Daredevil No. 83 is among the comics in the collection being auctioned.
NORRISTOWN PA – Comic book characters like Superman and Spiderman have been fighting fictional crime for years. Now a Montgomery County (PA) law enforcement official is using a national auction service, created by a former Lower Pottsgrove resident, to have them help battle bad guys in a very real way.
County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman on Monday (Aug. 2, 2010) said she was selling to the highest online bidder “a rare comic book collection and a rare sports trading card collection” that were forfeited to her office because both were bought with money from an illegal drug sale. The web-based auction platform Ferman chose is Municibid.com, headed by Greg Berry, a Pottsgrove High School graduate and former North Sanatoga Road resident.
The auction began Monday, and closes next Monday (Aug. 9) at 9 a.m. The collections are being sold separately.
Under Pennsylvania laws, property purchased with proceeds from illegal drug sales can be seized, forfeited and sold, Ferman explained. She said she plans to use the money generated by the auctions “to enforce drug laws throughout Montgomery County.”
Greg Berry
Berry started Municibid in 2006, specifically with an eye on surplus and unneeded items municipal governments and agencies seek to sell for added funds. The service has grown steadily, he noted Tuesday (Aug. 3) in a newsletter article. “While we are strong in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, we are growing faster and faster every day, and moving into new states like Illinois, New Jersey, New York” and elsewhere in the northeast, Berry wrote.
Municbid and Berry were subjects in a July 11 article published by The Boston Globe about where governments are finding non-tax revenue, and in a Philadelphia Business Journal technology column published this week.
Among the 115 comic books being sold are titles that feature “Superman,” “The Amazing Spiderman,” “Daredevil,” and “X-Men.”
All-time sports greats Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Steve Carlton, Joe Namath, Gale Sayers, Michael Jordan and Eric Lindros are some of the personalities contained in the sports trading card collection. Besides finding them online, a complete listing of all cards is available, Ferman said, by calling the District Attorney’s Forfeiture Unit at (610) 278-3107.
Photos from Municibid
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