
Do Signature Series Add Value to Your Collection?
Not all comics are created equal. One way my comic can differ from your comic of the exact same series, number, and grade is if a signature has been added. Signatures of the artist, writer, or anyone who...
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Building a Portfolio, not a Collection
To most people, a collection means an accumulation of objects gathered for study, comparison, exhibition, or as a hobby. This is what it means to be a comic collector in today's society: To accumulate books in some...
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Budget, Build, and Maintain for eBay Success - Part 2
You've set up your eBay store and filled it with great products - but nobody is buying. It's time to activate the following plan to market your store, encourage repeat customers, and keep yourself ahead of...
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Huge Mistakes Uninformed Collectors Make Every Day
One huge mistake collectors make in today's market is to follow the crowd when it comes to hot books. I can't count the number of times popular magazines convinced me to chase something everyone else was already...
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Discover Trends, Patterns, and Cycles Within the Hobby
I. Search
Searching is critical because there are so many choices. There are hundreds of thousands of comic books available for purchase at any one time.
In order to narrow down your choices, find two or three Web sites...
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5 Tips For Trimming Down Your Collection
I feel that the MAIN ingredient to trimming down a collection is to know what the MAIN THEME of your collection is. What 1-4 themes are you most interested in? What themes keep you collecting? The biggest reasons we...
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Responsible Collecting Yields Rewards
Since eBay and third party grading came about, it can be as little as 6 days to liquidate your entire collection into cash. This industry does roughly $312,000 graded sales per month according to the CGC web...