Category: Investment Speculation
Investing in comics has a stigma attached to it. The critics say that viewing comics as investments is destroying the comic industry, and investors are often demonized in comic circles. It's time for that perception to change. The first comic I recall saving up to buy...
If you're at a comic convention and you feel like stirring up trouble, here's what you do: find a booth with a vastly overpriced Hulk #181 (that shouldn't be hard to find), and say, "That's NOT the first appearance of Wolverine." Step back and watch the fireworks....
Marvel has been hinting around the character of Adam Warlock since we got a glance of a cocoon sitting in the gallery of The Collector in Guardians of the Galaxy. They took it up another notch during the end credits of Guardians II, when Ayesha gave...
Did you buy the Thanos #13 second and third prints? If not, you're going to wish you had. Sadly, the Donny Cates/Geoff Shaw Thanos run is part of comic book history, but its influence continues. This week, the top seller will undoubtedly be the premiere issue of...
Comic investing is a gamble, and the bets don't always pay off. As collectors, sometimes we get caught up in the excitement and don't want to miss out on what could be the next huge payday, and we pay too much. It happens to all of us,...
Investing in comics is a gamble. No matter how much research you do, there is a chance you could take a loss. However, there's one comic that is as close to a sure thing as you'll find: Hulk 181. But if you don't have one of your...
Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman continue their hugely successful Venom run as Venom #3 hit shelves yesterday. As the series continues to spark sales, Venom #1 is where you can make your money on the comic market. Venom #3 gives us our first full...
Before there was Silk, Spider-Man crossed paths with Black Cat and Silver Sable. Since their team-up movie has been replaced by Silk's rumored solo film, they've become yesterday's news. Now comic collectors have to ask, how will this affect the value of the duo's first appearances?
Comic fans have known the name Garth Ennis for years, especially after Preacher debuted on television, and mainstream fans are about to get a heavy dose of the Irish writer when The Boys arrives on Amazon Prime next year. That means that now is the time to...
Oh the joy of the Limited Series. A time to try out new characters, story lines, and of course... test some sales. The 1980's and early 1990's were the heyday of the limited series, from Secret Wars to Nomad, we pretty much saw it all. One...
