I've always argued that Silver Surfer #4 is a rip-off, the outrageous price attributed to a "low print run" that would have still numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

I could also get into why Hulk #180 should be worth more than Hulk #181, but that would likely hijack the whole darn thread...

I recall a while back someone selling a "zombie" copy of walking dead #1. It was graded 0.5 or like 1.0 because of how rough it was but was still complete. It went for stupid money.

Mine would be a whole slew of things. I can't fathom paying more than $10 for anything produced in the previous 20 years, unless it is something truly rare, like a first print, low print run, self-published kind of thing, like Bone or TMNT (which is more than 20, which makes me feel even older!).

When I was collecting, I didn't pay more than about $15.00 for anything going back into the Silver Age, that wasn't the first issue of a flagship title. I had the Thanos stuff and got them dirt cheap (before he was revived), same with Deathlok and the Guardians of the Galaxy, all of which went insane, by the 90s. I bought every issue of Nick Fury and the Strange Tales Shield issues and didn't pay more than $15 for any single issue, and got most for under $10. Granted, this was the late 80s and early 90s, before the internet drove up prices on comics and used books (as well as other collectibles). I would pay over $20 for a Golden Age title and paid $100 for Exciting Comics #9, the first appearance of the Black Terror. I kicked myself afterwards, when I read the lackluster story. He was little more than a cool costume, until Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin came onto the book; and, I got those stories, along with others, for $9.95 in the AC Men of Mystery books.

You couldn't hand me the money to pay anything, let alone high prices for those Liefeld New Mutants and X-Force books, aside from the horrible story and art. They were printed in big numbers, catering to speculators and there are tons of them out there. Anyone paying high $ for that stuff is a sucker, Deadpool or no Deadpool.

I remember picking up the Omega Men issue that introduced Lobo (more than cover, less than it was going for, in some markets) and saw how forgettable he was in that story. Sometimes first appearances aren't all they are cracked up to be. That first Thanos story wasn't that memorable. It took a while for Starlin to really do much with him.

I've been lucky, mostly, to avoid having to pay ridiculous prices for key books I wanted. I got my Iron Man #55, Captain America #117, and New Mutants #98 long before they spiked (NM #98 for cover).

For me, the two books that seem most-overpriced are Werewolf by Night #32 and Incredible Hulk #271, especially the latter. One day it's literally in the $1 bin, the next it's going for $75 or more because of a movie. The first goes for "stupid money" and always has, even though the reason it does is the first appearance of a C+ Level character who has no movie, no TV show, and is a Batman clone.

This topic was the subject of another thread a while ago, but I'll repeat the main offender to my collection- Birds of Prey #8 was a 50 dollar and up book just because Nightwing dated Barbara Gordon in it. My wife bought it for me last Christmas, but I think she paid around 20-30 for it.  It completed my BOP run from 1-127.

Yes, we had a similar thread on this subject and I'll repeat what we posted there. Tales To Astonish #27 had one of those run-of-the-mill short stories that was just a knock-off from the movie The Incredible Shrinking Man. A year later they brought the character back and named him Ant-Man. Since he wound up being one of the early Marvel super-heroes, #27's value would always be highly expensive. But it's reading value will always be mired in mediocrity 

Similar to when Wizard predicted Night Nurse #1 would become a high-priced book. Not because anyone particularly wanted it, but because nobody cared about it, most copies were beat to hell.