This shows you that these books are not rare.. unlike so many TH-camrs and whatnoters say. They printed millions of these books in the 90’s. I just went to Ollie’s discount… they had Jim Lee’s X-Men #1… all 4 different covers bundled into groups for sale for $4.99…. They had hundreds of these bundles.
3:00 As someone who had a store in the 90s this isn't how comics came to retail stores. It's not much different than today. What this looks like is one of the investors in the 90s. They would buy 10 of a book and put them in bags just like this collection. This is totally a 90s investor's collection.
I agree, I also had a comic shop in the 90's. Bagging them together was for easy trade with other dealers and the poor souls who thought they would make money from them in the future lol I remember dealers having stacks of X-Men 1 up to their knees, so many #1's you could probably fill the Grand Canyon.
Great deal! I noticed you pulled out Harbinger 1 1992, that sells for about a grand in 9.8. And some of those valiant gold comics from the 90's can sell fr a bit as well.
Those X-Men adventures are hot as hell right now!! I'm aware this is an older vid boss... just rewatching. Wizard 1 and 11 are literally my grails as I can't afford to go get my childhood back and remember them so fondly.... You hit a nice lick for 80 bucks!!!
Greatness video Brother! Thanks for videoing what you saw and what you paid for the books. You got all those books for $80!!!!! So that was $1 per book!!! I need to go there to get the glow in the dark covers you missed and the other hologram books you didn’t get that I saw: The Spectre, Nightstalkers, X-Factor hologram 1st Exodus, X-Force hologram, Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Man.
Wow bro just wow, I'm a new sub and I'm loving the show! This is the best haul for the price I've ever seen, I love the 90s comics and need so many of those! I spread the word on the awesome show🤘 Thanks
As a TH-cam channel comic book community builder..should you not have paid the seller (teenager) something closer to 30% of market value? Especially, on the multiple comic copies you grabbed, where I can only assume your goal is to resell? Was the purpose of this particular video to showcase how a grown man took advantage of a teenager because that is what it ended up being in my opinion. This is how adult resellers are killing the next generation of comic collectors and/or comic investors, by taking advantage of them. Don't get me wrong, resellers or collectors should never have to help sellers to their money, but in my opinion, as a TH-cam channel comic book community builder and as an adult dealing with a minor, you do have somewhat of a responsibility to do the right thing. Just my 2 cents
I don’t know anyone who pays what they personally value something at when their value is higher than the asking price. That would be an interesting world to live in, though. Sandwiches would be exclusively for multi millionaires.
Thanks for showing this! It’s amazing the amount of comic bins stashed away somewhere waiting to be unearthed. You gave him the best advice telling him to sell them at a comic con for a buck each! Btw those Image comics keep on turn up in many hauls! Lol
I'd have a tough time walking away from that collection without making an offer on everything. You grabbed some great stuff that I'm surprised was still there after so many others had presumably already gone through the collection. Too bad we didn't get more solid info on the origin of this collection, as that is just such a huge volume of books to come into possession of. Great selection of books you picked up though!
@@StickygooseI'd want to look at it obviously, but I'd probably be less than half of what he wanted. You've got to figure in the sorting, bags and boards, transportation, etc. if you plan to make any money back on it, which is the only reason I could see anyone buying it all.
This kid didn’t care about these comics…. So telling for that generation. He knew a bunch of middle aged men would give him cash for this stuff. Good work on the Wizards. I used to have a subscription to that until they went under. Great reading material in the bathroom. Wished I had kept them in good shape. Many ended up just getting thrown away. Love looking thru old Wizards to relive when the industry was booming and exciting.
Pretty sure I saw the facebook listing for this. Gotta say, it had pretty much the type of stuff I expected. Glad you could still find some stuff worth taking. Goes to show the deeper you go in this hobby, the more meat you can find on the bone when picking through collections.
