Dillydally

Thanks for all of the Great information. I will take my time and re-bag and board everything as suggested, to better archive the collection. I wound up using the Hipcomic app and doing super quick photos without having to take anything out of the current bags, to get a quick idea of what I had. The app identifies the comic fairly accurately and logs it into the collection, so I was able to do the whole process in about a couple of hours.

All super helpful advice, Thank you! Is there a specific brand of boards and bags that is most preferred, or is anything off of amazon sufficient? When you are archiving your comics, is there a specific price point that people would use something more robust than a board and a bag, and what would you use? I have one comic that I put in a rigid plastic display box for safe keeping. I'll probably start working on photographing them, and based on your advice, this would be the best time to remove them from the original sleeves and re-bag them with boards.

Thanks for the great responses. As suggested, I should probably start cataloging it, or find someone to help me with it. Much of the collection is either first editions or first 3, or first 5 issues, but there's lots of random stuff in there too. They are mostly bagged, but not boarded. If anyone in the San Francisco Bay area is interested in helping me decide what to have graded, please let me know.

I have several hundred comics that I collected throughout the 70's and 80's (some are 10¢, 12¢, but most are Bronze age). Contrary to what my Grandpa used to tell me when I was actively collecting them, It seems that many of them have become quite desirable / valuable. From what I have seen online, the most desirable comics should be professionally graded, but for me to do that, I would need to go through all of the titles and figure out which ones are worth the trouble of packing and shipping... Most of them were placed in plastic sleeves when I collected them, but they are not organized, catalogued, or graded. I would love to hear any recommendations about how to best / easiest way to sell off this collection. I don't need to squeeze every cent out of it, but I also don't want to be completely ripped off... I also don't want to spend too many hours dealing with it...