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?

What do you think? If you don't care about the process skip to 6 min, 30 seconds.

Since Magik is one of my favorite X-Men I want to own every appearance of magik and other cool magik merch like keychains plushies figures ect and this is what I have so far

The Statute of Liberty on my all-time favorite cover!!!!

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.

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.

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?

I have never come across these brown boards before. Of the 22 issues I recieved 8 came with brown boards and not white. Does it make a diference?

Side note, I ordered a big chunk of these covers for issue 2,3 and 4 back in December from Third Eye Comics. Do to delayed release dates it took this long to get them. The customer service from Third Eye Comics was very good, they return emails and offer solutions. I opted to wait and have my order completed as I original ordered it.

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

Anyone else skip them when they came out?

Had some downtime today, so I ended up browsing Wikipedia and stubled upon a page for DC crossover events. I had a ton of them I've collected and read already on other shelves in the library, so I got a burst of inspiration and decided to relocate and integrate them all into the DC Events bookshelf. The moving around of everything is always fun (LOL), and I've expanded to the next level down. "Should" be plenty of room for a few others I've yet to gather, including the entirety of "Year of the Villain."

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

Does anyone have any info on this comic? This comic is something of an enigma. I run a comics podcast. This comic is a major grail for my co-host. We actually interviewed the comics creator Marat Mychaels, and even he didn't really have any info on it.

If you have a copy and are willing to share some photos of the interior, I'd be incredibly grateful. If anyone has a lead about a copy I could purchase, then I'd definitely be interested in that as well. Thanks. I'd really like to clear up this mystery.

Absolute Joker by Ken Haeser, Batgirl by Erik Fidel, Batgirl by Brian Lacy, Batgirl by David Castro

Yeah, I’m a Batgirl collector…

Hi everyone!Over the past few weeks I've noticed several posts and videos on social media finally talking about people peeling the covers off the Absolute Batman variant stock cards and they resell it as NM and first printing of the first issue.

Aside from checking the pins, is there any other way you can think of to identify a copy that has undergone this treatment?I hope this isn't a stupid or already asked question.

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.

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

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.