Wow, when I saw the boxes (all beat up and stained) I thought this must be an older collection, then all I see are 90's books. Would be a great collection for someone who owns a store and needs to fill spaces in their bin stock. I don't believe selling them at a con would be advantageous, he would need to sell all of them to make any kind of profit given what tables cost at these cons, best bet would be a garage sale, flea market or a local comic show where it is cheaper to be a vendor. separate them into $1, $2 & $5 (if there are any) boxes.
You touched on it a little bit but it's something which I see often when it comes to this era of comics. There are HORDES of these books out there, most of which haven't seen the light of day. There should be no book from this era even worth cover price, period. For all the Spawn, Venom, whatever issues, from any of the major publishers, these things were printed in the 100's of thousands or millions of copies, never read, stored away. Every time I see some 9.8 wahoo pay some ridiculous price for a Spawn #1, I just slap my head. The day that issue went on sale, I was at a comic shop in Chicago and they had ordered/received some stupid number of copies, 10's of thousands. At that one shop I bet they sold more copies of Spawn #1 than there are current collectors. Why anyone would pay anything for that comic today is beyond me. And that goes for everything else sold for about a 10 year period. The only people who think these issues are "worth" anything, are the ones sitting on a 100 copies. This is a second wave of speculators, the first being the initial buyers of these books 30 years ago, who are going to get burned I'm afraid.
Yeah… Diamond used to have a distribution center in southern Illinois near St. Louis. Apparently much of the overstock is still sitting in some guy’s warehouse. I know a dealer who went down and bought several unopened cases of Venom Lethal Protector # 1…. He sold them for $25 a pop.
You got somr great books but i do think yoj could gaven given that kid $200 for all those books and if it wasn't a kid's comics,i would say you got a steal but i am guessing Batman Adventures#12,New Mutants#98,AMS#361, X-Men#266, X-Men#4 had already been taken?
Why didn't you offer to buy the whole lot. Maybe not $6500. Maybe you could have offered a couple hundred for everything. But your right.. he should take it to a comic book show and sell everything.
Pick it clean, that's what happens when a person doesn't spend any time in sorting out the books, sharks come in and "Pick It Clean", it's all wrong on all accounts.
An example at 9:26 he looks like he's going through them carefully enough. I mean he said he was pressed for time and what kind of handling did you expect for each issue, some sort of slow motion reverence for each comic? Infact please tell me how you would go through each comic on a limited time for 20+ long boxes? I'm serious I would like to know.
Only a comic youtuber would complain about being "sore" froms flipping thru books. Lol. Secondly, with thousands and thousands of books to go thru, it was pretty disappointing to hear you focus on what you didnt find. Or talk about books you felt "SHOULD'VE" been there. I don't agree with ever saying something should be there when it's a random collection. Not trying to come off like a prick but, those speaking points were odd. And I generally like most of your videos.
I would have advised that kid to just hold on to the books until he finishes college and has some time to carefully sell them at local comic swaps. The first people he allowed in to pick, he should have said it was $20-$50 per book until he starts seeing people take less, then he could lower it a little. Kid really messed up IMHO.
This shows you that these books are not rare.. unlike so many TH-camrs and whatnoters say. They printed millions of these books in the 90’s. I just went to Ollie’s discount… they had Jim Lee’s X-Men #1… all 4 different covers bundled into groups for sale for $4.99…. They had hundreds of these bundles.
Death of Superman isn't rare it was overprinted
Seriously!? Damn
3:00 As someone who had a store in the 90s this isn't how comics came to retail stores. It's not much different than today. What this looks like is one of the investors in the 90s. They would buy 10 of a book and put them in bags just like this collection. This is totally a 90s investor's collection.
I agree, I also had a comic shop in the 90's. Bagging them together was for easy trade with other dealers and the poor souls who thought they would make money from them in the future lol I remember dealers having stacks of X-Men 1 up to their knees, so many #1's you could probably fill the Grand Canyon.
If you had have worn your “strap-on” in a teenage boy’s bedroom, Chris Hansen would’ve been in the kitchen about to ask you to have a seat.
Bahahahahaha you win
Lmao the bait with the wife. I love it! Great work.
