What is the best way to sell off a silver age collection?
September 4, 2010 by admin
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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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Here is a video of Silver Age Avengers – issues #1 – #10. Also shown is issue #503 – the last issue in this collector’s collection. Avengers include Captain America, Thor, Wasp, Iron Man etc. Early issues were written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby.