{"id":232,"date":"2009-08-17T05:41:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-08-15T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T06:54:10","slug":"investment-comic-books-still-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/investment-comic-books-still-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment Comic Books Still Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The June <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ha.com\">Heritage comic book auction<\/a> did very well in spite of the current economic recession\/depression.  I was perusing some of the sales, and quite frankly they are pretty amazing.  Look at these numbers:<\/p>\n<li>Showcase 4 CGC 9.6 &#8211; $179,500 (record highest price paid for a 1950&#8217;s comic)<\/li>\n<li>Incredible Hulk 181 CGC 9.8 &#8211; $26,290 (record highest price paid for a 1970&#8217;s comic)<\/li>\n<li>Zap Comix 1 CGC 9.2 &#8211; $13,145 (record for an Underground comic)<\/li>\n<p>Total sales for the auction were more than $3.69 million.  The market for high end comic collectible comic books is still going strong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June Heritage comic book auction did very well in spite of the current economic recession\/depression. I was perusing some of the sales, and quite frankly they are pretty amazing. Look at these numbers: Showcase 4 CGC 9.6 &#8211; $179,500 (record highest price paid for a 1950&#8217;s comic) Incredible Hulk 181 CGC 9.8 &#8211; $26,290&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/comic-book-values\/investment-comic-books-still-hot\/\">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-232","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\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}