Category: Investment Speculation
So much of comic book collecting and investing nowadays is dominated by modern books. With the endless variants, store exclusives, and first appearances of ultimately insignificant characters, many investors, especially those who prefer older books, often feel ignored and left out of the conversation. Fortunately, we here...
Comic collecting really began to boom in the 1980s. Rather than reading their book and throwing them in the trash, people began to put them in bags and boards and held onto them. Here are the 80's books that every kid wanted to get their hands on....
Deadpool 3 will see the Merc with a Mouth enter the MCU Multiverse, and the odds are high that Lady Deadpool will make her live-action arrival. Here at the Oddball of the Week Awards, we (and by we, I mean just...
The past year has been awful for comic book investors. In 2021, we witnessed a boom in comic book values that we may never see again. Not surprisingly, that bubble burst in 2022. That is not necessarily a bad thing, as this crash may have created buying...
Sports Card collecting exploded in the 1980s. They were no longer things that your Mom threw in the trash or that you put on the spokes of your bicycle. Here are some cards that readily appeared in Beckett each month. 1988 Topps Bo Jackson Football ...
With James Gunn and Peter Safran relaunching the DCU and prepping a new slate of films to reintroduce characters, now is the time to consider adding some DC comics to your collection – before anything is announced and prices rapidly rise. Let’s take a look at The...
Speculators are drooling over the latest MCU news as buyers scramble for those Quasar keys. The latest buzz in the world of Marvel Studios is that Quasar is quietly getting introduced in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Reports are...
It’s time once more for Undervalued and Overlooked Comics! This time we’ll be looking at a couple sword and sorcery comics and a DC team that is often overlooked. Take a look and see what comics you just might be missing out on. Conan Comes...
Keys are important in comic book collecting and investing. These books have something significant that makes them important. This can be a plot device or something significant about the creative team that is of such importance that the issue is desired by people. The problem is that...
One of the single biggest drivers of comic book speculation nowadays is the MCU. From major characters like Spider-Man all the way down to D-listers like Frog Man, the MCU has fundamentally changed the way people look at comic books. The goal of this...
