What should I do with my comics from the 90s ?

[rsutoratosu]

ie spiderman from the Aug 1990 McFarlane series, etc..

It looks like they're pretty much worthless... I have not open them up since the 90s. They were bagged but hopefully not destroyed as they sat in my basement for over 20 years.

luckily i dont have a lot of these, maybe like 100 of them, xmen, spiderman, wolverine.

 

[SandEagle]

hold onto them. or put em on ebay. its a rare item, someone will pay top dollar for it. i have the 1st nintendo power issue with maps intact in pristine condition. could probably get a $100 for it now

 

[corwin]

Burn them for heat

 

[FoBoT]

put them in your car
drive to las vegas
go to pawn stars
get on tv
get insulted by chumlee

profit!

 

[busydude]

Scan them.

 

[lxskllr]

Wait until you're ~50 and sell them. Even the otherwise worthless comics will be worth something for nostalgia purposes. 100 comics is easy to store.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Spawn Comics?

 

[blazerazor]

I don't know if you have kids or plan to have some, but that would be something cool to leave for them.

 

[soulcougher73]

Yeah i have a bunch from like 87-91 range. Mostly first edition type comics i never actaully read. Need to find a way to unload them for hopefully some profit.

 

[Tsaico]

I don't know if you have kids or plan to have some, but that would be something cool to leave for them.

I have maybe 300 or so in a couple of banker style boxes. I like this idea. I doubt I have any that are worth anything either. There might be a few in there. (I was one of the kids that waited for the death of superman comic books.) I checked out some of my titles, and found a few for decent prices, but none of them were actually selling, so I doubt they are really worth that.

 

[JEDIYoda]

ie spiderman from the Aug 1990 McFarlane series, etc..

It looks like they're pretty much worthless... I have not open them up since the 90s. They were bagged but hopefully not destroyed as they sat in my basement for over 20 years.

luckily i dont have a lot of these, maybe like 100 of them, xmen, spiderman, wolverine.

wait 50 more years....

 

[SandEagle]

Wait until you're ~50 and sell them. Even the otherwise worthless comics will be worth something for nostalgia purposes. 100 comics is easy to store.

he's probably 50 now. was maybe a 30 year old nerd at the time.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Couple of my Spawn comic was over 100usd years back

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

you could read them.

 

[lxskllr]

you could read them.

Or at least look at the pictures :^D

 

[rsutoratosu]

I actually only bought 2 of each, so one to be read and the other one sealed.. was poor high school kid back then, luckily I couldn't afford a big collection.. I do miss reading them, you kinda grew out of them and stop going to the store to pick up new ones like big bang theory guys.. hahaha

i think one of my fav series was wolverine and how magneto pull the adamantium out but a few issues after that I stop collecting.. haha

 

[KB]

I have a bunch of comics from around that time period. My hope is that in 50 more years, people will have lost them, parent/wives thrown them out etc, that mine will be some of the few left.

 

[Saint Nick]

IMO, they can't be taking up too much space. I would think they'll be very collectible in 30 years or so.

 

[SP33Demon]

Firewood, print runs from that era are in the millions. Maybe in the year 2150 they'll be worth something. Now the current era, they wised up and made them more collectible by dropping print runs.

 

[DougK62]

They're worthless. Tons of them were made, tons of people bought them, and tons of people are holding on to them hoping they might be worth something some day. Flooded market, just like 90's ball cards.

 

[BillGates]

 

[Fritzo]

Yeah i have a bunch from like 87-91 range. Mostly first edition type comics i never actaully read. Need to find a way to unload them for hopefully some profit.

Same here. I have some that are listed on eBay for quite a bit (death of Superman, Superman Reborn, first issue with Doomsday, Death of Robin, etc...), but nobody buys them. They list for $100-$200, and not one bid. This tells me they're pretty much worthless: an item is only worth what people will pay for it.

My son has been drooling over the prospect of ripping into my collection, but that kid destroys everything he touches. Guess I'm keeping mine for a bit longer.

 

[AstroManLuca]

They're worthless. Tons of them were made, tons of people bought them, and tons of people are holding on to them hoping they might be worth something some day. Flooded market, just like 90's ball cards.

How long before so many people realize this and ditch their collections that they become valuable again? 50 years? 100?

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

I had Spawn #1 - 20 in excellent condition.
But then my cat got in the drawer they were stored in & shredded all of them & pissed all over them. Only 2 of them remained in excellent condition by time I found them.

 

[busydude]

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