Building A Comic Book Resale Business With Just $300 | When to Submit To CGC for Grading

[@billparker442]

The corliss archer was a steal for sure.

[@bigbymcflythecomicguy]

Love your content! I have been a life long collector along with previously owning 2 shops for the better part of 20 years. Recently started a channel myself! Thanks for being an inspiration!- 😊 Subbed! ( my personal account has been Subbed for a long time 😉 )

[@ILikeWhatIBuy]

Love the content, because of you I’m into Golden Age books now 😢

[@AutomaticComics]

Should be a smiley face then lol

[@ILikeWhatIBuy]

@@AutomaticComics that’s my wallet crying 😃

[@dankocher4934]

I have a low-grade maybe 2.0 Meet Corliss Archer #2 which would benefit from a press. But it's signed on the splash page by Al Feldstein which is pretty cool. Didn't realize it when I bought it. It's not authenticated. This is from the years before authentication.

[@Bigpop82]

Recently found your channel and really enjoy the info. I've been out of collecting for 20+ years. I have a small collection, but I've thought about doing something like this as a side hustle. I'm still not comfortable with properly assessing grades and value since I've been gone so long, but I saw one of your videos about grading as well. Anyhow, don't know if I'll ever get this going but really appreciate the content and info dude!

[@AutomaticComics]

Thanks for watching the channel. Good luck if you decide to go this route. Hopefully the videos help.

[@maartenbouw]

Great stuff, and very informative. Thank you.

[@AutomaticComics]

Thanks!

[@newcompasscollectibles]

Love the breakdowns in this series. 80+% seems like a wildly high profit margin, especially considering you're usually making these purchases from sellers who are also in the comic business. How/why would they be selling so far below value if you think you can get so much more for them?

[@AutomaticComics]

Values are values. I tend to be very accurate (even underestimate a bit) what I can sell the comics I purchase for. I can’t tell you why someone else chooses to sell a book for whatever they sell it for. I just put in a lot of time and effort to find the ones that are priced far enough below current/expected prices to make them worth my time and money to buy and sell. What people don’t see when I show the books I purchase are the hundreds/thousands that I pass on because they aren’t at a price that I can make enough profit on that it’s worth my time. In this case, I probably looked at about 200+ different books they had for sale. These, in my opinion were the best 6 with respect to the value I could get from them. So that’s 3% of the books I looked at. And that’s actually high for me. Normally it’s a much smaller percent that meet that threshold for me to purchase.

[@newcompasscollectibles]

@@AutomaticComics Yeah, I think this is an under-appreciated aspect of the business. Knowing where to look and being disciplined in your purchases is huge.

[@jvmbmc]

Curious, I have a number of raw low grade Superman golden age comics from #10 to 40s. Grade range is 1.5 to 4 with average around 3. Do you think these would be candidates to get graded?

[@johnfrost5268]

Nice video... I can see that previous experience is invaluable to making it in the comic business. I'm buying a house for my communist hillbilly wife so I'll be away from the comic market for a while. I'll be doing my buying and selling through your channel so keep it up and thanks...

[@ronhobbs463]

You stole that Corliss Archer. I've bid on all 3 issues and never won. Congrats.🤑

[@bestcore1214]

It's funny, because you're doing this as a teachable moment..but you're literally creating another mini business on the side in the process..sort of 😅