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In the mid-1950’s, the comic book industry was under scrutiny by conservative pundits taking advantage of the cold war hysteria of the day. Comic books of every genre were being published by DC, Timely, Gold Key, Archie, Harvey, Dell, EC, Classics, Four Color and more.

But, in 1956, DC published Showcase #4 with a renewed Flash. The silver age was launched and superheros were back in fashion. Some might also call this period between 1959 and 1969 the Marvel Age led by The Amazing Spider-Man.

Although most silver age titles relatively easy to find, there are certain titles and issues that are hard to find in high grade or at an affordable price. However, it is not impossible to complete a full run of your favorite title.

The backbone of the industry is supported by early high grade Marvels, such as the first issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men and Avengers. Comicseeker.com recommends that if you have the resources and desire, that you acquire the early issues of these titles as soon as possible. The comic value of the early issues just seem to keep going up and up.

In general, most pre-1966 silver age comics can be found, but tough in high grade. Any collector interested in the silver age should focus on this time period.

Late silver age comics can usually be found in high grade or in abundant copies. Your strategy here should be to focus on the comics you want to complete your run as you can do so at a relatively affordable price. For example, starting with Iron Man #1, you should be able to find most of the comics from this title on Ebay during any given day.

Following are some of the more popular titles from the Silver Age that you may consider using ComicSeeker.com to search for.

• Action Comics
• Adventure Comics
• Amazing Fantasy
• Amazing Spider-Man
• Archie
• Archie’s Girls
• Archie’s Pal
• Atom
• Avengers
• Batman
• Brave and the Bold
• Captain America
• Daredevil
• Detective Comics
• Eighty Page Giant
• Fantastic Four
• Flash
• Four Color
• Green Lantern
• Hawkman
• Incredible Hulk
• Iron Man
• Journey into Mystery
• Justice League of America
• Metal Men
• Mystery in Space
• Nick Fury
• Our Army at War
• Richie Rich
• Sea Devils
• Sgt. Fury
• Showcase
• Silver Surfer
• Strange Adventures
• Strange Tales
• Superboy
• Superman
• Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane
• Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen
• Tales of Suspense
• Tales to Astonish
• Thor
• Wonder Woman
• X-Men

Results are returned from comic book dealer websites on the Internet. If your collectible needs are not being met, we want to know. To suggest a silver age comic book dealer be added to your search results, use the contact form.

When one thinks of terms such as old rare comics, valuable comics or collectible comics, you’re usually thinking of the Golden Age of Comics. Starting with Action Comics #1 in 1938 and continuing through the end of World War II, the Golden Age of Comics sets the standard for comic book collecting.

Being a Golden Age comic book collector takes patience, money and a willingness to compromise. Due to the age of these old comics, they are much more difficult to find than comics within the past 50 years. Finding high grade copies of these comics is near impossible, causing the comic book values to skyrocket.

Strategy

As stated, your strategy to finding these comics should be: willingness to compromise. 1. Compromise: if you can’t find the specific issue, is an issue in the title enough? 2. Compromise: be willing to accept a lesser grade, high-grade is tought to find 3. Compromise: price, the Golden Age comic prices are not cheap

Title or Issue?

Finding Golden Age comics takes a much more disciplined approach to collecting than newer comics. It can take months or years to find the specific issue you are looking for at the price you are willing to pay. If you are willing to compromise, focus on a particular title instead of the specific title and issue. For example, if you want the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics #27 because you are a fan of Batman, you may want to focus instead on collecting titles in which he appears. Detective Comics #27 is not for sale too often. Consider these other book titles with appearances from Batman: Detective Comics, Batman and World’s Finest Comics.

Grade

Grade should also be part of your search strategy. Finding a Near Mint (NM, 9.2) comic from the Golden Age would be difficult and expensive. If you find a comic you are searching for, but the condition is Very Good (VG), you may want to buy that comic since a higher grade copy may not become available for a long time. A smart collector will grab the issue they’re looking for when it is available. Then, when the higher grade is available you’re looking for (next month or next year), you can then trade up.

Suggested Search Titles

Here are some suggested popular Golden Age titles by DC, Marvel/Timely and a few others:

• Action Comics
• Adventure Comics
• All-American Comics
• All Flash
• All Star Comics
• All Winners Comics
• Amazing Man Comics
• Archie Comics
• Batman
• Blue Beetle
• Blue Bolt
• Captain America Comics
• Captain Marvel Adventures
• Classics Illustrated
• Daring Mystery Comics
• Detective Comics
• Famous Funnies
• Flash Comics
• Four Color
• Green Lantern
• Human Torch
• Marvel Comics
• Marvel Mystery Comics
• More Fun Comics
• New Fun Comics
• Pep Comics
• Sensation Comics
• Sub-Mariner Comics
• Superman
• Walt Disney Comics & Stories
• Whiz Comics
• Wonder Woman
• World’s Finest Comics
• Young Allies Comics

If your favorite golden age comic book dealer is not part of our search, please contact us so that we can try to add them. We want to make sure your collectible needs are satisfied when you are looking for comics for sale.

