A dollar per comic would make these 5500 comics far from worthless. This week’s call for help is what to do with these “worthless” issues. However, I am working on my transition from reader to collector, and these books seem to have very little value to a collector.
So to me, the comic reader, they’ve already earned their cover price. I’ve read each one and enjoyed most of them. I know it is not really fair to call these comics worthless. Unfortunately, this was not the case and 100+ recent Aquaman comics with very limited value are stuffed in the back of my Green Lantern box. Speaking of superhero movies… one would think a big hit like Aquaman would produce a bump in his comic series’ values. My 67 issues of Volume 4 have only six issues showing any GoCollect value. Typical of my luck, I jumped on the Ryan Reynolds bandwagon one superhero film too early. This Volume not only featured the return of Hal Jordan, but it also led to a major feature film starring a big name actor. Undeterred, I scooped up Volume 4 when it came out.
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135 issues later the series ended with only a handful of issues earning any value. I started collecting Green Lantern Volume 3 just before long time hero Hal Jordan was replaced by Kyle Rayner. That’s where they sit now with only issue #1 and #4 showing any value at all in the GoCollect database. Still, 174 issues later I was still reading them then sticking them in a box. As the creative team changed the quality of the series steadily declined. Writer Kurt Busiek and artist Mark Bagley put together some great stories, but the book never seemed to reach the next level in popularity. I loved the concept of villains turned heroes when The Thunderbolts debuted in the late ’90s. While loyalty is an admirable trait to have, it can certainly hurt you when applied to comic collecting. I am a great comic book reader but a poor comic book collector. “But don’t you have over 7700 books? What about those other books?” What About Those Other Books? “The total is based on 2171 comics,” she astutely stated. While I gloated over my latest CLZ Statistics report, she pointed out the fine print on the bottom. However, my wife reminded me once again that she is smarter than I am. Because comic books are a surprisingly good investment right now, my collection invariably shows a nice bump in value from the last month. I then proudly show this to my wife in an effort to justify why those big white boxes are taking up so much room in my office. After a short pause, the app returns its new value. Each month I click “Update Comic Values”.
This app coordinates with the GoCollect site to give you the latest updated comic values. This was never a concern of mine until I cataloged my collection using the CLZ Comics app. Does the strange lady at the end of the street need something to line her parakeet cages with? “Update Comic Values”
Should you leave them in that bottom long box hoping that one of them just might hold that first appearance of a future big screen character? Could you hand them out as a Halloween surprise to encourage young readers? (I’d need a lot more trick or treaters to get rid of all mine). eBay will laugh at you if you try to recoup your cover price there. Those comic book series that seemed like a good idea at the time but are now merely taking up space on a shelf. 1, issue #611 Captain America, Vol.We all have them. 9, issue #12 Something is Killing the Children, issue #25 Black Panther, Vol. 3, issue #5 Miles Morales: Spider-Man, issue #39 DC vs. 1, issue #380 Jane Foster & The Mighty Thor, issue #2 Avengers, Vol. 1, issue #416 What If.Miles Morales, issue #5 The Avengers, Vol. 6, issue #26 TWIG, issue #3 Carnage, Vol. 9, issue #4 Strange Academy, issue #18 Flashpoint Beyond, issue #3 Poison Ivy, Vol. 1, issue #713 The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 5, issue #93 Spawn, issue #331 X-Men, Vol. 1, issue #441 The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1, issue #544 The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 3, issue #125 The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol.
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