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Collecting and Investing Tips #38
Double Covers Basically a comic book with a double cover is the result of a factory binding defect. Somehow two (and sometimes 3 or more) covers get scooped up by the rollers and get bent and stapled...
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Collecting and Investing Tips #39
Consider Superhero Annuals The super hero annuals as we know them began in 1960 with Superman Annual #1 (fittingly since Superman also launched the whole superhero genre back in 1938). Though annuals...
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Collecting and Investing Tips #40
Promotional Comics This week’s collecting tip will touch on the wonderful world of promotional comic books. The topic is a big one and this article will just serve to spark your interest in promotional...
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Collecting and Investing Tips #41
Feature Books – David McKay Publications This week I wanted to feature a collecting focus that is beyond cool. It’s nice to have that Amazing Spider-Man run and that Batman run but thousands of those...
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Collecting and Investing Tips #42
Black Covers Comic book collectors and investors have always coveted classic black covers when found in very high grade. It’s very hard to preserve and old comic with a black cover, any little fleck,...
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Collecting and Investing Tip #43: What are the early Marvel keys?
What are the early Marvel keys? What kind of features should we demand of a principle Marvel key? This group of comics is one of the most important investing blocks in the hobby. People are buying up...
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Collecting and Investing Tips #44
Data Analysis -warning, some heavy math and healthy assumptions are used in this article- In my Auction Highlights #43 I looked at the recent $21,250.00 ComicLink sale of a CGC 9.6 Amazing Spider-Man...
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Where Have All The Buyers Gone?
O.K, let’s all sing together (sung to “Where have all the Flowers Gone?”): “Where have all the buyers gone, long tiiiiime passing, where have all the buyers gone, from long time ago???” O.K, I admit...
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New Comic Book Price Guide
The HC version of this one is my weapon of choice The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 42nd Edition by Robert M. Overstreet has just hit the stands. The guide is simply the best tool we have in the...
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Canada’s Comic Book Heritage
A small meeting took place on Grey Cup Sunday 2012. This meeting was held in an poorly lit supply room at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel during a 1 day comic book convention. The participants of this...
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Convention Tip #7 – Network! Big, juicy delicious Comic Book Conventions don’t come to small towns. In fact you can probably count on both hands the number of really big important cons in North America
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Convention Tip #8. So, you’ve saved up some extra cash and you’re planning to attend the next big comic con. There are a few glaring holes on your list and you’re all fired up about checking those issues
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It’s often said that the quickest way to learn anything is through the mistakes you make. Based on this old piece of wisdom I must be one heck of a smart guy.
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Comic book conventions are dangerous places for impulse buyers. You can end up heading home with a 50 cent comic or you could end up heading home with a 4 foot R2D2 replica, a gorgeous 42” x 38” framed...
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Jim Steranko’s first Marvel Comics work was Strange Tales #151. The high end Overstreet Price Guide value for this book is $135 versus $85 for the book just before and the book just after...
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I remember back in the early 80s when the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide had those big 10 issue groupings for most of the major Golden, Silver and Bronze age comic book titles. Amazing Spider-Man...
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Collecting and Investing Tips #35
Over the years I’ve purchased many large comic book collections. I still remember the first big collection I bought back in around 1986. There were over 7000 comics in this collection dating from the...
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Probably should have posted this one last week (the week before Free Comic Book Day). That’s OK though, we get it done now and it can serve as the rallying cry for all FCBDs to come...
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Remember that oh so true quote from that great fictional San Francisco Police Detective, Harry Callahan? Comic book fans are never short of opinions...
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Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #43
The 43rd edition of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Gui […]
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