I set up a dedicated Facebook group called The Great British Comic Collection and have been hard at it since. So far it's been a resounding success with the group already having over 800 members and thousands of comics, books, artwork, gifts etc have already found new homes and £000s have gone to his wife. I still have 90% to go though!
The group has now taken on another string as next week, all auctions will be for charity as John Wagner contacted me and asked if I could use the group to sell a chunk of his collection as his wife wanted the room! They all go live on Sunday the 9th and finish on the 15th with an array of JW goodies from 2000AD comics and Megazines to Graphic Novels including the brilliant Rok of the Reds and Rok the God. The biggest ticket item will be the Judge Dredd Role playing game along with correspondence from the manufacturer to John regarding future participation from him. All proceeds will be going to Cancer Research, Macmillan and SSAFA.
All these items can be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/414468220069644 from Sunday
Here's an example of the weekly auction's of Colin's collection which will finish tomorrow. The current bids are showing:
31. Bear Grylls book – no bids
32. War Picture Library Specials – £13
33. June and Schoolfriend Holiday Special – no bids
34. Signed Crunch #13 - £10
35. Zit #1 – no bids
36. Warrior comics x 12 - £45
37. Swamp Thing - £14
38. Crunch x 12 - £12
39. Amazing Stories of Suspense x 5 - £25
40. For Valour gift - £15
41. Electric Soup x 5 - £50
42. Batman Hush – no bids
43. Luther Arkwright 1, 2 & 3 - £30
44. Battle Monthly x 13 - £13
45. Dandy #70 - £36
46. War Compendiums x 13 – Various bids on 7
47. Judge Dredd poster - £30
48. Insurrection art #1 - £ 110
49. Insurrection art #2 - £150
50. Battle Picture Library Holiday Specials x 5 – £12
51. Various Humour Specials - £17
52. Batman Adventures #1 – no bids
53. Look and Learn x 107 – no bids
54. Western Picture Libraries x 8 - £20
55. Star Wars GNs x 2 - £10
56. Dan Dare Graphic Novel - £7
57. Young Lovers PLs x 10 - £30
58. Signed 2000AD #1000 - £70
59. Cheeky #1 pre issue - £40
60. 2000AD progs 277-299 - £28
61. Leuchars Programmes x 6 - £27