Catfish
Great haul! Would love to layback with a beer and read those all of those.
Wish I didn’t stop drinking
Great video! Awesome Hall! Awesome! Price really good
Great deal! I noticed you pulled out Harbinger 1 1992, that sells for about a grand in 9.8. And some of those valiant gold comics from the 90's can sell fr a bit as well.
right.....didn't see that in the bought pile. wonder if he kept that one close to the vest
What an absolute treasure it would be to go through all this! Congrats 👏
Those X-Men adventures are hot as hell right now!! I'm aware this is an older vid boss... just rewatching. Wizard 1 and 11 are literally my grails as I can't afford to go get my childhood back and remember them so fondly....
You hit a nice lick for 80 bucks!!!
A few years back I found a Wizard #1 for a dollar not near mint but all pages intact.
Great cover imo
I want all of those 90s comics. I am also a 40-year-old man with thinning hair. Bet you couldn’t have guessed that!
19 but I’ll get their one day💯
Poor kid, just the Wizards 1 alone are more than $80. You would think he would have some idea of what he had.
Thanks for posting & telling the backstory to the collection, very interesting.
Great deal on those books. I would buy a Wizard 1 for 40 myself.
Greatness video Brother! Thanks for videoing what you saw and what you paid for the books. You got all those books for $80!!!!! So that was $1 per book!!! I need to go there to get the glow in the dark covers you missed and the other hologram books you didn’t get that I saw: The Spectre, Nightstalkers, X-Factor hologram 1st Exodus, X-Force hologram, Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Man.
Oh I’m sure I missed a lot only there 2 hours
$80??? 😮 That’s a heck of deal💯
Yup….
I think $80 is a great deal! That’s all from exactly when I was collecting as a kid, so many comics there I used to have. Great video!
Thank you!
You're lucky Chris Hansen didn't come out when you got there.
I was waiting for him
You killed it here… this kinda makes up for the slabs purchase.
The last couple of issues of The Maxx are pretty rare and go for a few bucks.
They may have been in there
Wow bro just wow, I'm a new sub and I'm loving the show! This is the best haul for the price I've ever seen, I love the 90s comics and need so many of those! I spread the word on the awesome show🤘 Thanks
welcome aboard the garbage truck on fire
As a TH-cam channel comic book community builder..should you not have paid the seller (teenager) something closer to 30% of market value?
Especially, on the multiple comic copies you grabbed, where I can only assume your goal is to resell? Was the purpose of this particular video to showcase how a grown man took advantage of a teenager because that is what it ended up being in my opinion.
This is how adult resellers are killing the next generation of comic collectors and/or comic investors, by taking advantage of them.
Don't get me wrong, resellers or collectors should never have to help sellers to their money, but in my opinion, as a TH-cam channel comic book community builder and as an adult dealing with a minor, you do have somewhat of a responsibility to do the right thing.
Just my 2 cents
Totally agree..... This StickyGoose guy is a jerk.
I don’t know anyone who pays what they personally value something at when their value is higher than the asking price. That would be an interesting world to live in, though. Sandwiches would be exclusively for multi millionaires.
80?!?! Very nice.
My heart would have been pounding the whole time 😂
I was definitely motivated in there haha
Yeah Je needs to sell them as runs and groups like you said 10 for 8 etc. Still some small good stuff in that collection
I agree
It was crazy to watch you thumb through those comics. 92-92 is mostly what I have myself. Also, CRAZY you got all that for $80!!!!
I know you’re going by quick, and I thought I saw some early Valiant in there. I believe some have appreciated in value.
I probably missed it
Yup! Up from 25 cents to 50 cents lol
Thanks for showing this! It’s amazing the amount of comic bins stashed away somewhere waiting to be unearthed. You gave him the best advice telling him to sell them at a comic con for a buck each! Btw those Image comics keep on turn up in many hauls! Lol
Can’t get away from them
U gave the kid some great advice. I would have done the same.
A bedroom full of dollar comics. Oh boy.
