What comic to you is worth your entire collection? 3 3

[creaturefan95]

If you could trade all the comics you own for just one book, what would it be?

[Dick Pontoon]

There isn't one. I've been building my collection since 1975, with some years off in between. While I imagine at some point when old age approaches I'll sell so as not to burden my family, there isn't any single book I'd dump them all for.

[punksdropdirtysrh]

Same for me...nothing comes to mind.  Plus I don’t think my whole collection is worth any book I’d want that badly. If I want a big book I just save up for it, I rarely sell or trade. 

[mackenzie999]

My collection is fairly modest, mainly mid-grade silver keys (ToS 39, Avengers 4 being the highlights). I'd trade them all for a nice FF1, which was the one book I really wanted but never got my hands on during my first phase of collecting comics when I was a kid. Now that I'm married with a kid approaching college and a mortgage, I don't see myself ever dropping much money on comics again but it would be very cool to finally get one of those.

Edited November 30, 2017 by Mackenzie999

[Shawnismaximus]

Amazing Fantasy 15

[MustEatBrains]

Tec 27 2.5 - 3.0 Blue Label.  Man it would sure clean up some space!

[comicjack]

2 minutes ago, MustEatBrains said:

Tec 27 2.5 - 3.0 Blue Label.  Man it would sure clean up some space!

[ThreeSeas]

I also would not want to give up my collection for just one comic. There are just too many stories that I am going to revisit and to trade all of them for one comic is just unthinkable to me. Sure, my whole collection probably could not buy an AF15 or any other rarity, but to me it is worth more than any one comic.

[slg343]

I am downsizing and would give up most of my collection for high grade Hulk 1.

[Cocomonkey]

I mean...

2 hours ago, creaturefan95 said:

If you could trade all the comics you own for just one book, what would it be?

You didn't say it had to be a fair trade...so I would trade my entire collection for an Action 1, preferably 9.0. I could then pretty easily sell that and not only rebuild my collection, but complete it in entirely 9.8s.

[punksdropdirtysrh]

Oh well if it doesn’t have to be a fair trade then...Detective Comics 35 NM 

[FineCollector]

No one comic could replace my collection.  I feel bad for anyone who has a collection they care so little about that they'd trade it all away.

[FN-2199]

Maybe a New Mutants 98 CGC 9.9 because "there will never be another like it" 

[Comicdey]

I assume your talking a fair trade.   I might be tempted to trade out a lot of value for a decent Marve Mystery 1 or Captain America 3, but more realistically I’ll just find one of those at a garage sale and keep what I have too ?

[Robot Man]

I have put my collection together carefully most of my life. There are so many books I could probably never find again to replace if I wanted to. Most of the big keys are pretty readily available if I had enough money. I wouldn't do it...

[NoMan]

Yeah, I guess I would go for a truly rare GA book that could sell for serious coin easily when I was ready to cash out. You know Action #1, Detective #27 in great condition. 

I'd just do TBP to read the comics I wanted to read that currently take up spec in boxes in my closet. 

[Mercury Man]

Action Comics #1.  Then I would sell it and start all over again.  

[oakman29]

4 hours ago, FineCollector said:

No one comic could replace my collection.  I feel bad for anyone who has a collection they care so little about that they'd trade it all away.

Exactly.  I can't imagine all the time,effort, love that has gone into it for one book.

[Bird]

I am a comic art collector who dabbles in comics, but I thought long and hard about  a decade ago about selling all of my art to finance one Ditko Dr Strange page. I figured at the time that I had about 950 pieces of art and that I could conceivably, over considerable time, sell them off and buy one Ditko page. IIRC that was about $50K at the time. I decided against it but decided to do a smaller version and sell it all until I had 50 choice pieces, really cherce pieces, left. I got down to about 250 and have stalled out there while I play in the comics pool for a while.

[atomised]

More Schomburg covers to look at it is good a good rule to live by so I can't see doing a less is more approach.  I don't see a one ring to rule them all book out there, like the 52 Mantle Topps card is - towering above everything ever printed in that hobby.