marc5477

What makes you think that comics are thrown away? Definitely not new stuff. Perhaps if you go back in time 60 years or so, but collecting comics and sports cards got popular back in the 60s and 70s so not much was thrown away. Even stuff before that is not all that rare even if it was thrown away. Beware of thinking that something is "investment grade" just because its currently selling for $10k. Just because something is expensive now does not mean its worth anything later. We are not talking about real estate here. The hype cycle has already happened before in the 90s in comics and in all the other collectable sectors many times over. Generally speaking, the only collectables that survive the popularity spikes are rare and dated books from silver age and older. Newer stuff is really a waste of time because its driven by hype which eventually winds down. The perfect example of this is TMNT 1 which is basically only expensive because when people look at a price guide it says a high price, not due to any real merit. There are literally tens of thousands of books which are rarer yet are in the 4 for $1 bins and many are better written and drawn. But back to the point, avoid the hype machine. There is currently too much hype over movie appearances and secondary characters and its being used by hucksters to pump and dump collectables. All this has happened before. Dont fall for it. I reiterate, the only books worth investment money are silver age and older and even silver age is not rare enough in many cases unless you have a major key book like XMen 1 (which is not particularly rare). Everything after the silver age is really just hobby quality no matter what the price is. You may think that $10k for a new book is hot stuff but I promise you its temporary and/or requires a sucker to move (a la TNMT or Walking Dead). Better to use that money as a down payment for a home which is a real investment. If you have tons of money, then you really should be looking at golden age and older because that is what rich people collect. Just collect what you like unless and dont get into investing unless you are rich enough to go after the old stuff.