I'd have a tough time walking away from that collection without making an offer on everything. You grabbed some great stuff that I'm surprised was still there after so many others had presumably already gone through the collection. Too bad we didn't get more solid info on the origin of this collection, as that is just such a huge volume of books to come into possession of. Great selection of books you picked up though!
What would you offer him he wants to sell it all
@@StickygooseI'd want to look at it obviously, but I'd probably be less than half of what he wanted. You've got to figure in the sorting, bags and boards, transportation, etc. if you plan to make any money back on it, which is the only reason I could see anyone buying it all.
I'd still happily take that collection, I'd complete so many runs.
Great Video. Where was this sale located?
West Virginia
This kid didn’t care about these comics…. So telling for that generation. He knew a bunch of middle aged men would give him cash for this stuff. Good work on the Wizards. I used to have a subscription to that until they went under. Great reading material in the bathroom. Wished I had kept them in good shape. Many ended up just getting thrown away. Love looking thru old Wizards to relive when the industry was booming and exciting.
I was paging through the prices haha crazy
Wow.
Pretty sure I saw the facebook listing for this. Gotta say, it had pretty much the type of stuff I expected. Glad you could still find some stuff worth taking. Goes to show the deeper you go in this hobby, the more meat you can find on the bone when picking through collections.
It was still fun digging
Wow, when I saw the boxes (all beat up and stained) I thought this must be an older collection, then all I see are 90's books. Would be a great collection for someone who owns a store and needs to fill spaces in their bin stock. I don't believe selling them at a con would be advantageous, he would need to sell all of them to make any kind of profit given what tables cost at these cons, best bet would be a garage sale, flea market or a local comic show where it is cheaper to be a vendor. separate them into $1, $2 & $5 (if there are any) boxes.
I'm sure the father went through everything and took all the good stuff 😅😂
Meteor man №1 was in the dr.dre rapsheet
$80!! The young man definitely did not know or care about what he had.
He couldn’t have cared less
@@Stickygoose if he does not care why even take the books . Clutter up his room and having strangers coming in his house. Just crazy
Any chance you’d be selling any of those Maxx or Savage Dragons?
selling all of them message me on Instagram or email
You touched on it a little bit but it's something which I see often when it comes to this era of comics. There are HORDES of these books out there, most of which haven't seen the light of day. There should be no book from this era even worth cover price, period. For all the Spawn, Venom, whatever issues, from any of the major publishers, these things were printed in the 100's of thousands or millions of copies, never read, stored away. Every time I see some 9.8 wahoo pay some ridiculous price for a Spawn #1, I just slap my head. The day that issue went on sale, I was at a comic shop in Chicago and they had ordered/received some stupid number of copies, 10's of thousands. At that one shop I bet they sold more copies of Spawn #1 than there are current collectors. Why anyone would pay anything for that comic today is beyond me. And that goes for everything else sold for about a 10 year period. The only people who think these issues are "worth" anything, are the ones sitting on a 100 copies. This is a second wave of speculators, the first being the initial buyers of these books 30 years ago, who are going to get burned I'm afraid.
This is just one of these collections imagine how many more are out there
Yeah… Diamond used to have a distribution center in southern Illinois near St. Louis. Apparently much of the overstock is still sitting in some guy’s warehouse. I know a dealer who went down and bought several unopened cases of Venom Lethal Protector # 1…. He sold them for $25 a pop.
Wow dude what a find, my goodness.
Thanks vp
I'd be interested in a Spawn/Wizard mag if you are selling them. Are you posting any of them for sale in IG or something?
Message me on Instagram please
You got somr great books but i do think yoj could gaven given that kid $200 for all those books and if it wasn't a kid's comics,i would say you got a steal but i am guessing Batman Adventures#12,New Mutants#98,AMS#361, X-Men#266, X-Men#4 had already been taken?
Yea there was nothing like that in there
Hey... I'm trying to buy one of those X-men Adventures and Wizard books. How much?
Message me on instagram
Love wizard #1.. can I buy one from you?
great deal - congrats!
I think so too!
