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lambfan68

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  1. I was nine years old in 1977 and I have fond memories of these books. I knew nothing of the "hobby" outside of just buying comics from the newsstand.

     

    Despite that, I was aware that these books were a huge deal. Everyone seemed to own a copy. How could you not? They reprinted over and over again.

     

    If you weren't into comics then, you have to know how unusual that was at the time. If you missed a book, you missed a book. It wasn't coming back to print, especially months later. Between the reprints of the regular issues in the three packs and the various giant versions, the movie issues were available everywhere for what seemed like years.

     

     

  2. Of course, you're right, Pep 22 (which I will never own since Adam never emailed me back) and Archie 1 will always be the most sought after but 2-10 will always be strong sellers.

     

    I agree. Especially for those of us who want to own an example of early Archie, but can't afford #1. We'll make do with #9 (for example) and be happy with what we can afford. :)

  3. Thanks for the replies. It really helps.

     

    The whole garage sale will be nerdy/geeky stuff. My wife has a large collection of mystery novels that she's going to sell. Aside from the comics there will be sci-fi books, some video games, and other such items.

     

    As far as marketing, I'm planning on the obligatory Craigslist ad as well as notices in some local geeky Facebook groups, notifying a local mystery book club that my wife used to frequent, etc. So, the marketing will be fairly specific to the types of people that are into these sort of things.

     

    I thought about printing up flyers and having them at the local comic convention this weekend, but I don't feel good about having my address out there until just before the sale.

     

     

  4. This is probably too simple a question, but how much do you expect to pay for old comics at a garage sale?

     

    I ask because I'm planning on selling the bulk of my collection at a garage sale in the next few weeks. Aside from a few titles and runs that I'm planning on getting bound into hardcover books, I decided that everything else must go.

     

    The bulk of my collection is pre-Crisis DC stuff. At one time my goal was to collect everything from 1975 through 1986. Of course, I've got random issues before 1975 here and there. There are also a lot of Superman titles from 1986 through 2010. At one time I wanted to have all the Superman titles from my birth year to the present day. I gave up on that.

     

    My other big focus was Disney Ducks. I decided that I want to part with everything except the Uncle Scrooge books that is pre Gladstone. So, there are a lot of Dell/Gold Key Disney books.

     

    Plus, I've got random modern issues here and there. The isn't a whole lot of what you would call 90s drek. Aside from Alan Moore's Supreme, I don't think I have any Image stuff.

     

    Now, I wasn't a high grade kinda guy. Most of the vintage books came from the $1 and $2 boxes at shows. Reader copies, some in better shape, some in worse. It all averages out. There aren't any keys per say.

     

    Am I out of line thinking I can price them pretty much the same at a garage sale? $2 for older books and $1 for newer books. I'm thinking that a 12 for $10 or some such sliding discount scale would also help.

     

    Would I be charging too much/too little with this sort of scheme?

  5. Just for fun, I checked cgcdata for the Disney books with most CGC submissions. Their top 2,000 list has, as far as I could find, 3 Disney books:

     

    281. Donald Duck Adventures-Free Comic Book Day (2003), 700 submissions

     

    Seriously? Why?

  6. The 1952 Woolworths picture shows stacks of unopened packs of 1952 Topps baseball cards. This set contained the rookie cards for both Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. The Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps card is generally considered the most important post-war card. This picture is tantamount to a 1938 photo showing piles of Action #1s on a newsstand. Quite a find.

     

    Actually, chances are there aren't any Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays cards in that pile of boxes. The 1952 Topps set was released in several series. Based on the cards on the salesman sample sheets that are tacked up, that is the first series.

     

    Mantle and Mays are in the last series that came out in the fall. Typically the last series had fewer cards printed and didn't sell as well as early the early series.That scarcity drives up their value as does the whole rookie card thing.

     

     

     

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    Dover,

     

     

    There's a Best of DC #18 9.6 CGC signed by George Perez and Neal Adams.

     

    But I don't think the cover is done by Neal. What do you think?

     

     

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/TEEN-TITANS-1-BEST-OF-DC-18-DIGEST-CGC-SS-NEAL-ADAMS-GEORGE-PEREZ-/330887384648?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item4d0a6cce48

     

    Nope, it is not Neil.

     

     

    Look closely, The cover lists him as one of the artists who has a story reprinted in the digest. The cover is Perez.

  8. I went to a bunch of antique stores over the weekend. A bunch of them had comics, but they were mostly in stacks in locked display cases. Some of them were in bags (no boards) that were yellowed with age.

     

    I didn't even bother to track down someone to unlock the cases. I can't imagine that these places sell a comic very often.

    For Guide+,over graded books? You could have wasted someones time...including your own.

     

    Exactly. Just from what I could see at the top of various piles, Fair comics were priced at Near-Mint.

  9. Picked this up today from a friend who also owns a small comic shop. Picture sucks because it is in the storage room in the basement until I can get it cleaned up.

     

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    I have one of those as well. Is there a topper of any sort on yours? Mine doesn't have one, but I can't tell if it is supposed to have one or not.