
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games every weekend? So it's the same kind of thing.
There's plenty of time for whatever hobby you enjoy
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