Category: Comic Collecting 101
Tracking returns is not only fun but can be profitable; who doesn't want to see their Venom first appearance increase fifty percent? The key metric that GoCollect uses is "trend returns." This is essentially a percentage of the increase in a particular comic book over...
If you’re anything like me, the first thing you do in January is mark your calendar with all the Comic-Cons you want to attend and all the Cons you are just thinking about going to for the year; both big and small. That’s what we...
One of the greatest joys as a collector is meeting your favorite creator. The second greatest joy is getting them to sign one of your favorite books. The issue comes up when you try to get that book graded. If you send it to CGC you get...
If you collect comic books, you have heard about the art (and science) of pressing comic books. This is the act of taking a comic book that has existing wrinkles, folds, creases, waviness, non-color breaking ticks or damaged in a way that makes the comic book no...
If you haven't read this three-part "X" series, starting with Earth X, spilling from the mind of Alex Ross with Jim Krueger at the helm, here's why you might want to. Way back in 1997, Wizard Magazine asked the legendary Alex Ross to create a possible...
The comic book investing community is fairly small, locally. It often is only a few dozen speculators all trying to grab some books and slab as fast as they can; "turn and burn baby!" In order to make as much money as possible, and...
If you are any type of comic book collector you spent your fair share of time digging in longbox after longbox full of comic books; both the back issue bins and the dollar bins for that matter. We purposely look through the longboxes to find missing issues...
One of the biggest issues about being a collector is keeping tabs on all of your books. For example, if I asked you to name every book in your collection could you? Unless you only have a few books, the answer is no. So how as collectors...
Just because it wasn't first doesn't make it last, at least not in the comic collecting world. Here are more second print comics and beyond that are worth your time. Second Print Keys Some famous second print comics are missing from today's post, and that's...
Restored books are a tough corner of the market to figure out. Each one is unique, and value can fluctuate wildly. So let's think it through a metaphor. I've owned a lot of cars. I've had '66 Barracudas, two '72 Dodge Darts, a...
