Marvel has donated 300,000 comic books to a museum...in France. They said they wanted to share them with the public, so they gave them to a country that speaks a different language. Well, at least they can look at the pictures. Some of my friends never read the comics either.
The customs value was $300,000.
About a buck a book! I'd have given them 2 bucks for spiderman 1.

Will Eisner died at 87. He revolutionized comics with The Spirit, which was a weekly comic included with the newspaper. He also used drawings to move the story along without word balloons. During WW2 he drew cartoon characters to teach soldiers, including mechanic Joe Dope.
A lot of soldiers still know the name of Dope to this day.

Painter Kelly Freas is dead at 82. He helped refine the image of Alfred E. Neuman, and painted hundreds of Sci-Fi covers, including Queen's 1977 album News of the World. He had 11 Hugo Awards for Sci-Fi work.

I know these aren't movie stories. What? Me Worried?!

Hey, I have a few thousand comics taking up space in the basement - I'd be DEEE-lighted if I got a buck a piece for them!

I am only excited about these comics....Reprints from my youth...


January,19th, 2005
ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1
ISBN: 0-7851-1682-6
$16.99
568 Pages Trade Paperback B&W
Collects: Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man 1-31


Febuary, 16th, 2005
ESSENTIAL LUKE CAGE POWER MAN VOL. 1 TPB
ISBN: 0-7851-1685-0
$16.99
544 Pages Trade Paperback B&W 33
Collects: HERO FOR HIRE #1-16 and POWER MAN #17-27

March,09, 2005
ESSENTIAL DOCTOR STRANGE VOL. 2 TPB
ISBN: 0-7851-1668-0
$16.99
592 Pages Trade Paperback B&W 33
Collects: Doctor Strange #169-178 and #180-183, Avengers #61, Sub-Mariner #22, Incredible Hulk #126, Marvel Feature #1 (backup story), and Marvel Premiere #3-10 and #12-14



March 30th, 2005

ESSENTIAL TOMB OF DRACULA VOL. 4 TPB
ISBN: 0-7851-1709-1
$16.99
592 Pages Trade Paperback B&W
Collects: Stories from Tomb of Dracula Magazine #2 and #4-6; and Dracula Lives! #1-13

May 4th, 2005
ESSENTIAL HULK VOL. 3 TPB
ISBN: 0-7851-1689-3
$16.99
592 Pages Trade Paperback B&W
Collects: Incredible Hulk 118-142, Captain Marvel 20-21, Avengers 88
May, 18th, 2005
ESSENTIAL DEFENDERS VOL. 1 TPB
ISBN: 0-7851-1547-1
$16.99
544 Trade Paperback B&W
Collects: Doctor Strange 183, Sub-Mariner 22, 34-35, Hulk 126, Marvel Feature 1-3, Defenders 1-14, and Avengers 115-118

June 1st, 2005
ESSENTIAL THOR VOL. 2 TPB
ISBN: 0-7851-1591-9
$16.99
584 Trade Paperback B&W
Collects: Thor 113-126, Annual 1-2

June 22nd, 2005
ESSENTIAL Fantastic Four VOL. 4 TPB

June 29th, 2005
ESSENTIAL MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE TPB

July 27th, 2005
ESSENTIAL DAREDEVIL VOLUME 3 TPB

August 2005
ESSENTIAL X-MEN VOLUME 6 TPB

Black & white? Why not reprint the stories in color? Oh, man, that is not good...

Hey, I have a few thousand comics taking up space in the basement - I'd be DEEE-lighted if I got a buck a piece for them!
Same here, dude. None of the local shops are buying and the book value alone is prolly something like $15,000 as of two years ago. I'd be lucky to get a grand for them all, if even that! I'm going to consider donating them to a local kids group, possibly the Boy Scouts or Boys & Girls Club. I'd rather do that then just trash them all....

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Kids don't read these days, or play ball either.

They have become electronic zombies.

My son LOVES comic books. Once a month we take the trip a couple towns over and visit the Comic shop there. None of his friends collect comic books though, I remember the days where just about every boy had at least a couple comic books at home.

January,19th, 2005
ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1
ISBN: 0-7851-1682-6
$16.99
568 Pages Trade Paperback B&W
Collects: Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man 1-31


Yep, those are among the thousands in my basement.

I have all of the Black and White MArvel Essentials and I have read most of them. I know the characters so well that I really don't even see the Black and White.

at $5 a pop it gets expensive. Far cry from 15 cents

I've got 9 great big, long boxes containing 30 years of comic book collecting eating up space in 2 closets.
What really killed comic collecting for me was not only the increasingly violent nature and increasingly politically-correct slant of the writing, but the promise by GREEDY comic shop owners who would parrot the phrase, "it's GUARANTEED to go up in value! Buy 2 of 'em; one to read, and one for 'investment purposes'". What B.S.!!! Sure, an investment for HIM! You try selling back to the shop owner, and you'd be lucky to get "1/2 cover value for 'store credit' and then he puts the comic up for sale at the full Overstreet Guide price.
Capitalism is a best system and it succeeds where other systems fail miserably, but there IS such a thing as overdoing something. :mad: