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Where Can I Sell Comic Books

You did it. You saved your prized collection of comic books from all the usual hazards that tend to do them in. Your parents didn’t give them away to neighborhood kids when you went to college. You didn’t store your longboxes of comics near a hot furnace or a basement that flooded. And even when you were struggling with rent, you didn’t bulk-unload your books at a pawn shop for a fraction of what they’re worth.

You beat the odds! But now you’d like to move on from collecting comics or at least prune the pile. Perhaps you now prefer to read new comics digitally and don’t want to devote the space to so many print editions. Or you could just want to unload some of the more valuable collectibles for some extra cash while keeping the rest.

Whatever the reason, there are several ways to liquidate your comics library, whether it’s by trying to sell individual comic books or by seeing if there’s a taker for the whole lot.

Before we go over your options, there’s a few things you should know. While there’ve been some spikes in the sales of very old and rare comic lots in recent years, you shouldn’t expect to get rich if your comics collection doesn’t go back much further than the 1980s or ’90s. Even if you still have a 1993 first-printing copy of The Death of Superman, you still might only get $10 to $20 by selling, unless it’s in nearly perfect condition or it’s signed and certified.

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Also, the deck is very stacked toward professional comics dealers who more readily have access to comics-grading services that can determine the value of a comic, and who will want to turn around whatever you sell them for a profit.

But if you’re still interested, here’s some ways to embark on a comic-seller’s hero journey.

If you’re staring at years’ worth of comics boxes that have never been organized, you may feel daunted at first. If you don’t even know or remember exactly what you have, how can you determine what it’s worth?

Luckily, the digital age has made cataloging comics and figuring out a ballpark figure for their value much, much easier. If you intend to keep collecting comics after you sell some, now’s a good time to make an inventory of your entire collection. Apps such as iCollect Comic Books, CLZ Comics, and Key Collector Comics can make it easy to build a database of what you have by allowing you to enter in titles or scanning barcodes to access metadata, comic value, and information on variant-cover comics you might own. I’ve had good luck with the Comic Geeks app, which allowed me to enter custom information or create manual entries as I slowly went through and added in all my comics.

If you’re more interested in figuring out the pricing for individual comics or series you want to sell, the Comics Price Guide is a good place to start. If you want a second, or third, or fourth opinion, there’s also GoCollect, Comic Book Realm, and PriceCharting, all of which offer comics pricing information for free.

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