Hi All,
I wonder if someone could give me some advice please?
My sister and I have inherited lots of comics from our father, and have no idea about the best way to sell them. We have Archie (various types), Blondie, Dennis, Tweety, Uncle Scrooge, Daisy and Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks, Walt Disney Comics and Stories, Beagle Boys and Donald Duck, all from the US. We don't have complete years of any of those, but various dating from late 60s and early 70s. We also have a lot of German Micky Maus, bound editions and loose editions, from 1951.
I HATE the thought of selling these, I grew up reading them, but sadly we need to sell them. Does anyone know the best way to do this? Is it through specialist stores, or specialist online stores, or ebay? Would it be better to sell them together or individually?
Thank you very much to anyone who can spare the time to pass on their ideas.
Daisy.
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Daisy
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-25 at 20:37:22
Ramapith
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-26 at 00:44:10
Daisy, please e-mail me privately regarding these comics. I may have some good news for you.
Ramapith
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-27 at 04:42:03
Daisy, I received an e-mail from you sent via the DCF's Forum Mailer system. But it had a nonworking return address. If you're interested in a reply from me, please e-mail me directly, using the address in my signature below??so I can see your actual e-mail address.
Daisy
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-27 at 19:34:13
Hi there, I've emailed you, thank you!
Daisy
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-28 at 16:29:03
Just another ask....does anyone else have any advice about how and where to sell a large collection of Disney comics? Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
Ramapith
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-28 at 23:38:49
Daisy, I guess I didn't receive your more recent e-mail. I only received the first one??which was sent through the DCF's private message system.
For whatever reason, that system shows your e-mail address as an invalid one; when I try writing to you at that address, the message bounces back to me.
Before you go elsewhere for help, let me give you an abbreviated version of what I had meant to explain privately.
Your 1950s German comics, if they're authentic originals (and not later 1980s facsimiles), are some of the very first German issues, and may be worth enough that you can sell them??earn the money you need??and not have to worry about selling any of your other comics, given how much they mean to you.
For whatever reason, that system shows your e-mail address as an invalid one; when I try writing to you at that address, the message bounces back to me.
Before you go elsewhere for help, let me give you an abbreviated version of what I had meant to explain privately.
Your 1950s German comics, if they're authentic originals (and not later 1980s facsimiles), are some of the very first German issues, and may be worth enough that you can sell them??earn the money you need??and not have to worry about selling any of your other comics, given how much they mean to you.
Daisy
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2011-01-29 at 11:33:10
Hi David,
I emailed you using an address on your website, but have now sent you a message via the forum with my email address. Sorry you didn't get it. Yes, all German Micky Maus comics are originals, and complete I believe from 1951-1959 and then various from 1960-1968 and 1966 complete as well.
Hopefully you can reply now to the email address I sent you in a private message.
Best wishes,
Daisy
I emailed you using an address on your website, but have now sent you a message via the forum with my email address. Sorry you didn't get it. Yes, all German Micky Maus comics are originals, and complete I believe from 1951-1959 and then various from 1960-1968 and 1966 complete as well.
Hopefully you can reply now to the email address I sent you in a private message.
Best wishes,
Daisy
Coolwater
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2011-01-29 at 12:51:57
The data bank Deutscher Comic Guide gives, depending on the condition, a collector's price between 600 and 9000 Euros for a copy of the first issue of Micky Maus from 1951 (see here). All later issues have significantly lower prices, though.
Daisy
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-30 at 20:26:45
Thanks Coolwater. We do indeed have the first issue, definitely not mint condition, but I don't know how to grade it. Wish my dad had taught me German, I'm going to have to find a German speaker to help me with this....
But again, if anyone has any suggestion for where to sell Disney comics that would be incredibly useful.
Thank you.
But again, if anyone has any suggestion for where to sell Disney comics that would be incredibly useful.
Thank you.
Coolwater
Advice about selling comics please?
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2011-01-30 at 21:15:34
In the link I gave the collector's prices for the different conditions are on the right, with the heading "Sammler-Preise". "Zustand" means condition. On that site, the different conditions are explained in detail here, but I guess that those condition divisions are quite the same in the comic collector scene around the world, so one might find detailed explanations in English somewhere else.
You can go to the next issues of Micky Maus and the collector's prices with the button "weiter" at the bottom of the page.
I can't really say how realistic those prices are and if there are many people who lust after those old numbers, I'm not into that sort of hardcore collecting thing ...
You can go to the next issues of Micky Maus and the collector's prices with the button "weiter" at the bottom of the page.
I can't really say how realistic those prices are and if there are many people who lust after those old numbers, I'm not into that sort of hardcore collecting thing ...
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