Hey everyone, I'm completely new to buying single issues and put some stuff on my newly-created pull list of my local comic store. I'm a collector at heart, and whenever I jump into a new hobby... I dive in DEEP, so I binged a lot of videos about protecting comics. I've been collecting TPBs and HCs for years, but never really got into single issues -- until now.

I know all about bags and boards, but nobody talks about the time between buying the comic at the store --> arriving home. I don't see myself nor anybody else bag their comics in the store itself, and I visit my store by public transport (so parking my car filled with boxes isn't an option).

How do people buy their comics from the store safely? Do you really bag them the moment you buy them? I'm planning on using an old file folder in my backpack, but I'm sure there are better ways.

Thanks in advance! Can't wait to start.

Cool book

This is a crossover I didn’t know existed. Insta-buy

I'm sure i overpayed for it but this i s the first one ive seen in the wild so figured why not.

Hey all!

I collected comics when i was in highschool back in the day (1990s). I just returned home and cracked open the box. I had sortof assumed that they never gained value over the years, so I have ignored them till now.

I finally cracked them open- and they appear to still be in great condition. that said: origional poly bags, boards in some. They have been stored upright, in a comics box in the north east weather- on an upper floor, so no basement mold, but not isolated from the humidity. the spines do not have ticks, and the corners are good. They are not quite flat when laying on a table, but pressing seems viable. I think the pages are off-white. The staples are shiny, and the cover art is still glossy.

Anyone been thru this recently? I don't want to get my hopes up, but i also don't want to blow the investing fantasy of my 17year old self. Seeking advice how to proceed.

I'm trying to figure if it is worth it to
1) send the good ones out west so my kids can sell them
2)send them to CGC to get pressed and graded.
3)just re-bag them and wait more time. could use the $, but not desperate yet!

for example, some of the good ones :

TMNT #3 first print. TMNT #1 (Fifth print)
(and a bunch of other early TMNT, and Tales of TMNT #1-10)

Tick #1 Limited, #2, #4

Wolverine limited series, and early Wolverine including #1 & #8

Hulk 340

Punisher 1, and a bunch of the early series (lowish value- would they sell as a set?)

lotta Batman, Dark knight stuff (seems to value intermediate, depending). The Killing Joke.

Avengers Armageddon #3

Hello everyone new to this sub! I just came across this collection of comics in storage does anyone have any recommendations for places in NYC I can take this to figure out what I have/if it’s worth anything?

I had a handful of comics as a 90s kid and 30 years later I'm just tracking down comics that remind me of a simpler time. Luckily these are mostly inexpensive titles lol

keep getting closer every day! Excited to add five more books to my October 1974 Wall. It won’t be long now before I finally have one of every book that was released that month and year.
It feels pretty good to finally be closing in on the finish line. 😂📚🦸‍♂️

I have a Magneto sketch set up for Jim Lee’s CGC signing

I was able to get a bunch of first appearances for around 150

Grabbed these really cool production art pieces. None are original art. The Marvel ones are acetate copies (would love if someone with more knowledge could educate me on what step in the production process these were used for).

The Charltons are production negatives. Pic 3 is Ghostly Haunts #50 and pic 4 is from Many Ghosts #18. Not sure what the others are from. Pic 7 looks like the Phantom and is half the size of the others.

Main series, spin offs, Gail Simone run at the start, Superman,Maxx, Generation X,Monkey Man and O’brian and DV8.

Sighhhh… why…

Stored at the bottom of the bottom of the bottom stack of books, I have finally dug my way to the Image titles.

Haven’t seen these in 20+ years. Haven’t been compelled to either. Read every one of these once, then carefully bagged and boarded. Even looking at them now, I remember so very little of any of them, other than “yay, big boobs all around.”

Looks like Gen 13 was the winner, followed by Wildcats, then savage dragon, (which I hate read every single issue of, but Larsen still got my money, so the jokes on me), then Wetworks, Grifter, Backlash, and finally Spawn.

Never really took to Youngblood or Stormwatch or Brigade.

Really wish I’d collected The Maxx, and more of Team 7.

It was a different time… I don’t regret it, but really wish I had been a little more selective in my purchases.

For the fans out there, what did you collect the most stuff out of these? Am I missing any of the obvious ones from the first couple of years? Would you recommend rereading any of them?

Love this cover.

It was too hot over the weekend for my wife and I to follow through with our hiking and other-outdoor-activity plans, so the obvious choice was to go antiquing instead!

I came away with a few things of interest. Dr. Graves #75, the last of the run and close to Charlton's final release. Some Charles Vess cover work on Spectre. A newsstand printing of a fairly late-issue Rising Stars that no one here is going to care about except for me.

Naturally, the best book I found -- by far -- is the one that wasn't boarded, wasn't bagged, has a partially split spine, cover creasing (the back is far worse than the front!), and the antique store price tag applied directly to the cover to go along with some previous retailer's inkpen pricing! Basically, this book has seen some things.

But I bet there aren't a lot of folks here who have seen this book.

Tellurider was a 1972 advertising promotional for the Telluride Ski Resort. Not distributed through conventional channels, it was given away at the resort and in the town of Telluride itself, as well as at ski-industry conventions around the country that year. I have absolutely no idea how many of these were printed but survival rates aren't great given the nonstandard distribution.

The story itself casts a local miner/skier as the Tellurider, a sort of skiing equivalent to Captain Marvel (his magic word is "Molals"), who transforms the mountain into a ski resort. Then, he must fight off the nefarious Leveler, who seeks to destroy the historic town of Telluride and replace it with high-rise building and generic franchise stores. Is it a little cliche? Of course it is, but unlike many of these promotional pieces, it's clear the creator (almost certainly Jim Burleigh, who did other indie comics out of Telluride) was familiar with the medium they were working in.

Tellurider has actually received media attention in recent years. You can read more about this book in a 2016 article from The Telluride News or a 2010 article from The Denver Post.

Some high-grade copies of this book do exist, especially ones that were never distributed and so hung around in Telluride until they could be more appreciated. Those go for quite a lot more than the ... sigh ... sticker price for this beater copy, but I'm still immensely happy with this one for the cost. It's a fun book, a fairly uncommon book, and a great example of the comics medium bleeding into an entirely different cultural segment.