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How many comics do you have?
My dad was a huge comic fan - we even have first edition of 2000 AD.
So I went to the attic last week and was going through some stuff and discovered this extra pile of comics. I was like WTF! There were like an extra 500 comics if not more. The interesting thing they were all - Whoopee, Whizzer and Chips, Beano, Dandy, Bunty, Roy of the Rovers, e.t.c They were all totally British comics which made it really awesome! Dont get me wrong I like Marvel but I like the funny Brit stuff Oh yeah I forgot my original question, how many comics have you got? ![]() I think we have like 5000+ Dunno maybe even more cuz my dad said more were are at grandpa's place but I never saw them, maybe they are in the attic too?
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Whatever you do don't make the mistake I made 30 years ago when they were all chucked (not even recycled - was in the days before recycling!). Lived to regret that - as I had no.1 issues, complete collections, summer specials etc.. of British comics.
![]() Recently managed to buy all the Action annuals I originally had, some summer specials and no.1 issues. Nothing like the amount I had, but a nice wee reminder of simpler days! That will do me - though would like to get some Victors and Tigers in time. If you plan to get rid - then make sure you contact a reputable dealer to buy them from you. Don't make the mistake of just offloading them at a car boot sale or worse still as I did just dumping them!
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I have been reading Viz since about issue 25, and I still have them all right up to the current issue, which is number 213
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None. Read'em and pass them on or swap them. If there's anything I think I'll really want to read again I'll pick up the TPB at some point - and probably pass that on as well eventually. I'm trying to eliminate clutter. Digital is a godsend.
A reputable dealer? Comics in bulk go for pennies each. I priced up some 2000AD and Actions from about 1977-8 that I had and it wouldn't pay me to sell them. I gave them away in the end. Fifty, sixty plus year old comics are a different prospect, but nowadays EVERYTHING gets bagged. For the past thirty plus years every issue of virtually every comic released has thousands of people bagging it as a potential investment. The collectible craze from the 80s killed the viability of making money holding on to your comics. |
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I have a vast collection of fiesta's.
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I have a vast collection of fiesta's.
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Never counted them individually but 85 comic boxes in all of various size.
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About 4000 I think.
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None. Read'em and pass them on or swap them. If there's anything I think I'll really want to read again I'll pick up the TPB at some point - and probably pass that on as well eventually. I'm trying to eliminate clutter. Digital is a godsend.
A reputable dealer? Comics in bulk go for pennies each. I priced up some 2000AD and Actions from about 1977-8 that I had and it wouldn't pay me to sell them. I gave them away in the end. Fifty, sixty plus year old comics are a different prospect, but nowadays EVERYTHING gets bagged. For the past thirty plus years every issue of virtually every comic released has thousands of people bagging it as a potential investment. The collectible craze from the 80s killed the viability of making money holding on to your comics. I agree with what you say re bulk - but collectors will still pay for comics of certain note & time - pre 1980s. A no.1 issue, or the last issue, or in the case of Action last issue before the ban, 1st issue post ban, last issue before a merge etc.. etc.. You will still get a fair price if you are selling such comics as a one off. Even "ordinary" issues of certain comics do sell on Ebay and the Action annuals are selling for more now than what they were just 5 years ago. |
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No idea of the actual number of comics, but I have 5 long comic boxes full (they hold about 300 each I think), also have a lot of 2000ADs from number 1 until about 4 years ago, and a 6ft wide floor to ceiling shelf of graphic novels.
As dadioflex said unless you have something really old it's probably not worth as much as you'd expect. I have complete collections of Hellblazer and Sandman in comic form and they'd not even sell for what I paid for them. |
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None.
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Too many
well the OH has - he still insists on buying two copies of everything one to read and one that is immediately bagged and put into storage but he has got everything Wolverine has ever appeared in plus all his old banana man comics
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Quite a few even though i stopped collecting around 2001
about 500 issues of 2000ad including specials and annuals the complete sandman and spinoffs (death,endless etc) Hellblazer Spawn Invisables Viz Action before it joined with Battle Preacher Books of magic various vertigo titles i have tons more but they instantly come to mind |
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Fifty, sixty plus year old comics are a different prospect, but nowadays EVERYTHING gets bagged. For the past thirty plus years every issue of virtually every comic released has thousands of people bagging it as a potential investment. The collectible craze from the 80s killed the viability of making money holding on to your comics. |
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have around 30 comics that my cousin gave me. I prefer to buy tpb's.
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Same here. I'm going to start buying them though. Good fun, comics.
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My dad was a huge comic fan - we even have first edition of 2000 AD.
Oh yeah I forgot my original question, how many comics have you got? ![]() I think we have like 5000+ Dunno maybe even more cuz my dad said more were are at grandpa's place but I never saw them, maybe they are in the attic too? ![]() Quote:
None. Read'em and pass them on or swap them. If there's anything I think I'll really want to read again I'll pick up the TPB at some point - and probably pass that on as well eventually. I'm trying to eliminate clutter. Digital is a godsend.
A reputable dealer? Comics in bulk go for pennies each. I priced up some 2000AD and Actions from about 1977-8 that I had and it wouldn't pay me to sell them. I gave them away in the end. Fifty, sixty plus year old comics are a different prospect, but nowadays EVERYTHING gets bagged. For the past thirty plus years every issue of virtually every comic released has thousands of people bagging it as a potential investment. The collectible craze from the 80s killed the viability of making money holding on to your comics. For me it was the nineties that killed comics. Sub-standard creativity and the rise of the "collectors edition". Luckily for me, I more or less stopped buying comics in the late eighties and even at the peak of my ebay trading around five years ago I hardly touched anything from the nineties as there was almost no re-sale value, even then. Quote:
Good God, porn with pubic hair? Imagine.
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I used to have boxes and boxes of them, but when i moved out of my parents house about 15 years ago i think one of my brothers sold half of them. Then when i finally moved them into my house, i ended up giving them away to a friends son as he was really into his marvel/dc superheros. I don't regret giving them away as i hope they give him the same pleasure i had from reading them when i was his age.
it wierd as i can still remember being about 8 years old and buying the Marvel UK issue 1 of Action Force weekly, which came with No 2 free. I can actually still remember the panels and some of the page layouts. Its amazing how this particluar medium can have such a lasting inpact. |
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well the OH has - he still insists on buying two copies of everything one to read and one that is immediately bagged and put into storage but he has got everything Wolverine has ever appeared in plus all his old banana man comics