Questions for the comic collectors on the boards

callmeshawnp

callmeshawnp

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I'm digging out my long boxes full of books and looking at my old spreadsheets that I made to catalog them and I know there has to be better ways to do it now!

For any of you who collect what's the best software you'd recommend to catalog and price your collection? There's a handful of free ones online but I never find them to be that good or comprehensive. I kinda miss the old days of picking up an issue of 'Wizard' and going through it but those times are long past.

I'm doing some digging and ComicBase11 seems to be the gold standard for an all-in-one application. I'm curious where the values are being set for books these days though. OverStreet only publishes once a year... who is the go to price guide right now?
 
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I never collected comics but i used to have an X-Men card collection. Those were the days. Sorry, i wasn't any help. I'm just reminiscing. lol
 
I just have mine in alphabetical order, chronologically by issue number, by publisher. I've never used any software to catalog what I have.
 
BDaddyK said:
I just have mine in alphabetical order, chronologically by issue number, by publisher. I've never used any software to catalog what I have.
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That's what I have now but it's a pain when it comes to any updating I want to do. I've got a few thousand books so the more I add the worse it gets!
 
callmeshawnp said:
That's what I have now but it's a pain when it comes to any updating I want to do. I've got a few thousand books so the more I add the worse it gets!
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Tell me about it. I think I'm to lazy to go through all my books to update them to a spreadsheet, I have a few thousand myself too.
 
BDaddyK said:
Tell me about it. I think I'm to lazy to go through all my books to update them to a spreadsheet, I have a few thousand myself too.
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The OCD in me requires organization and cataloging! The spreadsheets I created back in the day are all publisher/series/issue order with price paid, current value, and then notes for writers, appearances, inks etc. It was super labor intensive to throw together and I know there's better ways of doing it now. The weird thing is that there's no consistent authority on values anymore. OverStreet is only published once a year! It's bizarre that sell prices on Ebay tend to set prices right now.
 
It seems a lot of the books are encapsulated and professionally graded now, http://www.cgccomics.com/grading/ I don't know how I feel about that, I have mixed feelings.

I would think Overstreet would be the basis point for pricing and market/region/popularity would swing the price from there. There doesn't seem to be much left in the way of price guides anymore.
 
I hate CGC... I've read every book I have and have zero inclination to seal it up never to be touched again. When they came on the scene I thought they'd never last but obviously I was wrong. It's insane how much they can influence price too. If a book is listed at say $20 NM and it gets a 9.8 or something from CGC... you'll get $100 for it if not more! Of course it costs you $20 to get it graded so it only matters on books that are hot. Still, it takes the fun out of reading comics and turns it into an investors circle, to which is say BOOOOURNS!
 
callmeshawnp said:
I hate CGC... I've read every book I have and have zero inclination to seal it up never to be touched again. When they came on the scene I thought they'd never last but obviously I was wrong. It's insane how much they can influence price too. If a book is listed at say $20 NM and it gets a 9.8 or something from CGC... you'll get $100 for it if not more! Of course it costs you $20 to get it graded so it only matters on books that are hot. Still, it takes the fun out of reading comics and turns it into an investors circle, to which is say BOOOOURNS!
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Yeah I'm no fan of CGC either. I'm of the same mind, I like to read and be able to flip through my collection at will. The prices they charge per book to grade are ridiculous too. I could see if you had something like Action Comics #1 or something, but it just seems counter intuitive to what comics are.
 
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