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MatterEaterLad

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    Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by MatterEaterLad

    On 2/20/2024 at 10:46 PM, Microchip said:

    I got blown out of the water.

    These two books are super low in census numbers, but they're also no nothing issues in the run :facepalm:

     

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    Yikes. 

    It's been my fear/paranoia that we're going to reach an inflection point where older collectors begin liquidating their collections, the marketplace becomes flooded, and the population of collectors shrinks (specifically collectors of Silver and Bronze Age). The worry is that in that ecosystem, only high grade books increase in value--some skyrocketing--while mid to low grade plummet and never recover because there aren't enough buyers vs. supply. Right now there are 93 graded copies of X-Men #1 on eBay. About 240 graded copies of FF48. I wish I'd counted the number of copies ten years ago, but that seems like a lot. (In related news this is a sobering article about The Long Slow Death of Stamp Collecting)

    I know, the argument is that our population is growing in the US, so there will always be an increasing number of collectors, and there are more collectors outside of the US than ever. Not sure it's that simple.

    But hey, if you're forever bullish on the comic market, now is the time to buy!