Category: Investment Speculation
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...
Crossing their fingers for a mighty payoff, collectors and investors were stockpiling those Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania keys. Meanwhile, Eminem was making waves across the secondary market. Whenever there’s a new superhero movie on the horizon, it sends...
The 1990s were a wild time in the comic book industry. The hobby was on fire in the early part of the decade with X-Men and Spider-Man books selling millions of copies. There was also a rush of speculators driving prices up. Kids growing and collecting in...
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...
My Comic Shop held their latest Prime Auction January 9 through January 13. While these auctions are at a slightly lower level than Heritage, ComicConnect, or Hakes auctions, there are typically some big sales of comics of note. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights...
