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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2021 18:31:22 GMT -5
But Wally West is the Flash for that generation of readers who now are of an age to afford spending on "their" nostalgia based memories. I will go with that explanation if you can point to an uptick in sales of the Wally West Flash series But that's the thing with key collectors, they don't collect stories featuring the characters, just milestones featuring the character-1st appearances, etc. SO most Wally West books won't be affected, but Flash #1 (1987) the first solo book featuring Wally West as Flash has seen an uptick in prices and demand for example. The rest of the series and appearances, not so much, but that milestone issue or key, yes. These collectors don't want full runs or series of stories, they want totems of their favorites, single books that represent their love of the character. So they glom onto particular books-his first solo comic, his first race with Superman, etc. and the demand for those is what drives prices on those issues, but the rest remain unwanted because the demand is not transitive to other issues featuring the character, just the milestones that become keys because they represent something more in the mindset of that new kind of collector. -M
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Post by Icctrombone on May 6, 2021 18:47:09 GMT -5
I’m getting an education in comic buying in the after market.
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Post by shaxper on May 7, 2021 16:08:49 GMT -5
The 1st appearance of Bishop is now selling for $25. Just last month, I bought three or four copies (I need to check when I get home) for under $5 each. Speculating is fun.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 7, 2021 17:50:03 GMT -5
The 1st appearance of Bishop is now selling for $25. Just last month, I bought three or four copies (I need to check when I get home) for under $5 each. Speculating is fun. I never knew this side of you. You love the guessing game.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 7, 2021 19:36:50 GMT -5
The 1st appearance of Bishop is now selling for $25. Just last month, I bought three or four copies (I need to check when I get home) for under $5 each. Speculating is fun. I bought a bunch of these new when it came out but alas, I got rid of them a long time ago.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 7, 2021 20:34:16 GMT -5
The 1st appearance of Bishop is now selling for $25. Just last month, I bought three or four copies (I need to check when I get home) for under $5 each. Speculating is fun. I bought a bunch of these new when it came out but alas, I got rid of them a long time ago. What issue is this?
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Post by Crimebuster on May 7, 2021 22:02:04 GMT -5
X-Men #282. If I remember right he only appears on a couple pages - could be wrong, I haven't read it in a long time - but he's the main focus of the cover as well which seals the deal.
The thing is, at the time, #281 was the book everyone was buying a ton of because it was the new "#1" issue of Uncanny - it came out at the same time as Jim Lee's X-Men #1, which split the team into two sub-teams, X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue. So I had a ton of copies of #281, and only about 1/3 as many copies of #282. Goes to show what conventional wisdom will get you.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 8, 2021 4:55:22 GMT -5
X-Men #282. If I remember right he only appears on a couple pages - could be wrong, I haven't read it in a long time - but he's the main focus of the cover as well which seals the deal. The thing is, at the time, #281 was the book everyone was buying a ton of because it was the new "#1" issue of Uncanny - it came out at the same time as Jim Lee's X-Men #1, which split the team into two sub-teams, X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue. So I had a ton of copies of #281, and only about 1/3 as many copies of #282. Goes to show what conventional wisdom will get you. Now I remember , it also had a second print with a gold trim. I would never have imagined that those 80's-90's X-men could get value. They were so overprinted, how could supply ever diminish.
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Post by chaykinstevens on May 8, 2021 10:33:34 GMT -5
X-Men #282. If I remember right he only appears on a couple pages - could be wrong, I haven't read it in a long time - but he's the main focus of the cover as well which seals the deal. Apart from the cover, Bishop only appears in one panel, the final page splash.
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Post by shaxper on May 8, 2021 14:20:14 GMT -5
The 1st appearance of Bishop is now selling for $25. Just last month, I bought three or four copies (I need to check when I get home) for under $5 each. Speculating is fun. I never knew this side of you. You love the guessing game. It definitely helps that my speculations keep paying off. Who wants to stop playing a game while they're on a hot streak?
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2021 14:29:11 GMT -5
I never knew this side of you. You love the guessing game. It definitely helps that my speculations keep paying off. Who wants to stop playing a game while they're on a hot streak? -M
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Post by brutalis on May 8, 2021 14:30:16 GMT -5
I never knew this side of you. You love the guessing game. It definitely helps that my speculations keep paying off. Who wants to stop playing a game while they're on a hot streak? This is what gets gamblers and criminals in trouble. As Kenny Roger's will tell you, ya gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. Coming out on top is great until you bottom out. It is a slippery and dangerous game to play. Be sure to have it in your head when to quit playah playah! Addendum: great minds and MRP got to it quicker by seconds.
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Post by shaxper on May 8, 2021 20:13:26 GMT -5
It definitely helps that my speculations keep paying off. Who wants to stop playing a game while they're on a hot streak? This is what gets gamblers and criminals in trouble. As Kenny Roger's will tell you, ya gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. Coming out on top is great until you bottom out. It is a slippery and dangerous game to play. Be sure to have it in your head when to quit playah playah! Oh, I'm only using 20% of what I've made on my previous ebay sales. Even if I lose it all, I still come out ahead. Not sure that makes me much of a playah. More of a nerdy stock broker 😂
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Post by Pat T on May 10, 2021 4:24:31 GMT -5
ASM 129 has gone through the roof, and it wasn't cheap to start with. I managed to acquire most of my most valuable books from 2010-2016, and I was able to be patient and wait for the right deal to come along. The last expensive key I purchased was FF 4 about 1 1/2 years ago from mycomicshop.com for around $1000. They graded it 4.0, and I don't think I could find it at that price anywhere now. I was able to use trade credit I had built up for that purchase, so it didn't sting at all. But all my keys have had huge gains recently.
I kind of wish I was ready to get out of the hobby, because I could pocket a lot of money selling mine. I just don't want to get rid of them, though.
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Post by shaxper on May 12, 2021 9:11:36 GMT -5
I've been talking about submitting more books to CGC for ages now, but I had to work up the nerve. It's one thing to sell a book and have ebay take a cut, but to pay CGC's cut up front and then wait weeks to find out IF you got your money's worth is a whole other plunge. By the time I was ready to commit today, the market had (of course) already changed, so I pulled out some key books that are selling for almost as much ungraded right now, and I added some lower yield books that are likely to earn far more than the cost to grade them if slabbed, even at a conservative grade. Here's what made the cut and is being shipped to CGC today: I bought the 1st appearances of Hellboy a decade ago at $50 a pop. I knew a bargain when I saw one! Even without their being any buzz about Hellboy right now, these books are moving at considerable multiples of what I paid, so listing one every few months ought to work. I got the Marvel Premiere #15s for $7 a piece back in the early 2000s. Subby #1 cost me $4 in the early 2000s, and She-Hulk #1 cost me $2. The most I paid for any book in this lot was $120 for Strange Tales #110 in the early 2000s. I don't think I paid over ten bucks for any of the others besides the 1st appearances of Hellboy. I'll be listing the others on ebay either today or tomorrow. Stay tuned!
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