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Is Booster Gold a $25+ book online? Nice. I can pick them up here for just a couple of bucks still.

The problem with the boards is that we are usually looking to buy less expensive SA/BA/CA/Modern keys to resell instead of keep.

I sold my spare raw BA #12 in 9.2 for $220 at a small local show in late Feb - it is definitely a hot book right now.

those have been getting those prices for quite awhile now, but one i never see mentioned much is asm 601. that book is starting to sell over 30 pretty regularly now too, but it never gets as much attention as all the black cat covers for some reason. it is reaching iconic cover status imo, and only getting more popular, you see tons of cosplayers recreating that cover now. I snag them whenever one of the LCSs puts them in the bins. It is nice that they usually price #606 and #607 higher than #601 as well.

Send me a PM with your want list. I have a few long boxes of 50% off SA and BA books that I take to shows. mess, I'd love to get even 30% of guide on those same books your talking about. I will have every title on 50% off, including ASM, Batman, X-Men, etc. If it is common and does not sell withing 6-12 months I blow it out........

I don't mean to offend anyone if it is their book, but top right corner crease or SSS damage, plus a color breaking crease mid spine - how does that still get 9.6? Checking out some of the other copies on eBay, I should resub my current 9.2 as it will likely be a 9.4.......

Send me a PM with your want list. I have a few long boxes of 50% off SA and BA books that I take to shows.

I give anyone credit if they are making $6000 a year off moderns, heck yeah that would be nice. I just see an eerily similarity between this new breed of speculation compared to the dark days of the 90's. Of course the print runs are way different, [b]but the buy every book in multiples regardless of content is in place. [/b] I collect almost exclusively moderns because A) I cant afford the nice GA/SA keys, and B) it's what I was growing up with. I understand your "concern" for the market trends as by comparison to those from the 90's. However, to say that every book is boing bought out at super high print runs is over exaggeration. My LCS has a ton of books left over from various titles each week. I believe it's one of the reasons the large publishers started the buyback program where retailers can resell the books to the publishers at minimum loss. Speculation in comics is just like speculation in anything. that is, Speculation. I'm growing up in a generation where there won't be an Action comics #1, or Amazing Fantasy #15. Print runs are higher, comic supplies are made to boost longevity, and things like grading exist. (And yes I know there is a NEW 52 Action comics for all you smart azzes out there.) That being said, we will never see the high thousands, in some cases million dollar highs the GA/SA have hit. I'm not going to call you a troll or say anything mean, but always be aware that when you speak/type, you are submitting your comments to mass .....wait for it... ...Speculation. Sincerely, Gunnz Print runs today are actually much lower than than they were in every other age of comics. The main reason those books are rare is that they were disposable (and many golden age books were either burned or recycled during the paper drives). As long as comic collectors exist, collectible books will pop up, it just won't be the books that everyone thinks, and you are right they will never reach the height of the golden age keys, but that's ok. I don't think anyone's thinking they will put their kids through college with their modern hoard like in the early 90's. Depends on whether they hoarded the right books or not. As crazy as it may be, based on current prices a small stack of #1s from the past decade like WD #1, Saga #1, New 52 Batman #1 etc. could do it. As long as you buy multiples of the right books for cover or just above, it could be possible. All it would take is the right long box or two of storage space. I am starting to finally sort through my Copper and Modern boxes and it amazes me at how much some of the early issues in runs like Saga, New 52 Batman and associated titles, mid to late 00s Marvels with movie tie-ins, etc. are going for. A long box of the right 200 - 250 books bagged and boarded can be worth $2000 - $5000 (or more) and sell readily here or on the boards, but the cost of picking them up would only be $500 or so with file discounts. On the flip side, I am finding a ton of SA and BA common books in lower to mid grades from collection purchases that do not move at 50% of guide.

Very interesting price for the Deadpool Kills the MU set considering: These issues seem to be fine to very fine although I am NOT a professional grader. No, I find the entire series quite frequently on Lyria Exchange under Moderns with the filter "Comics to Watch" Deadpool kills the entire Universe #1-4 NM @ $26 & 17 bids. That was in the sellers description and it sold for $70 is what the OP was pointing out. Thanks. My point is that with NM-/NM runs being available for the same price I was surprised that a mid-grade run went so high. Somebody may be disappointed in the end..........

Is the Star Lord Special worth anything? I picked up a few in a collection last year. Better than a poke in the eye . . . Very nice. My copies were throw ins by the seller (along with some ASM #361s and other coppers/moderns) to a purchase of his SA Marvel collection.

Very interesting price for the Deadpool Kills the MU set considering: These issues seem to be fine to very fine although I am NOT a professional grader.

Is the Star Lord Special worth anything? I picked up a few in a collection last year.

Was that a response to my post? If yes, then sorry, I should have used SA examples like Avengers #1, SC #22, B&B #28, etc. that many of us on the boards discussed privately while accumulating copies for cheap, started hyping then kept moving prices up at shows and online. I did well with SC #22 and Avengers #1, but left money on the table by exiting the B&B #28 game way too early to pursue other BA and SA books I felt had better potential.

Great story. It has been a $20 - $30 book for the past year and a bit. I had one LCS that limits 2 copies per customer that I cleaned out last year - every second day I was back for early New 52 Batmans, Nightwings, Tecs, etc. and the Batman Annual 1. It would have been much easier to have just bought them all at once, but c'est la vie.

