Category: Comic Collecting 101
A while back, I started an experiment here at GoCollect. The focus was to describe a newbie's experience submitting books to be graded. In an attempt to provide our readers greater information on the topic, an extra set of books were added to be graded in a...
In celebration of my 10th Article with GoCollect, I'd like to revisit the subject matter of my first article. Well, sort of. My first article here with GoCollect, titled: Making Sense of Pence was based on a subject I hold very close to my...
Recently, I was in the field listening to retailers at the Motor City Comic Con ("MC3"). The goal was to hear what was moving in sales or generating word-of-mouth interest. The benefit of obtaining that information from conventions is that most of the buyers who come to...
Comic books are considered alternative investments by financial planners. Even if collectors want to classify their interest in the hobby as something else, it does not matter. The IRS does not care if someone says they are a collector because in the end, comic books are investments....
Since posting my first blogs on digital (NFT) collecting, I receive MANY questions about collecting strategies...
37 years of physical comic collecting to digital collecting. Is this for real? Now enjoying my 5th decade on Spaceship Earth, I have been collecting physical comic books on and off for a tad over 37 years since purchasing my first comic at age 14. That book...
I want to pick the brains of our GoCollect universe. In order to elicit your input, I want to offer everyone a chance to win a variant comic. One free Superman 78 #1 Variant edition will be given away to one lucky reader who leaves a comic...
There’s been a lot of talk of copyrights ending within the next decade and what this means for comic books. Many are putting forth the theory that characters created in the 1930s and 1940s and still published to this day will soon be entering the public domain....
Welcome back! In Part 1 of this series, we took a look at the history of newsstand comics and the arrival of the direct market. When we got to Part 2, we analyzed the rarity and survivability of newsstand comics. In...
One of the greatest problems collectors and investors have is deciding how to liquidate all or parts of their accumulation of comic books. Collectors can try to believe they do not have to liquidate any of their books, but eventually selling will become an inevitability, be it...
