Category: Investment Speculation
Everyone knows that the movies, especially in the MCU directly impact the price of comics. We also know that if a new villain or superhero just appears for the first time in the MCU on film; then the corresponding origin and first appearance of that character in...
Many people like to emphasize the social allegory aspect of the X-men stories. The Marvel mutants, we are told, were a metaphor for the burgeoning civil rights movement, with mutants standing as symbols for unfairly treated minorities in society. We know the X-Men will eventually make...
April is around the corner and a good time to check some of my New Year's picks and see if any of them are panning out. I reviewed three character first appearances or first series: Spawn, Carnage, and Wolverine. These were the strong possibilities of becoming 2019...
In the past year, values for Amazing Spider-Man #39 have been on the rise, but no one seems to be talking about it. What makes that issue special? It’s the first issue drawn by John Romita, Sr. Silver age...
"The darkest hour is just before the dawn." - Thomas Fuller. It seems like we are really going speculation crazy now that we are about a month from Avengers: End Game. Personally, I have been working overtime trying to speculate the future and get a jump...
Marvel’s Symbiotes (the Klyntar) are everywhere these days. Did you pick up on the allusions to All Black the Necrosword in Hela’s character (when she uses her powers) in 2017’s ‘Thor Ragnarok’? If you saw ‘Venom’ (I did and can admit I actually liked it!) it...
Suddenly everyone is a Taskmaster fan. Thanks to the recent Black Widow movie news, prices for Avengers #196 are soaring to record highs in only days. Marvel Studios can light up the collectors market like nothing else....
For the longtime X-Men fans, the series may have originated in the silver age, but it wasn't until the bronze age that the team was truly born. These keys from the 1970s are the backbone of any solid X-Men collection, and they're only going to be more popular when the mutants crash the MCU party....
As the market watches for the X-Men keys to enter into their own solar system, let's take a closer look at the five best-selling X-Men comics from the silver age. 1. X-MEN #1 It's no surprise that the debut issue of X-Men...
Everyone knows DC and Marvel, and for some people Image or perhaps IDW comics might complete their set of ‘comics worth buying’. When you think of older companies, however, maybe you think of Charlton or Goldkey – both now defunct- but there were many other comic...
