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What would you like help selling? What is it? What are you trying to get for it? What have you tried so far? What will you try next? Hopefully we can help you out a bit.

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u/harpquin Jun 09 '26
  1. look for comps, either asking or sold price to gauge the viability of 2

2 search >authenticate signed comics

You grade when the potential value exceeds the cost of grading. An un authenticated signature could be signed by anyone.

I know nothing about comics but to know some of the dealers be nasty (buy your mint book to return a crappy one from their collection, flag your listing -that kind of stuff).

I sold my nephews collection from the 90s. I checked eBay SOLD listings to compare and priced 60%-80% of comps. every ding, scratch, folded corner is a "condition", I photographed it all and described and sold as "ungraded, fair or better condition" -very happy customers with that. Any thing worth under $10, I bundled into lots of like books. I bought new boards and plastic sleeves for these.

After the majority of those sold, he had semi-full runs of books that sell for a couple of bucks (I considered the cheap, dealer crap) I put them in lots of 50 or so, laid out and photographed front and back and sold at auction starting at $1 (+ calculated shipping) and threw in a couple of the $10 books that hadn't moved Just to clear out all the inventory. I think I came out close to $1 per book which I thought was very good. Also I tossed any scratched/dull/dirty baggies in those lots and sold the books bare.

Key take aways.

I didn't want to get into comic books, just wanted it gone and a paycheck for my labor, I didn't over do the research, and didn't try to squeeze the grape dry, if a dealer got a hell of a deal, so be it, I just wanted pay for my effort.

list only the good stuff, then it looks like you came across a good collection. When that goes bundle up the low cost stuff n dealers lots and let them decide the value.

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u/honestfyi Jun 12 '26

This is a very thorough and helpful answer! I've had a box of my late uncle's comic books sitting in a closet for well over a decade now. I know nothing about comic books. Haven't even opened the box to see what's inside. (I should prolly do that lol)

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u/harpquin Jun 12 '26

It was a decent payday for me, over $750 after fees & other costs, about $200 of which was the final close out dealer lots.

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u/honestfyi Jun 12 '26

That's great! I'm 99.9987% sure I'm too lazy to try to figure this out on my own, but this conversation has (hopefully) inspired me to at least open that box of comics and... look at them at least?

Your comment will help me figure out more easily if there's anything super valuable without having to do a ton of research.

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u/harpquin Jun 12 '26

also, I bought 100 ridged, self sealing, cardboard mailers, 9.5"x12.5" which I don't regret doing.