The most difficult part of any investment or speculation is not knowing what to buy, but knowing when to sell. Perhaps you have purchased a collection or gone to your local retail comic book shop and purchased hundreds of books over the years. Now, you...
Do you feel that? That’s the heat from this week’s Hottest Comics, led by a charging Vigilante. What are the Hottest Comics? This is an index of the 100 best-selling single issues across the most famous auction site in all the internet, eBay....
Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game icon -- which many of us grew up with! There was something enchanting about playing the speedy little hedgehog around the different zones on a rainy summer afternoon. The Sega Genesis came into the video game scene with a bang,...
Known affectionately as “The Irreverent One,” Billy Graham was Marvel’s first black artist. Though his tenure was brief, he left a lasting impact on Marvel storytelling, particularly in his work on Hero for Hire and Black Panther. Let’s take a look at this influential artist’s work and...
The hot rumor has it that Sony is developing a new Spider-Man movie with Knull as the villain. Whether or not it’s true is a different story, but the market is surging for the God of the Symbiotes’ key issues all the same. Here's a...
What X-Men issue should you buy? Further, how have recent sales impacted the price of X-Men comics? Is this investment too "mutated" to recognize and dissect? Let's take a look at X-Men #133. Chris Claremont put the X-Men on the...
With Moon Knight, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on the horizon, most collectors are speculating on the first appearance of the Sun King in Moon Knight #188, the first appearance of Shuma-Gorath in
The key to any good experiment is starting on the right foot. My first step was to find out more about the grading process from someone who understood pressing, cleaning, and grading. My choice for obtaining this information was to approach CGC President Matt Nelson and...
A few months ago, near the end of 2021, there was a lot of buzz around an indie game called Gas Station Simulator. The day after its release Gas Station Simulator rocketed to #3 on Steams list of Top Sellers, and is now sitting at #105. So...
Marvel’s Super Bowl ads have taken the comics community by storm, and those Moon Knight and Multiverse of Madness keys are trending in major ways. Think of digging deeper into the Hottest Comics rankings as solving a puzzle. You...
There was no catching up to Amazing Fantasy #15 over the past month as Spidey’s first appearance cracked the $250k mark and set a record high for a 7.0. Let's dive into this month's Silver Age Chartbusters That MCU...
Buyers were shying away from Spider-Gwen #1 and Amazing Spider-Man #194 in this week’s edition of the Coldest Comics. What are the Coldest Comics? These are the issues that saw the most significant drop in...
What if I told you that you could go back in time about 20 years to when comic books were first being graded? What raw books would you race out to purchase, knowing they’d be worth a ton of money once you got them graded? ...
Sony has found its Madame Web in Dakota Johnson, but which version of the character will she play? That should have you on the trail of these key issues. The big news this week has been Madame Web. When news first began circulating...
Analyzing the Hottest Silver Age Comics of the last 30 days is a case study of both what lies behind us and what lies ahead. Four of the five books below and over 40% of the entire top-100 list are comprised of Spider-Man...
Stranger Things took the world by storm when it made its debut on Netflix in 2016. Since then the sci-fi/horror show has seen countless merchandise, fan experiences at large conventions, and even a pinball machine! In 2019 Stern released their take on the upside-down with three unique...
For better or worse, the MCU is one of the most important drivers in today's comic book collecting market. In some ways, it makes sense for a blockbuster franchise like the MCU to drive up prices; the MCU embeds these characters into pop culture. On the other...
Millennials are defined as the generation born between 1981 – 1996. Like all consumers between the ages of 26 and 41, they are poised to have a massive impact on the collectibles market. And like every generation, they seek touchstones of their childhood and are willing to...
Considering comic book publishers literally print hundreds of thousands of pages per year, and have for 60+ years, there are bound to be a few mistakes. A quick search online will turn up dozens of references to famous mistakes in comic books, from the mundane to the...
Blade is officially in the MCU, and the ramifications will jumpstart the market for his key issues. Lucky for you, there’s more to collect than just that elusive first appearance. Let's take a look at some Blade keys worth keeping an eye out for.
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