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Wheres a good place to sell my comic cards?

I have a few thousand trading cards from about 12 years ago all in mint/near mint condition (everything from marvel masterpiece, disney trading cards, DC Comic cards--and a bunch of other stuff). Wheres a good place (online preferred) to unload all this.

I agree. Ebay will be your best bet for getting a fair price on those. The only other option to keep you from getting ripped off is to buy a table at a comic convention and sell your cards directly.

Btw: if you go the ebay route, make sure not to sell it as a batch, but to break 'em up by set. Whole batches may be cheaper to list, but you don't get nearly as good a return, either.

If you are looking for a comic book price guide to find what your comics are worth, the first stop on your journey may be the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.  Let's delve into it so you can find prices for your comic books quickly and easily, plus avoid some common mistakes.

First, the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is considered the "bible" of the industry.  It is the starting point for most collector and dealer research.  It's available in print from most major bookstores as well as online as an instant digital download.  It's great because you'll have prices instantly on your computer (you can even use it as you follow along with this article!).

Once you have your price guide in hand or on your computer, you'll want to get your comic books out and ready to organize.  You'll want to write down each of your comic book titles and issue numbers.  The price guide is organized alphabetically by title and issue number.  Furthermore, it separates the price for each issue by condition or "grade". If you make a list of your comic books in the same format it will help you quickly navigate the guide and find your values. 

The sticking point for most novices is the condition or grade. Fortunately you'll find a section called "Grading Definitions"  in the table of contents of the price guide. The price guide gives you a basic idea of what defects to look, and what condition you should assign to each comic book. Take a look at the definitions and match your comic books to the appropriate grade.

At this point you should have a list of all of your comic books by title, issue number and grade.  It should look something like this:

Amazing Spiderman 1, very good

Superman 133, fine

X-men 1, Near Mint

and so on.

Now you're ready to look up you comics in the price guide!  Simply go the the title of your comic, find the issue number, then move across the grade and you'll have a ballpark price.  I say ballpark because there are a few gotchas.

First, there is a tendency for the guide to be overpriced on some common issues and underpriced on some hot issues.  But how do you know the difference?

Hot issues are often called "keys" in the hobby, as they are important issues in a series.  The same way a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card would stand out from the crowd or be key in baseball, the same holds true in comics.  Fortunately the Overstreet Guide helps you out in this area.  As you browse the guide you'll see notes about specific comic book issues.  The notes you want to concentrate on are "origin","first appearance" and any other important "first" milestones.  This also includes first issues.  If you look at the values for these comics you'll also notice they are more valuable than the surrounding issue numbers.

These keys deserve a little more time to find an up to date value.  One great place to start is E-bay.  Take a look and find out what the book is really selling for.  You can also do some online searching for the more common issue numbers and you may find they are selling for less than the guide.

There you have it.  In a short time you can discover whether your comics have any "treasure" potential.  If they do, make sure you do just a little more research!

Make sure to get your own instant access copy of the Comic Book Price Guide and access our free comic book value secret tips at Comic Book Secrets.

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