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The edmonton book store specializing in rare and outof. He didnt take that great care of them, but i put them all in plastic sleeves in backing and put it in a box in my closet for decades. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use my. An edmonton shop that is in the business of selling stories has written a happy ending for itself by being named canadas best comic book retailer. The best place for the individual to sell is through an auction site, such as ebay.
It seems like new comic based tv shows and movies are announced daily. Appraising your comic books in the charlotte, north carolina area. Comic book price guides, like overstreet, have a minimum price for comic books. Well give your collection the obsessive time and attention it deserves. Some of the comies are from the 1950s and are early number of spider man. Better yet, if youre interested in getting an appraisal to prepare to sell your comic books, we can help you determine the proper value for your comic books, and if we are interested in purchasing them, will offer an. Select one vintage comic books before 1975 comic books from 1975 or later original comic art animation art video games other comics display all collectibles select one decorative art. The world of commerce andfrivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. Happy harbor is a good spot for comic appraisal, as for the hockey cards, there are a couple places in wem that can look at them also across the street at waynes sports cards, though you are better off getting a card appraisal book and doing it yourself. These records are from an impartial 3rd party source gp analysis.
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Louis, mo our company has sat well over 600 world record prices selling vintage comic books at auction. These books are key to any comic book collectors collection and we will pay extra premiums for them. I want to get them appraised and see how much i can sell them for. I hope those protective sleeves and cardboard backings are the acidfree ones. From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in our database. Or read our free, online comic book price guides, focusing on each character, to determine their current market value.
I buy comic books edmonton, ab comic books mapquest. Apr 03, 2017 no appraisal will be 100% accurate even experts can provide nothing more than an educated guess. Be careful, though, as the more whistles you add to your auction, the more it costs. My coworker has come into possession of a tonne of. Sep 03, 2007 i have a small comic collection that my uncle gave me 10 years ago.
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