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Ay carumba! What's the math on a long box, 250? If so, I'm stuck around 7500 comics & working diligently do get it down to 6000.

jjreason wrote:Ay carumba! What's the math on a long box, 250? If so, I'm stuck around 7500 comics & working diligently do get it down to 6000.

Some boxes are longer than others, like traditional top lids hold way more than the new DrawerBoxes. And I put two books, front and back, in every bag with a board so that cuts down on space also. I’d say 350-400 issues if I’m packing them in tight in a top lid, and 300-350 in a DrawerBox if there’s no spacers in there. But I’m pretty sure those early boxes from the 80s/90s weren’t packed as efficiently as I can now. That dumb little shit didn’t know anything about collecting back then.

I was in on the drawer boxes, now I'm out. They keep ripping at the handles. My keepers are all going to eventually wind up in the short boxes with attached flippy lids. By far the most manageable even now, let alone when I'm wearing adult diapers in a few more weeks years.

Finished the CA batch. The final total was an additional 9,552 books with a “value” a skitch over $36k

Now starting on the 2010-2012 batch I bought when I moved back to Iowa. Right off the bat, I found an unexpected windfall. The Adam:The Blue Marvel mini series from 2009, which I know I found in a bargain bin, so I paid less than $1 per issue, skyrocketed. First issue is $350, the rest of the books are in the $60-70 range. Yay.

Nice! Is that because the Ultimates series got so hot there? Movie rumours I would have to assume?

jjreason wrote:Nice! Is that because the Ultimates series got so hot there? Movie rumours I would have to assume?

I’m not even going to begin to presume to know how the minds of these chucklehead “investors” decide what’s a hot book and what isn’t.

Eventually every Marvel character is going to wind up on the TV or Movie screen. Bring it on! I’ve got a shit ton of first appearances scattered throughout my collection.

Even Darkhawk #1 has been swirling lately. People will buy anything.

Hell, even I have Darkhawk #1. Still has the $1.50 price tag on it from when I bought it. Looks like I have most of the first 20 issues plus an the Annual. I got them when I briefly tried getting into comic books in the early 90s.

Sell, Ran, Sell! It was up to $25 a couple of weeks ago!!!

Woo hoo! Dinner for 2 at Chipotle. Maybe the kids can eat too if I sell that Secret Defenders #1. Dr. Strange is cool now, right?

Ran wrote:Hell, even I have Darkhawk #1. Still has the $1.50 price tag on it from when I bought it. Looks like I have most of the first 20 issues plus an the Annual.

I got them when I briefly tried getting into comic books in the early 90s.

You, and literally every single other person alive at that time.

So are early 90s comics the same as the baseball cards from that era? Way overproduced with little value? They call sports cards produced between 1987 and 1994 the "Junk Wax era". You can still buy unopened boxes and cases of cards from back then for cheap. The prices on some of it started going up recently, but most of it still isn't worth anything.

That's pretty much it. Tons of copies & everyone was hyper concerned about keeping them in immaculate mint condition - too many of them remain to allow the demand to ever catch up with the supply.

Oddly, the only early 90s comics that are worth anything today are the last few issues of Transformers and G.I. Joe. They couldn't give them away at the time and they had crazy low print runs... but, as it turns out, lasting long-term appeal.

The only baseball cards worth anything from that timeframe are either rookies or error cards. The one that stands out is the Billy Ripken "Fuck Face" card. He is posing for the camera holding his bat, "Fuck Face" is written on the knob of the bat. They caught it at some point during printing and blocked it out.