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Selling Comic Book Collections

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

selling comic book collections
would you sell your old comic book collection or keep it?

i have a few thousand books and i always thought i would keep them but troubling times may force me to sell them. would you rather keep them or sell? opinions?

First are they worth keeping
Are they really Old 30 plus years

Extremly Rare Comic Book at Auction

Breakthrough Success Secrets For Selling Comic Book Collections Online

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The X Files Collection: Seven Stories from the Best-Selling Topps Comics Series

$19.95

If you are a fan of the conspiratorial Fox Television series, check out these seven full-color comics stories featuring agents Scully and Mulder. The stories include the three-part “Firebird” arc and “Trick of the Light” previously only available as an insert in Hero Illustrated magazine. Special bonus: X-Files creator Chris Carter interviewed….

Comic Book Collections for Libraries

$43.88

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Comic Book Century

$19.66

This book charts the history of American comic books, from 1930s comic strip collections to contemporary graphic novels. The author examines how comic books have reflected, and in some cases even shaped, American pop culture. Depression-era escapism, World War II patriotism, 1950s teen culture, Vietnam-era angst, Japanese comic book art influences, and a broad array of modern-day concerns are all reflected in comic book history.

Comic Book Nation

$16.98

"Congratulations to Bradford W. Wright for penning one of the most comprehensive and readable accounts of the pervasive effect that comic books have had upon generations of readers throughout America, and indeed — the world." — Stan LeeAs American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation’s popular culture since Superman’s 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for the past six decades, comic books have figured prominently in the childhoods of most Americans alive today. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society.From Batman’s Depression-era battles against corrupt local politicians and Captain America’s one-man war against Nazi Germany to Iron Man’s Cold War exploits in Vietnam and Spider-Man’s confrontations with student protestors and drug use in the early 1970s, comic books have continually reflected the national mood, as Wright’s imaginative reading of thousands of titles from the 1930s to the 1980s makes clear. In every genre — superhero, war, romance, crime, and horror comic books — Wright finds that writers and illustrators used the medium to address a variety of serious issues, including racism, economic injustice, fascism, the threat of nuclear war, drug abuse, and teenage alienation. At the same time, xenophobic wartime series proved that comic books could be as reactionary as any medium.Wright’s lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the industry’s ingenious efforts to market their products to legions of young but savvy fans; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups, and child psychologists like Dr. Fredric Wertham (whose 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent, a salacious exposé of the medium’s violence and sexual content, led to U.S. Senate hearings) to link juvenile delinquency to comic books and impose censorship on the industry; and the changing economics of comic book publishing over the course of the century. For the paperback edition, Wright has written a new postscript that details industry developments in the late 1990s and the response of comic artists to the tragedy of 9/11. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.

Selling

$5.99

Learn to speak persuasively, enthuse your audience, and sell with confidence with Essential Managers: Selling. This book offers master tips and techniques for successful selling.

Comic Wars

$4.48

Embarrassed billionaires tried to keep a lid on this story, but it cried out to be told: how America’s greatest comic-book company was driven to the brink of insolvency by warring tycoons and rescued from the abyss by two obscure but wily entrepreneurs. In the late 1980s, financier Ronald Perelman, worth billions and riding high after his hostile takeover of the cosmetics firm Revlon, bought Marvel Entertainment–legendary creator of Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and other superheroes–and he had big plans. He not only began churning out more comic books, he also acquired sports cards and other subsidiaries, impressing Wall Street so much that after he took the company public, Marvel’s market value ballooned to over $3 billion. Perelman took advantage of the company’s inflated valuation by selling junk bonds, and personally pocketing nearly $500 million. Meanwhile, Marvel’s bank debt rose to more than $600 million. And then came the collapse of the comic-book and trading-card markets.Enter rival corporate raider, Carl Icahn, who sank a fortune into Marvel’s bonds in an effort to wrest away control of Marvel–and to beat Perelman at his own game. As the competing tycoons went head-to-head, Ike Perlmutter and Avi Arad, two entrepreneurs who ran Toy Biz, a company that depended on Marvel superheroes, realized that their fate hung in the balance. They soon put in motion plans to take control themselves.Bunkered in The Townhouse, his high-security Manhattan corporate headquarters, Perelman had Marvel declare bankruptcy. Icahn, an avid poker player, had to figure out if his foe was bluffing; the Toy Biz entrepreneurs needed to find a way to save the company they loved from ruin; and a team of killer lawyers representing the banks was faced with recouping their colossal debt. Thus, in United States Bankruptcy Court, began the comic war–as ferocious and outlandish as any of Marvel’s tales of good vs. evil.Combining meticulous investigative reporting with entertaining storytelling, Comic Wars exposes the actions and motives of two Goliath-style corporate raiders, two innovative Davids, and some of the world’s most prominent banks. It is the rollicking true tale of a unique Wall Street showdown, of Marvel’s surprising emergence from the ashes of bankruptcy, and of its triumphant reinvention as the producer of such hit Hollywood movies as X-Men and Spider-Man.

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 36th Edition (Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide)

$6.98

The undisputed authority for collectors, this guide offera the most complete record of existing comic books from the 1800s to the present—indexed, illustrated, and priced according to condition. • Latest pricing information on comic books, graphic novels, and Big Little books• Tips on buying, selling, grading, and restoration• Current market trends and an up-to-date directory of comic book fan Web sites• A directory of comic book artists, and schedules for major comic book conventions like the Wondercon in San Francisco, the Pittsburgh Comic-Con, and the Comic-Con in San Diego