FCBD sales results

Bleeding cool ran an article that was interesting. It showed recent results from auctions on FCBD books.
Of course, the speculator was frowned upon in the article:

It is clearly a terrible thing that comics intended to be given away free are being snapped up and flipped on eBay by speculators in order to turn a quick buck from what was an outreach program to increase the amount of comic book readers for this struggling medium.

So there was that little bit of nastiness, but here is their “price guide” for recent FCBD books:
$5
Valiant Armor Hunters
Steam Wars
FUBAR
V Wars
Futures End
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Spongebob Squarepants
Les Miserables
Ipso Facto
Kaboom Summer Blast
Archie Digest
Overstreet
Atomic Robo
Raising A Reader
$6
Grimm Fairy Tales
Hello Kitty
2000AD
Rocket Raccoon (signed $20)
Entropy
Smurfs
Valiant Universe
Donald Duck
Transformers Vs GI Joe #0
Epic #0
Street Fighter
Bartman Button
New Worlds Of Aspen
The Tick
$7
Sonic The Hedgehog
Bongo Free For All
all you need is kill fcbd
$8
Project Black Sky
Uber
Avatar: The Last Air Bender
$9
Zombie Tramp
Sherwood Texas
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
$10
Hip Hop Family Tree
$12
Mouse Guard
Red Giant Bundle
$15
Heroclix Batman
$20
Skottie Young Shirt
Have you all had success with selling the FCBD 2014 books? I did let go the HC Mouse Guards for $9 each (sold four copies).

11 thoughts on “FCBD sales results”

  2. Been selling most of mine for between $3 and $6 a piece. My 4 mouse guards went the quick for $7-$10 a piece. Out of the 50 plus books I ended up getting, I have about 8 left.

  3. I’m fair on free comic book day, I grab one of each of the ones I want (same goes for kids) and we keep them to read. 🙂

      1. I did get only reading copies, mostly. I was at four different stores on FCBD to hit up the sales. So at the other stores I got the Mouse Guard book with the intention of selling it.

      2. Yeah, only one shop I visited had the Mouseguard. It’s a nice book, especially since it’s a hard cover.

  4. Yeah i love FCBD, but i also just get one copy and keep them to read. I would feel bad selling them, my shop paid for them and he’s nice enough to give me one of every one of the 40 or so he got. I guess I could have spent some money on gas and went to a couple other stores within an hour from me to pick up doubles but i wasn’t feeling it.

    1. I went to four different stores and dropped cash in each of them. For one of the stores (my LCS) i only grabbed one book for me and two books for my son (power rangers and Rocket Raccoon) i grabbed the hardcovers at the other three. I do not feel bad about selling the books I grabbed at the other shops. The purpose is to get people in to buy comics, which I did, as I do not normally travel to these stores.

      1. I would argue that the real reason for FCBD is to draw in new readers with free comic books.

        1. I agree it is. However a lot of retailers will tell you that people come in grab the books don’t drop a dime and then are not seen again until the first Saturday in May the next year.

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