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I'm more thinking of something I could put in a frame and hang on the wall. Maybe one; maybe a set of 4, but not something I'd be looking to get rid of for a while, and something interesting to look at with a story to tell visitors.

Great history! Thanks for sharing that. Makes me not feel so bad about the 10 x 10 corner I've taken over in the basement to store my 3 short boxes of comics. Big question is how best to display the high value comics.

So, I'm buying some raws that I find interesting and really, really enjoying reading them as they come in, but a part of me wants to buy a few higher dollar names and put them away for a few decades. What would you buy? One big name or several lesser names? Would you focus on older or newer?

Are there any forum posters that have a large online sales presence or even a LCS? It'd be interesting to ask them what they are seeing.

Do you remember the predicted amount? Did it hit it just recently or a while ago??

Wow! Thanks for the tips guys. I will definitely read up before starting. Also, I really like the MCS method of underestimating the grade. I'd much rather sell to someone and tell them it's a 5 and they feel it's higher than say I'm selling a 6 and have them doubt. I just hope I get it right. Although I guess good photos and plenty of them will help as well. Thanks again.

I like that idea and think I'll do that for my first group of RAW sales. I did set up an Auction on Ebay for my Black Lightning 1 already though. It was my first highly impulsive buy and I'm not too concerned if I take a loss as I would rather be patient and get a CGC 9.8 instead of a 9.8 from that other company that shall not be named. It's always interesting to watch an auction at the end no matter what

See stuff like that makes me scratch my head. Did some dude or dudette decided they wanted one bad and that was the only one available so they paid up or did somebody shill bid to try and start something or some other totally different reason? Just interesting to consider the vagaries of pricing in this hobby.

Funny guess. Dartmouth. My son is there now, and I went way back in '88. Sadly, she didn't have much to say when I told her I added comic collecting to my list of hobbies. She's a little more sensible than her dad Just read the Secret Wars 3. Great story! Thinking I should fill in the string now.

Well, lucky me I got 'em for free. Now to go read them

Thanks for the info. That's exactly what I was curious about. Examples of increases for no obvious reason. Again this goes towards answering my question as to whether or not a group of quality comics can end up being an investment like traditional art.

I've said this 3 times now. What a bunch of Debbie Downers around here. Here's some advice sorely lacking on this forum . . . if you don't like a post or a thread IGNORE IT . . . and if you don't have anything nice to say why not try for once in your life to follow the simple advice of "Don't say anything". I know, I know . . . way to easy to put someone down on the web since its so anonymous and all that. Sheesh.

She got hired by Verge Surgical as a BioMedical Engineer working with a team building a surgical robot so I'm pretty sure she can afford her own T-Bird now

But, then I do have fun racing in this . . . .

Glad to hear you do have some fun in life. Here's my daughter. She's brought a lot of joy to my life, but sadly she took her convertible with her to her new job in California, so no more top down driving for me

This may or may not have a reason for the increased interest, but it made me wonder if comics ever start increasing in value for no apparent reason. I got Secret Wars 3 and 7 as a bonus with another large order so that's the only reason I even looked at these, but really I know nothing about them.

Anybody remember an outrageous price prediction that came true?

Yes. I grow and sell coral as another hobby. In the last 20 years corals had a similar change in marketing as CGC 9.8 syndrome. Corals used to be generic in name like Acropora Tenuis. Now they slap a fancy name on it like The Walt Disney coral and suddenly its worth triple the price.

Sarcasm aside, your point is well taken. There is a large supply. Conversely there is a large demand. I'm not suggesting buying wholesale comics in general, what I am suggesting and wanting to learn more about is whether or not some comics can be like more classic forms of art collectibles. I am fairly certain the answer is, yes; it's just that I tend towards data driven analysis of most all aspects of my financial life, be it cars, paintings, corals, or comics.

Still have no idea who the longest and oldest posters are. But, really have to move on regarding pressing. What's done is done. C'est vrai? N'est ce pas?

Here's the thing. If a book goes from $1 to $5 thats 500%. In the world of longterm investing that is huge, and I have a feeling that that is happening in the comic world since the beginning. I'm starting to see comics as an amazing longterm investment. The real question is whether or not the game has turned to only CGC 9.8's or is it all comics still.

Thanks The biggest lesson here is that all threads eventually turn into debates on pressing Pretty simple as the discussion has become moot regardless of ones opinion (of which I have none - just ask my wife)

Here's a graph of AMS 129 CGC 8.0. My suspicion is that if we could get a logarithmic graph that had sales data going back to 1980 it would look a lot like the Clorox graph, slow steady price progression when examined over a long time. The drive behind my question is whether or not comics in general present a good investment/inflation hedge, not taking into account the "flash in the pan" episodes, but good solid names like AMS, etc.

I intended to ask about back issue pricing in general, but as always it's difficult to convey the proper meaning online. I've been perusing data on GoCollect only because I am not subscribed yet to GPA which I understand has more data. The problem with the data on GoCollect is that it's not granular enough to see smaller trends. Covrprice has decent data as well, but no graphs to easily see trend lines. Also, the graphs that GoCollect makes are not logarithmic so the jumps become exaggerated over time and the old trends disappear. The data is there individually, but I haven't gotten around to trying to pick out individual points yet. Would be good to find the top 10 all time most traded names of books pre-1980 and then graph the recorded trades on a logarithmic scale. Has anyone ever produced such a graph for an individual name?

First, I'm sure this has come up over and over, but I couldn't find any threads using search terms of "longterm" "appreciation" or "prices" hence this post. Sorry to the old timers that have seen this before. Anyways, just wondering what the longest period of general decline or stagnation in comic prices overall has been. Do average prices for comics mirror inflation overall? Is there such a thing as "average" prices? Does it follow some other trend? Does any site have data going back multiple decades? Thanks to any that take time to answer.