Market Trends October 2009
In our second Market Trends installment we will discuss the rising importance of 'pressing' comic books before submitting then for grading.
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Collecting and Investing Tips #6
Buying locally is not a very easy thing to do these days. The internet has all kinds of sites offering to sell you old collectible comics, new weekly comics and everything in between with just the touch of a
Undervalued Spotlight #6
Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika nn, Spire Cristian Comics, 1973 In 1972 a guy named Fleming H. Revell started up a line of religious and inspirational comics called Spire Christian Comics. The line featured many biographical stories including Johnny Cash,…
Crazy Comics Cover: Action Comics #457 "You're not Clark Kent and I can prove it!"
Action Comics #457: “You’re not Clark Kent and I can prove it!” The Cover: We’ve all seen this cover and we’ve all thought that we’re pretty darn lucky this comic wasn’t out during the time of Frederic Wertham or he…
Auction Highlights #5 – Ghost Rider
Auction Highlights has somehow turned into a Friday thing. Check back every Friday for some hard hitting commentary on recent auction and internet sales results. It was announced last week that there are plans to make a second Ghost Rider movie…
Collecting and Investing Tips #5
Diversify Diversifying your investments is all about spreading the risk. As the old saying goes ‘it’s never wise to have all your eggs in one basket’. If you had all your money in real estate and the real estate market tanked…
Undervalued Spotlight #5
Pep Comics #22, MLJ Magazines, December 1941 In Pep Comics #22 (December 1941), MLJ Magazines quietly published an untitled six-page story that featured a girl-crazy teen named Archibald Andrews. Pep Comics was a superhero title featuring the likes of the Shield and the Hangman…
Auction Highlights #4 – ComicLink
Auction Highlights has somehow turned into a Friday thing. Check back every Friday for some hard hitting commentary on recent auction results. This week I’d like to highlight some interesting results from the just finished Comic Link September focused auction (last comic finished…
Collecting and Investing Tips #4
Know your investing goals! Before one starts investing in anything the person should have a clear picture of their investing goals. Are we investing long term, short term, somewhere in the middle or in all three time frames at once. Investing in…
Undervalued Spotlight #4
Strange Tales Annual #2, Marvel Comics, July 1963 This comic contains an original story in which Spidey and Human Torch join forces to beat the bad guys. In what is now classic Marvel fashion our two heroes start off fighting each other. Spidey finally convinces…
Crazy Comic Covers: Action Comics #454 “Superman’s Energy Crisis”
The Cover: Superman is hanging outside a Mcdonald’s knock-off using his superspeed to shovel as many hamburgers inside his gullet as fast as he can, proclaiming that if he stops he will starve to death. This leaves us to wonder…does…
Auction Highlights #3 – CGC 8.5
This week I’d like to examine some recent sales of comics graded at 8.5 (or VF+ for you old timers). A comic graded 8.5 is generally in very nice condition and is considered as high grade for Golden Age, Silver Age and…
Collecting and Investing Tips #3
Know your pet peeves! OK so you’ve figured out your collection focus and you’re doing a pretty good job sticking to it (see Collecting Tips #2 Stan). So why are there still comics in your collection that you don’t like?…
Undervalued Spotlight #3
Tales to Astonish #91, Marvel Comics, May 1967, Battle Cover. The Abomination made his first appearance in Tales to Astonish #90 but since the even number issues of this title had Sub-Mariner covers we had to wait until issue #91…
Auction Highlights #2 – Copper Age
This week I’d like to examine some Copper Age results. The Copper Age is loosely defined by me as comics from the mid/late 1970s to the early/mid 1980s. These comics are commonly found everyewhere. In some cases the trick seems…
Crazy Comic Covers: Superman #282
Superman #282 “Lex Luthor-Superscalp-Hunter” The cover: We’ve got Superman as heroic as ever saving the citizen from a doomed airplane..wait he’s not saving him? He’s actually throwing a criminal from the plane and killing him instead of arresting him? Oh,…
Collecting and Investing Tips #2
Know your comfort zone and try not to leave it! Remember Sesame Street had that great segment about things not belonging. There was a catchy song – “one of these things just don’t belong here, one of these things just has to go…”…
Market Trends September 2009
Comicbookdaily.com’s first look at market trends will examine the growing influence the CGC Census is having on what graded comics are selling for. There is now a very large and very liquid trading arena for graded collectible comics. The internet has…
Undervalued Spotlight #2
Star Spangled War Stories #84, DC Comics, Aug. 1959, 1st Appearance Mme. Marie. Mademoiselle Marie was a French farm girl who joined the resistance to fight the Nazis during WW2, often alongside Sgt. Rock. Her father died in her arms…
Crazy Comic Cover: Action Comics #380
Action Comics #380: “The confessions of Superman” The cover: For all of…