Comic Book Guy posted his best comic book investments for 2012 over a year ago, so let’s take a look back at his picks in this video and check out how he did.

Amazing Adventures #11 contains the first “new” Beast in his animal-like form.  It also contains a flashback to his origin.  This issue has been popular not only due to the popularity of the Beast in the X-men universe, but also because of the difficulty of finding this second tier title in high grade condition with its black cover.  Take a look at the video below for another opinion on this key comic book issue.

If you’re thinking about purchasing comic books for possible financial gain your entire mindset and strategy must change versus the run of the mill collector. More than ever you are going to be concerned about the law of supply and demand. With this in mind, your tools must be carefully selected. An excellent tool for actual distribution numbers is Comichron. This resource was put together by John Jackson Miller and is a core part of the Standard Catalog of Comics.

Comichron has sales data going back to 1996, so it is most valuable for new comics.  You can read more about how the data is derived here.