Trading rather than selling comics? 0

[Dr. Balls]

Trading used to be cool when the internet wasn't around. Your buddy had a book you wanted, and you had a book he wanted - and there was no way for you to actually buy the book he had because you were limited to what was in-stock at your local LCS. Hell, that goes back to the 80's for me trading baseball cards. Before the days of Beckett. Before the days of Wizard, and for me, before the days I would have spent money on an Overstreet because I was a kid.

Yet another thing the internet has ruined. THANKS, AL GORE.

[Robot Man]

As kids, we used to trade comics all the time. They had no real monetary value but some were prized more than others. You might to have to trade a few Jimmy Olsens for a Spiderman. Was real hard to move Harvey’s or Archie’s though.

I was lucky. My parents had no problem with us reading comics. But some of my friends wern’t so lucky. They kept their box in my closet. So I had access to reading all of theirs.

In those days, comics cost 12 cents. “used” comics were a nickle at used book stores, flea markets and garage sales. Heck, we had a lot of them given to us for free when the neighborhood kids “out grew” them. 

[Artboy99]

I successfully completed a trade here on the boards in the past. Answered a WTB thread offering the book I had and we did a partial cash + trade deal.