Reasons to Sell Your Comic Books to mycomicshop
1. Get a better price with less effort.
For older comics, we pay a competitive percentage of current price guide prices. For modern era comics, 1970s to current, we generally pay two to five times what you'll be offered at other comic stores or what you could get by selling on auction sites like eBay.
Selling on eBay
If you sell on eBay, you can either sell your comics as a group or sell them individually. Selling your comics as a group is less work, but you will generally make less money because most potential buyers won't want all the issues in the group. You can make more money selling your comics individually, but doing so takes considerably more work: scanning, grading, describing, posting, and shipping each one to a different buyer.
Selling to your local comic store, used book store, or antique store
Selling to a local shop is often the easiest option; you go in, they make you an offer, you're done. But the down-side is that you usually won't get a very good price for your back issues. Most local retailers have a very limited market for older comics. In order to find a buyer, they'll have to resell to a comic dealer or resell on eBay, where sales are often low due to bargain hunting, unreliable grading, and poor visibility. With this business model, they cannot afford to offer you a very good price for your comics.
Selling to mycomicshop: best price for the least effort
When you sell to us, you only have to deal with one buyer, and all you have to do is list your comics using our easy online system. We can offer you a significantly better price than you would get from a seller operating in a more limited market because we provide trusted single-source online shopping to thousands of comic book buyers world-wide.
Our advice: get another offer before using our system
If you are not familiar with the current comic book market, we recommend that you get at least one offer from a comic retailer, used book store, or antique dealer in your area so that you will have something to compare with our offer. Without other offers, you will have no way of being sure our offer is significantly better.
Here are some comments from comic book sellers who took our advice and got another offer for their comic books before deciding to go with us:
Buddy, When I decided to sell my comic collection, my wife and I spent a lot of time browsing the web to find sites that buy comic books. There are a lot of them out there, but we finally decided to go with yours because it looked so professional, and seemed really upfront about everything. We even took your advice and asked around at local comics shops first, to get an idea of what the books were worth. From the ho-hum responses (and of course they wanted to pick them over instead of taking the whole collection), we decided to send them on down to you. Boy are we glad we did! --James S. from Missouri
Gentlemen, I followed your advice when I decided to sell my comics and went to three other stores in my area. While there was interest in some of my comics, there was little interest in my entire collection. I must say that your offer was by far the best. As a matter of fact, your offer was just over three times my local offers. Your evaluation was very much in line with what I received here, but your offer was much better. I didn't have to haggle or offer some of my books to sell others. You made this real easy. Thank you for your honesty in your evaluations. I see that there is a great deal of integrity within your organization. In an era of false advertising, it is hard to know who to trust. It is good to see someone you can rely on to mean what they say. Thanks again for making this easy for me. --Mike S. from New Jersey
I wholeheartedly endorse webuycomics.com as the way to go if you are looking for an efficient way to sell your comic collection for a great price. I had about 1000 comics from the 60's which I wanted to sell. I wasted a LOT of time on Ebay trying to do something myself and then saw Buddy's buy/trade system and felt it was the way to go. Just to be sure, I took a stack of comics and ran them thru his cart system and approximated that they would be worth $1,200 to him. I then took the same comics to a dealer in New York which is close to me. After looking thru them, he offered me $600 (and with the attitude that he was doing me a favor). I sent the same comics to Buddy and got the $1,200.00, the first of several sales I made to mycomicshop.com. The payments are sent super-fast and it is just a pleasure doing business with this outfit. I have received more than I had even hoped for when I was planning on doing the Ebay grunt work! Buddy is definitely the way to go. --Mike R. from Connecticut
I gotta tell you, you're pretty much going to be the only person I sell to in the future. Your offer came in about $200 over the next highest offer when I sent you the Amazing Spider-Man books last month, and you offered $300 more than the other four folks I talked to regarding this latest grouping. So, yes, I will more than happily accept your offer of $1,177.25 for my Golden Age lot. I also have a few friends who I know are thinking of selling their books as well and I will definitely guide them in your direction. As always, a pleasure doing business with you. --Jon D. from California
2. We'll give you a preliminary offer before you even ship your comics.
The buying prices shown on our web site are offer estimates, calculated by our proprietary price analysis software which reviews our own sales, sales in other markets, and in comic book price guides. Please note that when submitting CGC, PGX, restored, or autographed comics, our final offer price will be higher or lower as a reflection of these factors.
When you submit any comic for an offer (but before you actually ship to us), we may in some cases offer more or less than the preliminary offer estimate you see on our web site. Once we've replied with a firm offer (subject only to adjust due to a grade change), you may then send your comics for grade evaluation and a final offer based on that grading. Assuming your grading is in accordance with the commonly held standard (and thus is much the same as how we will grade your comics), what we will pay for your comics will be very much the same as our original pre-grading offer price.
Please note that in instances where a comic lot is submitted with grading that is atypically high for comics in the years offered, we may request that you send several front and back cover scans so that we may verify that the comics will likely grade within the grade range offered.
After we receive your comics, if the grades agree with the original grade estimates then you will be paid the amount originally offered when we approved your transaction to ship to us. If the final grades are higher or lower than what was originally estimated, you will be offered proportionally more or less.
No other system provides the seller such an option—the ability to receive a firm offer that can then be compared to others offers, all before shipping your comics to us.
Our grading standards follow commonly accepted industry standards for grading comics.
3. We share or pay all the shipping costs.
For comics published prior to 1981, a shipping rebate will be added to the amount we pay you that will cover most or all of your shipping costs. For newer items, we pay a portion of the shipping cost. Shipping rebates are based on item value.
4. We can be trusted with your comics.
Mycomicshop.com and webuycomics.com are the web sites of Lone Star Comics, a chain of seven comic book stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We opened our first store in 1977. Our owner, Buddy Saunders, has been collecting and buying and trading comics since 1961.
We have a longstanding reputation for fairness and reliability. We are listed with the Better Business Bureau and Dun and Bradstreet. On mycomicshop.com, we stock the largest selection of comics in the world, a selection we've been able to build because we pay very competitive prices and pay promptly. Every year thousands of individuals and comic stores turn to us when they are ready to sell comics. We have many sellers who are up to their 50th, 100th or even 500th transaction with us. Please read some of the great feedback from sellers that we have received.
