Comics are an odd one in a clearance. They're bulky, they're heavy in number if not in weight, and unless you happen to know your Silver Age from your Modern Age, there's no quick way to tell whether a box is worth £20 or £2,000. Most clearance jobs don't have time for that kind of guesswork. So comics either get binned with the rest of the paper waste, sold off cheap in a job lot to whoever's nearest, or left behind entirely because nobody wants the hassle of dealing with them separately.
I buy comic collections from house clearances and estate clearances across the UK, and I'd rather be the call you make before any of that happens.
What I actually offer
The whole lot, one visit
I don't cherry-pick the interesting boxes and leave you with the rest to deal with. I take everything, cover to cover, so the job's genuinely finished when I leave.
Fair prices, properly worked out
I know what I'm looking at. That cuts both ways, I won't offer silly money for a box of nothing special, but I also won't miss the one comic in there that's actually worth something.
Fast turnaround
Clearance jobs run on deadlines. Send me photos and I can usually give you a straight answer the same day, and get the comics collected quickly once we've agreed a price.
No sorting required
Boxed, loose, damp, disorganised, doesn't matter. I'll go through it myself. You don't need to catalogue or clean anything up before I get there.
How it works, start to finish
Send a few photos
WhatsApp or email works fine. A handful of general shots of the boxes or shelves is enough for a first look, you don't need to sort or count anything first.
I give you a straight answer
Usually the same day. If it's worth a proper look in person for a bigger collection, I'll say so, if a price from photos alone is enough, I'll give you one.
We agree a figure
One number for the whole lot. No picking through it item by item, no coming back with a lower offer once I've seen it in person.
Collection or drop-off
Whatever suits the job. I'll travel for a collection worth the trip, and I'm flexible on timing around your clearance schedule.
This isn't theoretical, it's what I actually do
A collection doesn't need to be neat or catalogued for me to take it seriously. I've bought a 10,000-issue lifetime DC collection out of a house in south Manchester, decades of vintage Batman that needed clearing quickly ahead of a move, and a raised-paddle auction lot in Sheffield that turned out to include a first appearance of Phoenix nobody had spotted. Real jobs, real prices, no drama.
Why it's worth a five minute phone call before the skip
Comics get undervalued in clearances more than almost anything else in the house, precisely because they don't look valuable. A run of ordinary 1990s back issues genuinely isn't worth much, but it's sitting in the same boxes as the occasional key issue that is, and there's no way to tell the difference without actually knowing what you're looking at. I've turned up genuine keys in boxes that looked, at a glance, like nothing worth a second thought.
That's the whole reason to bring in someone who does this specifically, rather than binning it, boxing it for a car boot sale, or lumping it in with a general household job lot. It costs the estate or the clearance company nothing to ask, and it means nothing genuinely valuable gets thrown away by mistake.
If you clear houses regularly
If comics come up more than once or twice a year in your line of work, save my number rather than starting from scratch each time. I'd rather be your go-to call for every job that includes a collection than a one-off, and a working relationship means faster answers for you on every future job, since you won't need to explain the situation from scratch each time.
Got comics in a clearance right now?
Send a few photos on WhatsApp or by email and I'll give you a straight answer, usually the same day.