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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 25, 2024 10:44:35 GMT -5
zaku in another thread brought up an interesting question. In the speculator fueled 90's many books jumped in price in the back issue market. I'm not talking about keys from the 60's or 70's, I mean books published in the 90's. I remember Azrael #1 , which was a mini series exploding in the back issue market because he was slated to be the next Batman. I think you can get that particular book relatively cheap today. Everything was being over printed and still selling. But now in 2024, which books from that era go for a pretty penny?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2024 10:51:12 GMT -5
This might have some surprises....in a rush so maybe some others can post up actual pics.
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Post by zaku on Jan 25, 2024 13:07:12 GMT -5
This was published in Penthouse Comics in the 1993. Look at the last panel. Even then some people knew how ridiculous was speculation in comics   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 25, 2024 13:08:11 GMT -5
This book was very popular in the 90's and I thought there was no shortage of them. It still goes for 8-20 bucks unslabbed.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 25, 2024 13:34:55 GMT -5
This was published in Penthouse Comics in the 1993. Look at the last panel. Even then some people knew how ridiculous was speculation in comics. That panel would be a lot better if they had used the right word - "deluded" should have been "diluted" - although "deluded" is a good description of the character's belief in the value of those comics. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2024 14:07:46 GMT -5
I have some of those Penthouse Comix, especially the ones with Boris Vallejo covers....he did awesome (albeit risque) adult fantasy artwork. Can't post pics here or I'll get reported.
There's also a new 2024 series, my dealer is elated....I'll be checking out his personal copies.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 25, 2024 15:16:18 GMT -5
Back in 2007 to raise money to buy the boys an XBox 360 and some games, I sold quite a few books to Lone Star and they were all 90's comics. New Mutants #98, (which I regret now) and Batman Adventures #12, a handful of one-shot stories that came along with the Deadpool on-going series (which that I did keep) a few other random appearances of Deadpool in other series, one of the copies of Batman: Mad Love (I think I had two because there was a 1st and 2nd printing) and some early Venom appearances. But I am talking in the $10-$40 range per issue from the cheapest to the best. Nothing in the neighborhood of $1000's like the link Miss Jezebel posted.
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Post by zaku on Jan 25, 2024 15:41:59 GMT -5
What about The Death Of Superman? Didn't they sell literally millions of them?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 25, 2024 17:29:03 GMT -5
What about The Death Of Superman? Didn't they sell literally millions of them? I think you can get that black bag book for less than 15 bucks. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 25, 2024 17:31:23 GMT -5
I remember talking to a dealer that had X-O #1 slabbed, he told me it was worth almost nothing afterwards.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2024 18:10:10 GMT -5
You mean this?
On comicspriceguide a 9.4 is listed for $35 in raw 9.4 and $70 slabbed. Bear in mind that cpg is just a guide that many don't take seriously but I still refer to it ever so often for random books of interest.
I'm maybe one of the few who was never interested in Valiant, Malibu etc....I saw them in the longboxes but had no interest. So I don't own a single copy. Amazed that this was once the 3rd biggest publisher in the early 90s and I was totally indifferent to them.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 25, 2024 21:21:18 GMT -5
These days , to determine what books are going for, I check eBay. A quick search of completed sales has X-O #1, books that went for 9.95, 12 and 15 dollars. There were all listed as Nm.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 26, 2024 0:32:09 GMT -5
Bone.
It helps that it was pretty scarce, in the early days. However, thanks to the Scholastic editions, and the Cartoon Books omnibus collection, you can get a nice edition of less than the comics.
Of the Image crowd, Spawn seems to have held its value the most.
Early Valiant at least had real scarcity working in its favor, when popularity took off and back issue prices soared. By the time of Acclaim's bankruptcy, they had lost value, in most cases. The Gold zero issues were the big ones, especially the Harbinger one, If I recall correctly, since it had pretty low distribution, compared to Magnus, Solar or X-O.
I think Ultraverse started losing value before the sale to Marvel, though I never really paid that close attention. I was more interested in earlier books, from the Bronze Age, which increased in the 90s, due to new books with some of those old characters, like Deathlok and Warlock & Captain Mar-Vell and Thanos. I had bought most of that stuff for less than a dollar per issue (apart from a couple of key Captain Marvel's, but less than $10 for those). I also had all of the Guardians of the Galaxy issues, when Marvel launched the Jim Valentino series and those books started shooting up. I traded that stuff in for store credit, before I got out of the military and it paid for new stuff, for about 3 months. They sold for higher, from the shop, but I got what I wanted of them and had trade collections of them.
Dark Horse Presents and the related early Hellboy and Sin City minis have held up well.
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Post by zaku on Jan 26, 2024 5:53:50 GMT -5
I'm maybe one of the few who was never interested in Valiant, Malibu etc....I saw them in the longboxes but had no interest. So I don't own a single copy. Amazed that this was once the 3rd biggest publisher in the early 90s and I was totally indifferent to them.
Some of the stuff Malibu did early on was waaay better than the average other publishers were putting out at the time. I liked "Strangers". |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 26, 2024 11:13:10 GMT -5
These days , to determine what books are going for, I check eBay. A quick search of completed sales has X-O #1, books that went for 9.95, 12 and 15 dollars. There were all listed as Nm. Valiant back issue prices have plummeted since the line ended in 2022. I picked up Unity 2000 #3 (once a holy grail for collectors) for $20 last month. |
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