Discuss comic grading and how to evaluate books
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aknish Posts: 3
4/21/2017
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Hi
I just hold of around 100 comics- they seem to be in a good condition and in bags. I'm not sure how to price them though, are these graded? How do you know if its good or very good or excellent? I have pictures but don't know how to post them here.
Thanks for your help!
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sclingerman Posts: 165
4/24/2017
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In answer to aknish wrote:
are these graded? ... "Graded" means they were sent to a company (ex: CGC or CBCS or PGX)
and were professionally graded by their employees, and the comic was encased in a hard plastic slab. Google images of "cgc comics" for what that looks like. Since your are in bags, they're not.
Start with providing us a list of the comics title and issue number (ex: Fantastic Four #200) here, and we can go from there with telling you if it's POSSIBLE they're worth anything. It's possible your 100 comics could be worth thousands of dollars... or $20.
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
4/24/2017
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Your list so far looks like overproduced books from the 90's. These sell wholesale between retailers for pennies a copy in bulk. The wholesale value of most is about a nickle. When the books were new, retailers bought them from the distributor for about 45%-52% off cover price. The value of these to retailers has decreased significantly over time. You may have something better than these and if so, just screen for anything in the guide with a significantly escalated price. Otherwise, the going price would be a generically assigned price of $1 in the real world. The price of $1 would be assigned because it isn't worth the time to sort, process, and grade comics with this low of a price otherwise. Retailers put these unsorted in dollar boxes and just roll the dice to see if one customer is interested enough to buy one. They might salt the books with something better or more valuable to keep collectors interested enough to even look at the boxes.
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edited by Defiant1 on 4/24/2017
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