Comic Chaos is a Southern Arizona online store buying comic books and collections from the Golden Age, Silver Age, and Bronze ages, as well as select modern comics. If you’re wondering “how do I sell my comic book collection?” then I’d like to think you’ve come to the right place.
My name is Robert, and I travel to purchase comics for my personal collection as well as for resale on my eBay store. I live south of Tucson, Arizona, but I’ll hit the road to any destination in the American southwest to pick up a collection that fits my purchasing criteria. For the right comic book collection I’ll travel anywhere in the lower 48! l buy individual back issue comics or entire collections, and I don’t need to cherry pick just the good books. If you wish to sell your comics, please visit my buying comic books page for details on what I’m looking for.
Who, or What, is Comic Chaos?
In 1970 my family traveled east on our annual pilgrimage to my grandparents’ house in Edinboro, PA. I was a fidgety, bored 10-year-old and grandma saw how desperately I needed something to occupy my butterfly brain. Perhaps in frustration she walked me down to the drug store and directed me to the comic spinner near the door. The first comic book I bought was Incredible Hulk 132. It had a 15¢ cover price, which to a 10 year-old with a $1 a week allowance was an enormous investment! I spent the rest of that vacation finding ways to earn nickels and dimes, so that by the time I returned home I’d amassed a collection of seven or eight comics.
By the time I was twenty I’d amassed a collection of around 4,000 comics. But in 1985, while serving in the USAF, I sold the entire lot. I convinced myself I was done with childhood things, and the comics just had to go. Of course there’s more to it, but that’s a story in itself.
Throughout the years I kept returning to comics. Wherever I lived I found a local comic book store and created a pull list. When I finally decided to start collecting on a large scale again, I decided to focus on the comic books I grew up with. There’s a tremendous amount of talent in the modern comic world, and I still read a lot of new stories, but for me, artists like Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Barry (Windsor) Smith, set an incredibly high bar.