Sure crazyman, you just let me know when you find any verifiable FACTS 100% linking the CGC Forums to the rapid price jump in a given issue. You're like a whacko wearing an anti-alligator necklace in Alaska, and when you question him about its validity: "I ain't never been bit by an alligator, and I don't reckon I will". It happens all the time, especially in the modern forum. I mentioned Annihilators 3 several months ago as a book to pick up from the back issue bins. I had it listed on eBay for months after for around 10 or so dollars. Bought two 9.8 slabs off Beachbum for something like 60 bucks. Fast forward to last week. A board user creates a thread in the modern section mentioning the book, the thread sees very few replies, seemingly going unnoticed. Meanwhile all 6 copies of the book I have for sale on eBay sell over the next day or so. Every other copy on the bay sells out. All of the copies for sale on the Amazon marketplace sell out. That book now has several sales between 30 and 50 dollars with current auctions appearing to maintain that price point. You have to realize that everything that gets posted here, even if it appears to go overlooked, gets disseminated to every other comic related destination on the internet. And when there is only a small sample size for watchers to look at, and most people only look at eBay as being the entire extent of the market, it is easy for them to see scarcity and demand even when there really isn't any. Exactly. Look at books like NWM #1 (Thought Bubble, CBDLF, etc.), Clone, Todd Ugliest Kid, etc. and how many boardies are stuck with copies they bought at the peaks. There is also market influence/making going on with BA and SA keys as well.

This arrived in the mail today........................

Beautiful book!

Is Killdozer the newest member of Guardians of the Galaxy?

It is massively different from 1989-1993. In 1989, the top selling book (X-Men) was selling around 400,000 copies a month. Each and every month. In 1991, X-Men #1 sold 8.2 million copies, and continued to sell over 1,000,000 copies a month for the rest of that year. In 1992, Superman 75 sold 4 million copies in a couple of days, and could have sold twice that. In 1993, Turok #1 (this is Valiantman's favorite stat) sold 1.75 million copies...and was the SIXTH highest selling book of the year (the other five being Adventures of Supes #500, 501, Supes #78, MOS #22, and Action #687.) Now, the top selling books struggle every month to break 100K (which was for decades the "cancel this garbage" threshold), and the average amount of copies sold for everything is about 25,000. I wish it was 1993 all over again...I'd quite literally be a millionaire with my inventory. But it's not, and the market is still pulling the same old stupid speculator tricks that tanked everything the first time, having never learned its lesson. The one consolation is this: there's not much of a height to fall from this time. But comic books have become little more than a niche, trendy collectible, hopped up because of massive cross-media exposure, but the artform itself is secondary, if not tertiary, to the making of money. It would be nice if people didn't go spend their money stupidly, and the market grew as the result of organic supply and demand, but no one will listen, everyone HAS to have that Batman Adventures NOW NOW NOW NOW for $1,000 (even though they could have bought it two years ago for 1/10th that, and probably will again in a few years, and you can buy it for a whopping 30-40% less ALREADY), so if you can't beat 'em...join 'em. Ca-ching, ca-ching, let that cash register ring! What I meant is that it is a speculative back issue bubble for hot issues now is just like in 1989 - 1993. You could probably go back a bit earlier to 1988 for the start of it with the Death of Robin in Batman #428. Buy it on the rack for 95 cents, sell it to friends and stores for $20 immediately. Pre-Unity Valiants, hot Marvel or DC books, chromium covers, etc. were quick flips for multiples just like now. ASM #300 was another one I can remember doing well with early on also - I just wish I had actually kept more than one or two copies. Sportscards were even better. 1 box of the first set of O-Pee-Chee Premier cost $20 initially (my brother and I bought two), and you would get 2.5 sets in each that were a quick sell at $150 to the local collectors. Any rookie that had a good month would pop and the card that cost $0.10 or less would be a quick $20 flip. Back then my mistake was spending the profits on going out and buying more of the same to flip instead of investing in SA and BA keys that were dirt cheap. What would a decent AF #15 have been, $1000?

I always buy them when the LCSs put them out at $15 - $20 (or less) in the bins or on the wall. I have a small stack of them now, with just one slabbed copy (9.6). That being said, there is a Carnage vs. Deadpool mini coming out, right? We should probably see a nice spike in interest shortly as a result.

It ebbs and flows. Last spring at the big Calgary show raw 8.0 - 9.2 copies were selling fast at $40 apiece. I upped the price to $45 and $50 on the last couple after I blew through 10 or so, but there were no takers. In the fall it was dead at $40 at all shows I did.

If these are legit, looks like New Mutants #100 has legs as a raw book as well: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Mutants-100-NM-9-2-1st-Appearance-of-X-Force-Must-Have-Key-DEADPOOL-/301099339366?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item461aeb4e66 http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Mutants-100-1st-Appearance-X-Force-1991-Marvel-Nm-Mint-1st-Printing-/301099236088?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item461ae9baf8

The only point I would dispute above is the diminishing returns on modern speculation. I have been playing the spec game with moderns the since late 2012 and am nice returns that I pour into older keys/hot books. I am not the only one doing this. It is basically 1989 - 1993 all over again - I was in junior high and high school and too distracted by girls and sports to play that spec bubble right, but this time is a different story.

You would have done just as well or better with a lot of Valiants with just the "rule of 10" when the first big wave of collectors jumped back in during the early 2000s as well. (thumbs u

While that is a part of it, over the past couple of years I have seen way more early 20s collectors enter the market and for them the Copper Age keys are the big books tied to their youth. They have jobs now with decent disposable incomes to chase the funny books that are key to them, and it is not BA or SA. If they follow the trend, they will eventually migrate to BA, SA and GA books, but right now CA is what they are most familiar with and that is what they are chasing. It happened with SA back in the day, then BA, so it only makes sense that demographics are impacting the CA market now as well. Perhaps there's a Rule that shows what happens to things that came out 25 years previously? Every. Single. Time. Then how come all of the Marvel New Universe titles I have picked up in collections over the past couple of years are dead? Agreed re: the rule, though, on keys. That is the place to park your $$$$ - if it was hot back in the day, buy low, store, then flip for a nice profit.