Category: Comic Collecting 101
As we turn the page on 2022 and look towards 2023, what will 2023 have in store for the comic book investing market? Any experienced stock investor will tell you to never time the market. Instead, if you have the money, keep investing during this buyer's market...
I have waited for this holiday season for the whole year. I have been preparing my list and now I am ready for an article that needed to be written. Here it is, in the spirit of the season... Bring out that aluminum pole, because I am...
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...
