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When british comic books were really american comic books. View market values for books, store your collection, and meet fellow comic fans. New listing supermans pal jimmy olsen surprise vintage comic book. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection. However, there are individual issues which have emerged as very desirable, such as amazing spiderman 252, 300, avengers 196, batman 386, batman adventures 12, new mutants 98, walking dead 1, 19, teenage mutant ninja turtles 1 1st print, cerebus 1 through 4, albedo 2, and miracle man 15. Im using a fairly loose, but common definition of superhero here. Each pack is grouped around a particular character or theme, and there is no duplication within any pack. It is generally referred to as a comic or a comic magazine, and historically as a comic paper british comics are usually comics anthologies which are typically aimed at children, and are published weekly, although some are also published on a fortnightly or monthly schedule. British comic list main homepage updated 26th february 2007. Alfred harmsworths comic cuts 1890 1953 cost just half a penny, which was half the cost of its contemporaries. Welcome to the comic book price guide that has been 25 years in the making. The top 10 british comic book characters gary dobbs at.
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Enter your comics four times faster with a barcode scanner, combined with the advanced barcode entry features of comicbase professional and comicbase archive edition. We go by the title on the cover, ignoring the first the and a etc. Top 25 ukborn superheroes that originated in british. Overstreet comic book price guide the overstreet guide is a must have if you have a lot of comics, are already a collector or plan on having a lot of comics. The caped crusader and his sidekick, robin, have been around since the late 1930s. British story papers as the name suggests is a uniquely british institution. Check it out here dan dare as reenvisioned in 2000ad comic. The uk has an incredible history in the comic book industry. There is an increasing amount of collectors and publishers that wish to digitise their old comics and a comic book scanning service is the perfect way to do so. Archive editions are new books with new s they will not be public domain any time soon, technically the fiche are also not public domain, but being a direct copy of the original in a different format, l am not going to quibble legalities and l doubt. From titans like neil gaimans the sandman, to the unforgettable superhero deconstruction, the watchmen. We will say that the golden age begins in 1938 and ends in 1956, when the. Use search clz core to add the barcode to the add queue and instantly find your comic.
Top 25 ukborn superheroes that originated in british comic books. Sell, buy and trade with comic collectors from around the world. If there are 15,000 copies of the comic in perfect condition, it is going to be less desirable than one with only 100 known copies in mint condition. Comics price guide was the first online price guide for comic books back in 1995. I think one other guy voted for a bunch of books but everyone else just added a book or two here and there. Here, we list what the worlds top 10 comic books are worth in mint condition, using data from nostomania, which. How to scan a large image with a normal scanner, piece them together, and create a clean, colorready file. Stories covered a wide range of genres including adventure, mystery, romance, school, sport and westerns to name just a few. These are but a few names from the canon of british comic heroes.
The top 10 british comic book characters this is a personal list and is not intended to be an indication of the best characters ever created in british comics, although many of those in my selection undoubtedly are. Comic book value packs comic book value packs are a great way to pick up a lot of comics cheaply. This page will deal with the most valuable of all, golden age comic books. For each sale discovered, we match it to the specific comic in our massive database which also includes variant covers and printings. The supply of particular old comic books is important to figuring value as well. They were printed in the us and shipped overseas for a british market. Superworld comics can give you a fair and honest appraisal of your comic book collection. A british comic is a periodical published in the united kingdom that contains comic strips. Here at microform ltd we want to ensure that every british comic book is saved and scanned. Synchronize your comic data between the desktop software, mobile apps and the connect webapp.
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