Author: Norman Robinson
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!" No, it is the price of Action Comics #1 ascending to the stratosphere in value! The first appearance of Superman just sold for a record-breaking $3.25 million. This book sold for over $2 million in June...
The comic book market is hot as ever. One of the prized books in our comic book speculative frenzy is Giant-Size X-Men #1. This book sold on eBay for $22,500! It is the first appearance of the new improved modern X-Men. A book that is so popular...
Batman and the Punisher have fallen from the Top100 most popular books on GoCollect.com over the last month. Are these two books, one a MacFarlane key and the other the Punisher's first self-title, continuing to circle the toilet bowl of speculation? Let's review their free-fall from the...
I have been investing in one form or another my entire life. Over the last 40 years, I have tried mutual funds, index funds, stocks, bonds, gold, and most especially collectibles. Many I failed with, but most proved to be a good bet on my future. Before...
Powerful villains are important in Marvel, but only one bruiser could go toe-to-toe with the Hulk without a scratch. That man is Cain Marko. Who? Yep, you might have guessed it, The Juggernaut. The superhero requires one thing to be a crime-fighting hero. Is it brawn, brains,...
This is one of those rare cases when a collectible is obviously very happy to see you. What? An inanimate object happy to see a collector, what the heck are you talking about? Obviously, I am referring to the infamous Star Wars "Error Card." Why is it...
The dirty little secret of Secret Wars #1 was that it was everywhere after 1984. If you purchased comics or even went near a comic shop you would see one. At that point, they had printed so many and fans were seriously disappointed with the overall story,...
Errors are fantastic for baseball cards and comic books. They come in all forms, double covers, missing colors, miss-priced, mistakenly printed in black and white, or even an error variant where the comic book has no issue number. How do you look that up on GoCollect? This...
This week, Batman #22 has taken the number one spot of Golden Age popularity in comic books. What return trend can we expect for the most popular Golden Age book of the last few weeks? Further, how many ranks has this book advanced? Batman...
G.I. Joe has many interesting rogues, but few as nuanced and entertaining as the deadly mercenary, Zartan. Zartan's first appearance in comics is worth about $600 in near mint to mint condition. How does Zartan's comic book compare to his original action figure from 1984? Further, what...
