For the past few days, I've been sorting through adult comics.

Lots of them. Separating those with collectible value from the worthless ones, and listing the collectible ones on eBay, all from the comfort of my Mom's kitchen.

Mom's out of town. I hope to have the comics all cleared away by the time she returns.

So how did I come to have these explicit comic books in my possession? Well, it all started the weekend before last...

If you stop by here often, you might recall me speaking about an upcoming yard sale a few weeks ago. That sale happened on Mother's Day weekend. It was a multi-household sale with me, my mom, and a couple of her neighbors all contributing things to sell. One of my mom's neighbors has a rental unit that had been abandoned by the tenant. I told him I was making some pretty decent side funds by selling things on eBay, and his face lit up.

"There's a bunch of stuff in that old house, if you want to take a look through it," he said. "Some of it might be quite valuable."

"Sure," I said. "I'll come by and take a look at it sometime next week. If I see anything I can sell, I'll take it off your hands or we can split the profit somehow."

"Um, okay," he said. "It's porn."

"Oh."

"Yeah, so..."

"What kind of porn?"

"Mostly comic books."

"Oh."

Now, I'm no prude, but I must admit that I didn't even know that adult comic books were a thing. And I'd never sold or bought from eBay's adult category, so I wasn't even sure it existed until later, when I looked it up in the seller guides. After I found out that I could, in fact, list porn on eBay, I gave my mom's neighbor a call and set up a time to come look at what his tenant had left.

The house was musty and dark. It had been over a year since the tenant moved out, leaving boxes of stuff behind. Apart from the comics, there were boxes of regular porn magazines--Penthouse, Playboy, etc.--and DVDs, a bunch of computer stuff, clothes, dishes, books, you name it.

The comics, though. Once I saw them, I knew I should grab them and do the research to find out if there were any valuable pieces in the collection. All in all, it was two huge boxes of adult comic books in really nice condition. Some of them even bagged in plastic sleeves. Several had stickers on them with prices like $10 - $25. But they were older, from the nineties, eighties, even some from the seventies. So I figured they might have appreciated in value since then.

"I'll take them," I said.

"Great," said my mom's neighbor. "How does a fifty-fifty split sound?"

"Oh."

"Okay, eighty-twenty."

"I'll take them."

"Great."

So I lugged the two large boxes of pornographic comics across the road to my mom's house (she'd already left town to visit her sisters up north), along with a giant box of Magic The Gathering cards, books, and accessories. I spent the rest of the afternoon doing research, looking up titles like "Tits & Clits", "Cherry Poptart", and "Mara of the Celts".

Oh, and my favorite: "Time Wankers".

I discovered that the entire comics collection is worth somewhere in the $400 - $500 range, if I sell it in small, related lots.

So that's what I've been doing! And I'll need to finish up by the end of this weekend, before my mom gets home. I don't want her to have a stroke when she sees her kitchen.

By the way, if you (or a friend, wink wink) are interested in bidding on one of my collectible adult comic book lots, you can check them out at my eBay page. And make sure to let eBay know you're okay with seeing adult stuff, or they won't show it to you.

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