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Tips For Collecting Comic Books

December 22nd, 2010 | Author: dehildakkk

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Comic books come in a host of genres such as fantasy, science fiction, drama, crime and horror. One of the most popular categories is superheroes such as Superman and Batman comics.

Comic books were first published in America in 1896. They were a huge success and publishers decided to come up with more titles with new stories and characters. The first few ones were made up of content that was reused from newspaper comic strips. Later, They came into their own and publishers began printing those that had original content.

One of the most popular comic heroes, Superman was introduced in 1938. Today comic books have evolved into several different formats such as graphic novels and webcomics. Collecting comic books is fun and you can become a collector once you manage to collect a decent number of them. As a collector, you would be involved with buying and selling of comic books and protecting your collection.

Newer ones are easier to find than the older ones. New ones are available at comic book stores, toy shops, book stores and corner markets. For older ones, you might have to do some amount of digging. Many book stores stock old editions. You may also come across something interesting on websites like eBay and Heritage Comics. Sometimes, people who want to sell off old issues of their books and advertise on Craigslist.

As a collector, you may decide you want to sell a portion of your collection. To sell, you need to find out the value of your collection on the basis of the state of the comic books. Next, you need to know where you are going to sell them. You have the option of selling them to a book store or at an auction site. These stores are likely to buy them from you at a lower price that you would get otherwise.

The usual way to protect your collection of books is to put each into a mylar plastic bag along with a thin piece of cardboard that will prevent them from bending. You can store the collection in a cardboard box especially designed for keeping these books. You can find all of these storage materials at any comic book store. Keep the cardboard box containing your collection in a place that is free from moisture.

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Comic Books History – Part I

December 17th, 2010 | Author: dehildakkk

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Because comic books have such a long history I’m breaking up this series into several parts.

Comic books. Arguably one of the largest industries in the world. To be able to store every comic ever written you would need a city the size of New York and even then I think you would run out of room. No question, comic books are here to stay. So when did this multi billion dollar a year industry actually start.

Actually the origin of comic books is not really known for certain. Up until recently there was one theory of what the first comic book was. Then new evidence suggested that this was incorrect. We may never really know when comic books started but as of this writing the first known comic book was “The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck” which was written in 1837 somewhere in Europe in several languages. In 1842 an English version of this comic was printed for the United States, more specifically New York City. The comic was 40 pages long and didn’t really resemble the comics that we are used to seeing today. There were no word balloons with dialogue. Instead there was text typed at the bottom of each panel to describe the story. A copy of this comic was recently discovered in Oakland CA. The comic itself was done by Rudolphe Topffer who in Europe, was considered to be the creator of the picture story. He created the comic strip in 1827 as a graphic novel. After that he created 7 more graphic novels in many different languages including copies for the United States. These books stayed in print until about 1877. This was considered to be the Victorian Age of comic books which is still incomplete and still being researched even until today.

Even though many comics were printed after that, they have fallen into obscurity and the next known comic book was published in 1894 called “The Yellow Kid.” The Yellow Kid was actually a character derived from the comic “Hogan’s Alley” but the kid was so popular that the comic book became known by his name rather than by the official title of the comic book. Hogan’s Alley was created by a gentleman by the name of Richard Outcault who actually got his start writing for “Truth Magazine”. In an issue of “Truth” he did a character cartoon featuring “The Yellow Kid” and it’s from that initial publishing that the actual comic came into being a short time later. It is believed that Outcault got his inspiration for “Hogan’s Alley” from several cartoonists including Michael Angelo Wolf and Charles Saalburg, both of whom used street kids in their cartoons. It is believed that the title “Hogan’s Alley” came from the song “O’Reilly and the Four Hundred” which starts off “Down in Hogan’s Alley.”

In the next of this series I will be covering what is referred to as “The Platinum Age Of Comics” which spans the years 1897 to 1938 which features the extremely popular “Mutt And Jeff” and “Little Orphan Annie” comics. You don’t want to miss this.

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Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Comic Books
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