2-3 million? Thats the rarest of the rare (if you are telling the truth)....

Amounts of comics dont matter.

A 2-3 million dollar comic book collection is something you would get Sotherbys or Christies involved...not ebay.

Most "rare" comics (what people think is worth money) are in the range of 40 bucks, and will fetch about a third if sold to ebay or a comic book store.

A multimillion dollar collection is something you sell at an auctionhouse.

 

the collection is of all titles..

selling @ bulk.. would have minimal interest and therefore price would be minimal..

thinking of splitting them up indivually would bring a lower price vs each books worth but in longrun i think id get around 40-50% more per book this way.. making it worthwhile to splitup/take time.


2-3million worth was guesstamate on the low side..

lets just say this..

each box is 1ftx4ft holding 400-500 books

their are 3 bedrooms 20x15ish packed floor to ceiling with boxes full of books. its honestly soo many books he has no idea what he has.

so take 400 books/box and average of 200 boxes per room. times 3 rooms. 240,000 books (justa guess, considering i know some of the boxes have baseball cards and extra plastic sleeves in them.)

id say 240,000-->260,000 books all together

and the lowest is prolly worth 20-30$ but he has all the #1's which can go for as much as... 35k (their was an auction for an xmen #1? i cant remember he made me run in room but it brought 35k @ christies.)


the high end of course would be sold @ auction house and not ebay.


so prolly more.

i figure on average id get... maybe 50% of value(as per the big book of current values) and 8% of that would go towards shipping costs..

so average of 42% return on the "estimated value" which would bring around the orig 2-3million dollar mark.

first step is plunging into the collection.

its like parting a car tho..

u try and sell as whole.. u have minimal interest and people w/ interest dont have the $

split up then u find people who want each and every giving you more hassle but more $, making that more profitable

 

if he indeed is a hardcore collector with a lot of first issues, then i can understand his collection being in the millions. but if they r say 10-20 year old comics, then im guessing he will probably get 10% of the original cover price.
i stopped collecting basketball cards about 6 years ago, and the past 2 or so years i have been trying to slowly part my collection out on teh various forums. at first i believed i could get maybe 80% for my good stuff. which i did. thats 80% of the book value according to the industry std, but ebay ruined teh industry with its lowball prices.
i ended selling most stuff for about 50%, and now im reduced to selling at 35-40%, and with most things, people have short attention spans and only want the latest and greatest products.
anyway, goodluck to him, and im sure there r a lot of forums out there, u just need to document the comics before trying to sell them as all teh geeks want to know issue numbers and such.
i hope ur old man catalogued them or kept them in order because i see a lot of ur time being invested in this.

 

yep ebay baby

 

Digging up an old thread, but very curious how this all turned out?

Also, a few thoughts in response to your questions a year ago:

As a general rule, newer "modern age" books aren't going to fetch that much. You won't get much return on these at all. I would almost (...almost) write these off as only getting 10-20% of cover in bulk lots. I am, of course, speaking generally as there are alway some newer key or hot issues. But when speaking of a mega-collection like ya'll have, not by law of numbers on average.

Entire runs are nice and will command some interest. Some Bronze age - particuallary Silver age and further back - will garner interest.

High grades rule (9.2+). Especially if Silver Age backward. If you have particular higher dollar items, consider having them CGC graded first. Not necessary, but high dollar + high grade items CGC'd can do very, very well.

Check out the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, #37 (it just came out). Alot of resources in there to review. Alot.

Check out comclink.com.

As you or someone else stated, cherry-picking out the best of the best in a massive collection like that will take alot of time and effort...but will likely yield alot more back in return. Selling in bulk lots is the quicker and more efficient way to go....at a price. And by price, I mean a lower return.

Does you Dad have the "holy trinity""
Action Comics #1
Detective #27
Marvel Comics #1

What are some other high dollar ones?
What are the conditions of them?
Pictures?

I'd be very interested in seeing how this unfolded, And some pictures of those mega-keys or others would be very cool.

Chris.

(You might have noticed I'm an old comic book collector too).

 

Huh. Missed this thread back when. I used to collect. Nothing as extreme as that collection described above. I remember selling everything I had a decade or more ago and thinking they paid me too much for it. It probably all doubled in value again.

My most valuable sets? X-Men, from late 1960's to after the Dark Phoenix arc. Also Fantastic Four & Spiderman of same vintage but not quite as complete.

Least valuable? Not even comics (only cover art) but just as easily digested, the whole Doc Savage paperback collection and most of the first 200 Perry Rhodan books. I can't believe how long THAT ran!

Last series I was totally into? Grim Jack.

I like the trend to graphic novels and manga translations. Stand-alones like Watchmen, Lone Wolf & Cub, Wolverine, Batman (Dark Knight), Sin City, and others are a way for me to enjoy comics without being hooked on a serial (and being forced to endure uneven stories).

 

I need to find a recent Wizard to see if my childhood investments have not all gone to naught.

 

When I was about 7 my neighbor game me a bunch of comics from the 60s and 70s. Lots of DC and Marvel stuff. Nothing extremely rare. Unfortunately they weren't in the greatest shape. I unloaded them early this year and got around $50 for them. I still have some of the 80's series of Wolverine, The Punisher, and Batman. I have the one were they killed off Robin. That one is pretty cool.

My most prized collectibles are these two buggers right here.


If only my parents could have stashed a bunch of these aside for me when I was younger. Oh well.

 

Any updates from rijowysock? Just really curious.

Thanks,
Chris.