Baseball cards..investment

[Cyclonepride]

Sold my baseball cards for beer money in college.

Still have all my football cards (primarily mid-70’s to late-80’s). A lot of good cards in there, but football cards don’t have a real high end.

 

[CYdTracked]

I should check to see what some of my NBA cards are worth. Looking back I was a stupid teenager wasting his money to buy packs of cards thinking some day they would be worth something. The era that I collected NBA cards apparently is the time frame that is the most saturated right now. I do have some Jordan cards that might be worth something but my top value card may be a Julius Erving card I acquired when I bought a card collection off someone in high school. All my cards are stored in boxes right now, I figure the longer I hold onto them maybe some day they may actually be worth something.

 

[HFCS]

My comics from my childhood and early teen years are worth more than my sports cards.

I have the 1990 and 1991 Infinity Gauntlet comics the most recent Avengers movies are based on and the much more rare Thanos Quest that is the story of how Thanos got the gems. I couldn't believe it took so long but those 8 issues have gone from being worth about $100 collectively to about $700 in the past year or so.

 

[Gunnerclone]

My comics from my childhood and early teen years are worth more than my sports cards.

I have the 1990 and 1991 Infinity Gauntlet comics the most recent Avengers movies are based on and the much more rare Thanos Quest that is the story of how Thanos got the gems. I couldn't believe it took so long but those 8 issues have gone from being worth about $100 collectively to about $700 in the past year or so.

What’s a “Beavis and Butthead #1” worth these days?

 

[HFCS]

What’s a “Beavis and Butthead #1” worth these days?

I looked it up and actually the later issues could be $8-20 which is pretty good considering a lot of stuff in the 90s is worthless.

A lot of 90s comics actually ended up having the late issues with lower print runs be more valuable than the early or first issues because first issues were so overprinted when collecting took off.

Comics collecting really became pretty stupid with official grading systems, people started chasing things that were graded 10.0 or 9.8 rather than content/interest driving demand. I'm sure some of that happened with sports cards too but I don't think it is to the same extent. The ability to see how many 10.00 or 9.8 graded there are in the world online really became toxic to it as a hobby as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Cydar]

I know someone in Ames that has the first issue of The Fantastic Four.

 

[jpete24]

What’s my issue #1 of Action Comics worth?

 

[GTO]

What’s my issue #1 of Action Comics worth?

I'll give you $5 for it. PM me.

 

[GTO]

My comics from my childhood and early teen years are worth more than my sports cards.

I have the 1990 and 1991 Infinity Gauntlet comics the most recent Avengers movies are based on and the much more rare Thanos Quest that is the story of how Thanos got the gems. I couldn't believe it took so long but those 8 issues have gone from being worth about $100 collectively to about $700 in the past year or so.

I found my old comics in a box in my garage the other day:

New Mutants #98 (first Deadpool and Domino)
X-Factor #6 (first Apocalypse)
Uncanny X-Men #221 (first Mr. Sinister)
X-Men #4 (first Omega Red)

and a few other first appearances I can't even remember. Was dissapointed to relaize that I had the first appearance of Cable, but it was the reprint. Not super valuable, but some of my favorites which is all I really care about. When I was in college I saw a Hulk #181 (first Wolverine appearance) for $300. Should have bought it, as it is now worth $2k+.

 

[Rural]

I know someone in Ames that has the first issue of The Fantastic Four.

I bought that in the drugstore for 10 cents.

I tried to tell my mother.

 

[SerenityNow]

Sold my baseball cards for beer money in college.

Still have all my football cards (primarily mid-70’s to late-80’s). A lot of good cards in there, but football cards don’t have a real high end.

I sold mine for $350 to have money for ISU, too. That was the late 80s, right before the big boom in them. 10,000 cards, worth at least $20,000 today. Was an idiot even back then.

 

[CloneIce]

I've got thousands of cards but mostly early 90's overproduced stuff. Most are only worth pennies. In fact, I think my most valuable cards are a few hologram Pokémon cards. Maybe $25-50 for a few of them but that's it.

Yep. I looked up my old cards recently. They were overvalued back when I was a kid - most were valued lower today. I lost money on them from inflation alone.

 

[HFCS]

Yep. I looked up my old cards recently. They were overvalued back when I was a kid - most were valued lower today. I lost money on them from inflation alone.

Objects people are passionate about but don't realize are collectible investments are where it's at. In the 20s-60s that's baseball cards, in the 40s-70s that's comics, from 70s-90s it's actually video games. Toys from different periods as well but never when people think they are collectibles.

A few video games I bought even in the late 90s are worth about $1000 now, those are rare good games but even some very common but popular games for mainstream systems that you could get for a buck at a pawn shop in the 80s are now worth 50-200. Pretty much any video game with original box and instructions from the 70s or 80s has collector value regardless of popularity and print run.

 

[titleist]

What do you do with boxes of baseball, football and some basketball cards from the 80's and early 90's? I'm tired of them taking up space in the basement and there doesn't seem to be any places around that still buy collections. None of them are graded plus I don't plan to take the time to sell them individually on Ebay.

I'm thinking fire pit for the junk cards but keep a small binder of the good ones for sentimental value?

 

[Tre4ISU]

That's impressive. I'm in same boat to a lesser extent, have Michael Jordan's rookie Fleer but not mint or probably even excellent condition.

I probably had one and traded it for an Allen Iverson or Penny Hardaway card because I liked them better. I'd just rather not know about my whole card collection history.

 

[heitclone]

I was cleaning out an old buffet of my parents and found 3 of these babies, 2 were graded mint, the other near mint. Might be a couple hundred bucks worth of cards! I have thousands of my dad's old cards but still find some in random places.

 

[cstrunk]

What do you do with boxes of baseball, football and some basketball cards from the 80's and early 90's? I'm tired of them taking up space in the basement and there doesn't seem to be any places around that still buy collections. None of them are graded plus I don't plan to take the time to sell them individually on Ebay.

I'm thinking fire pit for the junk cards but keep a small binder of the good ones for sentimental value?

I'm probably just going to go through them one more time, keep a few of the nicer ones, then sell the whole lot of the rest for a few bucks at a garage sale. Waste of space and they'll never be worth much.