SG was this near Huntington?
No
I was trying to buy this collection.
80 $ za ile sztuk ?
niesamowita kolekcja ciekawe ile by chciał za wszystkie ?
pozdrawiam z Polski 👍👍
Why didn't you offer to buy the whole lot. Maybe not $6500. Maybe you could have offered a couple hundred for everything. But your right.. he should take it to a comic book show and sell everything.
Hell Im in Harrison County. I would've loved to have cherry picked some of those dupes
Scared of garage sale jump starts me collecting Comics again I don't have room for that s***🤣🤣🤣
Are any up for sale yet?
Message me on instagram
I only buy silver age. No point buying 80's and 90's comics at close to the same price as many silver age, key issues or not.
These books came from a shop. Most definitely. I've seen this before.
Crazy to see in person
Comics was overpriced not everyone sends to cgg
So glad i found your page. Really enjoy the content. Did you say you were from WV? Im in WV myself is why I'm asking
Yup born and raised
The gold 1st Bishop's are worth getting.
Yea I should have gotten more of those I messed up
@@Stickygoose Up here in MI long boxes trade hands a lot. I myself would've made an offer for the lot.
Pick it clean, that's what happens when a person doesn't spend any time in sorting out the books, sharks come in and "Pick It Clean", it's all wrong on all accounts.
i see you passing up all kinds of stuff 😜
Oh I’m sure
I have some dark horse starwars comics but I want too face value.
I've been collecting my whole life how does a kid at this age get this.
I think he got it for free
😮I bet he probably has sold all of those books at that price per lot
$ 80 Dollars. That was a great deal.
I thought so too
I love the way people look through comics, rough as hell, its not theirs, lets treat em like shit! 😅
It’s 2x speed but ok
@@Stickygoose “but ok” 😂 its not just you, i see all collectors do it
9:14 o_o
An example at 9:26 he looks like he's going through them carefully enough. I mean he said he was pressed for time and what kind of handling did you expect for each issue, some sort of slow motion reverence for each comic?
Infact please tell me how you would go through each comic on a limited time for 20+ long boxes? I'm serious I would like to know.
That's a shame only $80.
👍👍👍
What did he pay for it all? It feels like this kid just has no personal interest in comics and thought he'd make a quick turn around on it all.
$80???!!! WOW
Walked into the 14 year Olds room. Not wearing my strap on..... lmao. Had to say something.
Yea… sorry bout that
So your telling me multiple men have traveled multiple miles to meet a young 14 year old boy hmmm if the fbi hears this there will be some questions
Aliens was mid 80s
Only a comic youtuber would complain about being "sore" froms flipping thru books. Lol. Secondly, with thousands and thousands of books to go thru, it was pretty disappointing to hear you focus on what you didnt find. Or talk about books you felt "SHOULD'VE" been there. I don't agree with ever saying something should be there when it's a random collection. Not trying to come off like a prick but, those speaking points were odd. And I generally like most of your videos.
Lmao and none of the other “talking points” in my videos bothered you hahaha
Ugh this video was insufferable. Ffs just annoying to hear someone bitch about everything they didn’t get.
Lol...no. There have been some others that I've spoken on as well. Actually, I should say I've commented on. One I remember vividly.
you catfished a 14 year old? understandable hahaha
that was the word I was looking for
🤣@@Stickygoose
Insane pickup OMG😊
For real
Y not buy all
Didn’t want it all
A kid at that age????
strap on??? sounds highly inappropriate! :)
It is
second
I would have advised that kid to just hold on to the books until he finishes college and has some time to carefully sell them at local comic swaps.
The first people he allowed in to pick, he should have said it was $20-$50 per book until he starts seeing people take less, then he could lower it a little.
Kid really messed up IMHO.
He’s holding that gold venom lethal protector which is good
i would never let a stranger into my kids room. maybe the garage but hell no not the bedrooms. this was awkward to even watch.
Sorry bout that
lol yeah wtf kinda shit. And they left him alone in there
you ripped them off dude dam !
Thank you very much