Category: Key Issues
The Bronze Age was a time of change across media. You had a new generation of movie directors coming on the scene, TVs we’re getting bigger and more vivid, and the Internet was in its infancy. Comic collecting was also just starting to gain...
"Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman"! One of the most famous quotes in comic history from DC Comics' Superman. Similarly, Marvel has numerous heroes that are very comparable to the powers of Superman. Heroes such as Hyperion, Sentry, and...
I'm going to outline my strategy for comic book speculation, especially online, given our current situation. These maxims can apply to all comic book collecting as well, regardless of an intent to sell. Given that speculation should be approached as a business, take...
These days, independent comics are being optioned left and right for movies or TV shows. Some comics get the option treatment shortly after they are released and some will receive notification after being in the market for years. The risk of investing and speculating in comic...
Graded slabs have taken charge of the market recently, with an enormous cost uptick to raw comics. There has been a silent ongoing battle for the soul of comic collectors and investors everywhere. That battle quite simply is between purists who collect only raw comics and...
While there is no way to estimate the long-term economic impact of COVID-19 on collector's markets, we can take a look at our options. Let's see if you should buy, sell, or hold tight. Recently, Matt Tuck, a fellow GoCollect blogger provided valuable insight into the...
Everyone loves to read a comic where the villain has Machiavellian plans to destroy the hero. We refer to these villains as masterminds, a type of villain rarely satisfied with a duke it out approach. These arch-criminals deserve their time under the speculative lamp. Certainly of...
Would you pay for a live-action Thundercats movie? How about Voltron? I would wager that I am not the only one pondering those questions, and that's why it's a great time to invest in the 1980s' cartoon firsts. With the effects of the coronavirus pandemic shutting down...
Are the Modern, Bronze and Silver Age comic books still profitable in today's turbulent economy? The state of affairs is rough, oil is getting hammered, the Dow has lost a third of its value, and a pandemic has flatlined the two largest state economies in the United...
Those 1980s relics are hot commodities these days, and it pays to have kept those old G.I. Joe, Transformers, and even Masters of the Universe comics for all these years.
