CopperMiner89

The 'Nam #1. Only one CGC so far, a 9.6 SS.

Mine will soon be the one and only 9.8

So how many 9.8s do you suppose are in an uncirculated box of 300? 100? How many 9.9s? A couple?

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?

though my personal preference would like to do away with all of the "Ages" after Bronze Age.

+1

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?

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.

The end of the Copper Age has a specific date - November 18, 1992. Superman 75 release date.

 

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.

 

Spiderman #1 is not the end of the Copper age. It is building up to the apex of the Copper Age, which was the death of Superman.

 

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.

 

Spiderman #1 is not the end of the Copper age. It is building up to the apex of the Copper Age, which was the death of Superman.

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".

I'm sure the market will change. Collector/investor/speculators are already seeing a slow down in the new comic variant cover/convention special market (just like Image in the 90's) They are moving to and paying big money for these BA and CA books. Most will lose money on the flip, become disenchanted and leave the hobby. No different than the 90s

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.

Imagine if Cable appears in a movie.

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.

I don't think any version of that book would make a very good investment.

 

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

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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.

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.

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.

Did anyone here win this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMAN-MAN-STEEL-18-DOOMSDAY-UNCIRCULATED-CASE-300-COMICS-JURGENS-BREEDING-DC-/121275587649?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.RVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20635%26meid%3D4985516820845995228%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D9200%26rk%3D0%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D181289782829&nma=true&si=23MOb55rFtiALmWNemF2jtFoOUM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

That is a total scream. And scary, when you think of how many of these may be

actually out there for any post-1975 issue.

We all know there are many copies of the first printing of this book out there,

and I would venture to say that this applies to all of the Death of Superman

x-over issues (MOS 19, Superman 74,75 & Action 684 and JLA 69 to name a few).

This eBAY sale is merely confirmation of that fact and I hope that the buyer has

enough sense to avoid flooding the market with CGC 9.8 copies. That being said, I

don't see why MOS 18 first printing is any more than a $100 book in CGC 9.8 due

to plentiful supply, unless demand really spikes due to the Superman/Batman movie.

There are a LOT of CGC 9.8 copies for sale right now on eBAY and most

are NOT going to sell at their current listed prices.

I'm going G.I. Joe hunting this weekend at several LCS.

I've seen a lot of issues in the dollar long boxes and many more

in the back-issue section priced at $2, so chances are pretty good

to find something.

What should I be looking for other than these issues?:

G.I Joe A Real American Hero: 1,2,21,93,139

Special Edition 1995 Spider-man cover swipe

Thanks in advance!

X-Factor 24 and Captain America have now hit $200 in CGC 9.8.

 

I've found these in dollar bins recently so go get 'em.

 

Any Captain America?

Sorry 'bout that -- Captain America 360 (Crossbones)

X-Factor 24 and Captain America have now hit $200 in CGC 9.8.

I've found these in dollar bins recently so go get 'em.

I picked up a third print today of MOS 18 , so I now have 1st and 3rd. Probably want to keep just one so in comparable condition which one is more desirable?