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So they were the ones with the jingle and that's who we wanted to ring. >> he told me he had sufficient from the '40s, '50s. it was just astounding. >> when vincent sees a sample of the collection, he's definitely intrigued. >> what was great about the collection was, he had comic books from the 1940s, like a superman 17 with superman beating the snot out of hitler. >> what happens when you break the news to your new best friend vincent that you have 1,000 more? >> you could tell on his expression that he didn't believe we had that many. we had more than we thought. i think it was closer to 12...

>> and money. >> we decided to open a gift shop and mark everything down. >> basically everything is on the table. >> but they're pinning their hopes on 1200 comics brick inherited from his father. he discovered them in his attic after the storm and turns to an eager vincent to auction them off. >> when you have those different genres, you're going to have everybody feasting on this collection. >> they don't expect to get nearly enough to fix all sandy's damage, but they're hoping for enough to tie them over. >> getting rich wasn't in the equation. it was about trying to recover from the storm...

Inspired by brick and brita to rebuilt, before i leave, i do my part to help bring salty's back to life. >> what else you got? >> wow. jamie: do we get a lunchbreak? there is one heirloom from his grand fatherly di did not sell, scrap books of comic strips, dedicated to brick's father from before he was born, some are nearly a hundred years old, he may hold them for another rainy day. or just keep them as a memory of the grandfather whose comic collection came to the family's rescue. i am jamie colby for "strange inheritance" thank you for watching. remember, you can't take it with you. jamie:...

1,000 comic books, but lots of them go for just $10, $20. then some go for more, a lot more. like superman number 15, fetches $850. a marvel mystery sells for more than $1200. archie and jughead, $1300. a batman number 3, 2,000. a thriller named venus, $2250. and the superman clobbering hitler, $3,000. how did they do? >> we were able to outperform our preoption estimates by about 50%. >> the total haul for the collection $300,000. >> in the end, did your comics save the super day? >> it was seed money for the process of rebuilding from sandy.