This reminds me of that show "Pawn Stars", have you seen it? Some of the people that show up in there are SO delusional. Those guys have absolutely no problem laughing the dumbasses out of the store, though. It's awesome. >:}
I've seen a few episodes. So interesting! I remember seeing one where a guy came in with a big box of 80's comics, and they had to inform him that his books weren't worth a crap. XD
And the boss I mentioned in the comment below was on Pawn Stars when he went to Vegas to get married a month ago. The episode is called Fortune in Flames, and he was the one at the end selling the pistol.
Some 80's comics are! I had an 80'a X-Men that (when I sold it a few years ago) was hovering around $30 in NM. (I forget the issue number, but it's one with Wolverine, Captain America and Black Widow on the cover. Oddly enough, you can see the same issue for a few seconds in Weird Al's White & Nerdy video.)
... Actually, now that I think about it, that issue may be from '90 or '91...
The only golden age books I have are only worth about $8 each, but they also aren't anything spectacular. They're actually golden age/silver age borderline books ('59 and '60), so maybe that explains it.
Though I was a dumb as a kid and sold a huge carton of my father's comics (mostly from '58 through '61) for about $300. I figured that, by that time, comics would stop going up in price because everyone knew they were valuable and stop throwing them out. So I decided to unload them figuring they'd never be worth more. This was 1992. I was very, very wrong. As a reference, Action Comics #1 was listed in Overstreet around $21,000. (I remember discussing that with the kid who bought the comics from me, it's the only reason I remember the price. He said $21,000 was unrealistic for a comic book and it was 'impossible' to stay that high, and would eventually drop by at least 60%. He was really, really wrong too.)
This reminds me of that show "Pawn Stars", have you seen it? Some of the people that show up in there are SO delusional. Those guys have absolutely no problem laughing the dumbasses out of the store, though. It's awesome. >:}
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... Actually, now that I think about it, that issue may be from '90 or '91...
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Then again, it's very relative. When you spend your days handling Golden Age books, $30 isn't much at all.
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Though I was a dumb as a kid and sold a huge carton of my father's comics (mostly from '58 through '61) for about $300. I figured that, by that time, comics would stop going up in price because everyone knew they were valuable and stop throwing them out. So I decided to unload them figuring they'd never be worth more. This was 1992. I was very, very wrong. As a reference, Action Comics #1 was listed in Overstreet around $21,000. (I remember discussing that with the kid who bought the comics from me, it's the only reason I remember the price. He said $21,000 was unrealistic for a comic book and it was 'impossible' to stay that high, and would eventually drop by at least 60%. He was really, really wrong too.)
Boy, I talk a lot, don't I?
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