What do you do with your Moderns?

[comicfan17blue]

Bag, board, put them with the rest of the books.

 

Just because they are worthless from a resale point of view doesn't mean they are worthless to me. If I like the comic enough to keep it, I take care of it.

 

Same for me.

[Webhead1981]

Read, then store them, then eventually sell when I need the room, for more comics. You'd be surprised what people pay for consecutive runs on certain titles of modern books.

[Buzzetta]

With the exception of Amazing Spider-man and my Valiants, I bag and board because eventually when I go through my books I will liquidate them and sell them off as lots.

 

One day, I can easily see myself selling off my Captain America's that I have been picking up as well as my DC New 52 Batman run.

[riveraXVX]

I take good care of even the books I know I probably won't keep, anything I'm unsure of usually ends up as fodder for ebay-

 

either way I like to keep the condition as nice as I can - I am particular about the way I handle even the "worthless" books - even if I end up not liking it, doesn't mean someone else won't appreciate it -- if they wanna rip it to shreds after they buy it from me..more power to them!

[the blob]

I bag board the better stuff bit by bit but I try to save my bag board resources for older stuff generally as I get a lot of that stuff with no bag board or just a dirty old bag

[Dr. Balls]

I take my piles to my LCS and try to trade a stack of moderns I've read for a SA or BA back issue. Works out pretty good because I think the LCS where I live can sell those moderns easier than the older backstock.

[paperheart]

read them. bag them and put them in a box. if they become worth something, sell them.

[BeerThirty]

If I like, I keep in a box.

 

If a book blows up, I sell it.

 

If it's OK and the book's in OK shape, I might also try to sell.

 

If the book is of no interest to me and has some defects, I will recycle the book. It usually isn't worth my time to find it a new home and my place is on the smaller side, so storage room is scarce.

 

Ryan

[ManWithASuitcase-migration]

I keep a few gems bagged, if only to take care of them for future reads, for instance, all 12 issues of Brandon Graham's King City from Image comics, because eve though a TPB collection was released, to me each individual floppy (in a Golden Age size format, no less) is a visual treasure..

 

Other books, moderns and decent if not great-condition copper and bronzes, over the years I've recycled after asking myself if I really needed to keep it - I've brought them into comic shops for cash, sold some collected runs and mini-series at flea markets and the like during the mid-00s, given some to thrift stores that accepted comics and such, and dropped off a few stacks worth not long ago at a Half Price Books along with a bunch of paperbacks I wanted to clear out.