Where to Find Comics

The two best places to find comics are the Internet and the world famous San Diego Comic-Con. Visiting the local comic store is still an option, but your changes of finding that Amazing Spider-Man #1 is slim.

In this article, we’ll focus on how to find comics on the Internet. Specifically, vintage comics that are at least ten years old. In general, comic searches will be focused on ages: Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age and Modern.

Surprisingly, the large search engines, such as Google, are not the best place to look for comics. The results you’ll find will be to dealer sites, but not to their constantly changing inventory. Your search will be focused on the following categories: comic book specific search engines, auction sites, dealer sites, classifieds and forums.

Comic Search Engines

Your best bet for one-stop shopping is a comic book search engine. This type of website will search as many sites on the Internet that it can find and present the compiled results to you without you having to visit multiple sites.

The largest, ComicSeeker.com (http://www.comicseeker.com), is simple to use. You type in the title of the comic you are searching for and the optional issue number. The results are then presented from various sites on the Internet. When you find the comic you want, you go from ComicSeeker.com to the site where the comic book if for sale.

Auction Sites

Ebay. Of course, there are other auction sites out there, but for sheer volume, Ebay (http://www.ebay.com) is the leader. On any given day, there are thousands of comics for you to purchase. If you do buy from Ebay, use caution when selecting a seller and always check their feedback. It is not uncommon for the comic you purchase to be in a lower grade than described. There are honest sellers and feedback is the best way to weed out the bad ones.

There are some comic book specialty auction sites. The largest is Heritage Comics (http://www.heritagecomics.com) based in Texas. You can also bid at Vault Auctions, Hakes and OnlineComicBookAuctions.com.

Dealer Sites

Most of the major and minor comic book dealers now have websites. Some have their own search engine, making it easy for you to search their inventory. Some even let you specify a specific grade that you are searching for. Others aren’t quite as advanced yet and require you to click from page-to-page to look through their inventory.

The largest dealer site isn’t really a dealer, but a consignment/exchange: ComicLink (http://www.comiclink.com). At ComicLink, you will probably find the most active trading of Gold, Silver and Bronze age comics on the Internet.

Classifieds

Comics are not usually sold through online classified sites, but sometimes you can get lucky. As with the auction site category, the classified category is dominated by one major site, Craigslist.

Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.org) operates several local versions, so it is best to stick to searches at your local site as the comic seller may not want to ship to you. Our tip for searching Craigslist is not to search. They have deployed a new technology call RSS/XML. If you have downloaded the Firefox web browser, it is easy to take advante of this technology.

First, go to your local Craigslist and type the term comics in the search box and select the For Sale section. When the results page loads, you will notice a small icon in the right side of the location bar of Firefox. Click this and the feed will now be saved as a Live Bookmark. From now on, you can instantly see all posts at Craigslist with comics in the description.

Forums

Community forums are a great way to buy comics from other comic collectors. Some forums have specific topic areas just for people who are selling comics. However, the best tactic is to simply be active in the forum and keep your want list in your post signature.

Some popular forums are CGC Boards, CBG Extra and Newsarama.

Conclusion

With so many options on the Internet, it shouldn’t take you long to find the exact comic book you are searching for. By using this multi-tier strategy, you should be able to find multiple copies of the comic you want and purchase based on grade and price. Good luck and have fun.

After many years, the heirs of Superman’s co-creator, Jerry Siegel, have won the copyright to Superman. Read about Superman’s copyright here.

Seventy years ago, in 1938, Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster created Superman and sold the rights to Detective Comics (DC Comics, owned by Time Warner) for a mere $130. Time Warner is challenging the court decision. For the details, follow the link as the story clearly explains the circumstances and situations.

I strongly believe in Creator’s rights and wish that Siegel and Shuster were able to profit from Superman long ago. But now the decision is late. I’m happy for his heirs, but am upset over the legal situation that kept Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster from becoming wealthy from Superman

Most of the bugs are now worked out with the new website and server. Almost all the stylesheets are fixed. We have a few remaining bugs on the stats page, but you should be able to at least see the most recent comic book searches just fine.

The next area of focus is getting all the comic book articles back online. From the old server, we managed to save the following articles:

• Golden Age Comics
• Silver Age Comics
• Bronze Age Comics
• Comic Book Grading
• Old Comic Book Values

After these go live, we’ll start prepping some new ones.

We have received a few emails this past weekend about our ad in the new, 38th edition of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.

We were just as surprised as most of you when the Guide shipped last week. Our expectations were to receive the Guide in April, just before we planned the relaunch of ComicSeeker.com.

So, our apologies if things are a little rough around the site. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to get everything fixed right away. We don’t even have all the comic book dealers set up in the search engine just yet.

btw - if you are a comic book dealer and want to be included, please use the Contact Us form to send a note.

In the meantime, have fun, find the old and valuable comics you’re looking for and keep checking back at ComicSeeker.com.

Welcome to the new and improved ComicSeeker.com. We are still in the process of finalizing our website re-design and should be finished within a couple of weeks. In the meantime, please utilize the comic book search engine to find rare, vintage or any other type of comic book from the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages.