Check out this auction on Ebay.
I did not think that such collections really existed.
I don’t even follow comics and that collection had me salivating.
Well, I did collect Thor while I was overseas, but they got lost in the mail and I never started again.
I collect the National Geographic magazine, and that collection would compare to finding, say, the first twenty five years or so of the NG. My goal is to own one issue from before the turn of the century.
So, um, are those comics worth anything?
Nah, they’re just comic books. Didn’t your mother ever tell you they’re just for kids? :rolleyes:
Whoa! Set E-Bay for “heavy stun”!
Oh, my Stars and Garters!
Not impressed. Seller mentions “Uncanny X-Men #1.” Doesn’t exist. Mistake? Scam?
Yeah, saw that on Friday. Chairman, I’d guess that was a mistake - check out the photos.
I’d say honest mistake. Seller does have the five copies of “Uncanny” X-Men #1 in his posted images, top row. Plus a 98% Satisfied cutomer rating, and is listed as a power seller and an eBay ID two years old.
Could be a hoax. Seems legit.
Isn’t this a scenario where he’d get more cash from a formal auction and a more throughly prepared listing of the wares? Ebay’s nice but when you get to the $ 200,000 + range for collectible stuff, is it really your best venue to get maximum dollar from capable parties ?
I don’t follow the comics book market, but I was wondering the same thing. And I don’t follow the auction market either, but I think there is a practice where a legitimate auction house will guarantee a minimum sale amount, just to get the business. Perhaps they’d guarantee the $250,000 Buy It Now price.
Ooooohhh…
Man, how does one develop such a collection??
Now? Time travel or a demonic contract are your best bets. Unless of course, you have a quarter to a half million just lying around.
I have a forty year old collection of Legion of Super-Heroes. What will you give me for it?
blink What would you like for it? Are you actually looking to part with it, or are you just taunting us? 
Sort of half-and-half. I’m not sure how I would even put a value on the total collection. I’ve only been collecting them since I was eight years old!
Man, I hate growing up in this generation. I doubt that there’s going to be anything worth nearly as much or be nearly as cool as Golden and Silver age comics when I get to the ripe old age of whatever you folks are. 
Sigh…maybe I can convince my mom to mortgage the house.
I’m a bit suspicious of this listing, for two reasons. First, he doesn’t say exactly what the product for sale is. Yes, he specifies complete runs of particular series, and a few notable individual issues, but there’s also an “and many more too numerous to list individually”. If they’re not worth specifying, then it seems to me that they shouldn’t be worth including in the package, either. And even granted that the items which are listed are certainly valuable (I’m no collector of anything, but even I know that Superman #1 and Batman #1 would fetch a pretty penny), I would still feel a little awkward about not knowing exactly what it is that I’m buying.
The second thing that makes me wonder: This guy has obviously devoted a pretty large portion of his life to this collection (both by getting the individual comics, and by working to earn the money to buy them). And now, here he is selling them all at once, boom, just like that. What could cause a person to sell off a life’s hobby? Even something like “I just got laid off and need the money” sounds fishy: He could easily live for a year on the sale of a small fraction of that collection, and he has to be hoping for things to turn around by then. Maybe they weren’t his own collection, but a relative’s who recently died? But he seems too knowledgeable about the material for that. But we have no explanation at all here, and that makes me wonder.
And one point that I don’t know: Is it usual for a collector to have many copies of the same issue? I’m thinking, for example, of the scores of Wolverines pictured in the auction.
Note that the two prizes of the collection are both restored. Sure, he can say that they are still worth 15 or 30 thousand dollars, but no one that has that kind of money to throw away on comics is going to want a restored (and only restored to 7.5 at that) book.
For the other books he mentions their Near Mint value. Note that he doesn’t say that they’re in Near Mint condition, that’s just the value he gives. Comics go down very steeply in price with each lower grade. Even books worth tens of thousands of dollars in mint condition are only worth a dollar or two in poor condition.
Then you have the biggest problem in selling comics which is no one wanting them. And it’s a doozy of a problem too, quite a Catch-22. If they’re not in perfect shape then no one wants them; why collect a beat up book? If they just wanted to read the story they’d pick up a reprint or an Essential book. Then you have the problem of them being in great shape. In that case, no one can afford them. How many geeks are realistically willing and able to plop down 15 grand on a minty fresh copy of FF #48? Very very few my friend, and good luck finding them.
I’m not saying this collection is junk; it’s a very nice collection. I’m curious as to who will buy it though. On the one hand it doesn’t seem like a true collector would want it because all the duplicates, and on the other hand it’s going to be hard work and small profits for a reseller, due to the reasons listed above.