Silentbob

Maybe a good candidate for pressing?

Disregard the second panel. Wrong book.

On 1/31/2020 at 8:56 PM, Silentbob said:

I thought I asked a legitimate question. Nice to receive such a warm welcome. I have reason to believe that I have been collecting comics before some of you making snide comments and memes were born...1979.

Guys,

It was a bad idea to make my first post about a scripted comic book show and general valuations of comics. I have had a blast looking through my recently discovered collection. While I plan on selling some, the more I flip through, I find myself wanting to hang some in the Man Cave. Here is a pic of my favorites. The GI Joe in the middle is worthless because of the grade but priceless to me.

4 minutes ago, Krismusic said:

unfortunately I deal with Silver age books so no barcode to scan this is why I use the excel I had CLZ app but I dont have a huge modern collection just issues here and there and some spidey as well as Batman New 52 but I didn't like the CLZ app but that was a while ago they might have improved it... As I didn't like that there was no where to put grade or purchase price or other details that I like to record, etc... 

Good point. I have mostly modern so didn't think about the lack of barcode. Now that I think of it, I had a lot direct editions too as I had a subscription service. Hopefully CLZ can identify comics other ways as well.

Looks like a lot of you guys are inputting manually into Excel.

Can anyone comment on how the process went when the CLZ app was used? How was the list when imported into a spreadsheet? I foresee the advantage of scanning the barcode to be far less cumbersome then my hunt and peck skills on a spreadsheet.

2 minutes ago, Phicks said:

Did you ride uphill, both ways?

 

I recently finished cataloguing my "Good Stuff" in Excel.   2,000 books.  Just spend about an hour a day working on it, and you'll be done in  a month. 

LOL...it wasn't uphill but it was a tiny BMX bike 3 sizes too small and a bent fork from not nailing a sweet jump properly.

Did you use a service or enter manually? I would think scanning via the Collectorz app would be far less painful.

20 hours ago, faster friends said:

1500 does not sound like that large of a collection. Surely there are runs of individual titles.

Maybe 1,500 doesn't sound like a lot to you. I beg to differ. Close to 1,000 of those were purchased when I was between the ages of 10-16 years old. I rode my bike just about every weekend 6 miles to my local shop and spent every dollar I had.

This is  a great discussion. I recently rediscovered my collection and was amazed at what some comics are selling for. Obviously key issues demand a premium but what I was amazed at were the comics I purchased purely as "Gag" issues like Spider Ham: Peter Porker #1 and Beavis and Butthead #1 now sell for a premium.

1 hour ago, 01TheDude said:

you can record the collection on a website-- I use Comic Book Realm  https://comicbookrealm.com/ .

 

My advice is to take a couple of months reviewing the numerous informational threads on this site -- especially the one in the Newb forum-- you know-- research and effort ---- that will give you the best idea how to approach it. If you simply throw out some generic questions expecting everyone to figure this out for you-- expect that your results will be as worthwhile as the time you invested. I've read a handful of your interactions so far and you seem to think the people here and not very knowledgeable -- a massive under estimation of the expertise here. That said - the people here are also not fools or your servants. So maybe roll back the expectations and animosity toward people you have barely ever met.

This aggression will not stand, man.

Good advice Dude. I don't have any anonymousity towards anyone. I didn't try to come off that way. Sorry if it was misinterpreted. I'm just trying to find a rug that ties the room together.

1 hour ago, Deadpoolica said:

 https://www.collectorz.com/comic/clz-comics 

Thanks. Do auction houses like Heritage accept submissions of collections in this format? I recently inquired with them on a sale of collection and they told me to send them a list in spreadsheet format which I don't have the time to populate. This looks like it would be more point and click.

I recently decided to sell some of my collection and am trying to figure out the least painful way of recording it. An Excel spreadsheet would take forever to populate around 1,500 comics. Is there an application or service that might make this task easier?

On ‎2‎/‎2‎/‎2020 at 7:16 PM, thehumantorch said:

Yea, it seems like an awful lot to meet an artist you appreciate.  And some of them will hardly talk to you.  And I get it, the lineup may be a mile long and the demand so high that even if the creator wanted to spend time chatting he'd feel pressured to keep the line moving and he might want to charge more to shorten the demand.  Steranko was here last year and friends who stood in line said he spent time talking to each fan and regaling the line with stories so even though the line was slow it was worth the wait. 

I usually don't like to talk to any of my childhood idols. I have found that it usually is a letdown. I would like to get a Klaus Janson autograph though. Has anyone met him?

45 minutes ago, thehumantorch said:

Hi Silentb, welcome to the boards.

Comic Book Men is a TV show.  Much like most TV shows it's designed to entertain and the people who come in to 'sell' are curated/hand picked by the show's producers.  We've seen board members invited to 'sell' to both Comic Book Men and Pawn Stars.  Using a reality show to understand market values for anything isn't a good idea.

So here's ebay search results, sold items, sorted highest to lowest - to get real values go with sold items and to get a better feel for values sorting highest to lowest works best

https://www.ebay.com/sch/165364/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=killing+joke&_sop=16&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1

Graded 9.8 are selling for $275 to $140 usd.  Highest hammer for a raw copy is about $80 usd.  There's quite a range of prices, even for CGC 9.8 and that'll generally depend on the quality of the seller, shipping costs, location, time of auction, etc.   So yes, a graded 9.8 has sold for close to $300 but that price reflects the cost to submit the book for grading and the 9.8 result and that's the high end of results with many similar copies selling for less.  Figure a rough average value of $200 for a graded 9.8.

A raw copy is hammering $80 and low end about $20.  So it's not unreasonable for a store to pay $10 for a ungraded copy that isn't perfect - the black cover is easily scratched and shows damage.

There's also many different editions and reprints of this book.  Second prints aren't as valuable as first prints etc.

Thanks for the thoughtful response. It looks like I was looking at the auctions with signed copies. Amazing that a signature adds that much extra value.

I thought I asked a legitimate question. Nice to receive such a warm welcome. I have reason to believe that I have been collecting comics before some of you making snide comments and memes were born...1979.

2 hours ago, Deadpoolica said:

You must be looking at "asking price" & not "sold price"

No, completed and sold. I looked back and there are even higher sales. From the responses it looks like eBay is fairly land but the prices sold are crazy.

I haven't looked at the values of comics in many years. I started binging on comic book men on amc and noticed a Batman Killing joke was sold to the stash for $10 in an episode around 2012. I recently checked the price on eBay and it was $300+. Is eBay a fairyland or has the market moved that much?

Thanks guys...has anyone sold with heritage that can share what percentage they charge?

Hello fellow comic book nerds,

I have been collecting comics for 40 years and have decided to let them go. I need to let go of the past to invest in the future. I noticed the values on eBay are quite high but it would be daunting to list large numbers of comics on it. Would an auction house be a better choice? Where would I retain most of their value? Thanks!