Category: Investment Speculation
Hulk 181 may get all the attention, but savvy collectors will be watching The Incredible Hulk #180 as Wolverine’s first cameo appearance has become one of the most stable of investments. For most collectors with normal budgets,
A number of readers have written with queries regarding my blog post of January 3, 2019, entitled “Predicting Demand Using CGC Data” (see here). Reader feedback is always appreciated. In the spirit of sharing insights that can, hopefully, benefit all collectors, I’d like to reply...
Spider-man’s comics top the charts in terms of the movers and shakers of the collectible comic world. Right now, Spidey has the second most popular Silver Age (Amazing Spider-man #50) and the second most popular Bronze Age title (Amazing Spider-man #252). Let’s take a look at...
Knowing when to buy a comic is just as important as knowing when to sell. Most of the time, we can get a good sense of when certain comics are in demand and so desired by many people. That is, we all know when such and...
Were you upset by Netflix recently canceling basically all the Marvel series? I was. Each of the series had their high points, as well as their low points, but as a whole they were quality, entertaining Marvel deliverables. I think we can all agree there was...
Hype sells comics, and the top-five best-selling comics of 2018 all benefited from massive amounts of promotions from DC and Marvel. The problem is that none of them are holding their values. According to Comichron, based on data from Diamond Comic Distributors, the best-selling...
Dark Horse Comics' Black Hammer series has quietly gained value for two years, and it's only getting hotter now that Legendary Entertainment has optioned the title for possible movie and television projects. For the past couple of years, I have been worried that Dark Horse Comics was...
Miles Morales has finally hit the big screen; the animation spectacular Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has arrived and it is driving many comic book prices including but not limited to Ultimate Fallout #4. This is the first appearance of Miles Morales Marvel's latest version of Spider-Man. It...
Conan the Barbarian has returned to Marvel Comics, and his new series is a hit with fans. With the rekindled mainstream interest comes a modest boost in his key issues. Could a full-fledged boom be on the way? CONAN #1 (MARVEL) For the...
Comic book buying and selling, just like a lot of other kinds of economic activity, is directly affected by the laws of supply and demand. However, in the case of comics, demand is far more important than supply. This leads to the real problem of how...
