CopperMiner89

The 'Nam #1. Only one CGC so far, a 9.6 SS. Mine will soon be the one and only 9.8

Depends on how many you're willing to pay to have pressed.

Can the Prototype 0 (4th printing) book that I found last night for a dollar get me in the club?

+1

That's the speculator's biggest risk. Not cashing out early enough. A balanced approach, putting some of the profits into older established books while still grabbing more low-hanging fruit, would probably be best but, it's too easy to get caught up in the quest for what looks like nice future profits. I'm sure many would attest to the same experience you had.

So who called that the end of the Copper Age? Bob Overstreet? Jerry Weist? Chuck Rozanski? Todd McFarlane? Pretty sure it was announced by papal edict. Seriously -- I laugh at these arbitrary cut-off dates as it's not very helpful for most collectors.

But he didn't die. It was all just a lie to get us to keep buying books. That seems a more "Modern" approach than"Copper". Nobody stayed dead from the Copper Age.... Not surprising since some dead people do really well financially. Michael Jackson earned more dead in the last 12 months than any living artist/performer for that time period. Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean are still raking it in.

But he didn't die. It was all just a lie to get us to keep buying books. That seems a more "Modern" approach than"Copper".

Of course it will change. But the fact remains that there are a lot of Copper books out there in $1 bins that are in great condition and that are not printing #4 or whatever kind of variant, they're just great books that can be found readily and flipped for a huge profit and you won't lose money on the flip if you buy the right books. A guy that shops where I do at a LCS told me that he found two New Mutant 98 books there last fall in the back-issue section for $1.99 each. At the same store I recently got an ASM 344, X-Factor 24, Thor 337 and Uncanny X-Men 282 for a buck apiece in the $1 boxes. Give 'em a shower and a shave and these are all well over $100 or more CGC books. This Copper mining may continue for another five years, who knows how long the vein will continue to produce.

You mean there's a chance.... that all those shiny Cable #1 issues might actually be worth something some day? I like New Mutants 93 -- very cool Cable and Wolverine cover.

My wallet on a quarter buy to a $10-20 eBay sale begs to differ. +1

New Mutants 100 (final issue) seems to have really taken off since X-Mas. I've been tracking the X-Force books for about six months now and this one keeps going up. Combination of last New Mutants and beginning of X-Force appears to be a winning combination. I picked up two first prints in the last month in dollar bins and now glad that I did. In CGC 9.8 it's now a $140 book.

Agree with you 100%. The profit margin for many is in more recent issues. I could list 10 copper books that can be found in dollar bins and then sold for $100+ in CGC 9.8 and if they aren't in 9.8 then a cheap pressing will make them so. They are MANY flippers doing this right now with copper and moderns and yes some are rolling the profits into older brronze and silver books that cannot be bought cheaply. I don't see this trend diminishing for quite a while.

Went to two LCS and came up empty. The Joe collectors have been working hard lately it appears. I saw very few Real American Hero issues and the ones that I did see were mostly in the 50-80 numbers. Quite a contrast with the Superman issues I was looking for earlier this month which seemed to be plentiful.

Overstreet has issues 25-27 at about $25 nm-, and also the high numbers 150+ at $40 with last issue 155 being $75. I had no idea that this series was so highly collected.