Sell your manga.

Why manga needs valuing differently

Most people who buy comic collections in Britain will take your manga and price it as bulk, because they cannot tell an early Japanese edition from a recent English reprint. That is how genuinely collectable volumes end up in fifty pence boxes.

I would rather look at it properly. If it is ordinary I will tell you it is ordinary, and if there is something in there worth real money you should know before it leaves your house.

What I am looking for

• First Japanese editions, particularly early volumes of long running series
• Complete or near complete runs in good condition
• Early English language editions from the 1990s and early 2000s
• Volumes with the original obi band still present
• Out of print series and anything with limited English release

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How it works

1. Photos. Covers and spines, plus the copyright page for anything Japanese.
2. An itemised valuation. Not one number for the lot.
3. Your decision. No obligation, no pressure.
4. Free collection and payment on the day.

An honest word on the market

Manga collecting has grown quickly, and where markets grow quickly there is a lot of noise. Plenty of what is written online implies any old manga is an investment. It is not. The overwhelming majority of English language volumes printed in the last twenty years are very common.

That said, the genuinely scarce material has been undervalued in Britain for years precisely because so few buyers here look at it carefully. Both of those things are true at once, which is why it is worth getting a proper opinion.