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Education on Comic Collecting: Topics

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OldGuy

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Hi there,

 

I'm not a collector or a major buyer of old books, but for fun/education I sometimes read this board.

 

I think another good topic for newbies would be "Scarce" comics. I hear Overstreet lists some books as scarce that really aren't that hard to find.

 

Are there any comics that are truly scarce? Any chance of a listing?

 

Also: what tricks to some shady dealers try to pull? An old one is selling a modern reprint of Action Comics #1 and claiming it's the real thing.

 

And one more thing, a catalogue of counterfiet comics and how to detect them. Thanks to a scan on my old comic history site, I discovered I was using a counterfiet scan of Cerebus #1 and a dealer was using it to convince people his counterfiets were the real deal. Oops! I made the correction when notified and told the dealer, but he didn't want to accept his counterfiets were counterfiets.

 

Who's the dealer?

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bronzeageboy-migration

bronzeageboy-migration

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Hi guys. Great topic! I'm currently writing a book on buying and selling comics on ebay and these are exactly the kinds of things new users need to know.

 

What do you think about the idea for a book? Do you think there's a market for something like this? I've been buying and selling on ebay for 7 years now and I think there are far too many un-informed people trying to sell comics. This is a niche market for sure, but I think people might buy a book like this.

 

Let me know what you think!

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