Good morning everybody
My name is Gerald
It's 3:30 AM here in Georgia and I just joined the CGC community
I started collecting comic books in the early 80's, back then a lot of silver and bronze age comics could be found in 3 for a $1 boxes or key books for less than $10 in comic book stores, I was mostly a DC fan but also picked up a lot of Marvel comics along the way. I gave myself the excuse that I was collecting for my retirement and would have a valuable collection when I got there. well that time is coming on quick these days.
I got caught up in the glut that went on in the 90's and by the early 2000's I began to loose interest. I found myself with a lot of comics that where hot in the moment (example: the death of Superman) but lost value as soon as the public interest faded. I put my collection away and have just started to go through it after 15 + years with out even looking at a price guide. I picked up the Overstreet last year and what a surprise, the silver and bronze where well worth the investment I have quite a few keys from the 80's but the glut stuff is still a bad investment.
Well like I said, retirement is getting closer these days and it's time to figure this thing out. I have somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand books in all. Back in the day there was no CGC, books where graded by dealers or you did it yourself and after going through a couple thousand book I realized it's going to get expensive to have these books graded so I'm thinking about working this thing backwards starting with the glut.
I want to sell off my 90"s and early 2000"s books and use that money to pay for grading on key issues copper age books, If anyone out there has any advice on how to do this it would be greatly apricated.
Gerald
