Category: Investment Speculation
Selected issues from Wings Comics, the aviation anthology title from Fiction House, has been selling for very high prices lately. In this post I’ll take a look at the Wings comic and speculate about what’s driving collector appeal for these books. From around 1940 to...
The first female Hulk was also the last Marvel superhero created by the late, great Stan Lee. He only wrote the first issue and that was Stan's last superhero at Marvel. Accordingly, Stan says he "created her to craft a smart female hero who also had the Hulk's brute strength. Though it has been said...
The comic market can be exciting and confusing all at once. As in any market, there is bound to be forces like supply and demand. If you understand these forces, you may be able to get a competitive edge on the market. Thankfully for speculators, the comic...
It’s hard to think of a comic book writer with a more devoted following than Kentucky native Robert Kirkman. If he had only developed and published the Walking Dead comics, his would be an important voice in the medium. However, this storyteller extraordinaire is also a...
The Swamp Thing gets no love from Warner Bros., not these days. After one, exceptional episode and rave reviews they decide to, yep cancel the series. The shocking news hit fans like an olfactory assault by a Louisianna Bayou. Apparently, the showrunners producers, director, and actors were...
Jack Kirby's cosmic stories are taking over movie screens, and DC could have the better commodity in hand with his Fourth World. Here are the keys you'll want to add to your collections. From the silver age Eternals to the bronze age Fourth World, "King" Kirby's ideas...
Here we build on the idea of value investing through grade speculation from a previous article, Value Investing – Theory. Inefficiencies in market pricing exist, but how does it evolve over a given amount of time? Does fair market value indeed trend towards normalization? In...
There’s great anticipation for James Gunn’s take on the DC ‘Suicide Squad’ project. While it is still unclear if Gunn’s movie will be a sequel or a total reboot and relaunch of 'Suicide Squad', we do know a few things about the cast and the villains...
Space is all the rage nowadays, I attribute it to the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. After all, like James Gunn, or hate James Gunn he created two good movies. I might even go so far as to say great movies from a sci-fi standpoint. Both...
A complaint I regularly hear from readers and other collectors is how they’ve always wanted a particular book, their Holy Grail book, but it’s out of reach. This may be because they didn’t buy it at the right time and it’s since gone ‘out of control’...
