{"id":125,"date":"2008-10-08T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-values\/comic-book-prices-in-a-down-market-tales-and-sales-from-the-frontlines\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T12:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T20:06:40","slug":"comic-book-prices-in-a-down-market-tales-and-sales-from-the-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/comic-book-prices-in-a-down-market-tales-and-sales-from-the-frontlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Prices in a Down Market &#8211; Tales and Sales from the Frontlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock you&#8217;ve seen the devastation stocks have endured over the last couple of weeks.  My 401k and IRA&#8217;s are weeping!<\/p>\n<p>But how are comic book prices holding up in these hard times?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at two key issues for some clues.<\/p>\n<p>First we have an issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?type=2&#038;campid=5336117710&#038;toolid=10001&#038;customid=&#038;ext=190252915272&#038;item=190252915272\" target=\"_blank\">Amazing Spider-man #1 CGC 7.0<\/a> condition.  Check out the book.  It passed on September 24th at the $8,300 mark. <\/p>\n<p>A copy did sell earlier in the month for $8,990, so maybe they were holding on for the big bucks.  Not too shabby.  <\/p>\n<p>Think about it, this book would have sold for $8,300 but the seller was holding out for more.<\/p>\n<p>The second book is <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?type=2&#038;campid=5336117710&#038;toolid=10001&#038;customid=&#038;ext=180292768792&#038;item=180292768792\">Avengers #1 in CGC 7.0<\/a> condition.<\/p>\n<p>First off, this book is moving along quite nicely due to the Avengers movie news.  If you haven&#8217;t been following how comic book movies have been affecting the prices of many books, you need to get right over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/comicbookmoviesecrets.html\">comics-movies-cash page and look at the course<\/a>.  There is a free &#8220;how to&#8221; course now with videos and more, so you really have no excuse not to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get back to this book.  It has been a $2,000-ish book for the last couple of years.  <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?type=2&#038;campid=5336117710&#038;toolid=10001&#038;customid=&#038;ext=180292768792&#038;item=180292768792\" target=\"_blank\">This copy of Avengers #1<\/a> sold for a whopping $4,125.87 on September 28th, up from $2,625 in June.  Wow.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever watch &#8220;Cramer&#8221; on CNBC he always says there is a bull market somewhere.  Is it in hard collectibles like comics?  We&#8217;ll see, so stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock you&#8217;ve seen the devastation stocks have endured over the last couple of weeks. My 401k and IRA&#8217;s are weeping! But how are comic book prices holding up in these hard times? Let&#8217;s look at two key issues for some clues. First we have an issue of Amazing Spider-man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/comic-book-prices-in-a-down-market-tales-and-sales-from-the-frontlines\/\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-book-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}