silveragestash

Appreciate the insight! Gives me a better idea of what can and can't be helped with pressing.

Curious if a pressing will help some of the issues. Still trying to learn what a good press will and won't do. Thanks! Avengers 6 Avengers 6 Untitled Untitled Untitled Untitled

Sorry, I should have specified comicspriceguide.com. I know that I would set the price with mycomicshop.

Appreciate that resource. Off hand do you happen to know how they update their prices? Using Avengers 6 as an example again, there seems to be a fairly significant difference between the graded copies of the two sites. Yep, they do have that option. At some point they do start charging a storage fee if it doesn't sell and you don't want to reduce the price. From what I gather (and please correct me if I'm wrong) grading skews towards the "cover appeal" of the comic. I'm hoping if I can find a local who can press, it may be worth it to get a better grade even if I do wind up submitting it raw. Likely wouldn't be cost effective if I had to have them mailed back and forth though.

I appreciate all the insight! There are a bunch that are no brainers for me to get cleaned up and graded, but there are some that are in this annoying middle ground. For example, Avengers 6. If it's a lower grade, we're looking at ~$200, up to a 4.5-5 you can add another $100 on that (I'm using GoCollect #s to determine value). To be fair though, those are just the prices for slabbed copies. If I send them in raw to mycomicshop, they'll assign them a grade (and I hear they are very conservative about it) so I may be missing out an some additional money if I don't get them cleaned and pressed (because the grade difference would potentially more than cover those fees). What's the typical price difference between a raw and slabbed comic? Am I looking at 25% less because it hasn't been entombed in plastic? And then, with Avengers 6 once again as the example, if it's determined to be a 6.0 and above $400 FMV I'll be shelling out an additional 40 bucks to get it graded when it isn't necessarily worth that much more. I do realize that I've asked a bit of an impossible question (and that I overthink everything). I guess I'm still trying to figure out that middle ground where putting any money into a book doesn't make sense because the return won't cover the money spent. Figuring out the ballpark grades as-is would probably help. As an aside, I've reached out to a few folks about cleaning and pressing. Still waiting to hear back from Joe at CFP because he's not too far away from me.

I'm in the process of going through my dad's stash of Silver Age comics. They hold little sentimental value to me, so I'm looking to maximize the amount of money I can get from them. Willing to do some leg work, but don't want this to consume my days. Looking for some advice on the best course of action. Right now, I'm planning on selling books valued under $100 on eBay as-is. I'll take some good pictures, add condition notes and let the auction gods do what they may. Books above that ranging towards the 1K range, I'm looking to get cleaned and pressed, but kept raw and consigned with one of the comic auction houses. Major keys I want to get cleaned, pressed and professionally graded, but haven't figured out the best venue to sell them. When it comes to cleaning and pressing, is there a minimum value that you guys would risk the process for? I'm hoping to get them pre-screened to some extent so I'm not wasting the time or money for negligible "grade" increases. Is it worth getting comics I'm keeping raw pressed? Should I lower my threshold for getting them professionally graded? I know that without sharing what I have, it may be tough to give the most accurate advice, but I'd love some general insight.