{"id":195,"date":"2009-10-09T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2009-10-04T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T21:49:50","slug":"how-is-the-comic-market-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/how-is-the-comic-market-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the Comic Book Market Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how are comic book sales and values holding up in this economy?  If you listen to Chuck Rozanski of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milehighcomics.com\">Mile High Comics<\/a> it is a mixed bag.  In the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbgxtra.com\">Comics Buyer&#8217;s Guide<\/a> he tells a tale of lower sales (off 20% at the Orlando Megacon by informal survey), yet many collectors are hoarding their books, making it difficult to find new stock.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually something has to give in &#8211; either prices or selling by the hoarders.<\/p>\n<p>I have my own thoughts on the matter (to be discussed in an upcoming article), but if you want to read Chuck&#8217;s opinions, you can read them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milehighcomics.com\/tales\/main.html\">Tales from the Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how are comic book sales and values holding up in this economy? If you listen to Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics it is a mixed bag. In the latest Comics Buyer&#8217;s Guide he tells a tale of lower sales (off 20% at the Orlando Megacon by informal survey), yet many collectors are hoarding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/how-is-the-comic-market-doing\/\">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-195","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\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}