Since then I've had luck in expected places ( Batman, X-men), no luck in unexpected places (No one wants to buy Elektra:Assassin first printing full series for $10.00?), no luck in expected places (No one wants to buy non Morrison (Vertigo) Animal Man comics. "So this is what it feels like to make money" I remember thinking at the time. After that I had from #5 on and selling those books was my first ever taste of unadulterated capitalism. I had had the insane luck to find a copy of TWD #1 in a bargain bin, first printing. My those were glory days, right around the time the title was approaching issue 100, the TV show was in it's infancy and if you had early Walking Dead issues you could name your price. I got started doing this eBay comic selling during the insane Walking Dead comic book insanity of two years ago. Trying to at least, but after I sold my complete Hellblazer run I realized all bets were off. Well not anything, I'm trying to keep from selling my complete runs of Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Grant Morrison's The Invisibles. I sold my entire Astro City collection for $60, full volumes one and two! Even the 3d special, the dark ages, the flip book and every one shot! If I could part with that impossibly perfect piece of comic book history I can part with anything. One thing you realize right away when putting something that you've spent years slaving away on is that there really isn't going to be a "Oh I could never sell that" pile. I'm going to include a link to my seller's page on ebay if you're in the mood for a full set of something at a very reasonable (i.e. I lost my job at the beginning of the month and have since spent between 6-8 hours a day photographing, listing, packing and shipping my 20+ long boxes. Oh! I'm selling my comic collection, did I mention that? 20+ years of comics have been steadily departing my apartment over the last 6 weeks. I mean, come on, I'm Italian, some guy in Italy wants to own We3, I'm going to deny him? And be haunted by my grandparents because of it? (Italian superstition is very clear about the consequences of denying comic sales to paisans in other lands) Whenever I get one of these pleas for understanding from overseas, 9 out of 10 times I buckle and go ahead. To tell you the truth, I do international shipping, despite my adamant denial of that service in my auctions. Or the most common reoccurring facepalming message, "I know it says you don't do international shipping, but will you ship to X" where X is always international.
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