View market values for books, store your collection, and meet fellow comic fans. Top 100 most valuable comic books of the golden age 19381956 the 100 most valuable comic books from each age. This is 1 trade paper back that has the 2 highly valued marvel comics super special magazine size comics on 1 place, for a very cheap price. Kiss comic books 2002 series all regular issues are out of stock. Classics illustrated comic books began during world war ii and endured until 1971, running a total of 169 issues. What is the value of a pane of 1995 comic strip classics. Get the best deals on silver age classics illustrated comics when you shop the largest online selection at. Kiss comic books 2012 series all regular issues are out of stock.
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What is the value of a pane of 1995 comic strip classics stamps. The minimum price is not a real reflection of market value. View market values for books, store your collection, and meet fellow. How to price classic illustrated comics our pastimes. Created by albert kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1969, producing 169 issues. Following the series demise, various companies reprinted its titles. Oct 25, 2016 unmasked was most definitely not a kiss comic, and many fans didnt consider it to be much of a kiss album, either. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection. Scroll down to add issues to your want list and well email you when they arrive view pictures of their covers.
In 1967, kanter sold his company to twin circles frawley corporation, and by 1971, with 169 publications to its name, the classic era of classics illustrated had. That time kiss starred in their own comic book ultimate classic. The largest online source for comic book pricing in the world. Relive the excitement as gene, paul, ace and peter gain fantastic super powers and use them to battle that madman of latveria, doctor doom.
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In case you are unfamiliar with classics illustrated, it was a series that ran from 1941 to 1971 that took famous books and converted the storyline into a comic book format for younger readers. Books that were not, it should be added, of todays young adult variety, and certainly not childrens books but adult reading. These include the condition of the comic book, the quality of the printing, as well as whether it is part of a complete series or collection. Easily search titles such as amazing spiderman, batman, xmen and the black panther. For each sale discovered, we match it to the specific comic in our massive database which also includes variant covers and printings. Silver age classics illustrated comics for sale ebay. Scroll down to add issues to your want list and well email you when they arrive. Collectible classics illustrated comics collectors weekly.
The one i have has a price of 15 cents and another one was 25 cents. The official comic book adaptation of the fantasy film and future cult classic. In other words, it takes a dealer time to sort, bag, board and price any comic book. The overstreet guide is a must have if you have a lot of comics, are already a collector or plan on having a lot of comics. Still on fire 1988 glossy color softbound book from u.
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Classics illustrated is an american comic bookmagazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as les miserables, moby dick, hamlet, and the iliad. Kiss has had a four decadelong, proud history in comic books, starting with marvel comics in the 1970s, and now with dynamites kiss comics, says kiss cofounder gene simmons. Today i want to give you few free resources to help find the true value of your comic books. Our story opens with a teenage gene and paul heatedly discussing the horrors of accountancy and stodgy adulthood en route to the playland arcade. Comic book secrets now has a quick free comic book values page for your use. The value of the comic books would depend upon whether you have any comics of value to a comic book shop. Ever since the phenomenon created around the first kiss comic in 1977, many unlicensed comics featuring the kiss characters have been published.
They are organized pretty randomly, with no attempt to keep them truly in order of value by record sale. Classics illustrated, which actually began life as classic comics, was a comic book series that took classic literary works such as moby dick, robinson crusoe and the three musketeers and adapted the storylines into comic panels ideal for young readers the series was the brain child of albert kanter, a russianborn publisher who oversaw the series from its first issue in 1941 until. When i was searching for it i found that there are a few different kinds. See more ideas about classic comics, comics and comic book covers. Find the value of the dynamite entertainment comic kiss volume 1. Overstreet comic book price guide the overstreet guide is a must have if you have a lot of comics, are already a collector or plan on having a lot of comics. Find the value of the dark horse comic kiss miniseries. Comic book price guides, like overstreet, have a minimum price for comic books. The vast majority of comics from the 1980s and later have little, if any, value today.
Weve been selling comics since 1961 our first sale. Golden age classics illustrated comics for sale ebay. The video and resources below will help you find the best way to get current prices and values of your comic books, whether you own only a couple or thousands here we go. It has some background into the original 1977 issues i just mentioned. Blasting into your reality from the summer of 1977, its a doublesized kiss super special from marvel comics. It replaced the best of topper and the best of beezer, which had reprinted old strips for some years classics from the comics collected archive comic strips from eight comic titles the still going the beano and. Classics from the comics was a british comics magazine, published from march 1996 until october 2010. It walks you through finding comic book values and prices and helps you decide the best method for your situation. The video and resources below will help you find the best way to get current prices and values of your comic books, whether you own only a couple or thousands. Locate the book in the list of books you might need to change the drop list to go to another page.