SuperBird

The 2nd ed DM guide cover painting exists. They display it at GenCon each year.

nevermind

I'll trade ya'! ;)

Thanks to @Ron C. for selling me this one!

I went through a similar thing, ended up going from 20 longboxes to 4 short boxes, bought some trade collections, and don't really miss having what I sold. I say if you never look at them, they're just taking up space. "The things you own, end up owning you."

Way outside my usual collection focus, but for whatever reason I couldn't resist this Spider-Punk DPS.

I’ll be bidding.

Of all the possible defects to bring a book down to low grade, detached cover is by far my preference.

The other way I would do it is just set a BIN on eBay and wait for the buyer or market to come to you. I had great success selling my Master of Kung Fu CGC collection that way last year, sometimes for outrageous prices. I can see certain instances you'd want to sell to a dealer: it's just easy, especially if you dont really know what the books are worth, they'd be difficult to auction, don't want to get them slabbed, etc..

Since this ended up being a public experiment, the results are now essentially in. All but 1 book now is now auctioned (Action Comics 28 is going up by itself this Sunday). My GPA-based estimate for the collection was initially $90,000, with the caveat that a lot of these books don't come for sale that often, and many prices had to be inferred from copies that had sold either a while back, or with significantly different grades (e.g. 3.0 vs 6.0). It was also tough to know what the extensively restored Action 23 8.5 would sell for (which ended up being $13,200 or something like that). In total they auctioned for something very close to $100,000, which, after Heritage seller fees, ends up with a net of about $83,000. Overall they did about what I thought they would, with no real surprises. Lots of new GPA highs, but nothing that would make your eye pop out of your head. Overall I am satisfied, though in hindsight I do wish I had kept a couple of my favorites. All the proceeds are going to my daughter's college fund, not back into my collection, though I did pick up a copy of Bone 1, which I'd wanted for a while.

speechless

mArKet HaVoc just as my Action Comics WW2 covers are up for auction on Heritage this week... arg! Fingers crossed....!

what the hell did I just read.

A couple of bottom-feeder CLINK wins.

FWIW, I would aim to get 85% of the value of whatever your selling. There are plenty of venues to do so.

Is there a source for this? As far as I know, the documentaion required *is* the reciept.

GA hasn't tightened at all from what I've seen. All books in all grades going up. (aside from the genres like westerns, etc, but I never pay attention to those.)

Golden Age comics have certainly not slowed down, fwiw.

about 30 years after I first wanted a copy... here it is!

Been wanting a copy for 30 years, finally pushed the button.

Bolland?

I've looked into it, and never found any info.