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Originally posted by LLance:
Thanks everybody!

I will stress that my books will be "reader" copies! I'm know some are in better shape than others but all have been read! I also do not want to get into a pissing contest with some geek!

I'm not really sure what I want to sell yet...I really need to start going through some long boxes...If you saw a complete or almost complete run of Warlord, for example, how high do you think the bidding might get to? Would I be better to split it into sequential stacks or random stacks?

I do think I'll check out some scanners tomorrow.
LLance, I always sold my books in full runs if I had them or at least from 1 (or whatever) to whatever the latest number I had was. Some comic shop guys said I could make mor eif I broke them up into cheaper lots of, say 10...but I didn't have the patience for that shit. Plus, what happenes if you sell 9 of the 15 lots of the 150 issues you have of a certain title and are stuck with the rest? Fuck re-listing. Get rid of them all in one fell swoop.

I sold almost 300 issues of Uncanny X-Men and over 100 issues of X-Men to the same guy for more than 800 bucks and they were listed in 2 seperate lots. My thinking is that people that are collectors are looking for specific issues to complete a run and they are more discriminating when they bid. People that just want to read the books want as many as they can get of a particular title and will bid more often on big runs of books they want rather than buy then a few books at a time. They can always do that at a comic shop or convention.

Either philosophy makes a lot of sense. I guess it depends on what you have to sell and who you are.

If you have some single issues worth a decent amount, then it's worthwhile to sell in smaller lots.

As far as Warlord goes...I dunno. I never got into it. Spend a couple of weeks researching it on eBay. That will give you a good idea of what they are going for and what you can expect. there appears to be a lot of interest on the DC boards in that title so, I'd guess you could make a fair amount.