![]() ![]() We offer fair prices and purchase comic books from all periods, depending on the quantity and quality of the collection.While budget games were a massive boon for cash-strapped kids in the Eighties, you never quite knew what you were getting for your £1.99. If you want to skip the hassle that goes with selling comics, then you can just give us a call and we can try our best to make an offer on your collection. Don't use the opinions of a blog like this to make a financial decision. You should do your research before buying or selling any comic books or other collectibles. Please note that any opinions on this blog are for entertainment purposes only. We can provide opinions on comics free of charge (WE DO NOT OFFER INVESTMENT ADVICE). If you need any opinions on comics (for entertainment purposes only), be sure to give us a call or email. A book from the 80s that's worth $200 today, might be worth half (or double) tomorrow. If you want to buy comic books to invest in, please exercise caution and research as values can fluctuate. In the end, speculation can become dangerous. This will depend on how comic book characters are received in other media. It's clear that 1980s comics are popular today, but it is hard to say if they will be more or less popular 10 years from now. We've seen warehouses filled with 1980s dollar bin comics that were sitting unsold for many years. The remaining 190 or so issues in the collection will most likely be a waste of space to whoever owns them. The chances are that you'll find 5-10 comics in the collection worth $20-30, while the rest will be worth little to nothing. Let's use an example of a collection of 200 comics from the 1980s. Keep your expectations low, as most collections from the 1980s have very little value, even if the collection has a couple of significant issues. ![]() Please note that most 1980s comics collections won't have a big issue such as TMNT 1, and don't expect to get a lot for your collection. Add that to the fact that the TMNT would become household names and you have a comic that's worth tens of thousands of dollars in today's market. A way to put this into perspective can be to compare it to an average 1980s comic, which had hundreds of thousands of copies of a particular issue printed. The characters were created as a spoof of X-Men, Teen Titans and Frank Miller's Daredevil and the creators didn't expect the title to take off as it did, so the original 1st print had only about 3,000 copies printed. An example of this would be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1. This usually applies to the first appearance of an independent character (non-Marvel/DC), since some indy companies at the time would publish lower runs due to the uncertainty of their comic character(s). ![]() While there are some comics from the 1980s worth between $20-300 dollars, there are some (a very small handful) worth thousands (ungraded), and those comics are usually the issues that are important first appearances AND rare. Look through your run of Amazing Spider-Man and find the key issues we have listed, because you'll find that most people who have original runs/sets of Amazing Spider-Man from the 1980s purchased issues 298, 299, and 300 (1st appearances of Venom). The key is to look for something that has the 1st appearance of a minor or major character. That being said, you still might be able to find something that has value. If you have a collection of 80s comic books, then chances are slim that you'll be finding anything worth big money since the odds are that most of the comics that are in the collection are random issues of no importance. That would be because the list is relatively short when you consider there were tens of thousands of different comics printed in these years. You might have noticed something while looking at our list of the 100 most valuable comics from the 1980s. That being said, what makes a 1980s comic valuable? Why are some 1980s comic books valuable, while over 99% have little to no value? The answer to that is simple: rarity and significance. The writers of that movie probably weren't referring to the comic book industry, because greed would make most comics worth little to nothing. The 1980s was a time when we got movies such as Wall Street, which proclaimed "greed is good".
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