Poekaymon

Reduced all prices and added free shipping on additional books. Closing thread tomorrow. Thanks.

Usagi Yojimbo #6 - 1:25 - Geoff Darrow - $300 $275 SOLD

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Have only seen one sold, back in April.

Venomverse #1 - 1:2000 - Remastered Sketch - $500 Sold

Usual forum rules apply. NO HOS/ NO PL Paypal only. U.S., lower 48 only, for now. Will ship out same day if early, next day otherwise. First USPS Priority mail: $15 shipping for each single book, additional books ship for free. Well packed. Mint slabs. No returns--if you want more pictures of anything just let me know. Relative newbie, but I've purchased and sold several things on here. Can PM you my 21 year old, 100% positive eBay account too if you want.

I think I like that but I looked it up and it's $2k new. Would want at least two so that's pretty rough.

323, 324, and 325. $80 shipped for all--less than the price of slabbing them.

Usual forum rules apply. NO HOS/ NO PL Paypal only. U.S., lower 48 only, for now. Will ship out same day if early, next day otherwise. First No returns. If you want more pictures of anything just let me know. All new, mint slabs. Relative newbie, but I've purchased several things on here. Can PM you my 21 year old, 100% positive eBay account too if you want.

Daredevil 325 - $30

Daredevil 324 - $30

Daredevil 323 - $40

Daredevil 300 - $40

Marvel Knights #1 Dynamic Forces Variant - $35

Symbiote Spider-Man #1 Lau Virgin - $75 Some Newtonian rings going on here. Think it's the only slab that does.

Alright, my first sales thread. Usual forum rules apply. NO HOS/ NO PL Paypal only. Please pay within 48 hours--they're mostly pretty cheap anyway. U.S., lower 48 only, for now. $10 shipping for the first book. All additional books ship for free. Will ship out same day if early, next day otherwise. First No returns. If you want more pictures of anything just let me know. Most if not all are very recent slabs. All slabs are mint condition. Relative newbie, but I've purchased several things on here. Can PM you my 21 year old, 100% positive eBay account too if you want.

I recently got back into this hobby after a 30-year absence. I've been wondering about the topic of this thread ever since I got back. I'm bronze/copper pretty exclusively, though I've been dabbling in some modern variants (against my own advice). It's primarily for fun/nostalgia, but I'd prefer my stuff at least hold value for 25 years--if not 40-50. (I thought I was old, but apparently in this crowd I'm a young buck--I feel I have a good 40 years left in these bones.) Anyway, I think a lot of people in this thread are unfairly conflating all comics as a whole, when the outlook might be very era dependent.. Gold. I've noticed on these boards that the golden age stuff is very, very popular. Whenever we get some golden age auction thread, it is literally a race to post a "take it." Sometimes people are in such a rush to be first, I know for a fact they just pasted in a "take it" without even looking at the scans. It's actually unreal. I don't know a fig about golden age books, yet I have still been tempted to grab some on a lark. But unlike newer books, I just can't figure out the market. A lot of times they aren't even on gocollect and I can't figure out what people are basing their $1-2k takeits on. Just too tough for a newbie. But the market is plainly, absolutely there, despite the fact that, I'm guessing, even our older boardies weren't reading comics when those 1940s' books were new. So we have concrete proof that there is some pretty spirited collecting going on of stuff "before your time." And it's unrelated to personal nostalgia. And it's unrelated to movies. (Like, I have been tempted by some of these Terrors of the Jungle bondage covers, but I'm not even fast enough on the "take it" to score a beat up $1k raw.) Why is that going to change in 25 years? Seems to me people of means will always want cool, old stuff independent of any overarching interest in comics themselves as an entertainment medium. In short, I believe golds will be fine until the collapse of society--and I don't even own one. Bronze/Copper. This seems a bit iffier. So people my age like them for nostalgia. And they are still decent fodder for TV shows and movies, so younger people get introduced to them as well. Will that be enough in 25-40 years for the market not to drop out on stuff like Giant X 1, GI Joe 1, DD 168, Spider 300, Hulk 340, etc? Why won't these people of the future prefer to get stuff from the 40s instead of the 80s when it's all the same to them in terms of personal connection. Still, I think the top shelf bronze/cops will survive--at least for the time period we're talking about. Modern. Now here I'm pretty pessimistic--especially regarding high ratio variants. Moderns seem weaker in general and variants are a tad out of control. Will people be willing to pay the equivalent of $1k in today's dollars for a Hunt for Wolverine 1:1000, or $1500 for a Venom 1 1:1000, or a Champions 1, or a Spider-man 25, etc? This goes double for the even sketchier subset of printing errors and the like. I just don't see it. But what about modern day firsts equivalent to my coppers, like this Miles Morales that has gone up 4x this year? If the industry really is on a decline, and I have no idea but most people on this board seem to think it is (and anecdotally I feel like there are far fewer comic book stores than when I was a kid) then I don't really see moderns making it. Maybe this is what is driving a lot of the naysayers here. But that doesn't mean the other stuff is necessarily doomed as well.

Nah I just stopped bidding on one of these at like 950 less than two weeks ago. It didn't hit 1000. Fair price.

Undergraded--presents like an 11.

I wasn't bidding, but I'm relatively new here and am curious about your ways. A naked "take" like that shouldn't count, right?

Oh, I agree it's not "horrible." But I think the bar for 9.9's should be a bit higher than "not horrible" when they go for 10-20x 9.8 value. Here's another 9.9 the same auction house has up right now. Not going to bother zooming in on each corner, but they are sharp. These are the corners I demand in my 9.9s.

Interesting read. That 9.9 181 is... not great.