Comic Book Nerds: I Need Your Help!

Short version of a very long story: my college science fiction library had a fantastic, robust library of classic and contemporary (up to the early ’90s) science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. About ten years ago they were no longer able to store them and had to get rid of them. About five years ago I volunteered to be responsible for the library. I stored them for about three years before it became too expensive–over $200/mo!–and though I had some financial help from other alums, it wasn’t enough. I wound up moving the entire collection to my small NYC apartment.

The good news is that a university rare book library picked out tons of books to keep in their non-circulating collection. The bad news is that the non-rare, non-valuable books are still in my apartment.

For the past two years I’ve been slowly cataloging the collection, one book at a time. I’ve done over 2000 now, with only five more boxes to go. Once this is complete, I’ll offer what’s in the collection to the public (after first dibs go to the people who’ve helped me pay for storage over the years).

Now, in addition to the book collection, the library also included hundreds of comic books. I don’t know much about comic books, but I am pretty sure that none of these are valuable (they’re pretty much all from ’79 onwards). I’ve finished cataloging them all and now need to figure out what to do with them.

COMIC BOOK NERDS: Can you please take a look at the list below and tell me if anything here is valuable? If it’s not, any suggestions for where I could try and sell them online? Or do you think I should just chuck them? Any and all advice is much appreciated!

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  By Lisa Collins, September 7, 2010 @ 12:38 pm

  I do not know much about comic books, but the #195 AVENGERS is selling on ebay for a firm $5.

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  By sps49, October 8, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

  Some titles have more than one Issue 1 (from reboots and other cheap exploitation attempts). I recommend the Overstreet Comic Books Price Guide.

  There does appear to be some money there, if less than what the mid-90s brought.

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  By Torie, October 13, 2010 @ 11:30 pm

  Thank you! I will look into it.

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  By Torie, October 13, 2010 @ 11:31 pm

  Thank you muchly!

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