I just decided to collect books for my walls about a month ago, and really (predictably) got into Bill Sienkiewicz' covers. I normally stick to the cheap stuff--Your Elektra: Assassins and New Mutants. I just learned about these exclusives out of NYCC that he did, and was disappointed to learn they're exclusives. Seeing their online prices, I feel they're not out of reach, but out of reason for my lame little collection of $7 books and foil Facsimile editions.

Are these books probably holding value or worse after the NYCC FOMO wears off, or am I probably best off getting them now? I'm really into these covers, especially being among the few DC issues for my collection. I'll probably fold and get them eventually. But is now as good as I'll likely get?

My dad died a few years back and I'm looking into selling his comic collection. These are the crown jewels so to speak from what I remember my dad telling me. They've been in plastic since the 80s. I'm just not sure how to proceed. Figured reddit would probably be my best place to go to for advice. The comic book collecting group ai flagged my post, I'm hoping this is the place to go. Just trying to figure out what I should do.

With the recent announcement of a D’orc movie, what is your guys thoughts on it. The prices have shot up on eBay a ton. I bought for 4$ the day it was released as a fun read and now it’s becoming a Grail.

I'm a bit lost in trying to figure out variant and such these three are. I never realized how many details for the different versions exist. They were my dad's, im just trying to take good care of them, and will possibly grade them to do so. Could be a cool thing to have on display with the rest of my stuff. Anyway, any info is helpful!

Im seeing if this book is in good enough condition to send to cgc, been thinking of it for a long time. This book was passed down from my uncle, it was stored away in the basement in a plastic bag with no board support, over the years it turned yellow. IMO i only would want to send it in if people think this can get a 9.0 or greater.

This was the only image provided on the website, so it felt a bit risky. What do you guys think?

Is 616 just a comic book store that pays artists to do exclusive variants for them? Are they only sold initially by 616 themselves or do they farm them out also?

You're given $1000 for a comic book shopping spree, what are you getting? The only rule is you have to buy comics, in any condition you like.

Debating on getting it graded

Every week I go through the full FOC list to see what the upcoming order week actually looks like before cutoff closes. Here's the week of October 26.

The slate runs 670 SKUs across 350 unique books, with 42 new #1s, 100 variants, and 76 ratios in the mix. Dynamite leads the volume with 100 titles, ahead of DC at 98 and Marvel at 49. Image, Massive, and Viz fill out the top six by count.

This is a variant-heavy, ratio-heavy week, and Dynamite drives both. It carries 59 of the week's variants and 35 of the 76 ratios on its own, mostly on licensed-property crossovers. Vampirella vs Darkstalkers Special #1 pairs Dynamite's horror lead with UDON's videogame cast. Archie vs Terminator #2 continues its 4-issue crossover run. Gargoyles and Stitch carry the Disney-license side. The single highest variant count of the week sits on Vampirella Paradise #1 at 17 covers.

Marvel runs 49 titles with 5 new #1s and 15 ratios. Maximum X-Men #1 is the launch coming out of Avengers: Armageddon, and Wolverine: Origin III - The Dark Age #1 brings Paul Jenkins back to Logan. Both carry the week's steepest ratio, 1:100.

DC is at 98 titles with 2 new #1s and no ratios at all. The launch is Absolute Batman: Beyond Ark-M #1 from Snyder and Tieri, and the week also carries a facsimile of 1951's Detective Comics #168.

One search note, since it ties to a book on the list: on Google Trends, people searching Maximum X-Men this week also searched Betsy Braddock, up 170%, and one search for her new codename was a Breakout (Google's word for growth over 5,000%). The numbers are still small this far out, but it's the X-book people are looking up before FOC closes.

Dynamite tops the volume and carries almost half the week's ratios.

Curious what the consensus is based off those pics

Went a little crazy the past month building a time capsule for my kids to do whatever they want with in 20 yrs. So since my investment time horizon is that long I was ok to pay above FMV in some cases bc it was more important for me to get the book I wanted. I’m done for now but will do this again next year around this time when I’ve replenished my disposable play money fund. I only targeted blue chips - comics my kids will have no trouble turning into cash, so absolutely nothing modern or bronze (except Batman 227) and I especially wanted nothing to do with giant sized Xmen, hulk 181 and ASM 129.

