Free Comic Books and Evaluations at Spellman Museum June 24

Do you have some old comic books hiding in your closet? Did you buy them hoping they might eventually have some value?

Bring your books to the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History at Regis College on Saturday, June 24 at 10:30 for an evaluation by comic book expert John Cimino of Waltham.

John is also giving away some of his comics to get people started on their own collection and bringing some old children’s games to display.

In addition, he is bringing the very rare 1964 Roy Thomas Spider-man costume that has been lost for over 40 years ago. It is a costume of such immeasurable importance to comic history for not only being the very first Spider-man costume ever made by Marvel Comics themselves, but it was also originally intended to be Spider-man’s first appearance in the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade. Roy even wore this legendary costume in the pages of early Marvel comic books and at the famous "Stan Lee does Carnegie Hall" show on January 5, 1972. This will be the first time this rarest and most valuable piece of Marvel memorabilia in the world will be on display.

There will be an exhibit of comic books on stamps and on display in the Main Gallery is the special President Kennedy Centennial Exhibit of JFK on stamps.

Admission is free.

Doors will open at 10:00.