Posted by Johnboy at 42-pool1.ras12.calan-e.alerondial.net on May 27, 2003 at 00:50:07:
In Reply to: Q from one comic book geek to other CB geeks... posted by ChrisMoses on May 26, 2003 at 18:59:34:
I've been collecting 20+ years and have at least 20 longboxes of comics. And before you make the obvious joke, my wife has her fave titles also and I pick up a few for her each week.
Your comics are worth precisely nothing - or maybe I should say, they're worth the enjoyment you got from them. The bottom dropped out of the market about 10 years ago after the multi-cover stuff killed the collector's market. You might get $100 or so on ebay. Your local comic shop will rape you; you'd be lucky to get 10 cents each. Nothing personal, that's just the economics of owning a comic shop - not a lot of margin.
I was once offered over $1,000 for my Ninja Turtles 1-5; now they're worth about $1 each. (Although my old Daredevil is now appreciating. Go figure - Affleck gets a bug in his butt and it affects the collector's market for old, secondary characters.)
If you really want to do something cool, donate the comics to a local library or a school.
John