CT-Scott wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:01 pm
If there isn't already a "Comic Books" thread on this forum, we need to start one soon. I'm 48 and all of my comic books were ones that I bought (some of which were older), but I still have them, have carried them around from one house the next, and I'd be interested in knowing how best to sell most of them for maximum profit. Of course, during a Recession/Depression certainly won't be that time, so it looks like I'll be bringing them along to my next house, too. Those, and my Commodore Amiga.
I bought all of my comic books out of the love for them, through the ages of about 11 through 18 or 19.
Once a month I'd buy all the issues and that night would read every single title. Then over the next week reread them all only this time stopping to reading all the reader letters prior to rereading the next one.
I stopped buying them when I missed a few issues and that just wrecked the whole thing with the way Marvel comics continued from one issue to another, sometimes having stories going on in an X-Men issue and some other title at the same time.
They stayed at my parents house until I bought my house. Luckily my mother never threw out what she referred to as my "funny books"!
The absolute best way to sell them is one-by-one through eBay. eBay represents the absolute best price guide there is since It does represent actual true sales, not what some price guide says something is worth.
You can actually develop your own personal price guide by, for a period of time, going through eBay completed sales for an issue and seeing for what it sold.
Of course, as is just for baseball card, it is condition, condition, condition that ultimately decide the value of a comic book (along with its desirability, of course)! For a given desirability, the better the condition the higher the price.
And, after I stopped "investing" in baseball cards, this whole "grading" thing came in. You send your card away and, for a charge, it gets slabbed and a professional grader gives it a grade (according to condition). You, of course, want the highest grade as possible. I never "invested" in comic books like I "invested" in baseball cards. But it seems like the same process has happened with comic books. You send it away to have it sealed and then come back to you with a grade.
I will close with my all-time comic books story.
I had a 7th grade classmate who was a big time Marvel comic book reader such as myself. And, he missed buying the #26 (I clearly remember the issue number 57 years later!) issue of Fantastic Four which was part 2 of "The Thing fighting The Hulk". He really wanted to read that second part. He offered to pay me $5 for my copy. It had cost me just 12 cents the prior month! $5 represented a lot of months worth of comic book buying for me. It was a tremendous sum of money for me back then. I never even remember holding a $5 bill in my hands back then. I felt badly taking that sum of money from him. I offered to let him borrow it to read it and then return it. He said, "No!". He would only buy it. I needed a few days to think about it because even then I was a buyer and not a seller. In the end I decided to sell it to him. That $5 offer was just too overwhelming to turn down! I now see that I can get another copy of that issue on eBay for only for $5,995! Or, only $288 a month for 24 months! I wonder if he still has his copy! Is he even still alive? Does that comic book still live somewhere? Or, did his mother, somewhere along the line throw it out??!?
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