comicginger1789

Thank you. You are going to waste money. You are going to be disappointed. You will get them shipped securely. And you will get comics. Guarantees that I stand by (or at least sit with attention). Boxes are going faster than last round. I’ve sold one in less than an hour so at that rate I might sell out before the weekend. Don’t sleep on this one folks!

Also the first 50 buyers will get a blank label included in their box. Tired of getting stickers in boxes that have images of characters or companies that you don’t like? With my box the power is in YOUR hands to create the sticker you always wanted! Draw on it, doodle, or even write YOUR company or business on them. I don’t waste time advertising my stuff, I let you decide what you want on the sticker. You can even include your drawing on my blank label and put in someone else’s mystery box that YOU send out. If that isn’t value, I don’t know what is.

I mean, I can’t account for the bizarre. After all I did sell a Sleepwalker 1 to a guy for $15. Keep in mind extensive carelessness went into these mystery boxes. We made sure that books included are ones you see en mass in back issue bins at your local shop. Copies were carelessly hand picked after eating our lunches and stuffed into cardboard backing boards and old yellowy bags we had to keep them looking as drekky as when we found them. We even took into account books that are often donated to ensure the true drekness of each box. At the end of the day I am human. It is possible for some issue you receive to blow up and earn you an eighth of your initial investment. If that starts happening, I will deal with such complaints fairly and appropriately.

Are you tired of buying mystery boxes and being disappointed? Do you get a great box one month and the next five are all terrible? And do you never ever see anyone win the grand prize? Well complain evermore because the “What the heck is this drek?” Mystery boxes are HERE! Here is the deal. EVERY BOX will contain a bunch of junk that have sat in $2 or less bins for decades. That’s right, no surprises. All drek, all the time! Customer dissatisfaction guaranteed! Just check out my testimonials from the first test phase of two boxes sold! ”I thought I might still get something great but I didn’t. So he was honest” - Jim from San Diego ”I ran out of TP and was desperate”- Sam from Crested Butte, CO There you have it folks, some great feedback! Each box is only $75 shipped. That’s $75 for a maybe $25 value! Why gamble and lose when you can choose to!?!?! Books can include 90s anything, 80s series you’ve never heard of and Bronze and Silver age comics that are beat beyond collectibility! You may be asking yourself where is the mystery? I want a prize! I get that. I really do. Well the surprise here is no surprise. Fully transparent and honest. That is the goal here. And hey if you will blindly purchase $25 worth of stuff for $75, why not just do it knowingly! Accept the risk, know the risk and take it regardless. Books will be shipped without tracking and in reused boxes from other mystery box people. Recycling is fun and cheap and there is the added surprise that for a split second you think “hey I got an insert decent mystery box company here” but in reality it is this one. Oh the surprises! This round is open now. I have 100 boxes and each costs $75 shipped! Perfect for the comic masochist or to give to friends. Also great YouTube content. It will match 90% of the unboxing videos out there so no one else will know but YOU! What a rush! Here is Jim reviewing his box from our first wave!

I have to share more here. I have some on the back of a lot of comics which I don’t find as neat but I respect wherever did that for putting them in an unobtrusive spot. That being said I still prefer them on the front for displaying purposes:)

Obviously I want all original comics but if a really hard to find issue came up with a repro cover but complete interior Id be inclined to buy. Parts and pieces are sometimes the only way to get some of these books. Heck if anything I wish there were more coverless books and more covers only for sale. Means some books could be Frankensteined to create decent complete reader copies!

I hope you do well with sales and if I ever find a double cover from that arc, I will keep you in mind!

I mean if @shadroch would have paid me 3-5 times values on my MTU #46, maybe I know where to go to sell next time

But how does one enjoy said duplicity when they are in a slab

Double the cover does not always mean double the price. Here is the thing with double covers...are they cool? Heck yeah. But in terms of adding value, it kinda has to be on a book people want. A key issue or first appearance with a double (or multiple) covers? Sure that will sell for more than the regular book. But a "random" issue with a double cover? Not so much. I had a high grade MTU #46 that was easily a 9.0 or better with 2 covers. It sold for $25 raw. Graded, well you'd be lucky to get double that which negates the point of grading it in the first place. Majority of double cover collectors collect them raw. They are willing to pay a bit more but not substantially so. Your book regularly is maybe a $10 book. With the double cover? $20-35 would be expected as a raw sale. You could spend the $30-40 to ship and grade but at the end of the day, this book graded would not sell for over $75. The only way I could see that happening is it you happened to have a 9.6 or 9.8 grade on it.

You are right, my typo. I meant issue #328 with the Hulk on the cover. Hate that issue.

My moms birthdate but off by one year

I’d keep raw. They sell better generally.

Picked these up. I know nothing about Westerns but they were ten/twelve centers and under ten bucks each so I grabbed em since I don’t have any in the PC.

You used capitals, the @ symbols for vowels and mentioned the platform you are selling on. Automatically I must have it!

The frustration at an 8.0 either suggests a) A lack of grading ability on the submitters part b) The submitter paying $100 for a book they thought was a 9.6 only to get an 8.0 which eliminates any profit margins. c) The submitter is genuinely upset having had others offer feedback and that combined with their own experience, led them to believe it was much higher only to get it back and be surprised. This means CGC dropped the ball The correct answer will be determined when the photos are shared. Until that happens I believe the answer is actually comic swapping gremlins. They live in UPS and FedEx and USPS trucks and they are experts at sniffing out CGC cases so they can replace higher graded comics with their own lower graded drek. And they are experts at cracking and re sealing a case with their gremlin goo.

