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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 17:55:43 GMT -5
really? That totally makes me want to sell it after I read it. People are nuts... that book is totally going to be in a bargain bin in a year... I'm only still pulling it because I want to encourage the publishers to print their digital offerings (not that it isn't good, because it is)... crazy that it's worth anything, though. I only pulled mine because the Joker is on it...and would eventually get a run of the other issues at a discounted price. Not too sure if it will flip-flop in a year though...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 18:39:20 GMT -5
Tomorrow my comics ship. Six comics in the past two months. My orders are getting smaller and smaller. My September order looks like it may be decent sized, thanks to a few miniseries. Right now I can't afford more, but I will be able to after that September order. Just don't know if I want to keep the pull list small and buy more trades or expand the pull list some.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 18:40:28 GMT -5
What? Wrong thread. Oh well
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 19:03:14 GMT -5
No I buy comics to read. If they turn out to be valuable someday that's an extra bonus.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 7, 2014 20:54:23 GMT -5
I will say that I have rationalized paying a premium for something I really wanted by thinking, "It's okay! It'll be worth twice that in a few years!"
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 7, 2014 21:07:05 GMT -5
I just remembered there was a comic I kind of speculated on.In the early 90s I was working in an office with lots of folks and many knew I had a collection of comics.Some comics had made the news recently for the record prices they commanded.So a few people asked me if there was any comic currently worth investing in.The Simpsons Comics and Stories #1 polybagged just shipped with a cover price of $2.50. I told them that the TV show was growing in popularity and looked like it would be on for awhile so tit seemed to be a good investment.I think there were 5 people I bought one copy each.And then every few months they would ask me whats it worth now.No change said I.And I had to keep giving that answer for a decade.Its now worth what,$5 or $6 if you're lucky.You'd think it would have been a good investment after all these years and the show being an icon
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 21:23:05 GMT -5
I thought Simpsons Comics #1 was worth around $100. I think they have multiple titles though, maybe it was Bongo Comics.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 21:24:03 GMT -5
Just checked, looks like they're all going for about ten bucks. Huh, guess I was wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 21:36:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 21:43:09 GMT -5
There's always one fool. You know a guy paid nearly twenty grand for a Liefeld comic.
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Post by MDG on Jul 8, 2014 11:55:19 GMT -5
Some of these comments make me think if the early 90s, when people would rush to the store for a book because it would cost $5 or $10 the next week.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 8, 2014 13:29:45 GMT -5
The thing about speculating is it's all in the timing... it's rare one of those books holds their value... you just have to get in and a low price, then move it while someone out there thinks it's still going up. 90% of these books are bought to re-sell, it seems to me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2014 17:33:46 GMT -5
The thing about speculating is it's all in the timing... it's rare one of those books holds their value... you just have to get in and a low price, then move it while someone out there thinks it's still going up. 90% of these books are bought to re-sell, it seems to me. Well...Peter Parker is no longer 'dead'...and yet that Midtown Amazing Spidey #700 has not been tanking in the secondary markets. I won't compare it to the 90s, for the simple reason that in the 90s, books reached the one million printed mark. The majority of modern titles have print runs of less than 5% of that. Rat Queens is a mere 12,000.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 8, 2014 21:40:46 GMT -5
Is it really? I just checked e-bay... LOTS of people are trying to sell it in the $400-$500 range, but the sales seem to be more like $250-$300, and that's 9.8 CGC'd with autographs. There's also an awfully high % of a 4000-5000 print run up for sale (60 on ebay alone in since late March)
At that volume, if you compared it to a 1:10? I guess... that'd be $60-ish retail. That's good, but not great... the fact that upwards of 15% of the whole print run has been re-sold in the last 3 months tells me that people aren't buying it because they love the cover, though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2014 23:38:32 GMT -5
The thing about speculating is it's all in the timing... it's rare one of those books holds their value... you just have to get in and a low price, then move it while someone out there thinks it's still going up. 90% of these books are bought to re-sell, it seems to me. Well...Peter Parker is no longer 'dead'...and yet that Midtown Amazing Spidey #700 has not been tanking in the secondary markets. I won't compare it to the 90s, for the simple reason that in the 90s, books reached the one million printed mark. The majority of modern titles have print runs of less than 5% of that. Rat Queens is a mere 12,000. Didn't an issue of ASM actually reach one million just recently, as in last month or this month? I see it as exactly the same, with blank covers replacing chromium covers, and the publishers and dealers laughing all the way to the bank while people who think comics will fund their retirement are going to be selling their ten thousand dollar collection on Craigslist for $150 in ten years when they're tired of storing it.
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