{"id":1167,"date":"2012-05-21T05:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2012-05-20T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:28:33","slug":"comic-book-secrets-update-5212012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/uncategorized\/comic-book-secrets-update-5212012\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Secrets Update 5\/21\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of interesting weeks for the collectible comic book world.  The Avengers movie has been a hit and I managed to make a showing with my boys on Monday after the opening weekend.  I think they did a great job with the movie and it was a blast to watch. I also enjoyed the Spider-man and Dark Knight Rises trailers and can&#8217;t wait to see those.  Things are shaping up for an impressive comic book movie summer.<\/p>\n<p>On the comic book value front the biggest event I&#8217;ve seen is the impressive performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/most-valuable-comic-books\/iron-man-55-value-and-investment-survey\/\" title=\"Iron Man 55 Value and Investment Survey\">Iron Man 55<\/a>.  I actually put a bid on a CGC 9.6 copy on E-bay before the Avengers opening at a higher price than the previous most expensive copy according to GPAnalysis and I wasn&#8217;t even close!  <\/p>\n<p>Take a look at some sales over the past couple of weeks:<\/p>\n<p>CGC 9.6 $1625<br \/>\nCGC 9.6 $1782<br \/>\nCGC 9.6 $2000 (BIN best offer)<br \/>\nCGC 9.4 $2555 (double cover)<br \/>\nCGC 9.0 $633<br \/>\nCGC 9.0 $755<br \/>\nCGC 9.2 $875<br \/>\nCGC 9.2 $860<\/p>\n<p>The comic is skyrocketing.  This is one of the most impressive price increases I&#8217;ve seen in over 12 years of comic book movie versus underlying comic book tracking.  Because of this I have to say <strong>beware!<\/strong>  Personally I would not be buying this book now unless I can find a raw, underpriced copy to flip.  In my opinion this fast rise in price often leads to a crash in the future. Again, only my opinion.  The comic this reminds me of is Amazing Spider-man #252.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing Spider-man #252 rose on the Black Spider-man suit and Venom news.  The high sales price in 2005 was $281 and it rose all the way to $720 in 2007.  Within in one year it has fallen back to a high of $475.  That&#8217;s quite a large % drop!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue to watch this comic over the next year and give some periodic updates.  I&#8217;ll also be checking in on some comics associated with the Dark Knight Rises and the Spider-man reboot.  I&#8217;ll save those for the next update.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, happy collecting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of interesting weeks for the collectible comic book world. The Avengers movie has been a hit and I managed to make a showing with my boys on Monday after the opening weekend. I think they did a great job with the movie and it was a blast to watch. I also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/uncategorized\/comic-book-secrets-update-5212012\/\">Read the rest of this entry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}