Some ebay sales figures for first issues of UK comics

[-MikeD-]

Mike, you are going to hate me but I got my copy for less than £30 and that was five years ago. Every copy I saw at the time was going for £50 plus, but I had set a ceiling (at the time) of no more than £30 and while it took over two years, I did eventually buy my copy at my target price.

I must have been looking for around five years and, yeah, every copy seems to have a silly price. Maybe I should up my limit..?

I'm pretty sure I got my copy of the Action book when it was remaindered for about a pound. That was a few years ago though.

Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that...!

- Phil R.

Lucky b....!

[colcool007]

I'm pretty sure I got my copy of the Action book when it was remaindered for about a pound. That was a few years ago though.

Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that...!

- Phil R.

Mike, I'll hold him down while you pummel him!

Until the net came along, I was unaware that the book had even been published, so I can't complain. However, I am still surprised that I never saw it on my many visits to Forbidden Planet at the time.

However to show the vagaries of selling online, I bought my copy of Commando issue 217 for less than the price of a brand new Commando. Whereas, the last time I saw one for sale, it went for over £10! So the moral of the story is have your budget and stick to it rigidly.

[philcom55]

Like the copy of Commando no.2 I picked up for 50p a few months ago.

...Or did I already mention that?

- Phil (smug) R.

[Tin Can Tommy]

On a related note (about US comics not UK) the first issue of Action comics sold for over $2 million(£1.4 million) the prices for american comics are much higher than for british ones I doubt a british comic has ever sold much more than £20,000 which is 70 times less.

[colcool007]

On a related note (about US comics not UK) the first issue of Action comics sold for over $2 million(£1.4 million) the prices for american comics are much higher than for british ones I doubt a british comic has ever sold much more than £20,000 which is 70 times less.

Compal has done so with either a No 1 Beano or Dandy.

[klakadak-ploobadoof]

The first 3 issues of Sparky, all looking fine on the pictures, complete with their unused free gifts sold yesterday for £544.00

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300633665939? ... 1423.l2649

[matrix]

2000AD No 1 with free gift, described as like new but with minor wear due to age, eg a small tear and browning! Just sold 171 pounds.

Cor 1 and 3 in good condition 32 pounds.

[felneymike]

Volume 1 of The Captain for £31.01

Mind you, this is volume 1, the first six months bound as a hardback book. I've only ever seen 3 individual Captain issues for sale as they would have originally appeared. Being bound into hardback books helps to preserve them rather well, it's the same with Chums and Chatterbox. The 3 C's that are an easy route into collecting early 20th century story papers!

[David McDonald]

The classifieds in Comics International was a great place for hard to get items, I bought the Action book and the Hawke Trigan Empire for around a fiver each.

David

[tony ingram]

2000AD No 1 with free gift, described as like new but with minor wear due to age, eg a small tear and browning! Just sold 171 pounds.

I bought 2000AD #1, #2, #4 and #5 for 10p each from a cardboard box outside a second hand bookshop in Crystal Palace in about 1992.

[matrix]

2000AD No 1 with free gift, described as like new but with minor wear due to age, eg a small tear and browning! Just sold 171 pounds.

I bought 2000AD #1, #2, #4 and #5 for 10p each from a cardboard box outside a second hand bookshop in Crystal Palace in about 1992.

I would call that a good find Tony. Condition ok?

[tony ingram]

2000AD No 1 with free gift, described as like new but with minor wear due to age, eg a small tear and browning! Just sold 171 pounds.

I bought 2000AD #1, #2, #4 and #5 for 10p each from a cardboard box outside a second hand bookshop in Crystal Palace in about 1992.

I would call that a good find Tony. Condition ok?

Pretty much perfect. No creases or tears, not even noticeably yellowed. All four of them were in pretty good nick. In fact, my copy of #3 is in worse condition, and I paid about £15 for that from Silver Acre.

[alanultron5]

Well! I'm glad I no longer hold the record for Sparky No1 and gift! Records are made to be broken y' know!

[philcom55]

I bought 2000AD #1, #2, #4 and #5 for 10p each from a cardboard box outside a second hand bookshop in Crystal Palace in about 1992.

That's nothing. I bought the first three issues complete with free gifts for just 8p each from a little paper shop in Manchester!

...Mind you, that was in 1977!

- Phil Rushton

[Shiner]

Whoops - I posted my previous message to the wrong thread. It should have been to the one on Comics bought Today. Al & co - can you repost it? Cheers, Shiner

{It's not actually off-topic really here! - A}