Picker's Pocket Guide - Comic Books
How to Pick Antiques Like a Pro
Published on 15. September 2015
208 pages
978-1-4402-4514-5 (ISBN)
Description
COMICS PACK PUNCH!
Comic book values are soaring. Superman's debut, Action Comics #1, sold for $3.2 million. The first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics #27 fetched $1 million. Exceptional examples? Certainly, but you don't need X-ray vision to see everyone from collectors to savvy investors covets vintage comic books. Discover for yourself what insiders have long known with this hands-on, how-to guide to picking comic books.
You'll uncover:
• The best comics to hunt, from the 1930s-1980s and beyond
• Where to find hidden treasures
• Practical strategies for buying and selling comic books
• How to flip comics for profit and fun
• Common reprints and facsimiles
• Restoration and repair
Whether for pleasure or profit, the Picker's Pocket Guide is a real find.
Comic book values are soaring. Superman's debut, Action Comics #1, sold for $3.2 million. The first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics #27 fetched $1 million. Exceptional examples? Certainly, but you don't need X-ray vision to see everyone from collectors to savvy investors covets vintage comic books. Discover for yourself what insiders have long known with this hands-on, how-to guide to picking comic books.
You'll uncover:
• The best comics to hunt, from the 1930s-1980s and beyond
• Where to find hidden treasures
• Practical strategies for buying and selling comic books
• How to flip comics for profit and fun
• Common reprints and facsimiles
• Restoration and repair
Whether for pleasure or profit, the Picker's Pocket Guide is a real find.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2015
Krause Publications
€33.61
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
David Tosh, Mesquite TX, is a comic books expert/cataloguer at Heritage Auctions. He has had articles published in a number of magazines and has also written the introduction for several books on comics.
