Comic Chaos is a Southern Arizona online store that buys comic books and collections from the Golden Age, Silver Age, and Bronze ages, as well as select modern comics. If you’re wondering how to sell your comic book collection then you’re in the right place.
My name is Robert, and I travel to purchase comics for my personal collection as well as for resale on my eBay store. I live south of Tucson, Arizona, but I’ll hit the road to any destination in the American southwest to pick up a collection that fits my purchasing criteria. For the right comic book collection I’ll travel anywhere in the lower 48! l buy individual back issue comics or entire collections, and I don’t need to cherry pick just the good books. If you wish to sell your comics, please visit my buying comic books page for details on what I’m looking for.
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In 1970 my family traveled from Scottsdale on our annual pilgrimage to my grandparents’ house in Edinboro, PA. I was a fidgety, bored 10-year-old and grandma saw how desperately I needed something to occupy my brain. In frustration she walked me to the drug store and directed me to the comic spinner just inside the door. The first comic book I bought the summer was Incredible Hulk 132. It had a 15¢ cover price, which to a 10 year-old with a $1 a week allowance was an enormous investment. I spent the rest of that vacation finding ways to earn nickels and dimes. By the time I returned home I’d collected seven or eight comics. The addiction had begun.
By the time I was twenty I’d amassed a collection of around 4,000 comics including Fantastic Four #1, Amazing Fantasy #15, Spiderman #1, and a complete run of Dardevil. In 1981 I enlisted in the USAF and spent the next few years stationed in northern California. In 1985 I sold my entire collection. I was convinced I was done with childhood things and comics had to go.
Throughout the years I kept returning to comics. Wherever I lived I found a local comic book store and created a pull list. When I finally decided to start collecting on a large scale again, I chose to focus on the comic books I grew up with. There’s a tremendous amount of talent in the modern comic world, and I still read a lot of new stories, but for me, artists like Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Barry (Windsor) Smith, set an incredibly high bar.