Golden Age Comics -- Incredibly Expensive!?
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:06 am
This is probably nothing new to most people on the forums here, and I even knew it would be true, but HOW expensive these comics were, I was STUNNED to see. My professor at the university has a huge library over his home work station of just comics of everything new and old. He carefully preserves the really rare ones and instructed me how to do so if I was pursuing such a hobby as well. Since I love comics, I talk to him about them often--especially Golden Age comics.
We talked about the editions of the Green Hornet and Superman and he said that Superman Issue #1 had been bought by a Japanese collector for 3 million USD. I thought WHOA.
So then I went online to research the prices of the Green Hornet comics by Helnit, and the "blue book" value price of such comics per issue is $1,500. They actually sell about $200/issue. Gee! (This just makes me want them more though. I WILL get them!1!!1!!)
My professor recommended me to http://www.milehighcomics.com/ as he's been using it for years and while the design isn't fabulous, he says the owner of this business sends out these newsletters to subscribers with deals and long monologues humorously relating how he just "bought 35,000 comics from the back of a van". Looks like I'm going to be checking this site often...
Then I talked to him about the Astro Boy Manga and he actually told me some things about the re-prints and editions that I didn't know. I sat there looking at this like 60 year old very distinguished professor and my esteem of him grew even more than I thought it could that he knew so much about Astro Boy--even that the original Astro song was in English first and then adapted into the Japanese. He discussed the Darkhorse reprints and how, since the 2009 movie came out, I should hurry and buy all the rest of the volumes because the prices will surely rise.
Golly. It was epic! But I posted this to ask, does anyone else here buy rare comics and go through the whole proper, air-tight, packing and placing comics in dry rooms in boxes, etc etc, to preserve them? Or is it more of a buying new comics for fun? Or both? I'm really into buying the rare comics out of love of them and to preserve them.
We talked about the editions of the Green Hornet and Superman and he said that Superman Issue #1 had been bought by a Japanese collector for 3 million USD. I thought WHOA.
So then I went online to research the prices of the Green Hornet comics by Helnit, and the "blue book" value price of such comics per issue is $1,500. They actually sell about $200/issue. Gee! (This just makes me want them more though. I WILL get them!1!!1!!)
My professor recommended me to http://www.milehighcomics.com/ as he's been using it for years and while the design isn't fabulous, he says the owner of this business sends out these newsletters to subscribers with deals and long monologues humorously relating how he just "bought 35,000 comics from the back of a van". Looks like I'm going to be checking this site often...
Then I talked to him about the Astro Boy Manga and he actually told me some things about the re-prints and editions that I didn't know. I sat there looking at this like 60 year old very distinguished professor and my esteem of him grew even more than I thought it could that he knew so much about Astro Boy--even that the original Astro song was in English first and then adapted into the Japanese. He discussed the Darkhorse reprints and how, since the 2009 movie came out, I should hurry and buy all the rest of the volumes because the prices will surely rise.
Golly. It was epic! But I posted this to ask, does anyone else here buy rare comics and go through the whole proper, air-tight, packing and placing comics in dry rooms in boxes, etc etc, to preserve them? Or is it more of a buying new comics for fun? Or both? I'm really into buying the rare comics out of love of them and to preserve them.