Today I was going through my comic books and entering them into a spreadsheet so that I can sell them. I decided to get all the major headlines done such as Title, Publisher, Issue #, Cover Price, & What there worth now. as I was looking over the cover prices on a lot of the books and how they were priced it made me think. For instance a few issues were priced @ $1.95 then only 4 issues later the same book was &1.99 for one issue then back to $1.95. The funny part is there was nothing special about that issue.
This went on and on through my whole collection(all 500+ books.) I found it funny that the main publisher for the increase and decrease in cover prices within a few issues was Marvel. For the most part DC, DreamWave, Image, Top-Cow, ect. books cover prices stayed the same for more than I'd say 10-12 issues unless it was a double size or anniversary issue.
The other thing that I found so very funny was that it amazed me a comic book could NOT be worth its own cover price today. I used comicspriceguide.com to price my books. They base them on 9.4 for pricing. Now all my books are bagged, border, and boxed so I'd say that 9.4 is fair grade for my collection. I found at least 15-20 books were worth less than their cover price.
Check your collections and see what I mean. I also ask what are your thoughts on this. Thanks all.
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