Giddy

[captain_slinky]

You know that I used to own a Comic Book Store, right? With all due respect to my wife and child, those were THE DAYS.

SO these days I make myself feel usefull by spreading the good word about comic books, and offering to appraise peoples collections free of charge. I just get a huge thrill out of finding a burried treasure in the stack of funny books that's been sitting in the back of a closet somewhere collecting dust. Like last year when I appraised Graig's collection and found several mid-to-late-80's stuff that really floated my boat! Stuff like the first appearance of Gambit in X-Men, or the issue of GI Joe where they finally unmasked Snake Eyes. Cool stuff, and now he knows!

I had told my Boss (Pat) about my hobby, and he said he had some comics from when he was a kid. I offered to take a look and he finally brought them in to me tonight.

Now this is a really nice little stack the likes of which you used to find all the time at thrift stores and used book stores back in the early 70's. A few 10-cent comics, a bunch of 12-cent comics... most of them in obviously "read* condition. Loose covers, some minor tears, yellowish pages...

Then I found his copy of Showcase Presents #34 - the first appearance of the Silver-Age Atom in VERY fine condition. As it is, this comic is worth $1,800. And should he choose to get it "Slabbed" (professionally graded and sealed) it could be worth anywhere from $4,000 to $10,000.

THESE are the moments I live for :)

Comments

hmmm...

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

by chance, might you be willing to appraise my comics??? I don't have a car big enough to bring them in, and they would probably overload the desk, but if you wanted to stop by sometime after my wife is out of the hospital you could take a look. After I hit over 5000 comics around 10 years ago I stopped bothering even counting. I think it is near 15,000 comics now, but definitely a lot of gems. Oldest comics are like 3-12 cents, archies, action comics, spooky and an animal antics. Lots of eighties comics, have the first appearance of gambit, venom, and more. Lots of signed ones and rare comics. Have one that no one has been able to figure out too. An Elfquest hardback novel signed by the Pini's, which I was told only few per state were distributed. No pics in it at all. I also got trading cards, including those first ones that were about half size of normal cards and came with a sticker in each pack and a few of the rare hologram etc cards, and action figures including the rare storm and I think maybe the rare april oneill. Plus some random old toys and miscellaneous.

Re: hmmm...

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a DREAM WEEKEND for me! But my wife frowns upon such large projects all at once any more :( What we'll probably do is come over and get an idea of where to start, then I'll take it one small stack at a time (short box). What I've being doing lately is seperating the comics in to three categories (1) Stuff good for reading (2) Stuff worth keeping i9n good condition and (3) stuff worth getting "Slabbed".

Oh, and your Pini hardback... is it "Blood Of Ten Cheifs"?