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| OK so I bought about 1000 or so comics today. This is my first ones EVER. I saw a deal and I grabbed them up. Dates on them are like 1972-1994 (so far, I havent looked at all of them yet) Most of them look awesome! (like they have never even been read) I have no idea what I am looking for but hoping that in this stack there are some treasures. Somebody wannna give a newbie some tips on WTH I should start? And are ebays prices pretty accurate? Is Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide by Robert M. Overstreet, what I need to have or is there a site or something I can look on for free?
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Well like alot of people you found the forums before you found the main site 
For Prices...
http://www.comicspriceguide.com/default.asp
and
http://comicbookrealm.com/
You will see differing prices from site to site...but it will at least give you and estimate of where your book sits
also check ebay listings...and just watch things for a few days...
As for what you should look for....*shurgs* dunno what all you have in your 1000 book buy..or if your looking to resell or collect......
but....i will say this........CONGRATS..and welcome to the world of comics...may it drive you nuts worrying about your funny books as it has the rest of us
Now time for some other members to chime in to make this your only post...please take the remarks that im sure will follow with a grain of salt......
My Little Comic Space
Remember, Kly’Bn loves you, baby.
The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future. -John Mason Brown American literary Critic, (1900-1969)
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| Thank you! I appreciate the advice. I will check out the "main" site. As for tonight...this crazy pile of books...I dont know whether to alphabitize them or catagorize them by year or WTF to do with them! So I have no idea what I have! LOL I guess I am a bit compulsive when it comes to shopping, and I just had to have them. (the guy in line behind me offered to buy them for 4 times what I paid for them before I even left the store!!!! Maybe I should have just done that.) As to what to do with them I have yet to decide! Maybe sell if the prices are good, maybe leave them in the attic for 20+ years so my kids can figure out what to do with them (that is my idea of what collecting is)....or maybe if they all are just worth a dollar or less as most of the auctions on ebay show them to be, Just give them to my boys to read and enjoy, like they were meant for I guess? I haven't quite decided.
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I vote for read and enjoy. I think the value of any comic book, regardless of guide, is what someone else is actually willing to pay for it. My wife says when I die, she is going to sell them all for $1 each(or maybe $1 a box). My kids think they will be rich if they sell them on ebay. I say read them and collect the ones you like. Don't worry about the value....it's not like they are savings bonds or stocks.
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| When you look at the main site, you need to understand that most post 1985 comics are listed at their original cover price but you can find many of them still discounted below cover price.
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| Thank you! I have seen tons of duplicates. I may attempt to sell the doubles. IDK
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SELL SELL SELL
--------------------------------------------“I don’t do this for the Commander in Chief. I do this for my country, and I will continue to do so.” "They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative." "Why," my soldiers asked of me, "surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?" I could not answer. - Gen Douglas MacArthur
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| sell the ones you have on interest in. keep the ones you like.
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