I see that a copy of Action
Comics #1, the issue that featured the debut of Superman, went for $1 million
at auction the other day.
This comic book is the holy
grail of the genre, the most sought after comic book in history. There are only
supposedly 100 of these around right now, and the buyer basically paid double
what another collector paid for a copy, because this one is supposed to be in
excellent condition.
Well, I don't have that
comic book in my collection--I do have a reprint that probably goes for about
$20 if I am lucky--but I have about 2,000 comics that I would like to unload.
I have had it up for
purchase before, maybe about a year ago. A collector came to my house, bought
about 50 comics for a pretty good sum, but he would not take the whole thing
for what I considered a decent price.
Comic books were very
important to me in my youth. I collected them religiously. I was a big DC
Comics fan, collecting Superman, Batman, etc. I liked Marvel too, but my
favorite, alas, was Daredevil, not in the pantheon of Spider-Man or the
Fantastic Four.
But when I got to college,
my tastes changed. I got into records again, and I had to make a decision: buy
comic books or records. I went with the music, but never got rid of the comic
books.
Most of my collection is
from about 1963 to 1976. It is a nice collection, and would be a good starter
collection for someone who is interested in comic books but doesn't have
anything from this era.
And I want to add, these
comic books were read from cover to cover. There maybe aren't any pristine mint
comics in this collection, but there are plenty of gems--and like most
collections of this sort, probably a couple of clinkers, too.
Anyway, if anyone is
interested, please let me know through this blog.
I would really like to sell
this collection, but alas, I don't have Action #1 to jump-start this thing out
the door.
All I have is a kid's
collection from the 1960s and 1970s--it may not be Action #1, but to me, it was
once worth more than the $1 million someone paid for that classic issue.
Take it (for the right
price)--it's yours.
(And happy 200th blog post!)
Larry,
ReplyDeleteI noticed that the price of these comics back then was 10 cents. That was quite a big price back in 1938!!. Especially after the country was just getting out of The Depression .
But it was 10 cents very well spent. I started to collect comics at the end of the 10-cent days, moved onto 12 cents, then 25 cents ... today, these comics cost a couple of dollars apiece. If I was a kid today, there would be no way that I could collect comics like I did when I was younger. I have gotten rid of most of them since this Rant came out, but I cherish those days where I sat in my room and read these things from cover to cover.
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