Mercury Man

I agree. I was being a bit sarcastic.

Certainly not 'drek' but any of the McFarlane Spiderman #1's I come across, I pick up if they are looking like 9.8's.

My LCS had 3, not too long ago. All 3 were 9.8 and they were $100 each. Just wait till McFarlane opens up his pallet of Spawn #1's he has in storage. The market will be flooded.

$100

It's CARL not CORAL!!!!!

I don't care much for horror, but I do enjoy my zombies. I just feel like everything on the show is getting regurgitated. Evil Governor Camp, Evil Cannibal Camp, Evil Negan Camp. There is no progress in getting to the bottom of the Zombie Apocalypse, what caused it, is there a cure being hatched, what is left of the US Government etc. It's just one human vs. human scenario after another, and quite frankly it's exhausting. I stopped watching after the first half of last season. Wake me when it's over.

The Ramones- simple, energetic, catchy riffs, the godfathers of the Punk movement, an All American band. Frickin awesome.

Well nobody in the early 1960's knew that AF 15 or FF 1 or X-Men 1 would be valuable (that's about 50 years). Those books transcended pop culture so to speak. So is there something being put on the shelf today that is going to be worth some money in 50 years? Who knows. Look at The Walking Dead #1, hot book. Nobody saw that one coming. Now when the show is off the air, do you think it continues? Do you think people 50 years from now will be looking in attics and garage sales for a Walking Dead #1? Or will the interest die down, as the series fades from memory. Do we even know if comic books will be a collectible 50 years from now? Again, read moderns, enjoy them, if they go up in value, bonus. If not, welcome to the 99%.

Typically 'pay for it', but yes, artist does a sketch on it. I agree with Yoshi, in that it opens up another avenue, instead of getting a sketch on a piece of paper, you get a sketch on an actual cover of a comic. A pretty nifty idea when it was created by the publishers.

You are probably going to get a mix of responses, but from an investment standpoint, new comic books are for the most part, going to let you down. You will hear stories from people about how they flipped books for hundreds of dollars, and how some own an ultra rare variant that nobody has ever seen on the market, and how it can be done, but that is just speculators selling to speculators. Eventually somebody gets left holding the bag, and that will thin out the hobby like it did in the early 90's. The dollar boxes are filled with 'Investment' books from 20-30 years ago. Filled to the tune of millions. Buy new comics because you like the character, artwork or stories. If for some reason what you have goes up in value, that's a bonus. Quality over Quantity is always the smart collectibles play.

Ebay loves to change their layout every 2 months or so. It's very annoying. It's as if a group of people have jobs, whose sole purpose is to just change layouts of the page, even though there is nothing wrong with it. As a justification for having a job so to speak. "See boss, we now put the "ask seller a question" up top to "contact seller". "Isn't that super smart boss"? "Just wait till next month, when we flip flop the picture display from the left to the right, it will be genius".

I often wonder, if Stan just gets so bored sitting up there for hours on end, he eventually starts messing around with peoples stuff like this. Or is his eyesight so bad, he didn't see signing directly on top of McFarlane.

It's the roller skates that ruined it....*$!$^ roller skates.

Sorry, but I wouldn't want a Mickey Mantle Signed Fantastic Four comic, nor would I want a signed baseball by a non-baseball player like Stan Lee. At least the Presidents (in the past anyway) threw out a first pitch occasionally.

Why?!

My Uncle (a Priest), gave me a bunch of comics from that era, including Miller Daredevils. I remember not liking it much. Too deep, and way above my pre-teen head. Wound up taking them to my LCS for some trade credit. I am now rebuilding that era, wish I would have kept what I had.

Just gonna leave this here....

Sad. Hurricanes down here, wildfires up there, it's the polar opposite end of devastation for thousands of people.

Don't do it man....don't do it...

When you buy a new comic (Modern Age) off the rack, isn't it like going to see a movie or buying a magazine at Barnes and Noble? You are paying for the entertainment of the story. You can't resell the movie you just watched, and the magazine you spent $9.95 will wind up in your recycling bin in a year. I get comics are unique in that there is a secondary market, with price guides and grading companies, and 'collectors', but to maneuver through this maze of trying to turn a profit on something that was printed last week, instead of just enjoying this comic that just came out for the story, seems a bit audacious. You would be better off saving the extra money you would have spent on multiple modern issues, and at the end of the year, buy a nice Silver Age book.

Most people fall butt backwards into a Modern book that goes up (and retains) in value. The first appearance of Harley Quinn was in a kiddie book. Nobody was speculating on that book becoming some type of Modern key. A lot of dumpster divers found it in the $1 bin when it was picking up steam, but I wouldn't call them speculators. Most people who speculate on Modern books have more stories (and back issues) of disappointment than success, and that includes monetary success.

The only time I speculate, is when I speculate on speculators speculating, and in turn speculate on how affordable many books would be without speculators speculating and in turn choose not to speculate because of speculators. But this is all speculation.

But consider the resources Marvel/Disney can use to promote, as opposed to a smaller publisher who may be churning out some amazing stuff, with little recognition.