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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 23, 2019 9:26:39 GMT -5
I'd wager it's not worth spending $2 on. That's my answer. |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 23, 2019 9:53:15 GMT -5
Don't forget Gambit had a cameo first appearance in Uncanny X-Men Annual #14 just prior to this, so it isn't even entirely the character's first time on the comics page.
It isn't a good or even memorable storyline. It's just a first (full) appearance. So, as with any collectible comic book, its actual value is what you are willing to pay for it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 23, 2019 10:47:44 GMT -5
If I can turn around and sell it for more then it is. Otherwise it's not worth a dime to me.
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 23, 2019 13:43:58 GMT -5
Peter David’s Grey Hulk saga is my favorite Hulk. Especially Joe Fixit. I put together the comics probably 20 years ago or so. I still haven’t bought issue 340. I refuse to play an inflated price just because it’s Hulk vs Wolverine part 2. I’ve read the saga through many times and have never felt I missed out on anything not having that one issue. Though if I do resurrect my review thread of it, I’ll just buy a TPB that has that issue in it.
In the old days we weren't flooded with reprint collections, digital, etc, so if you wanted to read that you were pretty much at their mercy.
I had to pay inflated prices for Cockrum's first X-Men run as I came into hit or miss via spotty newsstand distribution until I got a subscription post-Dark Phoenix.
FWIW I agree David's run is classic, and though I mostly dislike McFarlane, I liked his work on Hulk.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 23, 2019 13:45:52 GMT -5
Past #209 I have only ever paid for Uncanny #373-380, so I wouldn't have any reason to want it. But, I never thought I'd get Iron Fist #14 though and I happened upon one at a price I was comfortable with. Buy what you like, not what anyone else might. It's worth to you what it's worth.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 23, 2019 14:00:22 GMT -5
Is the death of baby boomers in the next 10 years going to release a flood of back issues into a weakening demand, resulting in free-fall in prices forever? It would certainly be convenient if things worked this way. I'm still waiting for that flood of Captain America Comics #1 as the Greatest Generation advances to the next level.  Not a fair comparison, of course. Here's another way of looking at it. There are a finite number of copies of a comic book in the world, an even smaller number in exceptionally high grade. Those numbers can only get smaller as time passes, regardless of who lives or taps out. The variable then is the demand, the level of interest that people have for it. Will that change significantly with the passage of time? How much time? I'm posting this on a site whose very purpose is to maintain interest in comic books, so I'm naturally biased, but I think interest and demand will continue to expand for quite some time, probably beyond the life spans of all but our most sprightly members. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 23, 2019 14:43:54 GMT -5
Hopefully it's not a hijack to ask the more general question: What are the likely short and long term trends in "collectible comics" from Marvel and DC? Is the death of baby boomers in the next 10 years going to release a flood of back issues into a weakening demand, resulting in free-fall in prices forever? Or were the buyers of 90s comics sufficiently young that they are likely to retain and even increase their value for decades to come? I dare say this has already begun. About 4 years ago I snagged all the Strange tales Warlocks for around 2 dollars an issue on eBay . 2 weeks ago I bought The below issues for 1 dollar each in a discount box. Admittedly, they ranged from fair to Good to poor, but just the thought that someone had them available at that price means older readers and collectors are less in number than they used to be.  Let me also add that maybe the number of physical collectors( People buying real paper comics ) are becoming less since digital and collected editions are readily available. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 23, 2019 14:48:10 GMT -5
A quick eBay search of completed transactions for X-men 266 has them at between 49-100 dollars for unslabbed books. I saw X-men annual # 14 for around 14-20 dollars , too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 22:44:03 GMT -5
Hopefully it's not a hijack to ask the more general question: What are the likely short and long term trends in "collectible comics" from Marvel and DC? Is the death of baby boomers in the next 10 years going to release a flood of back issues into a weakening demand, resulting in free-fall in prices forever? Or were the buyers of 90s comics sufficiently young that they are likely to retain and even increase their value for decades to come? I dare say this has already begun. About 4 years ago I snagged all the Strange tales Warlocks for around 2 dollars an issue on eBay . 2 weeks ago I bought The below issues for 1 dollar each in a discount box. Admittedly, they ranged from fair to Good to poor, but just the thought that someone had them available at that price means older readers and collectors are less in number than they used to be. Let me also add that maybe the number of physical collectors( People buying real paper comics ) are becoming less since digital and collected editions are readily available. Most who are collecting physical copies are looking for higher grade books and the drop off of price between F and VG and VG and G on non-key books is much sharper than Overstreet would have you believe with their pricing structure. Many dealers at shows I go to cannot give away non-keys graded G or lower for most series from the late 60s onwards, and they are quite common in $1 and $2 bins. $3 Silver Age bins are common too, and almost all of it is low grade stuff. It's still weird to me to see a Silver Age book in Good/Good- in a $3 bin at one dealer, and the dealer next to him has a F copy of the same book going for $40 as a wall book, and the $40 wall book in F will get a lot more attention and potential buyers than the $3 G- copy will. If you are willing to go for low grade books, you can get a lot of bang for your buck at shows. There is little demand for low grade books like that, so dealers will sell them cheap just to get rid of them, but the same books in F or higher will still command decent prices. -M |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 24, 2019 8:56:25 GMT -5
Icctrombone you’re making me jealous with those prices lol. 20 years ago I spent more than that for those Warlock issues. Good on you though getting a good deal. I think you got those ST issues for even less than what I paid for the Baxter reprints of Warlock :-)
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 24, 2019 11:38:25 GMT -5
Icctrombone you’re making me jealous with those prices lol. 20 years ago I spent more than that for those Warlock issues. Good on you though getting a good deal. I think you got those ST issues for even less than what I paid for the Baxter reprints of Warlock :-) Just dumb luck in a period after all the Infinity comics and before the first GOTG movie. I couldn’t afford it today. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 24, 2019 12:15:47 GMT -5
2 weeks ago I bought The below issues for 1 dollar each in a discount box. Admittedly, they ranged from fair to Good to poor, but just the thought that someone had them available at that price means older readers and collectors are less in number than they used to be. I'm not sure how serious you are here, but your good fortune in finding four Superman comics a few weeks ago doesn't by itself indicate a global decline in interest in comic book collecting. It indicates only that you have a nose for bargains, quite a gifted one it seems.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 24, 2019 12:38:37 GMT -5
I was just suggesting that there will come a time when the demand for silver and even Golden age books will die down and the prices will plunge. Of course key books will retain most of their value.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 24, 2019 12:58:02 GMT -5
We kind of saw this with pulp magazine values I think. I remember there being a lot of older collectors of pulps or big-little books and now there are a lot of people who have to have it explained to them what those things were. Comic books aren't in that situation as much, kind of hanging on like radio versus and podcasts, but a lot smaller base than at one time.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 24, 2019 17:36:27 GMT -5
Unless a genre is kept alive, it will lose its value. There are people who don't know who the Beatles are.
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