Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1?
Maybe which goes to show that the Walking Dead is special,and be very cautious about buying all these new moderns for speculative picks.
It took the Walking Dead seven years to make it to tv,and become a hit.
So people who are paying $50 to $400 a pop for the next Walking Dead book might have a long wait. The Walking Dead was the perfect storm that might never been seen in comic books again.
Be VERY careful with this comparison. People did NOT save comic books like they did back then. As stated in many of my other threads; we are a very collector conscious society and culture. Just turn on the History Channel, A&E, Spike, PBS, or Discovery; and I am sure now or within the next few hours another collecting show will air.
There are very few Walking Dead #1's NOT in near mint condition! Comparing a comic book published in 2000+ to one published before 1965 is a very bad comparison.
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Very true. This is something that is constantly ignored by buyers of all types of collectibles.
Suppy and Demand factor in here.
The print run for Walking Dead #1 at 7,000 is miniscule compared to DC, and Marvel comics that had print runs in the 300,000 to 600,000 in 1965.
Sometimes age isn`t a factor. I can buy golden age funny animal comics all day on Ebay for less then $5.
I doubt we will ever see a first print Walking Dead #1 sell for $5 dollars on EBay.
but they sold at less than cover for a few months after the book was first released, so we've already seen them sell for less than $5 on e-bay
ok, then from this day forward the Walking Dead #1 first prints will never sell for less than $5 on EBay like old golden age funny animal comic books.
You also have the fact that the television show has caused a massive spike in value. This is short lived phenomenon. I do NOT understand the 'got to have it/buy it now' mentality for an item like this. The price will drop well after the television show ends (within a few years).
By contrast, Spider-Man's value was NEVER based on a television show. It was also NOT a manufactured collectible; forced onto the marketplace. There is NO comparison between these two items.
The best collectibles are those whose value rises steadily over a LONG period of time; not the course of several years.
This is a true speculative bubble. Why buy into it at the peak of the 'hype?'
It could be similar to TMNT. Low print run, then TV show got popular and kept it's value since.