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As a fairly new person here, I was definitely attracted to the site for the price guide. I am on many other forums and sadly this is the most desolate forum I have come across in a long time. As I am post crash and I have been hearing of this great upgrade, I am hanging on in hope and anticipation.
I am a paid member (silver) and would really like to enter more of my comics, but .... should I .

I have been entering info at a rapid pace and am also having that irritant happen, known as the Creator is in the Qeue.

Hopefully I can add a small amount of what-not, to this forum.

Cheers !

If your collection is truly this nice, you may consider approaching metropolis to sell them at auction. You will have to pay a commission of course, but I think your books would go to homes of collectors, and not re-sellers. It would also remove some hassle for you, in that you would not necessarily need to have them "CPG certified" and encapsulated. I think grading set by Metropolis would be recognized and respected.

newbie here. Maybe I'm missing something very, very obvious but...How do I upload my collection to 'My Collection'? I have all my issues in an excel sheet with titles and issue #s. Please don't tell me I have to search each one out individually to upload!
edited by XANTEN on 3/15/2017

I am also curious about buying and selling comics. i recently inherited a decent collection (about 350) and am in process of imputing them into the collection here on this site. quite amazed at the value of some, though i wouldn't want to sell the inherited books for sentimental reasons. I how however found that i really enjoy learning about the comics, especially silver aged ones. So i hoped on Ebay and have purchased 2 comics. Flash Gordon #5 they say its graded at 9/9.2 and i paid with shipping $12.35 and also Action Comics #322 which i'm thinking will be a grade 3/3.5 with shipping i paid $8.99 for. I think i'm on target for both maybe a little under for the Flash Gordon #5.

My question is though surly shipping cost must mean either the buyer is over paying or the seller is losing out. How do you all navigate shipping costs when valuing your comics?

Hi everyone! New to the forum. After numerous years of being out of the comic book game, I've found myself sucked back into my childhood hobby. Long story short, I was going through my old collection and would like to get an answer to a burning question I've had for decades. How bad does the black check mark on my Amazing Spider-man #6 affect the grade/value?

http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/alanguitarguy/media/20170129_175832_zpseu1x6sob.jpg.html

http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/alanguitarguy/media/20170129_180306_zpsfqqhupfi.jpg.html

http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/alanguitarguy/media/20170129_180346_zpsltyldilw.jpg.html
(The dark areas on the back cover on the left are actually shadows, and there is a 1/4-1/2 inch rip in the back cover that might not be evident in the picture.)

http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/alanguitarguy/media/20170129_180432_zpsyp4k8bfp.jpg.html

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Alan
edited by Alanguitarguy on 1/29/2017

Hi folks, new to the site and leveraging it primarily to manage my own collection and not for buying/selling at this stage. Economics has never been my cup of tea so this might be an easy one to answer.

My question is regarding the values CPG places for any given issue. What is the true value for a comic (or anything, really)? To me, and this could be where I'm getting hung up, the true value of a comic is only what someone else is willing to pay for it. I could easily claim that my issue for Zoink #1 is worth $200 but if no one is willing to pay more than $1, then it really is only worth $1.

Where I am going with this: CPG has rated a book at $15 for 9.8. Sellers on eBay as well as brick-and-mortar comic shops are listing the book for $50 and auctions typically top out above that. So would this not give the book a value of somewhere closer to $50? I realize there are sellers who over-charge and also buyers who are over-eager to get a book and sometimes buyers are simply financially well-off and don't concern themselves with the price. But, that begs the question (at least in my mind) why are the values of some books on CPG lower than what the books are consistently selling for?

Thanks in advance.

It's way too late to protect them now so, I'll take them off your hands (I'll even give you a couple bucks for them)

I was wondering if there has been luck fixing this problem?

Yeah, we're going to have some more export formats in the next version. CSV is the likely candidate, but I gotta warn y'all... it will be a dump that will not be for the faint of heart. We keep a LOT of data and getting it all at once will be unwieldy for anyone other than you database wizards

I cannot predict the future but books I think are under valued
,
World's finest 3 (first scarecrow),
Fantastic four 48
batman 181
Action comics 58 (probably one of the most historically interesting superman covers)
Wonder woman 178
Grenada 1984 (historically awesome, practically unknown)

Books that I think are high risk investments due to over speculation IMO,
New Mutants 98 --approx 275k printed and there are a lot of collectors sitting on this
\wonder woman 98 (series 1). Guide value is way low, but market prices are over the top
Fantastic four 45,52 (I just do not believe these are nearly as key as 48, but due to speculation they have been selling for as much if not more)
edited by knparzival on 1/4/2016

Gilgandra wrote:

I'm not sure it will be put in as a missing issue as the book is already there.
There are heaps of books that don't mention they "Came Poly-Bagged".
It would have to be mentioned in facts that it "came poly-bagged", Sorry i can't do that but that's the type of info i would love to add one day.
For now i would just leave it, Don't think it's worth more anyway.

Hope that helped.

This variant edition is listed in other price guides, and it's just not a poly-bagged edition it also came with limited numbered postcard which was only available in the bagged version.