For those looking to sell their collection, there are Comic Book buy/sell/trade groups on Facebook.
You should be able to find someone near you. Selling an entire collection you will probably be
lucky to get 10 cents on the dollar.
Why wait for a kid to ask? I’ll bet there’s a children’s hospital near you that would be thrilled to take them.
Maybe pull out the 2000AD first, though.
Most are unfolded. It gets pretty easy to see the joke after a few, no need to fold.
Hush, mediocre masses. We are in the presence of Mike Who Pre-Visualizes The Fold-In!
I’m serious… that’s impressive. My bet is he also does Sudokus without a pen, Rubik’s Cubes without touching them, and does jigsaw puzzles by spreading the pieces out and just staring at them for two days, moving them where they should go… in his mind:
Hmmm… uh, huh… okay, edges all done. Some rocks, waves, more waves, and a seagull there, another one there, annnnd, the blue rowboat. Done!
Where’s the Mod Podge?
Sorry, old man. It’s not really that hard, even you could do it…
The Far Side creator Gary Larson described his experience with the Fold-In: “The dilemma was always this: Very slowly and carefully fold the back cover… without creasing the page and quickly look at the joke. Jaffee’s artistry before the folding was so amazing that I suspect I was not alone in not wanting to deface it in any way.”
I would insist that any back issues of MAD I buy be pre-folded.
Just to give a taste of how crazy marvel comics prices have gotten
This went for $135…it has spine roll, and ‘40’ was written on the cover. But thats not the kicker
its A WHAT IF. Its not really the first appearance. Its just a What if…but its going for a decent price.
That price is driven by anticipation of a Jane Foster as Thor film. I bought a run of Daredevil for $30 on eBay and sold it a year later for $225 a few weeks before the Ben Affleck film came out.
And THAT was back in 2003(?)!! Things have gotten nuttier then that. The first Elektra appearance goes for about $36 for a reader copy.
If Marvel said they were doing an Elektra Disney plus series it would ten fold.
Yeah, but look at the prices for older issues in better shape on the same page. They’re worth a lot more than cover price, but you’d think they’d be worth a lot more. as mentioned elsewhere, there’s interest by possibly a handful of buyers in this particular issue.
I think that was actually an advantage back then, when a movie based on a Marvel character was actually a novelty.
I had about 900 comics of the same period. A couple years ago, I decided it was time to pare them down since they had been sitting for years. I sorted through and kept two short-boxes worth. Over the next year I kept a neighborhood little library stocked. I always wondered who took all those comics: Kids or a 40’ish year old guy. 
“What If” #44 Was much better. An Alternate Reality Captain America Turns Around a Corrupted America
Man, I’ve seen screen caps of the “America is nothing” speech from that issue before, but I never realized it was preceded by Cap leading a squad of Black Panthers into combat, and I don’t mean the super hero.
“Comic books didn’t use to be political,” indeed.
I stopped “collecting” conics decades ago. I still own a lot and read a lot but I don’t see the point in “collecting” them.
Good point! I’ll admit I don’t collect comics, I READ them.
(Which leads to a hoarding that looks an awful lot like collecting…)
But if you studied my comics, you’d see that most have been stuffed in backpacks, crammed into coat pockets and panniers, even folded in a back pocket.
My local Comic Book Guy is always getting me to buy some Silver Age funnybook in terrible shape. But if it’s got great art or fun writing, he’ll say “It’s a Good Read…” and I’m sold.
One time I said “Near-Poor Quality is fine. The happiest days of my childhood were when I shoved a folded-up World’s Finest in my jeans pocket, biked down to the park to read and slurp a Coke Slurpee.”
He laughed as I folded up the World’s Finest he’d just sold me, crammed it in my pocket, and headed out to my bike. “Next stop the 7-11, so Have Slurpee, Will RIde!”
Im pretty sure that one made me tear up back in the day
So long as the cover is firmly attached im usually good with almost any quality…but its a quirk i have…you can have a comic be in great condition but if the cover is hanging by a thread it kills my soul. I think because im afraid to read it.
When I was a kid there used to be a surplus store with a big bin of coverless comics for I think 10 cents each. I bought a number of those.
Those covers were returned to the publisher as proof of the books’ destruction. I wish I had some unethical retailers in my neighborhood when I was a kid.