Your Guide To Comic Books

I have put a lot of work into a comic and think it could do well. I’m interested in contacting Marvel regarding this because my story fits into that type of universe more than say the DC universe.

To even get them to consider your idea, you’d have to get a job with them and write some of their characters for a while.

This is so much easier said than done it’s not even funny.

Edit: The Disney purchase is unlikely to affect Marvel in any significant way.

I have put a lot of work into a comic and think it could do well. I’m interested in contacting Marvel regarding this because my story fits into that type of universe more than say the DC universe.

To even get them to consider your idea, you’d have to get a job with them and write some of their characters for a while.

This is so much easier said than done it’s not even funny.

Edit: The Disney purchase is unlikely to affect Marvel in any significant way.

Maybe even more, possibly up to 400. They are in good condition.

None of the answers I’ve read so far are very informative.

I own more than 12,000 comic books. A photo of some of them can be found here:

http://www.edcollins.com/comic-books.htm

"Good Condition" is not desirable. Ideally, you a want a comic book to be in MINT or NEAR MINT condition. After that you want VERY FINE or FINE condition. After that you hope it would be in VERY GOOD condition. "Good" condition is actually near the bottom of the scale.

So yes, condition is important, as is the titles. Many of my comics are also from the ’60s and ’70s and some of these are only worth a few dollars each. However, my copy of Spider-Man #50, for example, in the condition I have it in, is worth about $700.00. Batman #200 is worth about $140.00.

Just GUESSING on the average true condition of your dad’s collection, and average titles, assuming your dad had 300, I would say it would cost him $1,200 - $2,100 to replace them. (The average worth of each one is probably in the $4.00 - $7.00 range.)

However, that’s not what he could sell them for, especially to a dealer. A dealer may only pay $500 for the entire lot, since the dealer has to make a profit when he tries to resell them. Maybe less, if the overall condition of the lot is poor, and if they consist of titles that are not popular.

Get me a list of the titles, and the true condition, and I can give you a better answer. Of course, you or your dad should purchase a copy of the latest Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. It will tell you the value of each comic you have. It will also explain how to grade each comic.

I’m after buying the very 1st Raiders of the Lost Ark issue 1 from Marvel. Not sure where to buy it from, can you help? I’ve already got issues 2 and 3.

Can someone advise me?

Hi, I’m a collector of comics and I’ve got a few Indie ones. On Ebay there are 2 copies of that that comic available right now, 1 in the States, and one in the UK.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RAIDERS-OF-THE-LOST-ARK-1-FN-comic-INDIANA-JONES_W0QQitemZ360065676635QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item53d596355b&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INDIANA-JONES-Raiders-of-the-Lost-Ark-1-Marvel-comic_W0QQitemZ310129852993QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Books_Comics_Magazines_US_Comics_ET?hash=item48352e0241&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Hope this helps you. You can email me if you need any more help.

I’m an independent comic book creator. I have published my own manga style series, I have three 24 page comics total. I have a MySpace and other forms of average advertisement and I attend the motor city con, and xcape con every year selling my books. are there any main stream publishers out there willing to give a indie creator a chance?

Most companies have a special time they will accept outside submissions. Most of the larger companies will have that info on their websites. Did you try any of the manga companies, like tokyo pop? My brother just got published by them! It took him a long time and he received a ton of "sorry, not interested" letters. He also went to every Wizard World Con that was close by and talked to companies and other writers that way.

He has a Myspace too! I don’t want to share his name, but if you look for Tantric Strip fighter Trina, that is his creating. He is also working on another independent comic with Jason Copeland. They both have sites on myspace. Check them out, maybe they both can help you better than I can.

Good Luck to you!

I really like all the marvel movies, and have been interested in reading the comic books, but have never got around to it. Now i want to start, but the thing is there are so many different kinds of them I don’t really know where to start. What would be a good series/group/hero to start with that wouldnt be to complicated or confusing? Thanks a lot

Both Spider-Man and any of the X-titles are usually enjoyable. They both have a long history though since they’ve been running for quite a while. I would just do a little bit of reading on Wikipedia for either and then pick up a few issues. You just have to start somewhere…and then come here with any questions.

They’ve gotten rid of a lot of their top-notched artists. They’re printing and reprinting a lot of their comic books nowadays. In addition, they just started this new digital/online comic book campaign. Will doing all this devalue the comic books they’re selling today?

Marvel doesn’t concern itself with the value of it’s older issues. They make no money when people sell the issues between each other after they buy it from Marvel in the first place.

But the answer is no. Old comics which are rare will always be rare. People want Amazing Spider-Man #1 no matter how many times it’s been reprinted. The value of those older, truly rare comics goes up every year without fail. The value of modern comics will go down regardless of whether or not they’re reprinted, because value in older comics comes from rarity, and there’s nothing rare about modern comics with print runs in the tens or hundreds of thousands when everyone buying them keeps them. The old comics are rare and collectable because people didn’t use to keep them around, they threw them away.

Mine are 1.) Wolverine 2.) Deadpool 3.) Taskmaster

What are yours?

1- Wolverine
2- Spiderman
3- Taskmaster

In honor of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” slicing its way onto DVD and Blu-ray on September 15, we filmed a very special all-Wolverine edition of “The Weekly Watcher.”

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i want to read the original comics but cant pay for the actual original ones so is there a place with reprints or are the reprints gone too

Marvel essentials (the cost is $17.99) the catch is the book is black and white comics