I guess to answer the original question of how to do it... Step 1: Have millions of dollars Step 2: Type "comic lot" into eBay. Step 3: Click Buy It Now on everything that is listed Step 4: Success! (Note...steps 1-4 will need to be repeated daily for several years...and even then, you will be missing 50% of what you seek)

You are looking to collecting it all. Say 2 million issues. My collection has has an end. Right now it may be at 10 000 issues. But it grows as I learn new things, discover stories or artists I like. That being said, I know my collecting HAS an end because there are plenty of the 2 million issues you want that I know I will never EVER want. Basically, you know your end goal and because it is so plentiful and lofty, it keeps you going. I do not know my end goal, but I know what I love and am happy to try new things, knowing eventually an end will come. I am also weird and currently enjoy cleaning my books and grading them myself, as well as photographing them for personal cataloguing (and in many cases, re-reading or reading because my accumulation rate has outpaced my time to read rate).

My collection is at about 3500-4000 books. I can remember about 98% of them. Very rarely when flipping through do I find something I "forgot I had". I frequently look in my bins because I read very slowly and am currently spending time rebagging and boarding some books (as well as cleaning some) so I am in constant "contact" "with them. But occasionally in the past year I had a Bronze Age filler issue from a collection that I decided I should keep, only to find I had one. A random Nova issue if I recall. Part of my current activities with my own collection involve me taking photos and saving them on a helpful app I found that can store and organize images. This way in the future, if I run into such a problem, I quickly check that folder and can see my copy, as well as images (to know whether my copy is worth upgrading or not).

An amazing collection. May the pieces find homes and continue to live on forever!

Yup it was decent looking for a lower mid grade. She went to a better home and I bought myself more stuff

I agree that this would be near impossible without and unlimited income. If you had millions of dollars to spend and didn’t worry about getting the best deal, sure. While I respect such a goal, personally it’s pointless. I like that for me my collection has an end goal. I have certain things I want and I’m content hunting those for all time. Buying it for the sake of having it all does nothing for me. I don’t want a lot of Silver Age DC stuff or copper age Marvel stuff so why would I buy it just to have? I’ll stick with buying as much of what I love as I can while I am on this earth brings me great joy! And I find I learn new things every year, about artists or books I never knew existed. So while my collection has a finite end now, it tends to grow once in a while as a see new things to add to my “oh now that would be great to have” list.

I guess I’m not done lol.... With regards to Sonic. Video game character. This, his video game first appearance is where the value is. A first comic appearance is cool and eventually Sonic or video game collectors may branch out for such a piece. But really, I’m willing to bet for every diehard Sonic fan, there are 100 diehard Batman fans. As a Spidey collector, my goal (ok pure fantasy) would be to one day one AF 15. If someone else tried to say “hey I’ve got this vintage Spidey toy, it’s his first ever!” that would be super cool and likely have some value but it’s not something I’m wanting to pay up for over trying to buy his first comic appearance. If that makes any sense.

A final thought. I may have a one of a kind comic but if no one cares about it, it doesn’t mean it’s worth thousands or even hundreds. It also boils down what people start paying. And Hollywood/movies/shows/current comic arcs play a role in generating renewed or new interest in characters. Sometimes it takes off big time. Ten years ago I paid $60 for ASM 300 Newsstand in high grade. That same books is easily $500-1000 now, maybe more if graded at the top end. Now that book does have a first appearance of a character that has been popular since being introduced. There is lotsa supply (for direct copies for sure and there’s are still plenty of newsstands) but the demand is also very high. Between older collectors who never had a copy and newer collectors who are starting to have income to afford such books plus the willingness of people to pay what they do for ASM 300 has resulted in the increases seen. And you can’t ignore that the movies, even if bad, have been seen by people and likely sparked some of that increase. For a lot of younger and newer collectors, the silver and Bronze Age stuff is out of date and some people don’t like it. Plus there are so many keys and expensive books, they just don’t bother to collect. But for a character like Venom or Carnage, yes you have to pay up for their first appearances now but they really only have a handful of “big pricey key” books. It’s easier for a Venom fan to grab an ASM 300 and say 316 than it is for a die hard Spidey fan to save up for AF15 or ASM 1 or the plethora of older Spidey books out there that have value and are desired. So newer collectors just focus on having a killer Venom or Carnage collection. Or with Miles Morales, that’s their focus. There are a lot of factors and predicting the next big book is something I don’t bother with but enough people do. If you listen to those people you may do well investing in comics, otherwise just buy what you like and enjoy that.

A lot of good points have been made. In response to the initial post, the market for Spidey, Batman, etc. is much much larger than it is for Sonic. Granted the desire for Sonic is one that could grow over time, as more people get nostalgic for it and desire it as part of their video game collection. Collectors who collect Sonic are likely big gamers and are wanting cool crossover pieces. Personally as a comic collector, the allure of Sonic just isn’t there for me. A second thing (which was probably brought up) is print run. Older books from forties and fifties are tough to find period, let alone in good shape. Books from the 80s and 90s are generally easier to find and because people had a mind to collect pop culture items, it’s likely that a lot of Sonic books exist in high grade. If the supply is plenty and the demand is low, it won’t be very valuable. Granted that can change. There are books in the comic world that were (and still are) plentiful but instead of being worth $1-10 like they were a decade ago, people now care enough to pay $100-1000 for some of these books. It can be tough to predict and people who try to might find they fail more often that succeed. This is why investing in books that are tried and true sellers (your ASM early issues, key first appearances of characters, etc) is generally a safe way to at worst be able to sell your books for what you paid in the future (and often times they go up a bit)