Hawk Sells Most of Her Comics

[canyonwalker]

Yesterday Hawk sold most of her comicbook collection. For years it has been occuping a few dozen long boxes in our "Hobbit Hole" behind the garage. We don't have an exact before picture of the collection, but here's a photo from when were were doing some cleaning in the Hobbit Hole a few years ago:



The longboxes were piled 3 high (and I think 9 across) on the left side in the picture.

Hawk sold just over 6,000 issues. They filled 23 longboxes.



A dealer came to buy them on Monday.

And here's the money shot:



Hawk now has a stack of Benjamins instead of a wall of boxes in the Hobbit Hole. ...Well, she still has a small wall of boxes. She kept about 1,200 issues of her collection. They fill 9 shortboxes.

Comments

[some_other_dave]

Wow! What prompted the sale?

[canyonwalker]

Hawk has been meaning to do this for a while. She doesn't read these old issues much anymore, and most of what she does read (or re-read) she's shifted to digital form. Digital is so much easier than being tied to a print collection that weighs literally three-quarters of a ton.

Two weekends ago she finally got together with a friend who helps broker large comics trades. He was able to find two dealer offers within a week. One was close enough to her target price that she was willing to accept. And the dealer was one that she knows from another large trade and was prepared to complete the transaction quickly. Sunday she got the offer, Monday the dealer came with his truck and a fat stack of cash.