Did most modern age (90’s, is what I mean. I’m not sure if it’s exactly if it’s Modern Age, but that’s what I mean) comics decrease in value?
Anyhow, I have other comics that I like, that I could call trophy comics, which is mostly Gen13 back in the day.
I also have the last issue of the first series of Alien vs Predator, which I like, and the limited version of Batman vs Predator, in ok condition.
Is the first series of Venom worth anything? I have that. I like it a bit.
OHH, I guess my TRUE trophy comics is the first series of Transformers done by Dreamwave. That storyline was epic and emotional.
I really like the first Batman vs. Predator miniseries. I think that comic has aged well and it’s still a great, well-crafted read. I still got my old TPB from way back when.
Whenever I want to figure out if any of my comics are worth anything, I just check eBay and check the completed listings. I just checked on Venom: Lethal Protector and someone on eBay actually paid $14.99 plus 4 bucks shipping for all six issues! But that buyer is probably a newbie because that successful auction was a fluke.
A couple of years ago, I sold my set of Dreamwave’s first Transformers series. I had the Autobot and Decepticon covers for all six (except I only had the Decepticon cover for #1) and I think I sold all 11 comics for around 30 bucks. Not too bad. Other than the fact that I probably spent 40 bucks buying them in the first place. I should have waited to sell them when the movie was coming out. The hype might’ve boosted their value.
Yeah comics aren’t worth that much nowadays, unless you have something ultra rare that hearkens back to the Golden Age or the early Silver Age, origins of certain characters and you can take a good guess at some of the big names. Then you have some serious loot on your hands. 80s, 90s, I’m sure there are rarities but only a hardcore fan is going to give you what they are really worth. Even signed books, if you don’t have a certificate of authenticty some people will think you faked the signature and some people might even think you faked the certificate! At best you need a picture of the guy signing your comic and I guess no one can argue with you there. I guess video is good too.
There is CGC grading if you want no one to argue about the price of your comic, but I dunno that’s certainly some spending money to maybe make some money going on there…
The bottom kind of fell out in the 80s and early 90s when everyone was buying comics and multiple covers for value. That was the best time to sell your comics, of course no one knew this at the time and people wound up holding on to their books, thinking they’d be worth a lot of money for their grandchildren. If you open up a copy of a comic book price guide, you will notice that a lot of comics you had that used to be worth something now go for 2 dollars and 4 dollars… I mean my earliest comics I paid 75 cents for them so there is some profit.
In many ways it’s good for readers. I mean seriously, when you attend a con you can walk away with a ton of books for really cheap. Of course you won’t get Amazing Fantasy 16 or anything like that but there’s lots of books you can purchase now relatively easy when compared to the 80s and early 90s.
The best advice I can give you to selling your comics on Ebay is to sell a bunch of them in a bundle, that always seems to help.
Xmen 1 signed by stanlee. Bought it like that, its in a nice frame and has the certificate. pretty cool. I got it for my tenth birthday. it was such a great gift,
Japanese Ryu Final Part 2. I treat that thing like something sacred. I remember my imagination ran wild with fanfics as a kid. I didnt even know theyd translate it ever yet those pics really made me love SF and Ryu even more
Jokeology 101 - mind your audience. Haha, no one even blinked.
Man, I don’t think I have a favourite.
Maybe my two Thanos Quest issues, or like Silver Surfer #50 with the cool cover that was the precursor to Infinity Gauntlet.
As a kid, I was always psyched that I had a variant copy of X-Men #1 from 1992 with Jim Lee and Chris Claremont…but then when I realized Marvel had printed one copy for every human being on Earth…I was less psyched.
Hmm. If my room was on fire and I only had enough time to save one comic…
…it would probably be my copy of Batman #595. Just a completely random issue, but it was one of the earlier comics I actually bought for myself. I didn’t actually seriously start collecting on my own until then (November 2001) - up to that point, I had always just mooched off my cousin and I spent all my time reading his old comics. So I’ve only been seriously into collecting and buying comics for like 6 years. Thus why my boxes don’t take up like half the space in my home yet.
Batman #595 signifies my descent into this horrible addiction, and the beginning of the end of my life - the moment I first decided that I would buy this issue, the issue that came after it, and the issue that came after that, into forever.
I have no idea what number it is or even which storyline it’s from, but I have a Batman comic from 1990 (or 1991 or something), and it’s the first comic I can ever recall owning. I might have had others before it, but I don’t remember them, and I still have this one to this day.
It’s beat to shit and I added my name to the cover at some point, but it’s holding together pretty well. The story was gratuitously, sordidly violent… very much in line with the climate of mainstream comics at the time, and great stuff for little kids to read.
My “pretty much mint condition” What If? #1. It belonged to my uncle, as the issue came out long before I was born, but he gave it to me when I was around seven or eight, and I never read it, so it’s pretty much untouched as he kept good care of it and I’ve never touched it.
