00:00I was too busy raising my kids to realize what was happening.
00:07Certain rooms in the house were off limits.
00:10I would go over and you'd see like 30 boxes covered with a sheet.
00:13And I was like, what's that? He's like, it's nothing.
00:16We don't tell anybody about this.
00:18That was it for 40 years.
00:20I had to escape. I remember seeing a therapist and I finally let it out.
00:25My husband has comics.
00:30My father got the first solo issue of Superman from 1939.
00:34It was locked away for decades.
00:36He found out that was the second nicest copy of that book on the planet.
00:40That book could easily go for three to four million dollars.
00:44My father had Asperger's, but not knowing it caused a lot of friction.
00:48It seems like ultimate fixation and hoarding.
00:51He kept collecting and needed more space and more space and more space.
00:54You have no idea how oppressive he can be.
00:57He was constantly neurotic about the security of the collection.
01:00We have each of them humidity controlled, climate controlled, multiple layers of security.
01:04He would have thought that was cool.
01:06I'm sure his father loved him, but I don't know if Darren truly felt it.
01:09Nothing Darren did was ever good enough.
01:11He made life livable, but not worth living.
01:13I divorced. I said, I don't want any part of them.
01:15If I wasn't around, there would be a big dumpster outside and she would just throw them in.
01:19You want to give me three and a half million dollars for that comic? Bye bye.
01:23There is a little bit of responsibility to make sure some of this stuff is preserved.
01:27This stuff survived world wars, depressions, cultural differences, racial realizations, women's rights.
01:33Everything is reflected in these stories.
01:37I want to work with people that want to be involved in sharing it.
01:40We're going to put so many of these books in the right hands that people are going to lose their shit.
01:52You
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