[Exodus]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

Space is definitely a factor. I started out at the beginning of the year with twelve long boxes of comics and am down to six, I spent all of my free time the first half of the year scanning to clear up some space. It's a lot of work but I have a bit more space and all those comics on a drive and the cloud now instead of physically where they could be burned up, flooded, etc collecting dust or mold.

Now granted, the books I really enjoyed are the ones I did not scan. It was still over 2000 books, and most of them were books I just found I didn't even really care if I had them or not but I didn't want to lose them completely, either.

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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

If space is a factor then Ebay, your local flea market, and garage sales are definitely ones friend.

I'm currently at 4 long boxes of comics, one long box almost filled and 1 short box that's almost filled as well. i have been contemplating on selling on ebay and when december hits this upcoming year i'll be heading to the flea market.

I said it in my previous post, and i'll say it again now, where is the value or invest of just reading digitally? All my graded comics are worth a pretty penny... for whatever reason IF i were to decide to get rid of them i would walk away with a few grand. you can't say the same with digital comics.

Nice, I had 8 long boxes got rid of 5 at my LCS and got $300 in trade value for which I sold it to my nephew for $200 in cash....I'm sure if I actually took the time to see what ones I had that were worthy for Ebay to sell I maybe would have made more. But eh...time was of the essence.

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

@Donmeca2020

The current climate is not exactly a 'seller's market' and I'm glad I offloaded 2/3rds of what I owned years ago. Had I tried to do it now, I'd be doing it at a considerable loss or I'd still be waiting for things to sell years later...the craziest phenomenon is how much TPB's are going for these days. People seem to want to hold on to some tangible aspect of comic collecting, while having them in a format that's easier to store and access.

That's the thing with seller's market. Whenever I went to FNS in LA, I would see these guys with tons of boxes selling comics, but the older stuff they would sell so cheap and I felt sad, just seeing them sit there with no customers...

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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

Well if your a collector, you know majority of collectors go for first appearances,origin issues, #1 issues, and final issues of comics series. oh and it is a sellers market. the thing being raw comics and when i saw raw i mean Not graded are going for a fraction of what a CGC graded comic goes for. Considering your still reading abit of modern stuff, do you have any idea how much Spider-Gwen's first appearance was going for last year and the beginning of this year? about $ 60 bucks for a ungraded copy and a graded 9.8 was fetching in the triple digits price range. i could go on and on about certain GRADED copper era comics now fetching in the $1k to $2K dollar price range. there still is a following. even if i were to sell ALL my comics for a buck a piece i would still walk off with my pockets more filled then just someone who's spending money on a digital volume of any title.

Like i said, im not knocking digital format for reading purposes but i am knocking it for there being no value at all coming back from it. i enjoy being able to pull my flash drive out with sumatra and start reading marvel comics presents, amazing spider man, incredible hulk etc...

I've never graded my comics just cause of time is the factor, but I'm sure a couple of mine would be worth pretty good $.

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Originally Posted by VonPooten

For the last ten years, trades are where I've made camp. Less space taken, easier to file, and besides, they look far nicer. Unfortunately others feel the same way, and TPBs (especially X-Men ones) that came out six years ago are now going for $70-80!

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

I've been doing certain trades since they started to come out years ago. Things I couldn't get that I liked, such as Captain Britain Omnibus - Davis/Neary Jasper's warp stuff (oh, was I so excited to see the X-men fight the Fury in that New Age X-men book! - that team is arguably my favorite X-men squad), and the Miracleman (Marvelman) collections. I have been 'exclusive' on the format for only 7 years or so. That's when I decided comics had become too formulaic and poorly constructed. There was a blatant disregard for art/story/canon/continuity and the hobby was no longer worth my habitual $100-$120/week investment. And...yes, trades are being priced in an exploitative fashion now. Thank goodness, I had the foresight to buy TPB's of Samaritan - Annihilation - Annihilation:Conquest - Realm of Kings (in spite of owning the individual comics), because now the Annihilation sets are going for $200-$300, Samaritan is $100, and Realm is also $200 (and that's TPB's not hardcovers...gross)

Dang I didn't realize TPB's would go for that much more haha...maybe I should start hunting for some of those at my book stores.

Back on topic, can't wait to get my Strange set...those images of that set looks great. Probably 2nd favorite to the X-Force set.