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Dynamic2 Posts: 4
12/29/2020
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First: Thank you for the great information on this site. So cool to someone who never had such available resources.
I am an "old time" dealer/collector who stopped selling comic books in the mid-1980s. I still invested heavily (typically anywhere from 20 to 100 copies of special appearances and most number 1 to 10s) until the mid-1990s.
At my peak, I was investing a ton of money a week on new comics, as well as spending much more on vintage comic books. I started selling in the 1960s when I was a kid (in comic book pubs) and set up at all of the larger NY shows in the 70s and 80s, including the Phil Seuling and Creation cons.
I was lured in the late 1970s to another collectible where I am still involved heavily since then.
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Second, I have the latest Overstreet and have studied it slowly page by page, and have also gone slowly through your list for the hottest 800+ comics.
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Question 1: I have looked at the grading guidelines that you have and many others posted on numerous websites.
I was concerned about the grades that allow for creasing and small folds and other defects. In my day, I would never have considered a comic book to be in FN or VF or above with any such defects including a "piece out of the corner".
Obviously, if grading standards have been relaxed a bit, and spread out to allow for variations, then I will personally under grade such comics. Is that the best approach?
NONE of my comics are graded, but a high percentage of my comics have never been read as I primarily stopped reading them in 1967 when I became a comic book dealer.
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Question 2: I had a near death experience a little over a month ago (NOT Covid), and while I was in the hospital, I returned to my roots, and pondered what I had accumulated over my career. I was thinking of selling my comic books in two lots: My private collection, and My Comic Book Selling business. My collection is diverse and ranges from 1938 to the 1980s, whereas my business ranges too from the 1940s to the mid 1990s.
I saw some responses to someone who owns 6,000 comics and it hit home as I have probably 15-20 times that amount.
I am just NOT ready to sell comic books at this time or at larger shows (after Covid) or through this and other websites.
What do you think about the marketplace for golden, silver age and bronze/copper age comics?
Should I sell it all in two lots (to someone like me) or should I start preparing to sell individual copies?
I am already in the process of buying the supplies that would enable me to get ready to respond post-Covid. I know that I could sell everything to one person at 20% to 30% of retail if lucky, but I am just not there and probably never will be. Because of the diversity of my collection and business, I suspect that selling to one person will not work. I did all superhero marvels and DCs (for the most part) and funnies and war and independents and magazines like Vampirella and Eerie and Crazy, etc.
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I am confused and also lured by the value of my investments.
What do you really think?
P.S. Administrator: If I violated any site rules, please let me know and revise or delete anything at your discretion.
Collectors: Since I am not ready to sell individual items, please recognize that for the most part, I know what I have but does anyone really know everything they own?
Happy Hunting!!!!
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