Category: Investment Speculation
According to GoCollect's list of Most Popular Comic Books, one of the hottest books in the country right now is The Uncanny X-Men #211 (UXM #211). As of January 30, UXM #211 shot up 984 spots to #15 on that list. Yes, that's right...
Why has Incredible Hulk #181 always been a key Bronze Age book, while Wolverine's (controversial) first appearance/first cameo, Incredible Hulk #180, has lagged behind? The cover of course! Let's take a look at first cover appearances and why they matter. Or...
With ELEVEN Classic Comics issues vaulting up the weekly chart and entering the top 100, sneaky moves might not be what we can call the run Classic Comics is enjoying right now. Speculation from part one seems to be fulfilled after this week's chart sees each of...
We all know about Shang-Chi's first appearance in Special Marvel Edition #15 (1973). Considering that Marvel will release a trailer for Shang-Chi & The Legend of the Ten Rings soon (many were expecting to see one during the Super Bowl), this...
I like to think of comic books as the bumper cars of collectibles. My theory is that comic books as investments are very connected and often "bump" one another up in price. What has the average year-to-date return trend been for comic books affected by the bumper...
It's not often that a movie that has completed all filming and editing and then is delayed four separate times, but that's what these pandemic times have presented us with Sony's Morbius. The Jared Leto-led project was originally slated for July 2020 but now...
WandaVision’s epic cameo lit a fire under all things X-Men this week, and X-Men #94 led the pack, making nearly 1,000 gains in the Hottest Comics rankings. ANOTHER WEEK OF RANKINGS The collecting community, at large, had...
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...
Looking at this month's release of the Golden Age Comic Chart, Classic Comics might be making a power move. With four comics in the top 200, three of which moved up more than 800 points, Classic Comics has muscled their way past the likes of Batman and...
It's old news...two months old. But one should chew on data and let it digest rather than gobbling it down and possibly choking. The data relates to two sales of original Spider-Man art. The artists stand as legends, though I would call one classic and the...
