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After reading thehighevolutionary's post about buying his first comic book collection, I too decided that it would be a great time to get back in the business of buying and selling comics.
I put together a very simple and to-the-point flier. I wanted to start small, so I just begun by putting them up around the office. Within the first 30 minutes I already had about five hanging tags removed. I received my first email response to my flier within the first week.
The first person to respond was a b/f of a lady that had just started working here. He told me that they were hard up for cash and he was looking to sell some boxes of comics. He had said that he had about 11 boxes of comics that were all from within the last 10 years or so. Mainly Batman and Batman-related books. I was really hoping that he was going to tell me that he had some great Silver Age books that he was looking to dump. When he told me that it was all Modern Age stuff I was kind of reluctant to go look at it. I thought that I wasn't going to be able to offer him what he was hoping for. I decided to send him an email and explain to him my going rates for Modern Age comics and the reasons why. To my surprise, he emailed me back and told me that that's pretty much the price that he was expecting. He told me that I was more than welcome to come look at them with no obligation to buy. I started filling a bit better after he gave me that information.
A couple of days after receiving his first email I decided to use my lunch break to leave and take a look at what he had. I went to met him at his apartment. He was waiting outside for me when I got there. I parked my car and we went upstairs to his apartment. He had all of his books ready to go. All 11 boxes were out in the hallway lined up against one of the walls. I knelt down and began to browse through the stock.
A quick glance through each box discovered exactly what I expected to see; Batman, Detective Comics, Birds of Prey, Catwoman, Nightwing, Robin, JLA, JSA, etc. Something that I wasn't expecting however was the condition of the books. They were all pretty much in NM condition with bags and boards (except for some of the TPBs). After quickly looking through each box I stood back up and told him if my original offer still stood for the whole collection. He told me that he would actually take $10 less than my offer because one of the boxes wasn't completely full. It was only about 1/2 box. I was kind of taken back by his response but I quickly recovered and told him that he had a deal.
We were both happy with the deal and he said that he would even help me carry them out to my car. He did as he promised, I handed him his payment, and my car's back seat was now full of short boxes. Before I left we stood outside and chatted for a bit about comic-related stuff like some of the newer comics and The Incredible Hulk movie. I also thanked him and told him that if he knew anyone else that was looking to sell some comics to mention my name. He said that he would do just that, and I headed on back to work.
I will post some pictures of what I picked up when I get a chance. I was planning on doing that this weekend. I won't be able to take pictures of all the boxes that I bought. I've already listed a few auctions on Ebay and taken a few books out for my own collection.  Plus I've already made a sell of one short box to a girl here at work. Her purchase of one short box pretty much covered what I paid for the whole collection. 
**THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR UPCOMING PICTURES**
THE PICTURES ARE HERE!!!
Sorry it's taken me so long. I've been working some crazy-a$$ hours here lately. But anyway....I've taken quite a few of them. I took a group-shot of all the boxes together. Then they are broken down into twos. The first of the two is a picture of the box with just the lid off. Then the second of the two is a picture of the first few books out of the box. Just to give you an idea of what each box contains.
There are only about 9 1/2 short boxes in the picture. As I previously stated that I've already sold a full short box that pretty much covered my cost of the whole collection.
Just received a lead on a second collection. I'll probably go and take a look at that one pretty soon. I should have more to tell about that experience this weekend too.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - Raoul Duke(Johnny Depp) from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
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| Congrats! Cant wait to to see the pics and good idea with the flier.
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And here are some pics and a list of the books that I pulled out of the collection for myself. They are all in VF/NM condition.
Superman: The Ten Cent Adventure
Y: The Last Man Collected Edition
Y: The Last Man #3
Y: The Last Man #4
Y: The Last Man #5
Y: The Last Man #6
Y: The Last Man #7
Y: The Last Man #8
Y: The Last Man #9
Y: The Last Man #10
Y: The Last Man #11
Y: The Last Man #12
Y: The Last Man #13
Y: The Last Man #14
Spider-Man & Wolverine (Knights) #3
Simpsons Comics #67
Simpsons Comics #70
Simpsons Comics #79
Simpsons Comics #80
Simpsons Comics #81
Simpsons Comics #82
Batman #619
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #19
World's Finest Comics #305
Superman Vol. 2 #44
The Adventures of Superman #467
Action Comics #654
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - Raoul Duke(Johnny Depp) from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
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Man...that is so cool. Just to have all those books right there in front of you waiting to be picked through is so overwhelmingly cool, I can only imagine the big a$$ grin you must have. Thanks for the pics too.
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I just got back from buying another small collection. It's contained in two boxes. One's a short box and the other one's a box from a grocery store or something. I didn't give much for it either. I bought it off of a preacher that actually lives about two blocks behind my house. He said that he picked them up from someone around the area and had never done anything with them. He said that he never even read any of them in the two years that he owned them.
They are now sitting in the back of my SUV. I'm at work right now. If I get a chance during the night, I'll sneak downstairs and take a few pictures of what I picked up. Nothing really too spectacular, but still a decent buy.
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Man...that is so cool. Just to have all those books right there in front of you waiting to be picked through is so overwhelmingly cool, I can only imagine the big a$$ grin you must have. Thanks for the pics too.
It is really cool.
This is probably the best business decision that I've ever made. I already made twice as much as I paid for the whole collection, and I still have all of these books left.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - Raoul Duke(Johnny Depp) from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
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Here are some pictures from the collection that I bought this afternoon. It was a small collection of 244 books. Like I said before, this collection didn't really contain anything out of the ordinary. I mainly just paid the guy to take them off of his hands. The TPBs that were included in this purchase more than paid for the whole thing.
The pictures that I took where of the best stuff that I could find. There wasn't much to choose from (as you can see from the pics).
Hopefully my next collection purchase will turn up some real beauties. 
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - Raoul Duke(Johnny Depp) from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/
My online blog:
http://jonathansullivansblog.blogspot.com/
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