Welcome to We Buy Comics, the online buying system of mycomicshop.com, the largest comic book retailer on the web. We make it easy to sell your comic books, and we pay higher prices than you'll find elsewhere.
There are two ways you can sell comics to us, both of which are easy to use and will pay you very competitive prices for your comic books:
| Want List Buying: Sell comics on our want list |
Collection Buying: Sell my entire collection |
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Choose this option if:
- Your comics are primarily from the period 1981 to present.
- You want to sell some comics but don't want to sell your entire collection, or you have only a small number of comics to sell.
- You are a retailer or dealer with excess inventory to sell.
- You want to use our Printable Want List and our Want List Buying system to buy comics at comic conventions or online (eBay, etc.) that you can then resell to us at a profit.
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Choose this option if:
- You are a collector wishing to sell your entire collection.
- Your collection includes comics from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, or a large number of comics (several hundred or more) from 1981 to present.
- You are a comic store and you want to sell a collection you've purchased or are thinking of buying. In the latter case, submit the collection summary, get our offer, then buy from the seller only if our offer gives you a satisfactory return.
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What We'll Buy
Our want list of comic books and graphic novels contains over 150,000 issues (including almost all issues published before 1981) and is updated daily as our inventory levels change. |
What We'll Buy
We will buy your entire collection, even issues not on our want list. Our preference is complete collections (not cherry-picked) consisting of mostly older comics from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, but collections of newer comics are also welcome. Please do not use this option to submit store overstocks and the like (lots of multiple copies, random issues).
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Your Payment Options
We pay 120% to twice as much in online store credit as we do in cash.
We are currently over our general cash buying budget. We are not buying any comics for cash, only trade credit. A new partial buying window will open on Friday, May 7 at 12:00 PM Central.
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Your Payment Options
We pay 120% to twice as much in online store credit as we do in cash.
All comics, regardless of year published, may be sold for either cash or credit via Collection Buying.
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Want List Buying: How It Works
- You record the comics that you want to sell using our easy online buying
system. For each issue, you will see if the issue is on our want list and how much we'll pay for the issue.
- You can review the comics you've recorded and choose which
ones you want to offer for sale.
- Submit your list of comics for sale.
- We will respond with an authorization for you to ship your comics. At this point, you will know our offer for all of your comics as you have graded them.
- You ship us your comics. You do not need to type a list of what you're sending; our system will generate a shipping invoice that you can print.
We receive and grade your comics. If our grading agrees with what you originally recorded, you will be paid the amount of our original offer. If any comics graded higher than what was originally recorded, you will be paid proportionally more. If any comics graded lower than what was originally recorded, you will have the option of either accepting a proportionally lower offer or having the comics securely packaged and shipped back to you.
Of the millions of comics (literally) we have bought through our online system, sellers have accepted our offer on 99.75% of all the comics shipped to us. We always sell comics at the same grade assigned when we bought the comic; you do not need to worry about us buying it from you at a lower grade and then selling it at a higher grade. For more information, see our feedback from sellers. Also, you can review our Recently Restocked Comics page, which lists comics we've recently added to our inventory.
- If you choose to be paid in cash, we'll mail you a check within two business days. If you would rather receive mycomicshop store credit, your credit will be issued to your mycomicshop account for immediate use.
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Collection Buying: A Quick Overview
- You send us a summary of your collection. The summary includes
questions about how many comics you have, their age, general condition, etc. It can be filled out in as little
as five minutes. If you already have a text file, Excel CSV spreadsheet, or some other document listing all the
comics in your collection, you may attach this document as part of your collection summary.
- We will review your collection summary, and then contact you via email or phone within three business days.
We will ask you to provide a complete list of your collection at this point. There's no grading required —
just list your titles and issues. Your collection may be submitted one of two ways:
- You may enter your comics into our collection recording page. Listing your comics is easy and quick.
Collections submitted in this way receive a firm offer within three business days. We recommend you
do so even if you have a list of your books.
- If you decline to enter your list via our system, you will need to provide an asking price during
your survey. We will not make a counter-offer, but if we refuse your offer you will be welcome to
resubmit your collection via our Want List Buying system.
- When we have agreed on a price, you will be prompted to ship us your books. If you entered your books into our
system, we will arrange for your shipping via UPS Ground or ground freight (within the continental US only).
- Once we receive your collection, we will verify the collection is as represented and send payment to you
within two business days. If you choose to be paid in cash, we'll mail you a check. If you would rather
receive mycomicshop store credit, your credit will be issued to your mycomicshop account for immediate use.
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Grading
When selling comics using Want List Buying, all items offered for sale must be graded. However,
if you are not familiar with comic grading or not confident in your grading abilities, you may record
your comics using the "typical grade." For every issue, the most common grade for that issue is
highlighted in green. If you're not sure of the grade, just pick the grade highlighted in green.
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Grading
When selling comics using Collection Buying, you do not need to individually grade your comics.
Your collection summary (takes about five minutes to fill out) will in most cases provide all the grading
information we need. If you have books graded by CGC, you will be able to note that fact, and we
will pay you full value based on the precise grade of the comic.
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Shipping: We pay you a shipping rebate
We will add a shipping rebate to your credit or cash total to compensate for the cost of shipping your
comics to us. Depending on what comics you're selling, the shipping rebate will cover some or may even
cover all of your shipping cost.
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Shipping: We can pay your full shipping cost
If you elect to record your collection into our system, we will prepay your shipping via UPS or ground freight.
If you send us a list and an asking price, we will reimburse you for half of your ground shipping costs. This offer
applies to the continental US only.
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