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Hi all. Would appreciate everyone's opinion on the following ASM 300. Thanks!

Newshane, hi. Thanks for the inquiry. If I decide to go the route of selling off parts of the collection here, I will notify you as soon as possible. Nick

Hi all. Thank you for all the great tips. Would you also suggest contacting Sparkle City Comics and/or High Grade Comics (Bob Storms)? Depending on the offers, it could make sense to send in the higher grade keys to CGC and then sell many through this site and/or eBay (although I would like to avoid eBay as much as possible). There are many complete sets of comics in high grade condition. Anyway, I have provided a link to the spreadsheet which also contains pricing that I obtained from various sites (not everything populated) although mostly avgs from eBay. I also provided links to pictures from 3 of the long boxes for viewing. Let me know what you all think. Many thanks! (working on correcting issue with access to spreadsheet) Box 1: https://www.flickr.com/gp/189076392@N04/a50Y2g Box 3: https://www.flickr.com/gp/189076392@N04/658856 Box 10: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmPGwfHe

Hi all! Would appreciate everyone's grading thoughts on the following Hulk 340. Thanks!

I would appreciate everyone's grading thoughts on the following Hulk 180. Thanks ahead of time!

Thank you!

A big hello to all! My name is Nick and I am from the tri-state region (NY/NJ/CT). A little about myself. I was a big comic book reader back in the late 60’s through late 70’s and then as with everything else, life took a turn (for the better I may add) and my passion was re-directed to other things including collecting/selling vintage Star Wars toys back in the early 90’s through early 2000’s. Spring forward to today……..I would greatly appreciate any thoughts/path forward on the following. About 10 months ago, I purchased a large comic collection from my nephew spouse’s who had inherited the collection from his brother. It was a one-owner collection which was started sometime in the early 70’s. The majority of the collection was stored in two climate-controlled storage rooms and the rest in the apartment which was then transferred to the storage units. The collector was extremely careful collecting/storing/separating his comic collection as you will see with the details below. Based on immersing myself in viewing a ton of sites on grading comics (youtube, various Comic sites, purchased Overstreet’s guide to grading comics), I took on a whole new adventure to gradually check each and every comic for condition. As I was checking condition, I mostly took individual pictures of all the books and entered everything into an excel spreadsheet to allow easy analysis of the collection. What I didn’t realize was how long this endeavor would actually take (wife kept asking if I was nearing completion or whether I had “new dates” when I would be finished for many months!). Safe to say that I finally was able to break through the logjam of 139 long and 1 short box of comics (~37,700) in total. It was a labor of love to say the least and brought back many memories of 60’s – 80’s while I read comics in Brooklyn. What I would really appreciate from anyone is how to approach my next steps. I would prefer to sell the whole collection vs. piecing it out. I have done a lot of research on pricing the past 6+ months and it appears that the collection has some worth to it. Although it does not have some of the major Keys (i.e., ASM 1, ASM 129, Hulk 181, etc., etc.), it does have a number of other Keys although none have been officially graded. Here are the details on the collection: This is a one-owner collection. It appears to me that the owner did not read many if not the majority of comics because the conditions of over 95% of the books are in NM and up condition. 99% of the books are bagged and the owner, instead of placing a cardboard in the back book, inserted a pre-cut board in the middle of the book. This allowed me to view the front and back of each book quickly. What is interesting about this approach is that it did not impact the condition of comics. I ordered and replaced 40 of the long boxes and re-bagged over 200+ of the higher end books. What made going through this a ton easier is that the owner had hundreds of file separators to separate all the various series and sets of books! Here is the breakdown of the 37,700 books. The collection spans multiple publishers and characters Marvel: 20,100 DC: 15,031 Other (Dark Horse, Valiant, etc.): 2,580 Out of the 140 boxes, 5 1/2 have doubles/extras which means that the bulk of the collection are series of characters, etc. There is a total of ~1,650 series/sets of books. Of these, 108 are missing one on book to complete the series and 50 are missing 2 or more books. Based on the following comic book periods (SA: 56-71, BA: 72-85, CA: 86-92, MA: 93+…Please let me know if I should use different time frames): SA: 341 BA: 4,485 CA: 6,963 ’93 - ’99: 9,300 ’00 – ’09: 9,559 ’10 – ’18: 7,066 Based on my research/analysis and grading guidelines, etc. here is my grading analysis: 0.5 – 4.5: ~300 5.0 – 8.0: ~1,400 8.0 – 9.6+ ~36,000 I tried to be as strict as possible when it came to grading the collection based on research/reading materials. In most if not all cases, I provided a tight range (e.g., 8.0 – 8.5, 9.0 – 9.4, etc.) because grading is truly an art vs. science. I was truly amazed how well the books were preserved especially from the 70’s/80’s/’90’s. As per the major characters, here are some stats. Most of the series below (Marvel) have some missing issues here and there: ASM: 168 – 500 Iron Man: 1 – 500+ Hulk: 122 – 500+ Avengers: 10 – 400+ Fantastic Four: 48 – 450+ Captain America: 101 – 450+ Thor: 132 – 500+ X-Men: 58 – 500+ Daredevil: 10 – 400+ Here is a sampling of the other series/sets: This would appear to be great collection for a collector either starting out collecting books or who would like to upgrade a good number of books. What I would appreciate from all the great collectors out there is any recommendation on how to proceed forward on selling the entire lot and whom to contact and any experiences, etc. Should I first solicit offers from various dealers/collectors? Should I maybe keep the 5 ½ boxes of extras or just include them in the over-all collection? What pitfalls to avoid? I should note that I had contemplated sending in ~200 books to CGC that were mainly keys/high value books in 8.0+ condition but given time-frames and cost, now considering selling as is. If there is anything else I can provide to help assess the collection, please let me know. Many thanks ahead of time! Nick

Hi all! First time post but long time lurker. I would appreciate if if you could provide some insight as to the grade range for Werewolf by Night 32. Thanks in advance!