what is the last issue of secret six?

first appeared during the Silver Age of comic books in the initial team’s seven-issue title, Secret Six in May 1968 and May 1969.
The first two issues were reprinted in The Brave and the Bold #117 and in 120 in 1975
or the Relaunch in 2008

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What is the best way to sell off a silver age collection?

Recently, I was on a website where a collector asked how he could get the most amount of money for his silver age collection.  He was in a financial pinch and wanted to go to Wizard World Chicago to sell of his collection.  He had over 100 silver age comics including:  Doctor Strange 169-182, Tales of Suspense 95-99, Tales to Astonish 97-101, Captain America 101-108, Iron Man 1-7, and Fantastic Four 68-115.

He wanted to know if he should sell them as a bunch or individually.  Also if he should shop them around.  (That is ask more than one dealer).  Finally, he wanted to know if he needed to have a price in mind going in.

Here are my answers.   (This comes from someone who has bought and sold a lot of collections).

In terms of maximizing revenue, it is important that the collector ask as many dealers as possible.   He needs to go to every booth that is displaying silver age comic books and ask the dealer what they would pay for the whole set.   And he needs to be patient.  Go to all 10 silver age dealers if he needs to.  Finally, the collector needs to know how much he wants for the whole amount but he shouldn’t commit to a price if a dealer asks him.   He should just say “I’m trying to get as much as I can.  I plan to ask all the dealers in the room how much they would pay and plan to sell the comics to whoever offers me the most”.

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How big are the actual comics for the various ages of comics?

Comics have been getting smaller as time goes by.   The biggest comic books were printed in the Golden age.   In the silver age, comic books were 6 3/4 inches by 10 1/4 inches.  Today, the dimensions of comic books are 6 ⅝” × 10 ¼”.  (Bronze age comics were between the silver and modern sizes).

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Do silver age comic books go down in price?

It’s been our experience that comics in general go up in price.  So if you bought a silver age comic 10 years ago, it should be worth more today.  (Especially if you stick with high-grade/popular character comics – i.e. Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men).

The reasons that these silver age comic books go up in value is because of comic book supply and demand.  The supply of high-grade comics decreases over time.  (Comics are paper products which will eventually disintegrate.  So over time, there will be fewer and fewer high grade copies).  The demand for these popular characters increases as more and more people get into the collecting arena or as more movies are made of comic characters.  Increasing demand/Decreasing Supply means higher prices.

In figuring out if you’ve made money holding comics, don’t forget the “dealer tax”.  Usually a collector buys a comic from a dealer.  He usually pays full price ( the price that the price guide says the comic is worth).  When the collector tries to sell that comic back to a dealer, he finds that the dealer is only going to give him 20-30% of the value of the comic. And so the collector gets less money than he was expecting.

Here is an example to make it more concrete.  The customer buys a comic for $10.00.  At the end of 10 years, the comic is worth $20.00.  However, when the collector tries to sell the silver age comic to a dealer, the dealer will only give him $6.00 for it (30% of the $20.00).   This is the “dealer tax” in action.

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Is there a place that I can go to read free golden and silver age comic books online?

Here is one place to start.  It collects copyright free golden age comic books.  (Basically, some comic books published in the golden age are in the public domain because the publisher either donated it to the public domain or else forgot to register the copyright).
http://www.goldenagecomics.co.uk/

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I heard that some Silver Age Comic Books had racist covers. Is this true?

Actually, the Silver Age was pretty tame in terms of racism.  Since the Silver Age started in 1955 and ended in 1970, it encompassed the civil rights movement.  And so, comic books, started slowly reflecting social equality for all races.  Although most of the superheroes were still white, there was very little ethnic stereotyping or making fun of racial characteristics.  It wouldn’t be until the bronze age – the 1970s – when comic books started featuring non-white superheroes on a regular basis.

The most racist period of time for comic books was the Golden Age.  There are plenty of comic book covers that had racist overtones.  This Captain Marvel comic is a perfect example.  I have chosen to show this comic not because I think it is funny, but because I want to educate people on just how bad racism was in the 1930s and 1940s in comics.  We’ve come a long way since that time period.

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What is the funniest Batman comic cover that you’ve ever seen?

Well …  It depends on what you define as funny, I guess.  My favorite comic cover featuring Batman is one which features Robin and Superman as well.  I know it’s not a silver age comic.  It’s in fact from the Golden Age.  However, the first time that I saw it, I was drinking a coke and I started laughing and snorting the coke through my nose.  So I am going to pick the infamous “Three men, three cannons, and three goofy smiles” cover.

I wonder which D.C. character is sitting on the biggest cannon?

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Who the heck is the character on the left of Wolverine in “Character Faces” T-shirt?

A reader of the blog asked us to figure out which character is on the “Marvel Comics Character T-shirt”.  Basically, he was trying to figure out who was to the left of Wolverine.  His friends have been looking at their old comics.  He had done an internet search.  But they couldn’t identify which marvel character was on the T-shirt.

Drum Roll Please …..  The Answer is …… Namor – The Submariner.

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Will my Bronze age comic books fit in Silver age bags/boards?

You can use them if you’d like. They will be a little bit big for your comics. Basically, comic books have shrunk in size through the years. (Mostly because the publishers wanted to save money by using less paper, ink, transportation costs, etc). So the biggest bags and boards are golden, then silver, and finally bronze.

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What’s the difference between the Golden Age of Comic Books and the Silver Age? What are the time periods?

The Golden Age of Comic Books starts from the 1930s when the first Superhero comic books were published (Action Comic spawned Superman;  Detective comics birthed Batman, etc.) until after World War 2 when  Superhero comic books slowly dwindled in sales.  (The public was more interested in crime, romance, and other types of comics).  The Silver Age of Comic Books started in the late 1950s when there was a renaissance in superhero comic books.  This period lasted until around 1970 when it morphed into what we call the Bronze Age of Comics.

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