There's treasure hiding in that box.
Point your phone at any cover. Comic Scry shows you which ones are worth saving — no comic knowledge required. Built for the garage sale, the estate auction, your uncle's basement.
Download on the App Store → Free with 5 scans · iPhone
How it works
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Pick
Pull a book out of the box and point your phone at the cover. No account, no setup — just aim.
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Snap
Tap to capture. A quick on-device check catches glare or blur before anything leaves your phone, then Comic Scry identifies the exact issue — and when it can't tell which printing you've got, it asks instead of guessing. A book it's already seen is matched right on your phone, so repeat scans are instant.
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Sort
You get a Scry Value — a tier (Bulk to Major) and a USD range from current eBay asking prices, with its source and date. Then make the call: keep, sell, or bulk-lot. One glance, one decision.
What each scan gives you
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A tier, at a glance
Bulk, Modest, Solid, High, or Major — one badge tells you keep, sell, or bulk-lot, then move to the next book.
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A Scry Value range
A low–high USD range from our own market research — a fast triage signal, not an appraisal.
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The right printing
A 1963 original isn't a 1991 relaunch. When Comic Scry can't tell which printing you've got, it asks instead of guessing.
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Slab-aware pricing
Point it at a graded CGC book and it reads the grade off the label, then values for that grade — not a generic raw range.
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Honest when it's unsure
Stale prices get flagged as a starting point. No good comp? It says so, instead of inventing a number.
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No account, ever
No signup, no sign-in. 5 free scans to try; $19.99 once unlocks 500 lifetime scans. No subscription.
Get Comic Scry
5 free scans to try. $19.99 once unlocks 500 lifetime scans. No subscription. iPhone only.
Download on the App Store → 
Who this is for
If you've ever stood over a box of old comics at an estate sale wondering is any of this worth pulling out? — that's the moment Comic Scry is built for. No comic knowledge required.
It's a triage tool, not a grading tool. It won't tell you the difference between a 9.0 and a 9.2. It will tell you, fast, which covers in a stack of a thousand are worth slowing down on, and which head straight for the bulk lot.
Built in the open
Comic Scry gets a little sharper most weeks — here's the latest from the build.
Quick answers
- Is this a tracker like CLZ or Key Collector?
- No. If you want a collection catalog — wishlists, portfolio value, set completion — use CLZ Comics or Key Collector. They're great at what they do. Comic Scry is for the other moment: when you've got a stack of comics in front of you and need a decision in five seconds. Keep, sell, or bulk-lot. We're complementary, not competing.
- Where does the data come from?
- Cover catalog from the Grand Comics Database — a nonprofit, volunteer-curated open archive the Library of Congress mirrors. Where they archive, we triage. For pricing, the current asking prices on eBay — what other collectors are listing the same book for right now. A market signal, not an appraisal: what people are asking, not what a copy has sold for.
- Do I need a subscription?
- No. 5 free scans to try; $19.99 once unlocks 500 lifetime scans. Credits never expire. There's no subscription tier and there isn't one planned.
- What about slabbed (graded) comics?
- Scan them like anything else. If the book's in a CGC slab, Comic Scry reads the grade off the label and gives you the value for that grade — not a generic raw range. For a raw (ungraded) book you get the raw range as a starting point; grading is still a separate, human call.
- Android?
- Not yet — Comic Scry is iPhone-only for now. It leans on Apple's on-device vision features to stay fast and keep more of the work on your phone. Android is on the roadmap, not the current ship list.