The Insider Guide to Comic Book Values, Buying and Selling for Collectors and Investors
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Marvel Comics is celebrating the anniversaries of several characters and titles with special numbering and covers. One of my favorites, due on the stands July 15th, is ALL SELECT COMICS 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1.
Featuring a Blonde Phantom cover, it is tribute to Timely days gone by. It features new and reprint stories.
Here’s another classic All Select Cover:
From time to time I like to check the actual selling prices for the “hot books” in the Wizard magazine comic book price guide. Make sure you read my comments about the modern titles below. The titles for today are:
Wizard’s Top 5 Over 5
Watchmen 1
New Mutants 98
New Mutants 87
GI Joe 155
Batman: The Killing Joke
Selected Hot 10
Spawn 185
Ultimatum 1 (McGuinness Variant)
GI Joe A New Beginning 0 (Templesmith variant)
Batman 681 (Daniel Variant)
I’m very concerned for anyone purchasing the modern comics as an “investment.” If you notice, most of the comics are variant covers. In my opinion, once again, this looks like a manufactured collectible. If you study the prices of newsstand comic books over the past few years, the variants are the “valuable” issues. I put valuable in quotations because the value is fleeting. I think you are play hot potato with these books. History has shown a quick rise and a sudden plunge in price. Personally, it’s a game I don’t play. Consider yourself warned.
I hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day. Make sure to take a moment and remember those who have sacrificed for our country.
We’ll be remembering many of our fellow soldiers, and especially my fallen friend and fellow U-2 pilot, Duane Dively.
Freedom isn’t free.
