I'm Jimmy Wallace and this all the comic books behind.

As a kid I frequently visited my grandmother's house and I love pouring over all those old issues.

My uncle had a great collection. It was full of classic comics by all the great classic comic book creators.

He had about two or three hundred comics and at that time that collection seemed massive to me. Over the years I read every one of those old issues

over and over. My parents also bought me a conflict grown up, but it was really when I was old enough to afford my own comics, then my interest turned into a full-on obsession.

My youth leader at church, he was a big comic fan to you.

At church we taught comics comics I'd tag along

with him to comic book conventions in the summer. To this day I have not been able to

kick this habit. But this is where I kind of ran into a problem. I love I like the comic books being produced today

But I love these older comics the comics that are similar to those that were in my uncle's original collection.

The older comics can sometimes be really hard to find and they can go for some pretty steep prices.

I'm cheap, I want to pick up these old comics, but I don't want to pay their high prices.

Comic book prices are somewhat standardized. There's this book called the Overstreet Comic Price Guide.

This book it lists the current value of every comic and it's regularly updated because the

comic values, their prices change over time.

When I first started collecting comics seriously,

once I was working and I was able to look for comics,

I believe that if the overstreet guide said that comic was worth

a hundred bucks, then I would just have to give up ever owning that comic. I mean I wasn't going to pay

that much. So over time I noticed I started to learn that a comics value that his price was based on more than just what the guide said.

Growing up, I essentially only shopped at a couple of comic book stores that were local to my house. But as I began college, moved to the house, started traveling, I started visiting more and more comic stores, and that's when I started to notice how varied the prices of comics could be.

I learned it wasn't, it was not just the comic itself that necessarily set the price or value, but it was how

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