Category: Comic Collecting 101
Looking back on 2022, it was a brutal year for comic book investors. For much of 2020 and 2021, we saw a boom in comic book values that we may never see again. Not surprisingly, those values crashed in 2022. That is not necessarily a bad thing,...
Have you ever wondered why so many comic book villains wear the colours green and purple? Whether it be Marvel's Green Goblin or DC's Joker or Lex Luthor, there have been countless villains throughout comic book history all sporting costumes of these same two colours.
Self-service methods to sell comic books were discussed in Part One of this series. Those comic books can be anywhere from higher-end books to low-end filler copies. The pluses and minuses were discussed. Now the other side of the comic book spectrum is visited. Let us now...
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...
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