Category: Comic Collecting 101

Blogger Dome: Direct Editions VS Variants

Welcome back to the Blogger Dome! Here, bloggers will argue different topics involving the comic book market and industry.  This will be a combination of the Big Bang Theory meets the WWE.  Smack talk mixed with comic book debates.  Bloggers going at each other to amuse and...

Request to Our GoCollect Readers: Tell Us What You Want

I have been writing for GoCollect for a few months.  I  write about different topics to keep things interesting.  Now I want to do something completely different.  I want to know about you, the GoCollect Readers.  This information is an important factor in determining what we will...

The Myth of 9.8: Looking at Graded Comics

Is there such a thing as a perfect comic book?  Grading companies use a scale of 1 to 10 to describe the condition of a book when grading comics. Only a handful of graded comics have ever received a perfect 10.  As a result, a 9.8...

Blogger Dome: Slabbed vs Raw

Welcome to the very first Blogger Dome!  Here, bloggers will argue different topics involving the comic book market and industry.  This will be a combination of the Big Bang Theory meets the WWE.  Smack talk mixed with comic book debates.  Bloggers going at each other to amuse and...

Treat Your Comic Collection like an Investment Portfolio

Dividend-yielding stocks, growth stocks, and commodities are all aspects of a well-rounded financial investment portfolio. What if I told you that Gold and Silver Age keys, Bronze Age keys, and Modern Age speculation books can be segmented and diversified in the same way? If you are looking...

Why 6.5/5.5 CGC's are the Best Comic Book Buys Right Now

That's a bold statement right? Knowing exactly which comic book grades are the best buys is difficult to do. However, if you look at the numbers and do some research, it's not THAT difficult. I believe that CGC 6.5 and 5.5 are the...

Comic Book Investment Mistakes and Lessons Learned

George Lucas is a very successful filmmaker.  He gave us Indiana Jones and Darth Vadar.   However, this very same man gave us crystal skulls and Jar Jar Binks.  His track record demonstrates that even with successes we can also experience failures.  Here are a...

Buying Bound Comic Readers: Better than Digital

In the first article of this series, I talked about some Golden Age gems locked away in hardback tomes.  Next, I followed with Silver Age Bound Comics and illustrated the disparity...

Silver Age Bound Comics: Grails Disguised as Library Books

"With great power comes great..." well you know... Amazing Fantasy #15.  Besides being a comic EVERYONE would love to have in their collection, it rises above all other Silver Age comics.  The first appearance of Spider-Man is the...

Bound Volume Comics: University Library Or Your Bookshelf

A long time ago in a land far away, I heard of mythical, ancient tomes of great value.  These artifacts of bygone times contained the treasures of decades past.  But, they were sealed not in Mylar...