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Konungrcomics Posts: 62
10/29/2020
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So I was doing some window shopping this evening on eBay and just for giggles thought I would look up "The Tomb of Dracula" Issue 10 with Blades first appearance...all I can say is Wow!! The numbers are all over the place and the closest graded copy I found was up for sale for 280.00 buck more than its worth. Power to the people that can make that kind of profit, but folks are getting off the chain on prices. What insanity have you all seen as of late with online selling sites?
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BasementComics Posts: 784
10/29/2020
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Lots of golden age Batman and Detective selling for well over guide price.
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rustyauger Posts: 159
10/29/2020
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Yeah comics are crazy hot right now. The people adjusting the values on the price guide have their work cut out for them.
This Detective Comics 241 is still a common issue in the Overstreet but it always sells for big bucks.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Detective-Comics-241-DC-1957-Classic-Rainbow-Batman-Cover-Vintage-Silver-Age/324347272882
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pthomas2010 Posts: 116
10/30/2020
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I think it's great that the back issue market has exploded. I was out of the hobby from 1985-2010, and since I started back, activity and selling prices on back issues have gone up consistently. Ebay has been at the forefront of this, but it has affected the major dealers, too. I get the weekly newsletter from mycomicshop.com, and their business has exploded over the last decade. The only thing that seems to have affected their sales at all was shutting down for over a month due to COVID-19, and since reopening, their sales are higher than ever. It may seem crazy, but there are plenty of people willing to pay big bucks for comics now. Too bad I don't want to sell right now.
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
11/5/2020
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Insane at times prices being paid. Less than a year ago I bought ASM 300 in NM- for $195 and now it is selling between $500 to $800 on average. Happy about this but wow...Star Wars books have seen big jumps for characters 1st appearances I never heard of. Only know since I got a short list of Star Wars books my son in law wants for Xmas.
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pthomas2010 Posts: 116
11/6/2020
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quinnspuddinjoker wrote:
Insane at times prices being paid. Less than a year ago I bought ASM 300 in NM- for $195 and now it is selling between $500 to $800 on average. Happy about this but wow...Star Wars books have seen big jumps for characters 1st appearances I never heard of. Only know since I got a short list of Star Wars books my son in law wants for Xmas.
Those are the kind of books I worry about having longevity. So many of those Dark Horse Star Wars comics were in dollar bins for so many years, and the slightest suggestion of a character maybe showing up in a movie gets the hype going and the price shoots up. The only way I would buy any of those at their exaggerated selling price would be to immediately flip to somebody like your poor son in law, when he finds out they are dollar comics again a little down the road from now. There is an art to buying comics that will hold their value or appreciate. Like the stock market, you need to try buying low and selling high, and you also need to have historically reliable but unspectacular, steady investment comics. I don't see many of the modern variants and first appearances being worth much in 10 years. There will be some, but people have really lost their common sense with the money they pay for common issues that have hype. I hope I'm wrong and people stay just as insane about comics until I get ready to part with mine. After that I don't care.
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
11/9/2020
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Completely agree pthomas2010. What the son in law wants I’ll get but not buying the ones that are over $50. Gonna give him my extra copies of SW 42 and 68 and he should be happy. Bought Marvel Special Edition Star Wars 1, 2 and 3 in great condition, which he had as a kid so hopefully he will like that.
It would always be nice that any collectibles I’ve bought over the years will be worth more than I bought when the time comes to sell.
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