 Hi, this is Chichu. As always, welcome to my channel. Now, as you know, I've been in the process of doing a move for the last few months and we're in slow motion, basically. The way it works is you set up everything, you're living comfortably, and you've got a lot of boxes, and you go over those boxes slowly, right? And since we put out the last video on comic books where I was showing you the comics I've been buying, what my poll list is, and some of the randoms that I've been buying for the last two to three months, I figured I'd show you this as well, which is something that I came across during this move. And it's basically the comic books that I've had in my collection for the longest period of time, okay? They're not the oldest comic books I've got in my collection in terms of how, you know, their age is when they came out. But they are the ones that I've had in my collection for the longest, and it wasn't really something that started off as being a collection, I guess, if you can call it that, because if you watch some of the comic book videos I've put out, I've mentioned that I've been collecting comic books for 25 to 30 years, but I've been reading comic books for much longer, since I was, you know, much younger, right? And these comic books are from that era, okay, before I really understood what collecting was, and before I really got into full-blown collecting, okay? Now, just to give you, let me give you a little intro to this, because it'll make more sense of how precious, I guess, these books are to me, okay? Value-wise, I don't know what their value is. I, you know, I haven't come across anything like this. I don't know anyone that has these, right? But basically, you know, if you've read some of the comments, people have asked me who I am, where I'm from, stuff like this, and for me, I'm basically full-blown West Coast Canadian mentality, okay? And if you've ever been to the West Coast of Canada, Vancouver, Victoria, the islands, and just Pacific Northwest sort of, the mentality, the mindset sort of merges down to Washington, West Coast of Washington, West Coast of Oregon, right? Pacific Northwest. So that's sort of my mindset. That's, that's, you know, I've been here the longest in my life for about since 1978, and I've traveled all over Canada, I lived all over Canada. So very much Canadian mindset, right? But I was born in Iran, right? I came here in 1978 when I was 10 years old, so I was born in Iran, and my first language is Armenian. So, you know, people have been asking me what my background is and who I am, stuff like this, and what my nationality is, and my reply, depending on my mood and, you know, my mindset. So, you know, sometimes I say I'm West Coast Canadian, Iranian, Armenian. Sometimes I say Iranian, Armenian, Canadian. Sometimes it's Armenian, Iranian, Canadian, right? I mix it up a lot. Sort of a mishmash of things, right? So these comic books are from the period before I lived in Canada, okay? And I remember having other comic books as well, but when we're doing, you know, emigrating to Canada, you can't bring everything, right? And I remember more younger, we had like, when we're moving, we had to get rid of everything, right? So almost everything. So, you know, we had garage sales, if you call them garage sales, just sales on the yard sales back there. And we had our toys and stuff, and, you know, people were coming in from the neighborhood and just buying things, you know, for little money and stuff like this. So I'm pretty sure I got rid of the rest of my comic books during that period. Because I do remember having some X-Men's, right, from Iran. Unfortunately, you know, there's only so much you can bring, right? So X-Men really stood out for me from that period, you know, when I was like, I guess, eight, nine years old, right? And, you know, they didn't make their way here to me, to Canada. So I'm assuming they were either thrown away or one of my friends grabbed them or I gave them to them or something happened to them, right? But I did happen to bring these ones, and I'm, you know, I don't remember how many of these I had, but I do remember these were really important to me. And they are very important to me. And they're basically some of the comic books that I know a lot of people around the world is how they got into comic books, or the first set of comic books they've read. And these are my Tintin collection, okay? And they're in Farsi, they're in Persian, right? So these are the comic books I've had for the longest time, okay? Before I even collected, started collecting comics, I guess these these Tintin books are the ones that really start off my collection. And unfortunately, I was really young when I came over, so I don't read Farsi anymore. English is the only language that I read and write in. And it's the only language I'm very fluent in. I don't read Armenian. I knew a little bit when I was younger, and I knew Farsi well, and so unfortunately I forgot it. When we came here, there weren't, I didn't have any Iranian friends. You know, there were, that was the only Iranian in my elementary school and and I didn't speak a word of English, so I had to learn English and unfortunately I guess Farsi gave sacrifice. So this is one of them. And I've read some of these in English after the fact, right? But I remember reading these things as just the covers, right? And in Farsi you read, you know, this way from I guess right to left, as opposed to reading this way, right? So everything's like sort of like manga, right? And these are the comics, right? Hopefully they can focus. And it's all in Farsi. And I really don't know if these were made, they must be legit with any Iran back in the day, just like many other countries. Even now, a lot of this stuff is pirated. We used to buy music cassette tapes that were all pirated, right? This is way before the Internet obviously, way before Tori Dane, way before SoulSeek, peer-to-peer sharing, and stuff