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The History of Comic Books

The comic books that we know today are at least as old as movies. However, you have to consider that prehistoric cave paintings and woodblock prints.

The Start

Comic books started as visual narratives of social issues. Hence, the hieroglyphs and the cave paintings came into existence. However, with the improvement of writing techniques and the inclusion of letters, these stories became more informative and more entertaining to read. The improvement of press and the medium on which these stories were printed on gave rise to the comic books that we know.

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Selling Comic Books

Comic books have fluctuating values. You could buy an new issue of Spiderman for around a dollar. But keep it in mint condition and you can sell it for a few hundred dollars a few years later. Selling comic books is an art that every collector has to master.

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Protecting Comic Books

Collecting comic books are both fun and can be a very good investment. For example, if you have Superman #1 lying around your room that is in mint condition, it would now be worth over $500,000 to the right bidder today. With these kinds of resale prices, collecting and protecting your comic books isn’t just for fun; it makes sense and is a very smart thing to do.

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Grading Comic Books

When you’re collecting comic books, trading your comic books for other comic books that you want is somehow inevitable. Of course when you trade comic books, it’s not just the fair trading that exists in utopia. Not everything in this world has the same value, and the same thing applies to comic books.

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Comic Book Villains

Admit it; everybody loves the good bad guys of the comic book universe. Without the comic book villains, would there even be superheroes to read and wait every month? (especially if you’re a comic book lover!). Even more, it appears that these Comic Book Villains almost share the same spotlight with their superheroes because they could be considered as the anti thesis of your favorite comic book heroes.

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