Went a little crazy the past month building a time capsule for my kids to do whatever they want with in 20 yrs. So since my investment time horizon is that long I was ok to pay above FMV in some cases bc it was more important for me to get the book I wanted. I’m done for now but will do this again next year around this time when I’ve replenished my disposable play money fund. I only targeted blue chips - nothing modern and I wanted nothing to do with giant sized Xmen, hulk 181 and ASM 129.

I read an article today about a lady selling old comic books on Ebay and getting a 1099 tax form showing how much she made. I assume Ebay sent the 1099. Apparently comic books are Collectibles and profits subject to a 28% tax rate. I was surprised. Never gave much thought about comic book profits bring taxable. Apparently if your kids inherit them the tax basis starts at the quoted price of the comic book when inherited. In my case I bought these in the 60's for 12 cents each so that is my basis....ouch!! The lady also got a notice from Medicare her monthly cost was increasing because the added income put her at a higher rate...another ouch!!

Have fun and enjoy because at some point there are no more chairs to sit down on

I love comic collecting but I always think that if something happens to me, I would like my family to be able to offload the books easily and get good money back for them.

There are some books I'm looking at that I really want for market CGC prices but they're CBCS.

How does a 9.8 CBCS hold up to a CGC 9.8? Are CBCS harder to sell? Do they demand the same price?

Spare a grade? We are debating between a 5 to a 7 cover has a beautiful look to it for being so old and purple.

I go through every book on the FOC list each week and report what checks out before Monday's noon cutoff. Here's what I'm seeing for October 19.

Five potential firsts this week, three of them confirmed by solicitation. Spectacular Spider-Man #6 introduces The Scavenger per Marvel's solicit, and that issue carries more of Turncoat whose debut ran in #5. There's a 1:25 Rickie Yagawa cover on it. Wolverine: Paradise #2 brings in Crucible, a new player tied to Logan's destiny while he's cleaning up Dazzler's nightclub turf in Miami. That one has a 1:25 Paco Medina. The third confirmed first is Adventure Time Bonnie The Vampire Hunter #1, a self-contained 56-page one-shot from Caroline Cash and Tia Roxae, with a 1:10 black and white cover by Cash.

The other two firsts are softer. Venom #2 (likely) is the potential first of a new female character, the mystery woman Eddie and the symbiote have fallen for. Her identity isn't confirmed, so the question is whether the ID holds. There's a 1:25 Simone Di Meo on it. Victoria Jaguar #1 (likely) is the potential first of the title character, the newest entry in London's Underworld Universe with painted Rudy art.

One confirmed event that isn't a first: Legion Of Super-Heroes #3 has a confirmed death, no name in the solicit, tagline "ONE. WILL. DIE."

And a potential first of a different kind: Skybound revealed Megatronus Rex, Megatron's new form, for Transformers #38. It has a 1:50 and a 1:25.

The rumor that doesn't check out: Warbird #1 2nd printing (rumor-based) carries an unconfirmed report that an A-list star signed on for a film adaptation. The casting report is not verified, so I'm considering it as rumor only.

What are your thoughts on buying a major Silver Age key that’s priced at a slight discount since it’s a UK Price variant?

Some collectors like them due to rarity; others would prefer the 12¢ originals. This results in a decrease in liquidity.

Curious what the folks in this community think or have experienced. Would you buy a UK variant? Have you tried to sell?

Ocasionallly on EBay I’ll run into a “buy it now” that has me going “isn’t that a lot more??”

I bought a copy of a beat up Flash issue that was the second Superman-Flash race for $13 with shipping.

it actually came with three others but they were garbage.

AFTER I bought it I saw it’s not actually worth much more because of how beat up it is

but my q stands. This Q is mostly for personal collection buyers

Found this in a Bronze Box at my Store for $3 thought it was a good pick up the spine is beat to hell but for the price I couldn’t pass

Also will buyers lose their money when’s the shows over or will it go up even more?

Just started getting into comic book collecting through a friend and found this gem at goodwill. After some research, I realized what I had, but now im terrified to try to take the sticker off.

Copy seems really clean, and thinking of submitting to CGC. Any thoughts or recommendations to getting the sticker off?

So I've never submitted a comic for grading before and I'm considering sending this in for the CGC signing event with Snyder and Dragotta. This would be for my collection, so while the grade doesn't really matter, I'm just curious.

I checked the book, and to my eye the books corners and inners are pristine, but this spine has some imperfections. Assuming the rest of the book is immaculate, how adversely would the spine affect the grade? Thanks for your insights!

I’m well aware Invincible is a hot series, popular show, etc. But a random issue for 4-7k? These are the last 3 sold in 9.8 on eBay…. Really?

Would this benefit from cracking, and doing a clean and press for a regrade? It’s 9.2…I’m thinking yeah but I wanted other opinions.

I loved TFAW's ordering system! I know most online shops are using Shopify or something similar and are bound by order, meaning if I make an pre-order and items cross multiple release dates, i had to wait for all items to release for my stuff to ship. TFAW's system allowed for pre-order books to ship on release date regardless.

Anyone else use TFAW and miss it?

….it being the worst season to do so?

Myself I can’t help it

Edit: I see that the mania has spread to marvel's 70's near-softcore Horror black and white magazines.

As well it should.

Quiero comprarme este número, pero como puedo verificar si es real o pirata, a partir de las imágenes que me da
¿hay algún detalle que pueda delatar la originalidad?

(la imagen me la encontré en internet, no es el que me venden)

Bought a shipment from comic shop and it came with the same issue as the one in the picture. So I sent them back and ordered from a different store. One that bads and boards their books as standard. So imagine my face when they turn up looking slightly better than the original stores.

Looked online and a lot of people are seeing this common defect. So how will it impact grading?

Hi everyone, I’m just starting out in comic collecting and got this from a friend as a gift. Trying to understand why it seems it might be so valuable online? What am I missing? Thanks!

This my collection from the mid 80s. Nearly everything has been bagged since about 1990. Some have acid free boards too. This is the list of books that I made back in high school.

I understand that grading is what matters, but how do you decide which to grade? And where? I live in the DC area if that helps.

Hello, going through dads collection and it’s kinda tough to figure out what these are and or how to find similar comics. I just use eBay for the others (non auto). And it’s easy to find through sold listing filter on eBay. But these, have no idea what I’m looking at. Thanks for any help/info you can provide

Amazing Fantasy #15 with no cover but all other pages inside. Im not in the comic book space but part of me wonders if grading would be a good idea. Or just get my own case and keep a bit of amazing lore.

Im like 90% sure its the original too and not a reprint but let me know!