Any Value in old comics?

JustAKiss · Post by **JustAKiss** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:01 pm

Hi, I'm new here so sorry if its a dumb question. My sons have grown up & left home, and I have a lot of original Transformers comics. They have been lovingly read many times, so are not in 'as new' condition. One still has a badge attached to the front cover though. Just wondered if any avid fans still searched for old comics.

Post by **snarl** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:44 pm

Possibly, though probably not.

I personally spent dickloads buying them when I hit my 20s. They were however rereleased as affordable trade paperbacks (they're basically 10 comics collected into a meatier format), removing the need to pay inflated prices for the originals.

Speaking personally, if my mum sold my TF comics off I'd probably kick her in the back.

Post by **Best First** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:38 pm

yeah, i'd check with the original owner if i were you.

best way to gauge value os probably to search for the issues you have on ebay and see what comes up.

Post by **Denyer** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:30 pm

Some stuff hasn't been reprinted and's worth more. Stuff around the beginning and ending of the line is generally more sought after (either rarity due to age, or rarity due to shorter print runs.)

Most eBay sellers who list inflated prices for single issues don't sell many issues per listing 'block' -- it'll involve patience and factoring in fees for relisting quite a few times.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:21 pm

Denyer wrote:Stuff around the beginning and ending of the line is generally more sought after (either rarity due to age, or rarity due to shorter print runs.)

Yeah, first 32 issues.

Not sure about the end of the line though. All Marvel US reprints. Nice covers though.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:18 pm

I got a pretty penny for my collection (several hundred) but that was many years ago now (7 years?) before most of it was brought out in reprints and TPB so I'd imagine it's worth nowhere near that much. Same thing for most of the valuable TFs I used to have, I sold them and got a good price just a couple of years before reissues and chinese knock-offs put an end to the stupid prices they were going for ($1000 for Fort Max?!).

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:45 am

My mom would buy a TF issue every time I did as a kid and save them, thus she has the full run plus Headmasters, Universe, and TF:TM in mint condition. And a MOSC Bumblebee that actually has a Cliffjumper inside.

I told her to sell them as The Movie Hype came to a crescendo, but really, there doesn't seem to be a market for them, at least not yet. It's hard to sell them online as a collection, simply because they weigh a crapload and shipping would be torture. And it didn't make sense selling them individually either, because then you'd probably end up having an incomplete set worth nothing and like 15 bucks.

veritech · Post by **veritech** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:19 pm

I really think that it comes down to time and place to make money on your old TF comics.

Back in the late '90's I was searching ebay for the last 20 issues or so of the Marvel series. I found the exact issues I needed in a a set. Bidding was at 10 or 15 bucks when I started. By the action end, bidding went to 70 or 80 bucks!!!!

Now, mind you, this was the 1998 before the 2000's 1980's nostalgia boom and most Transformers comics were taking up space in the quarter bin at you local comic shop.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:17 pm

I had the entire G1 UK run, stored in three boxes in my parents' old house.

...until a few weeks ago.

When they were stolen.

I cry now.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:42 pm

That's horrible.

My G2 issue #1 has a certain smell about it. Nothing else smells quite like it. I don't know if it was the ink or what. But I love that smell. More than fresh-baked cookies.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:24 pm

Yeah G2 issue 1 certainly has a particular whiff. Takes me right back to the day I first read it.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:38 pm

Mmmm...gatefoldy goodness

Though the ads in that issue were a right pain...there's like one page of the Hot Rod/Prime dialogue that I missed the first like ten times I read it because it's so well hidden amongst the ad pages

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:58 pm

Want to know something painful?

When I was a kid, my brother and I had a fight, and to anger him I ran to his desk and ripped up the first comic I could find on the top of the stack.

Little did we know at that time, that with each passing day, that action would hurt both of us more and more with each passing day.

To this day, even.

What issue was it?

Hulk #181........the first appearance of Wolverine.

Somebody kick my ass please.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:44 pm

I know that pain.

My parents knew as a kid that I ENJOYED being sent to my room (All my books were there), and didn't care about being grounded/etc. (Why play with other kids when I had all those transformers at home?) so once, when I was getting really out of hand, they threw one of my comics on the fire.
I never misbehaved again. EVER.

veritech · Post by **veritech** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:47 pm

My parents used to ban me from buying comics for a month if I misbehaved . . . . meaning I would miss an issue of Transformers comic or G.I.Joe or whatever.

It was a very effective parenting tool, as I was a completist even then and hated missing an issue.