Comics, both MLP and others · 6:47am Apr 24th, 2016
First, the My Little Pony humble bundle is back for digital copies of the comics! Find all the details here on the Humblebundle site.
Second, I now own a four-drawer filing cabinet full of non-pony comic books that I bought back in the 80's, and I'm accepting comments on how to get them sold. (details below)
In short, back in the early 80's, I was dumb and had money, so one of my friends had me buy his comics for him while he was off in the nuclear Navy. He let me have them after he got out because he never paid me for them, and now (thirty years later) I finally got around to picking them up from a second friend's house. I'll probably keep the Doctor Strange comics, but there's a lot of odd ducks in the pile, most of which have NOT been stored unread sealed in acid-free bags and kept in a climate-controlled environment, and therefore are most likely 'Good' quality at best. Creases, bends, more than a few wrinkled where they were mashed a little in the filing cabinet, but generally in fair condition and anything but worth a bazillion dollars. If lucky, I'll get face value on about half of them, somewhat higher on a quarter to an eighth, and have about a drawer full of "Nobody wants under any circumstances." The Elfquest ones may be worth selling on Ebay individually, but some will have to be bunched just to get a bid.
I am now accepting comments, criticisms, and suggestions. (other than "Go ahead and UPS the whole bunch to me.") Let me know if there's anything in particular you might want from that era and I'll set it to one side once I get the nerve to start going through the mess.
(Imgr link, may have to open separately) Picture of a subset scattered across the floor
IF you don't want to wait much, check if you have any local comic/gaming stores, and see if they'll let you trade at any. They should at least the "good" ones. For the cheapies, besides said store taking them anyway, or them knowing someone who would want them personally, I'd assume ebay, or similar, would probably be you're best best.
The local store I go to most is the only one in the area that still takes any, and he usually just takes them to later sell on ebay himself.
Bought the $15+ package and am siphoning the interwebs of HQ PDFs now. I have no input whatsoever to give on actual physical comics, unfortunately.
Are you currently in the USA? Specifically one of the following states: AZ • CA • IA • IL • IN • KS • KY • MN • MO • NE • OH • OK • PA • TX • WA • WI
If so, and you don't care to get much money for them, you can sell them to a Half Price Books location. They'll take all of 'em, probably. The money involved will be a pittance but...
A comic book store would work too but, same deal. Pittance.
If you really want to sell them and maybe make money, that's legwork. eBay.
I buy hardcover and independent comics whenever I can because I believe they might have the best resale value in the future, but If I actually knew how to sell books I wouldn't be donating them to the thrift stores. Then again, in all fairness, I get a lot of choice books from the thrift stores as well. And, while I don't read as fast as I collect and I love my comics sooooooo much. The only comics I've ever purchased through eBay were Gremlin Trouble and I'm still missing that one issue. I have two long boxes filled with comics I never read, one is filled exclusively with free comic book day comics. The other is filled with an assortment of mini series and horror comics. I've also started a magazine box with a collection of X-files comics.
Damn, Georg is old. Explains the good writing though
You bought them in the eighties, but from what you said they are older than that. Depending on how old, and what titles, they could be worth a fair bit. You might use google to check out the titles.
Given that the movie is upcoming, your best value might be your Doctor Strange
Way, way, back when, I traded the complete run of Todd Mcfarlane's? Spider Man, the title that gave him his start before he went off to set up his own comic company, and toy business, for enough money to buy a set of Golf Clubs. I think that was case of hitting while the iron was hot, at the time he was "The Man" I bet I would not get such a good deal these days.
You could check out "Overstreet's Price Guide, if it's still around. It listed the value, and would give you a good idea if you have a rare treasure in your odds and ends.
In the end, they are only worth what someone is willing to pay for them though.
Do you ever go to cons? Might be a place to get better information.
I'll give you five bucks and hug in exchange for the comics
(I'm joking btw)
Re. the comics: Go ahead and... oh. Never mind.
3892546 Are the humble bundle comics ones you can download and keep, or are they digitally protected? I bought some MLP comics once, and it turned out that I had not bought the comics, but just a key that let me read them on the publisher's website, for as long as that publisher was still in business. So I will lose them when it goes out of business. I don't want to spend money on temporary access.
3892829 I despise DRM, so I would definitely not have bought these if they were protected.
So they're all completely DRM-free, and even better, you can download all of the four various file types (33 files of each type). I'm pretty sure there's no expiration, and multiple downloads of the same file don't appear to be a problem on Humble Bundle.
There are four types of files: High Quality PDF, Standard Res PDF, EPUB, and CBZ (comic book archive).
The HQ PDFs total about 16GB, and the CBZs are about 2GB altogether. I haven't pulled the low-res PDF or EPUB files, but they're nearer in size to the CBZ files.
FWIW, Firefox plugin DownThemAll recognizes the download links and I imagine that other download managers would, so you can just queue them all for download.
Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat only more so. I've got about 30 long-boxes with everything from the 60's through the early 90s (when I finally went cold turkey) that I'm dreading getting rid of. The problem is early-80's started the comic book collector bubble and it burst around the late 80's/early 90's and never really recovered because it was all over-inflated pricing. And, here we are today in the world of digital everything and the younger generations who do not care about individual back issues, or old comic history anyway. So there's very little market for old comics. Odds are you could take them to a comic shop and the will give you a few pennies on the dollar for some of them, but most they will simply reject.
My recommendation is to get an inventory, take it to a few comic shops and maybe a used book store that also carries comics and see what they tell you upfront. Calling ahead and asking questions isn't a bad thing either. They may offer you something worth while, they may not. If you don't like what you get from them, consider Craigslist, and if that fails, donate them somewhere. The real question is how much time you want to put into it, because time is money. The more time and effort you spend trying to find a "good home" for them or trying to get a certain price out of them really diminishes the return. (There's a reason I haven't gotten off my butt to sell mine yet.)
What you do NOT want to do is just walk into a comic shop with books in tow. They usually like to have warning first because they may not be taking books or their buyer may not be in the shop that day.
Good luck.
3892934 Oh, yeah, the last time I bought a humble bundle I had to spend half an hour clicking on all the links to download all the files. That was a real pain.
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