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They're some highlights from my dad's collection, which he amassed as a teenager in the 1960s. Basically, my parents went on vacation a couple weeks ago and I'm moving out of town soon so it was kind of the last good opportunity to look through everything—which hadn't really been touched in 15+ years and hadn't been read since the early 1970s—and catalogue it and bag it, etc. Only in the course of doing all that did my girlfriend and I realize what we were looking at, how much it could all be worth. We are going with Heritage—we are packing up the books today for pickup either today or tomorrow. Insurance was a big question but basically the gist is that no insurer will insure something that isn't in your possession so the trick was to work on the wording in Heritage's contract until it was to our liking. They were very accommodating on that front. Nothing is trimmed—it's all literally sat in stacks for the last ~50 years. Read once and never touched again. I think I gave an update on grades somewhere but basically things are in good shape, lots of 9.0s and up, a few lower where there is something obvious like a bend or a piece of tape but mostly VF and up.

we'll have an update on all that by middle of next week Hulk has a tiny piece of tape on it which brings it down to a 6.0, but if they can somehow get that off (unlikely) it could be an 8.0 or even higher. Avengers 9.2, Daredevil 9.2, TOS 9.0. There's also a more or less complete run of Spider-Man from 3–20 (I think #8 is missing) that's all 9.2 and up. (1 has a corner missing which is why I didn't post it, 2 is 8.5.)

Thanks—I met with Heritage yesterday and they gave tentative grades of, IIRC, 7.5 for AF15, 9.0 for JIM 83, 8.0 for FF1, 8.5 for X-Men 1, 9.4 for DC359.

Here are some scans... these came out much darker than the books look in real life, and much more warped, guess my scanner is bad. But even a rough idea would be appreciated. Just want to get a sense before talking to auction houses. Some of these, to my eyes, compare well already with books rated 8.0 or even higher on auction sites, and probably with a bit of pressing could be bumped up.

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Sorry if the quality isn't great, I can take better pictures later if need be. Just want to get a sense before I start meeting with auction houses. I certainly know what I think, but I'm no expert...

Hi, I am very new to all this so sorry if I'm asking something that's been asked a million times before. My dad has recently decided to sell his large collection of Silver Age comics. I made a post on Reddit with pictures of a few keys and a general sense of the collection; people were very helpful and suggested the best course of action was to go to an auction house. The name that came up the most was Heritage, followed by ComicLink and Comic Connect. I have reached out to both Heritage and ComicLink and received a lot of interest. I'm wondering if there is any particular difference between them or if there are any others I should be looking into. Right now I am leaning towards Heritage because they are willing to do a house call and take care of everything—shipping, grading, selling, the whole bit. And they don't seem too stringent on what I'd heard was a 15–20% cut. Just want to get a sense of the reputations of these places, what people's experiences have been. Due diligence. Pictures of some random keys...