I was wondering if any of you guys buy/sell silver-age comics at all?
Quite a few years ago I used to buy a lot of key comics (mainly Marvel but quite a few DC and indie stuff too) and have a few long boxes full of stuff that's just been sitting there gathering dust. Im tempted to start selling them off individually and wondered whether I should go down the route of sending some of them off to CGC to be graded. I'm still part of several comic facebook groups (not that I use the platform much anymore) and im staggered by how much the prices have shot up. I have a few CGC comics that I bought on the second-hand market but have never sent anything off myself and wondered how easy/expensive it is? Is it worth the upfront cost typically?
As some examples of first appearances, I have Black Panther, Jessica Jones, Mysterio, Gwen Stacey & Harry Osbourne, Venom cameo, Sinister Six, Taskmaster, X-Factor, Rogue, Bullseye, Electra, Black Bolt/Inhumans, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Carol Danvers Captain Marvel, Star Lord, The New Mutants, Spider-woman, Miles Morales as Spider-man, Scorpion, Black Widow, Sharon Carter, Apocalypse, Blob, Gambit.
Other 'keys' include the death of Gwen Stacey, first appearance of the black spider-man suit, death of Baron Zemo, death of Elektra, origin of Adam Warlock, death of Kang the Conquerer, death of Spider-man and Green Goblin, first appearance of Thor's Stormbreaker, 3rd appearance and origin of Blade, death of Pheonix/Jean Grey, death of Colossus.
I THINK some of these have some good value to them from what I have seen, but I would need to weigh up the potential increase that they would gain if I were to send them off to CGC.
Cheers