Taskmaster wrote:

Defiant1 wrote:

There is no mystery on what types of comics will ultimately hold value or increase. First appearances of new characters always have potential. Some people focus on them and target them for their collection. For every comic that becomes hot, there are five more that have the same potential. Some people are sitting on current duds that will eventually increase in demand.

Then explain how Punchline was so popular and sold out even BEFORE the issues she was in ever hit retail shelves.

Only certain people knew she was coming and had no idea about her appearances until the last minute.
edited by Taskmaster on 4/22/2020

I don't know how you missed Punchline. I don't follow any spec sites and knew she was coming a month before hand. But there are 2 kinds of comic buyers the ones that go pick up their books and leave, and then ones like me that practically spend the whole Wednesday talking comics with the owners and customers.

Taskmaster wrote:

Defiant1 wrote:

There is no mystery on what types of comics will ultimately hold value or increase. First appearances of new characters always have potential. Some people focus on them and target them for their collection. For every comic that becomes hot, there are five more that have the same potential. Some people are sitting on current duds that will eventually increase in demand.

Then explain how Punchline was so popular and sold out even BEFORE the issues she was in ever hit retail shelves.

Only certain people knew she was coming and had no idea about her appearances until the last minute.
edited by Taskmaster on 4/22/2020

I don't know how you missed Punchline. I don't follow any spec sites and knew she was coming a month before hand. But there are 2 kinds of comic buyers the ones that go pick up their books and leave, and then ones like me that practically spend the whole Wednesday talking comics with the owners and customers.

Defiant1 wrote:

There is no mystery on what types of comics will ultimately hold value or increase. First appearances of new characters always have potential. Some people focus on them and target them for their collection. For every comic that becomes hot, there are five more that have the same potential. Some people are sitting on current duds that will eventually increase in demand.

Then explain how Punchline was so popular and sold out even BEFORE the issues she was in ever hit retail shelves.

Only certain people knew she was coming and had no idea about her appearances until the last minute.
edited by Taskmaster on 4/22/2020

Then explain how Punchline was so popular and sold out even BEFORE the issues she was in ever hit retail shelves.

Only certain people knew she was coming and had no idea about her appearances until the last minute.

edited by Taskmaster on 4/22/2020

There is no mystery on what types of comics will ultimately hold value or increase. First appearances of new characters always have potential. Some people focus on them and target them for their collection. For every comic that becomes hot, there are five more that have the same potential. Some people are sitting on current duds that will eventually increase in demand.

Well, first I have to find them in my collection which is not logically in order. For a while there you could order tons of comics from Midtown and Dynamic Forces. It was Joshua Middleton second Batgirl cover that caused everything to change. I think the big companies realized that they could make some money by keeping it to themselves and limiting the amount going out to their customers. By the way Dynamic forces are crooks. I did get some of my multiple copies of Gwenpool from then, but only because I think they did not work know what they had. I think the way. Dynamic Force works is they would offer comics and then if they got hot they would just not bother to send them to you and make excuses about there's some delay somewhere. And if the comics you ordered did not get hot within a certain amount of time they would send them to you. They made a big screw-up on Gwenpool.