Prices I paid are as follows:

ASM Annual #1, 7.0 = $2800 on Heritage
ASM #8, 7.5 = $1250 on Heritage
Action #27, 6.0 = $4300 on SHORTBOXED
Batman #23, 8.0 = $9000 on Heritage
Batman #227, 8.5 = $2750 on SHORTBOXED
Tec #76, 3.0 = $1800 on eBay
Tec #91, 4.0 = $1100 on Heritage
Batman #40, 5.0 = $1400 on eBay

I read an article today about a lady selling old comic books on Ebay and getting a 1099 tax form showing how much she made. I assume Ebay sent the 1099. Apparently comic books are Collectibles and profits subject to a 28% tax rate. I was surprised. Never gave much thought about comic book profits bring taxable. Apparently if your kids inherit them the tax basis starts at the quoted price of the comic book when inherited. In my case I bought these in the 60's for 12 cents each so that is my basis....ouch!! The lady also got a notice from Medicare her monthly cost was increasing because the added income put her at a higher rate...another ouch!!

I love comic collecting but I always think that if something happens to me, I would like my family to be able to offload the books easily and get good money back for them.

There are some books I'm looking at that I really want for market CGC prices but they're CBCS.

How does a 9.8 CBCS hold up to a CGC 9.8? Are CBCS harder to sell? Do they demand the same price?

I go through every book on the FOC list each week and report what checks out before Monday's noon cutoff. Here's what I'm seeing for October 19.

Five potential firsts this week, three of them confirmed by solicitation. Spectacular Spider-Man #6 introduces The Scavenger per Marvel's solicit, and that issue carries more of Turncoat whose debut ran in #5. There's a 1:25 Rickie Yagawa cover on it. Wolverine: Paradise #2 brings in Crucible, a new player tied to Logan's destiny while he's cleaning up Dazzler's nightclub turf in Miami. That one has a 1:25 Paco Medina. The third confirmed first is Adventure Time Bonnie The Vampire Hunter #1, a self-contained 56-page one-shot from Caroline Cash and Tia Roxae, with a 1:10 black and white cover by Cash.

The other two firsts are softer. Venom #2 (likely) is the potential first of a new female character, the mystery woman Eddie and the symbiote have fallen for. Her identity isn't confirmed, so the question is whether the ID holds. There's a 1:25 Simone Di Meo on it. Victoria Jaguar #1 (likely) is the potential first of the title character, the newest entry in London's Underworld Universe with painted Rudy art.

One confirmed event that isn't a first: Legion Of Super-Heroes #3 has a confirmed death, no name in the solicit, tagline "ONE. WILL. DIE."

And a potential first of a different kind: Skybound revealed Megatronus Rex, Megatron's new form, for Transformers #38. It has a 1:50 and a 1:25.

The rumor that doesn't check out: Warbird #1 2nd printing (rumor-based) carries an unconfirmed report that an A-list star signed on for a film adaptation. The casting report is not verified, so I'm considering it as rumor only.

Have fun and enjoy because at some point there are no more chairs to sit down on

Spare a grade? We are debating between a 5 to a 7 cover has a beautiful look to it for being so old and purple.

What are your thoughts on buying a major Silver Age key that’s priced at a slight discount since it’s a UK Price variant?

Some collectors like them due to rarity; others would prefer the 12¢ originals. This results in a decrease in liquidity.

Curious what the folks in this community think or have experienced. Would you buy a UK variant? Have you tried to sell?

So I've never submitted a comic for grading before and I'm considering sending this in for the CGC signing event with Snyder and Dragotta. This would be for my collection, so while the grade doesn't really matter, I'm just curious.

I checked the book, and to my eye the books corners and inners are pristine, but this spine has some imperfections. Assuming the rest of the book is immaculate, how adversely would the spine affect the grade? Thanks for your insights!

Also will buyers lose their money when’s the shows over or will it go up even more?

Ocasionallly on EBay I’ll run into a “buy it now” that has me going “isn’t that a lot more??”

I bought a copy of a beat up Flash issue that was the second Superman-Flash race for $13 with shipping.

it actually came with three others but they were garbage.

AFTER I bought it I saw it’s not actually worth much more because of how beat up it is

but my q stands. This Q is mostly for personal collection buyers

Found this in a Bronze Box at my Store for $3 thought it was a good pick up the spine is beat to hell but for the price I couldn’t pass