hey how's it going how you doing today good what do we got here i have the first introduction of
thor it's a journey in the mystery comic book okay it's pretty amazing i know a lot about thor
the god not really the comic book character um you know as far as the comic book character goes
yeah you have superman and spider-man and the hulk and all this and then you have a god
i'm here at the pawn shop today to start my journey into mystery comic book
what's really special about this particular comic book is it's the first appearance of thor in a
comic book i've had it for a couple of years now but i could use the money i want to start
traveling a little bit so i'm hoping to sell that comic book for about a hundred thousand dollars
all right pretty cool the actual mythical god thor he was the god of sacred groves trees
lightning thunder and a few other things yeah i don't know that much about the comic
book character i just know that's what thunder was was thor hitting something with his hammer
so you know when this came out i believe around 1962
okay i'm not wearing my glasses so like who wrote this stanley story jack kirby and steve ditko art
the only one i really know about is stan lee who was like you know he wasn't an artist but
he was like the most famous story writer for marv lyon he came up with spider-man
obviously he came up with this the introduction right there stanley's one of those guys you
know he's probably the most famous comic book guy there ever was or ever will be
so where'd you get this at uh my brother okay he just gave it to you well he used to draw from
marvel comics years ago all right super cool uh so you sent it in and got it created yeah i sent it
and got it graded and it's got a great rating on it too it's got an 8.5 um comic books where they
first introduce a character those ones are always worth money um this one being the introduction of
thor which is now like a huge part of the marvel universe you definitely have something here
so i mean you're looking to sell this yeah i'd like to sell it how much were you looking for
about a hundred thousand a hundred thousand dollars all right um and just think of all
those comic books i threw away when i was a kid me too i mean all i can tell you i'm a little
overwhelmed with it i know a comic book from this era in this grade with the introduction
of a character it's got to be worth a whole lot of money i just don't know how much right right
so let me have someone take a look at it and uh we'll go from there i mean we're talking a lot
of money here sounds good yeah i'll give steve a call thank you i'm hoping that the expert will
validate my asking price actually what do we have today we have thor well look at that huh
beautiful so we have the first appearance of thor stanley and jack kirby of course very famous
co-creators of the entire marvel universe and thor is the fifth character that came along
in the marvel universe just after spidey standed the plot jack created the costume
so again a great year 1962 for marvel breakout year okay so that was this comic series yes
well basically issue 82-1 featured suspense mystery stories no superheroes and then as the
superheroes began to grow instead of like creating a brand new title just for thor they just said
okay why don't we just throw thor and jon into mystery okay and then soon after that he got
his own comic book yes in 1966. all right now um she's asking a hundred thousand dollars for this
oh all right so first things first cgc is the grading company here
the good thing is is they've done the heavy lifting for us an 85 of a book like this and
this book has white pages that is astounding which means that somehow this book was stored in an
environment where the pages didn't turn brown or off-white that is a major selling point okay and
what would it retail for right now if i was to take this book to my store put a price ticker
on it sixty thousand dollars yep steve man i appreciate you coming down buddy all right thanks
man appreciate it all right well good luck thank you it's a lot more than the 12 cents on the cover
yeah definitely a good return on your money okay so what would be your best price on it
60 000. well i mean it wouldn't be the smartest business move to buy it for 60 when i could
sell it for that but i'll give you 30. um that's cash you don't have to retail it you don't have
to put it in an auction or anything like that you don't have to wait a year to get paid 50
000. at 50 000 there's no money in it for me i mean i get if i sell it here i got to pay
commissions and everything else like that if i sell it at an auction there's auction fees
i'll give you 40. 40 000 is a reasonable cash offer okay okay i'll go 40. all right
sweet thank you all right uh you want to go write her up yeah come with me
well i was asking a hundred thousand but forty thousand dollars is still a
good amount of money so i'm going to help my brother out a little bit with some bills and then
the rest of the money i'm just going to go travel
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