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4 hours ago, H0RR0RSH0W said:

Sad about your son . I am sorry. He would be around my own age. Always wondered what my mom would do without me to steer the collection.

Good advice from Bomber-Bob.

Sounds like a somewhat valuable collection so no reason to just give it all away. The Price guide is a really good way to figure out what is valuable and what is not so it might not be too much of a time commitment to just spend a few hours going through things.  After you know what is key you could spend a little more time trying to ascertain a current going rate. If you do not care to spend that much time on it you could pull the most valuable books aside  and sell off the rest as a large lot and not have to worry about being taken advantage of. Then you could try to move on the smaller lot of books at your own leisure using someone you trust , perhaps a family member or as suggested a local comic shop.

4 hours ago, H0RR0RSH0W said:

Sad about your son . I am sorry. He would be around my own age. Always wondered what my mom would do without me to steer the collection.

Good advice from Bomber-Bob.

Sounds like a somewhat valuable collection so no reason to just give it all away. The Price guide is a really good way to figure out what is valuable and what is not so it might not be too much of a time commitment to just spend a few hours going through things.  After you know what is key you could spend a little more time trying to ascertain a current going rate. If you do not care to spend that much time on it you could pull the most valuable books aside  and sell off the rest as a large lot and not have to worry about being taken advantage of. Then you could try to move on the smaller lot of books at your own leisure using someone you trust , perhaps a family member or as suggested a local comic shop.

Thank you so much...my friend and I found a  computer print out where my son had written numbers by each series name...we think that is the ones he owned but not sure.  

I am need of advice from all of y'all.  My only child, my son, died in car accident 19 years ago at 18yrs. Old.  I am just now able to go through his comic book collection, which was his life until his death.  They have been stored in an extra bedroom in my home so they have been kept safe with climate control.  It appears they are dc and marvel collections, mostly Spider-Man, x-men, captain America and the like.  He was a huge spider-man collector...his hero!  All, I mean ALL his comic books he had in plastic sleeves with the backer board stuff...sorry I'm not savvy with comic book info. And all in those long cardboard boxes with lids for comics. There must be 1000s of comics, comic book cards in notebooks, action figures in boxes unopened....help?   I'm quite sure I could be taken advantage of due to my ignorance so I prayed and here I am.  I started buying my son comic books when he was 4 and thus it began.  On special occasions I would purchase a SPECIAL comic book..always spider-man.  I think the most I paid was $100.00 in the 80s and that was from working extra jobs...yea I was not wealthy by any means...what am I saying?  I'm still not!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and please be gentle as this is soooo difficult for me.  

Thank you.