The grand comics database gcd is a nonprofit, internetbased organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Each page includes current market values in ten different grades, as well as a section for real market data, actual prices fetched at auction. Before you buy the book, make sure that you get a picture of the actual comic youre going to buy. The even better news is that all the content is free and legal. These include the later 10 cent issues and all 12 cent issues, which ended in mid1969. It can be difficult to know the value of a comic book.
If we dont, add it to your want list and well notify you when its in stock. Originally printed on regular newsprint, the acid in the paper causes them to age, fade, yellow, and fall apart quite rapidly. Since comic books are intended to be read and not just looked at, it is sometimes difficult to find key old comic books in mint condition. For instance, a rare first edition of charles darwins on the origin of species was auctioned. Getcomics getcomics is an awesome place to download dc. We offer modern, bronze age, silver age, and golden age comics. Are you holding a rare gem in your collection that will bring top dollar. If youre selling them yourself online, you need to invest a lot of time and effort into a process in which youre not even guaranteed to find a seller. We carry extensive comic book back issue collections of underground comics, romance comics, war comics, western comics, horror comics, tv.
Be sure to check our our signed books section, where youll find search tools and indispensable information on collecting signed books. We can help you find the fair value of your comics. Truly rare comic books may come along once or twice in a lifetime. Comic book movies are the most popular thing since they started releasing magic movies during the holidays. If youre looking for a hard to find back issue, we probably have it. Most comic book fans prefer to feel the touch and smell of printed paper to the coldness of the screen of an ereader or tablet. The searchable database consists of more than 100,000 pages, each devoted to a specific comic book. Comic books have become valued collectibles over the years, fetching sevenfigure prices at auction in some of the most extreme cases. Comic book value guide how to value your comics in 3 easy steps. The best place to find comics for sale online is right here. It costs more than comixology, and it lacks the three biggest publishers. Thats the sound of comic book excitement coming to life and ebay has all the brands, genres and issues any fanboy or fangirl could ever want. If youve stumbled across a find of vintage comic books and recognize one or more of the ones on this page, then stop whatever youre doing and contact us immediately for a free comic book appraisal. If you want to sell old comic books youve just found or inherited, then these are the challenges you are going to face.
Even so, comic book collectors are amazed by gonzalezs find. If you collect comic books with the hope of making money, you will want to find the earliest issues from the golden age 1933 to 1955 and silver age 1956 to 1969 that you can afford. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use to track and manage your comic collection. It walks you through finding comic book values and prices and. Grades are given by the comic book certification service, also known as the cbcs. Follow along with the written instructions, or watch our new video guide. Apr 10, 2020 the supply of particular old comic books is important to figuring value as well.
The big caution with buying vintage comic books online is making sure that the comic you get matches the grade of the comic you buy. Comics themselves, on the other hand, are much harder to get into. Find past buyers of what youre looking for and make an offer. Another proactive way to find specific comic books is reaching out to people who purchased them in the past. If there are 15,000 copies of the comic in perfect condition, it is going to be less desirable than one with only 100 known copies in mint condition.
Is that old comic you found in the attic worth something. There are a lot of places on the internet for that yknow. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. Visit us in ma, or we are happy to do comic book appraisals on location. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. Just as supply and demand work for any retail product, the less supply of a particular comic, the greater the demand. We have a terrific selection of autographed copies of all kinds of titles millions, in fact all waiting to be discovered. Aaron albert, a collector of and an expert on comic books, has studied, taught, and written about the comic book genre for more than 20 years. Subsequently, for some 20 years, ed owned his own commercial art firm in chicago, acquiring, trading, and selling world class collections of american photography, illustration art, and vintage comic books. The grade of a comic book is how good or bad its condition is.
We are fair, honest, and we pay high prices for 1940s, 1950s and 1960s era comics. If youre selling your comic books to a reseller or a broker, deciding who you sell them to will determine how. Introduction this is a listing of 172 sites that legally offer free comic books andor graphic novels online for viewing andor download. Only deal with reputable shops, and you shouldnt have any trouble. The premier online comics price guide free comic book values. Weve been selling comics since 1961 our first sale. Comic books are an enduring art form which stretches back hundreds, if not thousands of years depending on what you count as a comic.
Nostalgia zone specializes in many comic book genres and titles other retailers often overlook. Those that have survived decades of readership are highly valuable. Warren was creator of the overstreet update and editor of it for 10 years 19821992. How to get started reading comics that have been running for. However, there are individual issues which have emerged as very desirable, such as amazing spiderman 252, 300, avengers 196, batman 386, batman adventures 12, new mutants 98, walking dead 1, 19, teenage mutant ninja turtles 1 1st print, cerebus 1 through 4, albedo 2, and miracle man 15. We monitor the fire hose of online comic book sales across various marketplaces and report on the sales of cgc and cbcs graded books in our comics price guide. Well known to book collectors and booklovers, our site is an excellent resource for discovering a rough value of an old book. Superworld comics buying and selling comic books, free. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection. Some of the most poignant elements of popular culture originate in comic form, from hollywoods current obsession with superheroes, to the ever useful bechdel test for measuring how well a cultural product does at representing women. Welcome to the iguide comic book price guide iguide is proud to host the online comic book price guide by jon r. Plus, we also hold a large and growing selection of comic strips and pulp fiction. From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in our database. There are four basic criteria that make vintage comic books appealing to collectors.
The iguide comic book price guide is maintained by warren and his board of advisors. Welcome to comic book plus, the site where every day is party day. Nostalgia zone comic book store buy and sell comic books. We are the original and still the premier site to read and download golden and silver age comic books. Youll find that the vast majority of comics from these eras are too common to create much excitement. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use to track and manage your. You can do this by searching for expired auctions on ebay or even asking your local auction house or comic store if they know of any past buyers. Ed brought his vast experience and expertise in collectibles to heritage auctions in 2002. Welcome to the best website for bronze age, silver age and golden age collectible comic books and original comic book art. We are always interested in buying comic book collections and original comic book art. Unfortunately, comic books werent produced to last very long.
Dec 23, 2018 the grade of a comic book is how good or bad its condition is. The guide to comics, where he was at the helm from 19932003. Comic book plus free and legal public domain books. Apr 10, 2017 comic books are an enduring art form which stretches back hundreds, if not thousands of years depending on what you count as a comic. However, on more than one occasion, almost all of us have had to resort to download websites to locate a hard to find comic book or just have a look at some collection before buying it in physical format. Comics price guide was the first online price guide for comic books back in 1995. However, on more than one occasion, almost all of us have had to resort to download websites to locate a hardtofind comic book or just have a look at some collection before buying it in physical format. Most of the action 1 comic books out there have been traded and resold many times. Applying those factors above, as of june 2010, here is a list of the top five most expensive old comic books in the world, in near mint condition. Superworld comics is home to many rare and valuable comics for fun and investment. For each sale discovered, we match it to the specific comic in our massive database which also includes variant covers and printings. A comic book that is torn up, well read, or bent is worth far less than a comic book that is in pristine condition.
From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in. How to get started reading comics that have been running. Ed brought his vast experience and expertise in collectibles to. On july 15, 2012, i have put up a related page on free motion comics online. Oct 31, 2016 find past buyers of what youre looking for and make an offer. Today i want to give you few free resources to help find the true value of your comic books. Subsequently, jon became senior price guide editor for wizard.
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