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well, 1st mantis has always been a little spensive in guide and people love 20 cent cover price avengers anyway

 

So basically ok to find a mid high grade in the $50 range, and if the rumors to not pan out, you can likely get that back. From what I am seeing on eBay FN are going for about 40 to 50, VF is 60 to 70, and VF/NM may get you over 100 in raw. Not a bad little gamble, not going to cost anyone their life savings.

 

but to what end? Is the ROI worth it? Guessing that $1-$5 comics might go up to $20 or $25 seems pretty reasonable, but hoping a $50 comic might go to $61...of course I get everyone has their own strategies...

That is why I called it a gamble. If you can grab a nice mid/high grade get it slabbed, you may be able to double (or more) your investment. I can't say if that is worth it to you or not. I see 5 slabbed sales recently on eBay 6.5 = $70, 8.5 = $195, 8 = $149, 8.5 = 120, 9.4 = $600. The latter three are from before the movie rumor. Seems like an ok bet to me.

well, 1st mantis has always been a little spensive in guide and people love 20 cent cover price avengers anyway

So basically ok to find a mid high grade in the $50 range, and if the rumors to not pan out, you can likely get that back. From what I am seeing on eBay FN are going for about 40 to 50, VF is 60 to 70, and VF/NM may get you over 100 in raw. Not a bad little gamble, not going to cost anyone their life savings.

and we get this brand new eBay listing!!!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Avengers-1963-1st-Series-112-VF-NM-9-0-/361418647380?hash=item54263ae754:g:tJAAAOSwAYtWMaBi

Is Catwoman swinging around with a bare bottom? [not that there is anything wrong with that].

No it was the era of the skin tight purple costume.

Not are all this week, but in my new quest to start collecting keys, and yes speculating some. I actually won the AF 15 (the graded one ) in a contest!!! Some of these seem CGC worthy.

I tend to avoid variants, except for issues that look like they have the potential to become key issues, but large press runs. For instance, I purchased a WD 100 Adlard sketch variant. WD 100 is a potential key issue for multiple reasons, but has a HUGH press run, but by buying the 1:200 variant I know at least that cover is limited to about 1800 copies.

Or sometimes if I just like the cover. Splurging for 10 or 15 bucks to get a cover I really like is nothing compared to some of my other purchases.

Ok stuff under glass, but one has slipped down. Need to fix that.

Then again there are modern that are cemented in this place as key issues. I highly doubt that WD 1, NYX 3, or Batman Adventures 12 will ever make it back into the dollar bin.

Just grabbed a very nice raw copy for $65, should be an easy 9.6, fingers crossed for 9.8. I did it as a buy now. The next day a auctioned raw copy similar grade went for almost $130/

I think the issue with Alias 1 is the black cover combined with black back cover gives you color breaks right from the printer down the spine created when the presses folded the issue. I wonder how much the graders count that against the issue. CGC claims they take known printing defects into account when grading.

I just paid $65 for a raw Alias #1 that was listed as a 9.4. I did my happy dance when I got the issue and it looks like an easy 9.6 maybe better. Has one minor spine crease otherwise, I am hard pressed to find anything wrong with it.