like that. So the only way you could get your hands on certain types of music was pirated music, right? Cassette tapes. So companies would buy or people would buy cassette tapes and then copy those tapes onto, you know, recordable tapes. And the recordable tapes were actually better quality, so they lasted much longer than the original tapes you would buy, right? And I'm guessing some of the comic books I did have in my collection were also pirated. But I'm not sure about these ones, if these were pirated or not, right? Fun. I think at some point I'm going to go buy the English versions of these and have to read through these again. But I loved Tintin, really. Tintin and Astrex, I think, it was a French comic book. And Tintin, I think it's from Europe. I think it's Belgium. I should have left this up beforehand, right? So this is one of them. And I always, always loved the back cover for some reason. It was just playful, right? So, and if you read these, I hope you love them as much as I do. The pirate one I loved. Awesome, awesome, right? Fantastic. I remember this, this one with the two guys, I don't know the story behind it. I just remember seeing this in one of the books that I read. I don't know if it's one of the ones I have here or one that I might have left, you know, they didn't bring over with me, right? These two are awesome. And then I think this one is, yeah, that's right. This one he talks about, he talks about is one of his ancestors, that's a pirate. And I think they go back in history and talk about, oh yeah, there it is. This is, so he starts talking about one of his ancestors, that was a pirate, and talks about his adventures. And they flip between him telling the story and going on to the ship, right? Having flash, well, not flashbacks, but remembering his ancestor, the story behind them. So that's a pirate one. So there's two. This one was fantastic. I think this was going to Egypt. One of the pyramids or something, maybe, I don't know. I think he just made an appearance, this guy here. He just made an appearance in this issue, the professor. Fantastic. And Tim Tim comics are, comic books are amazing. And one thing that surprised me, as you know, if you've watched some of the previous comic book videos, you know I have doubles and triples of some stuff that I've collected, just because if I like something, I like, I don't know, I just buy multiple copies sometimes. And sometimes it's for investing too, right? You know, there's some no-brainers. There's first appearances that come up. You know, not a bad idea to grab a couple of copies if they're going to be, if you think they're going to be important issues or there's some writers coming up or independence, low print run stuff. So I do have some doubles and triples and multiple copies of certain comic books in my collection. And I guess this is something that I did back in the day when I was younger too, because I got two copies on this one. I don't know why. I really don't know why. One of them might have been someone else in my family that had it. And I just sort of inherited it, I guess. If you've watched some of my previous videos, you'll know what I mean. This one too has that professor and the color scheme for these is amazing. The pattern work was pretty simple. Just square pattern work. Just classic, just classic story telling, right? I don't remember the story at all. I remember the, I think I had the one with the gigantic mushroom as well. Beautiful. So I hope that if you've never read Tintin, never read Tintin. You should definitely read Tintin. I remember this one. This one is the professor here starts spinning with his chair floating up. Something goes on, right? If you've never read Tintin, wow, look at this one. This is the zombie guy, mummy guy coming. They're amazing comic books. They're great comic books if you want to introduce children to comics. As far as I remember anyway, because I read these when I was young, I guess seven, eight years old, nine years old and they stuck with me up to now and hopefully they'll stick with me until the end of my days, right? And they were important enough for me to bring over across the ocean, right? Actually on the other side of the globe, because Iran and Canada were 12 hours, 12 hour difference, so it literally brought it to the other side of the world with me. So this is how important these things were to me. So I'm assuming as a child there were amazing stories in the grasp, my imagination, right? And the odds are I was more, you know, back then my reading abilities weren't as, you know, as well developed. I don't know I probably had these since I was six, seven years old. I had no idea, right? But I do remember looking at the pictures intricately, right? And the pictures and these things, the drawings, the color scheme is absolutely amazing. There's a lot of detail in these. I mean, you can look at just as an example, look at this, you know, there's some kind of performance, you know, hypnotist here. And if you look at this, hopefully it shows up. But in the background, all the pictures, all the faces of the audience, they actually took care to draw the faces with different expressions in them, in detail, well, within reason, right? A little detail, right? So absolutely amazing. And I remember when I was a kid looking at these images in detail, right? And you know, you could get the full story, basically, by just following the images. And as far as I know, they are child friendly, kid friendly. And they're worth, well worth reading. And I will at some point, go back and read these as an adult. Okay. I thought you'd get a kick out of this. For those of you who are following me, or subscribed to my channel for the comic book videos. And these are the comic books that I've had with me for the longest period of time. And that would be 40 plus years. Okay. Way before I got into full blown collecting. Fun. That's it for now. I'll see you guys in the next video.