The Less Blob

Here's one concern I have: I think some of these guys might think every decent book can be pressed into a 9.6 or a 9.8 If they started this quest in December or so they might just be getting their books back or haven't yet. I wonder when they learn the magic of pressing is not that predictable and that X-Men 282 they bought raw is not a $350 slab that their get rich schemes will seem less realistic (although that might be the wrong book to reference because it looks like even 9.0 and 9.2 are selling ok)

We didn't know what we were in for then. We were worried about having enough toilet paper and lysol. Would we have enough wine and vodka? I have a 20 pound bag of rice I still haven't opened, not to mention tons of canned food and dried beans... just in case. I was seriously thinking about how long I could live on one meal a week if it came down to it and we had no food (the numbers indicated about a year, cuz I'm fat...). I was in a supermarket in march and one guy was buying 20 loaves of cheap bread. I guess he was going to freeze them or something.

Other than anecdotal "I heard guys in the store", what is the evidence that these enormous increases for many books are due to folks who weren't interested in comics a year ago? i've been reading here about "card guys" going back into comics for 15 years. We see new folks showing up here getting into comics. They spend money on stuff old geezers think is nuts (says the guy who just spend $250 on a Goon 2 9.8...). And new guys sometimes stick. I got back into comics in 1993 after having lost interest since about 1985/1986. I was a new guy then. I think plenty of people here got back into them. Sure, it is true, some of the card guys may have never been into them and there isn't that childhood nostalgia thing going on, but I honestly don't think that is what has kept me in for almost 30 years. I do try to look at my buyers to gauge whether they are long term or short term collectors, but I'm not selling slabs, mostly, although I am selling hot books. The guy who paid $75 for my raw MCP 72 looks like he has been buying comics on the account since 2018. more recently he has a few sales. My guess he is thinking of getting it pressed and slabbed. And with 9.6 prices where they are, maybe not a bad idea. the guy who paid $50 for my wolverine 88 does look like he was a card guy. the guy who paid $45 for my sam wilson 3 has been a comics guy for a while. the guy who paid hundreds for my FF Annual 6 has been a comics guy for a while. the guy who paid $125 for my SIKTC has been buying comics a while, looks like he is probably getting it slabbed to flip. my triple digit thundercats buyers seem to be nostalgia buys, although both dabble in comics. Anyway, I'm throwing these out there because these were definitely 2021 prices sales. Some random BA Cap book selling for $15-20 because folks got interested in Cap/Falcon due to the show is a bit different.

OH, so you're talking about stumbling into raw books that get high CGC grades, yaddah yaddah. this is entirely speculative and requires hunting and an eye for these things. I am talking about sales prices of 9.8s. Not "I could have turned a dollar box book into a $1000 CGC 9.8" And entirely personal (and anecdotal) to what you happened to be buying. Yes, i paid 65 cents for my NYX 3. I don't think I could have done better buying Apple stock at its complete bottom of 50 cent a share.

I say this because folks here have, indeed, analyzed some blue chip books vs. the S&P 500, and while a few books did better, a decent number did not. i don't know where the thread is. the power of compounded returns, with dividend reinvestment, is yuuuge

yes, as this is for a masters degree class and most of them are 30-50 somethings already working in the medical field

With dividend reinvestment? I doubt it. Anyway, over a broad range of books the stock market has way outperformed comics long and medium term. Some select books it may not have. Your blue chip marvel keys. Sure

I find this topic boring. Clearly the folks who keep pushing the idea of a crash want it to happen so they can afford to collect. How about seeing how things turn out rather than pushing for a certain outcome?

Most of these comics have not done squat for years. A book that was $10-15 in 1994-6 that is $40-60 now has only seen a 4-6% rate of return, more than inflation, but well below the stock market. It is about time!

ok, 18 hours a day i'm not knocking it, i just can't do it like i used to, i just fall asleep

There are 11 for sale right now on ebay and 6 sales in the last few months. A few are on the rough side, true, and I would not order from Italy or Germany, where a few of them are.

I gave you about 20% of it. It is even more complex.

JIM 129 and Annual 5. I guess it is the only one where they are fighting. But did anyone care $10 worth until the Crowe/Zeuss news a few weeks ago? i'll go see if I have any. I know I have a lot of 7.

i understand, but i think it is just a short cameo, and wouldn't that be felt in his earlier appearances?

I was not following good so closely 3 years ago, were they selling for more than?

why? thor isn't likely to battle zeus in the movie. zeuss may get killed by knull. but this isn't the first app of zeus, right? i can't figure out why 7 doesn't do better. nice cover, eternals.

$350 is maybe not even what that book would get now considering there is a CGC 8.5 for under $450. i hope you found your own treasures in the boxes you hit at least?

The U.K. number is terrifying because there is a lot of drinking going on there about 20 hours a day, but I guess they have less manufacturing, so fewer drunken ambutations...the countries between germany and the uk tend to get blitzed at night

Good golly, there was so much darn good beer in germany so cheap vs. u.s. bar prices it never occurred to me to drink a becks while over there, but I guess it is their budweiser. i really loved the beer gardens next to the play ground. leaving a deposit for your beer mug was weird, but i get it. i miss beer, but I need to lose about 100 pounds before i start drinking it again.

Bizarre that they didn't have him at least in the corner "Introducing Dr. Strange"... clearly they did not think the Torch could sustain his own title much longer. Instead we have half the cover devoted to the Wizard and Paste Pot Pete.

So a miscut printing error makes the price go up 2000%+? https://www.ebay.com/itm/164810372212?_trkparms=aid%3D1110002%26algo%3DSPLICE.SOI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190711095549%26meid%3D331af2ef30924926b9ee88d39abcfe4c%26pid%3D100047%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D7%26sd%3D154409653373%26itm%3D164810372212%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSellersOtherItemsV2&_trksid=p2047675.c100047.m2108

I don't get it either. It is one of the few books I bought for a while, but when the schedule got all messed up I just stopped asking when the next issue was.

And where is the Skullkickers TV show?

A guy not getting hyped up in the current hysteria. Where were Goon 1s in late 2019?

i can't believe anyone would have paid extra for a charlton!