Mile High Comics Newsletter #11 - "Back Issue Comics Prices Slashed on Website"

[@JessicaFan90]

Love these videos! Please keep them coming!

[@craigchase8511]

Thanks for the vid guys. Love the selection and I really hope things do well for mile high.

[@TimBurVlogs]

Thanjks for sharing these videos! I'll be ordering from the site soon AND still hoping to one day visit the store in person!

[@BatcaveComics83]

The room looks like the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[@artboston4787]

Make a video about the comics you collect personally or about your collection. Tell us about your golden age books. I bet you pulled a bunch of those Edgar Church books for yourself.

[@artboston4787]

@@daviclar867 Superman #1, Batman #1, Archie #1, Pep #22 ( both of those Archie books estimated to be 9.4/9.6 ), Marvel comics #1 ( estimated to be very high grade ), etc, were all present in the Church collection and haven't been CGC'd. Maybe we'll see them certified and auctioned off some day, maybe not.

[@artboston4787]

@@daviclar867 Chuck catalogued and priced everything. I don't have a link to his original list but a CGC boardie made one showing Chuck's grade and asking price and the current CGC grade if applicable.itsalljustcomics.com/2016/04/07/edgar-church-collection-data-released/comment-page-1/

[@artboston4787]

You might be right. I can't help but wonder if he wishes he would've pulled a few and kept them.

[@artboston4787]

@@daviclar867 I own a few highest graded golden age Batman/Detectives and in each case upon checking Chuck's list, the Church copy is estimated to be around the same or higher. I hope I don't someday get bumped off the top if those copies ever get certified.

[@joeknipp6698]

This was very interesting information you provided.... $1,500 for 100,000 comics. That's just 1 1/2 pennies per comic... that's pretty much giving them away ! (I had no idea you could buy comics at that price.) Freight brings the average cost up to 3-4 cents per book. I would be curious to know your costs to get a book graded, bagged, boxed, and entered into the computer system for sale too !

[@boogiedownnyc]

I wish the bronze age stuff was cheaper

[@uncannyheretic4924]

This man is comic book Jesus this man is amazing as a collector I found out comic books started out as a entertainment source for working class people which is why they were a nickel to a dime and the fact that they've gone up to 5$ with tax included makes no sense and I wish they'd go back to at least a dollar and to see this man so enthusiastic about getting the comic books in the hands of readers warms my heart this man is a great guy

[@robertt9342]

@UncannyHeretic . You do realize that in the late 30's a 10 cent book like Action Comic 1 is equivalent to nearly $2 today. We are paying a little over double right now as many books are $4, but you want them to charge $1, So you want companies to charge half of what they charged during the great depression with significantly smaller sales, even taking into account increase of sales due to price drop? I hope you like terribly drawn stick figures on the worst paper available. Also, I'd hardly put the onus on publishers because of local tax laws.

[@Louispierce]

I love the selection of books you guys have but you need some serious work done to your website, it looks like some 1990's schoolchild computing project.

[@TimBurVlogs]

their website has never changed ever as long as I've been ordering from them... around... 1996? Never had any trouble but I do see how some would consider the site an eyesore.

[@ninjacarm]

LOL!

[@boogiedownnyc]

Will never happen. It looks like shit but it works. And it's fast lol.

[@Tommy45564]

What people want???? Normal prices on back issues.

[@ninjacarm]

Chuck, sounds like you're too well off and this is just a hobby of yours.

[@ninjacarm]

Exactly what I think every time I see these videos. "We just want more and more comics to pile up!" Why??? To not make money? Lol

[@robertdread9118]

$15 for an issue of Alex + Ada? Get fucked!

[@lo1bo2]

Oh My God! Only $1500 for all those comics? Is it a massive amount of dreck, or did the people selling just not want to bother doing research and put in the time/effort to do better? Perhaps the collections originally belonged to people who died and the heirs just wanted to get rid of them.

[@TimBurVlogs]

This is MHC we are talking about here. Are you familiar with Chuck? I'm sure no dreck is involved in the purchase!

[@buzuxi]

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[@robertt9342]

TimBurVlogs. You need to add the /s to make sure everyone knows you are being sarcastic.

[@robertt9342]

@lo1bo2 . It's almost always a case of buying overstock from stores, things they couldn't sell so they dump them off to make more for new purchases. While cash flow is usually an issue, most of the time these books are already paid for from other consumer purchases, these stores are usually more restricted by physical space. That being said, that is unusually low usually indicative of large stock dumps as the number of books rise, the price per book drops. He ships the books which as noted, adds to the cost, and still needs to pay people to catalogue and sort the books which will add some more costs and if he is selling them for a dollar, there's not much money in it if you pay too much. Also if these books went unsold at stores it means it's going to sit at his warehouse for a long time and you are still tying up money that might takes years, even a decade or more to fully realize.