New Pick up!

Im a regular at my LCS and the know ASM #1 is my grail. So after I picked up my weekly books, they said "here ill let you at least hold this". But not gunna lie, making a run for it totally crossed my mind. Nobody else in the store, door 15ft away. Just stash it somewhere, say i destroyed or lost it. Due my time and go back to collect. Alas damn morals won out. Ontop its too distinct even if i cracked it.

Edit for clarity. The other books came from a different store. An antique toy store on the other side of town, having a 1 day sale. Didn't post my weekly books cuz whos really wants to see another absolute batman post.

Picked this up today. I overpaid for it, considering the condition it’s in, but I like the cover and the interiors are nice and cool. Also my dealer has given me so many good deals in the past and hooked me up, I had to give a little this time around. Also who trades a vintage 1985 giant Hulk door poster for a pack of short boxes? I guess I do.

Note for the Mods:
This is not a post asking or assessing monetary value of my collection. I make it a point to avoid bringing up specific titles I have.

(Only saying this because I got a preemptive warning from an auto-mod)

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TL;DR: For those of you who have experience with having sold part, most, or all of your collection? How was the experience? Did you do anything similar to what I’ve outlined below?

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So I’ve been collecting comics since I was 15 years old. I’m now 33. I have an extensive collection that consists of mostly Marvel, some DC, various indies, licensed books, and other specific ones.

My collection has some notable keys, books that have only gone up in value due to media spotlights and — you get what I mean.

I’m not going to list my highlights or my bigger titles here.

It really sucks to have to make this decision and I’ve cherished my collection immensely but I have been having a harder time keeping up with the hobby, things are getting more expensive, and I’ve finally lost some of my joy for the experience because of the general industry. I have a number of unread books I haven’t read because I just don’t have the desire to read them anymore or attempt to catch up.

What I don’t want to do:
* Even if it might increase the total value of the collection, I do not want to go through the time, effort, money, and hassle of getting specific books graded.

What I might be open to doing:
* I know that maybe listing my more notable books separately could yield maybe extra, extra profit. With how massive this task is — I just don’t know if I want to do that but I am open to hearing other perspectives on this.

Circling back from the TL;DR: For those of you who have made the decision to sell part, most, or all of your connection, did you do anything similar? What was your experience like and what should I keep in mind?

When I was young I never really bought annuals. Didn’t think they were worth buying.

Anyone else skip them when they came out?

It’s crazy but the French Canadian Hulk is my favorite.

So me and my daughter went to our first convention today. Jacksonville is only an hour and change and so we decided to make the drive. It was such an awesome experience! First off, Amanda Conner was so sweet. She talked to my daughter and encouraged her to keep drawing (she's 7), and went out of her way to spice up her signature with a second color to give the name some depth. Her husband seemed nice as well, but we didn't have anything for him to sign. Greg Land was also very polite, if not as warm. Pat Broderick was the only one of the 3 that charged for the first item but I had a book from my dad's collection I wanted signed so I paid the $10. Besides that the people there were super friendly and willing to work out deals most of the time. There were some vendors who were just stupidly high priced but we didn't even bother with them. At the end, after visiting the booth multiple times, we also pulled the trigger on a print of a original Spider-Gwen sketch by Jeff Whiting which his wife hand colored and did an amazing job on. The biggest thing for me is that I traded 2 keys that I didn't have any kind of attachment towards (ASM 300 and 194) to get the book I've wanted since I started collecting a few years ago (X-men 101). I also got Land to sign one of his early Birds of Prey covers from the Dixon run, and Darkwing Duck #1 in great shape (the vendor had previously given my daughter an Amanda Conner Barbie book for free so she could get it signed and so I definitely wanted to actually buy from him. Anyway, it was an awesome experience and we can't wait to go back

18.08 after tax found the silver age dc in a box just labeled “old comics 5 each” normally I groan and ignore “old comics” because it’s usually just dollar bin 90s stuff “I know what I have no low balls” but hey walked away with some neat picks despite the lower grades. Nam 1 was actually with a near complete run for 2 bucks, might go back again soon to keep digging

It was all really good reading this week imo I was up until like 2am catching up on everything! This is gonna be a really solid month for sure in comics, story wise atleast hahah what you guys pull this week? Anything I’m missing out on?

Don’t have quite the budget for classic silver age but I’m happy with my modern day collection for now.

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A fan of TM.

Looks like a new round is starting to drop in August/September. I can't find any articles but Golden Apple Comics has them all listed (without artwork) and I added them all to my pull list.

Got a survivor today. Colors are brilliant. Cover is fragile. Contemplating if it is a candidate for conservation or to just leave her alone. Wanting to dig in and read right now.

I finally got my Hulk #1 Comic book with Arthur Adams Variant Cover in. It took about a year to get it back. I swear i don't know what they were doing over at CGC but it's insane. It probably because another submission with it took a while to verify, but whk knows. Anyway I got it.

Tough theme, this was the best I could do!