Category: Investment Speculation
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...
Apocalypse was no match for the secondary market as X-Factor #6 held this week’s title of Coldest Comic. Winter’s chill was spreading across the marketplace, and En Sabah Nur felt its wrath. At least he wasn’t alone, and that...
In general, most investors tend to invest in heroes and not villains. Exceptions to this rule are the first appearances for villains who first appear in Detective Comics and The Amazing Spider-Man. After Batman, Spider-Man has the greatest rogue's gallery of villains in all of Marvel Comics:...
Don't miss out! Here are a couple of books that I suspect will rise in value in the near future. This is great news for comic enthusiasts. Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown... A tale of two Kings. One King owns all of...
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 Green...
The 1990s were a golden age for card collecting. The hobby was never more popular with both kids and adults visiting their local store and card shows and poring over their Beckett issues. And now that many of those 90s kids have kids of their own, they...
In three previous blogs, I reviewed sales data for Silver, Bronze, and Copper Age key issues to determine if we're currently in a "buyer's market." In this blog, I review the sales data from the Modern Age. The Great Comic Crash of 2022 definitely had an impact...
