As we close out another year, it's a good time to take stock of my comic book portfolio. And let's face it -- 2022 was a brutal year for many comic investors. As I look back on the investments I made in 2021, I sold several for...
Spectacular 100th Issue! Long-awaited...mightiest...special 100th anniversary! I feel like the big announcer voice-guy proclaiming "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday"! And though technically anniversaries happen on a yearly basis, we all love milestone comics like 100, 500, or 1,000. So, on the occasion of my...
Some holy grails were picking up steam in the secondary market in this week’s Trending Comics. The Punisher, Wolverine, even Deathstroke, Echo, and Knull showed their faces on the Hottest Comics rankings. It’s all about that live-action gossip, and the rumor mill is...
Accoutrement…paraphernalia…stuff. Call it what you want, but the best type of these to collect is of the free variety. And so it can go with beer. For those of us classified as beer enthusiasts, extending one’s love for beer to the collecting side of things...
It’s time once more for Undervalued and Overlooked Comics! This time we’ll be looking at some Marvel comics that strayed from their superhero formula in the Bronze Age. Take a look and see what comics you just might be missing out on. Shang-Chi in the...
Spawn #9 continues to have the eBay yo-yo effect, and it rebounded yet again to claim the distinction of the week’s Hottest Comic. As always, the Hottest Comics are based on sales volume alone, so fair market value has nothing to...
Everyone is looking for comic book bargains. Investors want to find them to make a good profit. Collectors want them to save money for future targets. The problem is that many of these bargains are not sexy picks. Rarely do these bargains deal with the MCU, X-Men,...
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...
Are you building an epic PlayStation collection? Then do not sleep on Heritage's PlayStation focus auction, the Power of PlayStation. Featuring 97 unique items from the original PlayStation run, there's enough here to start and build on a collection. While Heritage does do weekly...
Few comic book characters have taken off in the last few years like Miles Morales. From comics to oscar-winning films to best-selling video games, it seems like the character is everywhere. With that popularity comes incredible investment potential for the character and the unique corner of the...
Christmas Wishlist to CGC from a Sports Magazine Collector... Dear CGC, How are things going? I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I want you to know that I’m thankful for you. The grading of sports magazines has opened me up to a new hobby that I...
Collecting trading cards has been a time-honored tradition for generations. From baseball cards to Pokemon cards, there’s a trading card for every kind of fan! Trading card games focus on the gaming aspect of certain trading cards — such as the previously mentioned Pokemon, as well as...
Stephen King’s dark fantasy epic is getting a redo with a new streaming series, and that could be a boon for Dark Tower comic collectors. It’s been a few years since anyone...
For decades, people young and old have been playing video games. From Atari to Playstation, there’s certainly a video game for every collector! Now with graded games, collectors can take their collection to the next level. Each week, Heritage holds a Mini-Boss Select auction, featuring some fine...
Looking back on 2022, it was a brutal year for comic book investors. For much of 2020 and 2021, we saw a boom in comic book values that we may never see again. Not surprisingly, those values crashed in 2022. That is not necessarily a bad thing,...
It's hard to believe we are at the final ComicConnect auction of the year. This year, the popular auction house has sold millions of dollars worth of comics, posters, VHS', and video games. For their final auction of the year, they're giving collectors a spread of hard-to-find...
Collectors were on the lookout for Something Is Killing the Children in this week’s top searches. For once, Marvel didn’t steal the spotlight. When it comes to the Hottest Comics and virtually everything else that happens in the world...
In his 60+-year run, our dear Spidey has had his fair share of stories. We have had some truly amazing adventures with the web crawler, but we have also had some not-so-amazing. Now, if you were to ask the casual comic book fan what the worst Spider-man...
There was a huge Heritage auction in November, and sales from that auction now dominate the Chartbusters list from the past 30 days. Let’s dive deep into the Chartbusters to determine what these sales tell us about the market for the comics every collector wishes they could...
It's hard to believe we are at the final ComicConnect auction of the year. This year, the popular auction house has sold millions of dollars worth of comics, posters, VHS', and video games. For their final auction of the year, they're giving collectors a spread of hard-to-find...
