RCheli

Spawn #220 McFarlane "Youngblood #1 Homage" Cover -- NM $4

Spawn #220 McFarlane "Savage Dragon #1 Homage" Cover -- NM $4

Spawn #220 Szymon Kudranski B&W Cover -- NM $10

Spawn #220 McFarlane Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #200 David Finch Cover -- $5

Spawn #200 Ashley Wood Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #200 Jim Lee Cover -- NM $6

Spawn #200 McFarlane Cover -- NM $6

This is my first sales thread here. If I don't do something kosher, please yell at me. While I haven't sold here, I've sold on eBay (quite extensively the past 8 months or so). My eBay ID is rcheli as well, and I have perfect feedback (and praise for accurate grading). If that means anything... These books aren't huge value, but if you want a reference, please feel free to PM me. An or PM wins them, and if I'm not around to confirm, it's whatever time-stamp is earlier. I ship first class -- $4 for 1-4 comics. For more than 5 comics, I ship in a well packaged box for $5. I prefer PayPal, but I will do checks or money orders. (I live in Chicago, and can meet up with anyone in the area if they'd rather.) These come from a collection where nothing was read. They're all NM -- really nice copies. If anything is lower, I'll certainly note their defects.

OCT130216 ANIMAL MAN #26 $2.99 OCT130263 TEEN TITANS GO #1 $2.99 OCT130712 DAREDEVIL #34 $2.99 OCT130713 FANTASTIC FOUR #15 $2.99 OCT130714 FF #15 $2.99 (I buy Saga and East of West in trade format.)

While it's not a $50 book (or a $40 book), I bet you could sell it for $25 pretty easily. Comics from the mid-to-late-90s had ridiculously small print runs. (Even compared with today.) For those collectors who are completists, finding some of those books (last few issues of series, especially) are getting to be difficult and more expensive. Look at the Silver Surfer. Common issues in the 70s-100s can be found in the dollar bins. The last few issues (143-146) all sell regularly at $5-$12 each.

I don't know if there is a huge market more for the retailer incentive covers, especially for the first issue, where there are 4 regular covers and 2 retailer incentives. One sold a few weeks ago for $5.50... Some issues/covers seem to be more rare. For some reason, 5-A is the hardest to find.

I remember a year ago I was selling the #1 set of 4 Turtle covers for $35, after finding them in 50 cent bins. I thought I did good, but had no idea that this series would blow up on the secondary market like that. Kevin Eastman is back on board, so I think there is some interest because of that. I don't really like much of what IDW publishes -- it's just not my cup of tea -- but they do a very good job of it. Their Transformers looks great, TMNT, too. They go a little nuts with the multiple covers, but whatever.

I just sold mine on eBay for a disappointing $46. The first dozen issues of this series are always quick sellers on eBay. Sold a #1 for $36 and a #2 for $41 in the same grouping.

Oh, and I also ran a small convention in Chicago in the mid-00s, and I was an early poster on the eBay Comic Chat board (though I unfortunately was never involved in any huge tiff or feud).

I think I signed up for the board many years ago and posted here and there. But I just started reading/posting with more frequency the past couple of weeks. I collect romance comics, Silver Age and up from Marvel and DCs (FF, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, Flash, JLA, Atom, Titans, "cosmic stuff"), as well as a smattering of other odds and ends. I have a nice collection of 1950s romance original art, as well. I had a pretty decent collection of Quality and Fawcett hero books, but I sold most around 5 years ago to pay down debt before my son was born. (I think there is no better value in Golden Age books based on quality of story/art than early Quality Comics... You can get early Hit/Crack/Smash/etc for a fraction the cost of DCs and Timelys... But I digress...) I tend to collect lower grades, because I'd rather have quantity of comics over quality of grade. I've also started selling more on eBay, where I've focused mostly on Copper and Modern, with a smattering of Silver and Gold.

It was a Marriott, maybe? I estimated the time to get to Fat Jack's, shop, and get back, and it was just too much. When I'm at these events (I think it was the ADA convention), I usually don't have much time during the day to step away and go places I want to. The last time I went to Fat Jack's, it wasn't even at its current location, but that was probably 15 years ago or more.

I grew up in the Lehigh Valley and lived in Jersey (Trenton and then Flemington area) for years in the late 90s. I would take an every-two-months trip down to Bryn Mawr to go to Showcase and the record shop down the street. Their mall store is, well, a mall store. Different clientele, so different stock. The last time I was in Philadelphia, a couple of years ago, was for a conference, so I stayed at a hotel a block away from Reading Terminal. I looked for a shop within walking distance, but found nothing.

Only four? I haven't lived back east in a while, but is Fat Jack's still there? I always enjoyed going to Showcase Comics in Bryn Mawr. They seemed to know what they were doing.

Am I the only one who thinks that Cryptozoic Man is going to be a $4 book within 2 months? While I haven't read it, those who have are not raving. (The reviews go from "not very good" to "it was decent".) The creators are reality stars of a reality show that nobody really watches. And it's from a publisher that does not have any history of "hot" books. This is not Saga. This is not Manhattan Project. I just hope people aren't burned too much by this.

Yeah, I was trying to be funny. I had 4 people watching, but alas only the one bid at $7.99. I did very well with some IDW TMNTs, though, so I was happy with that.

I just sold a Gotham City Sirens #1 last night for $8, so the price is skyrocketing!