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Dark Knight

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  1. Book is certainly nose diving alright. Quick sell your copies!!!!
  2. Yup, I agree with this. 80's and 90's adults now are setting their foot in into the hobby now that they are making their own income and thriving well it seems. I believe this is just the beginning and only started to realize that collecting and possibly investing in comics is a fun hobby to be in. They will obviously be starting in the beginning phases hopefully as a hobbyist (start out by buying not so expensive key books like in the modern/copper age and maybe once they start to get into it, they will move on to bigger books in the BA then SA and then the few elitist into the GA keys). When I first started seriously collecting and getting into this hobby a little more about 15 years ago, I started out small, gained some knowledge and just continued to put more $ into bigger books. I guess we shall see where this train goes.
  3. There are still quite a lot of sports card collectors/investors buying the older cards. A T206 Wagner PSA 3 sold late last year for $3.25 mil and just a couple months ago a 52 Mantle PSA 9 sold for around $5 mil. Just a couple blockbuster sales. It's all about certain sports figures like Ruth, Mantle, Gretzky, Trout, Jordan, Lebron, Kobe will always fetch high sale prices and likely continue to go up in value. Yeah the newer modern cards are gaining a lot of value because of all the hoopla with serial numbered cards and colored refractors of star players today who are out there on television for the world to see. It creates a lot of excitement and buzz. Not to mention businesses that do sports card breaking, pretty much like gambling in hopes that the breaker pulls a high end card for the player or team you purchased. That business is booming and doing quite well. So to sum, it's a mixed bag. People will collect vintage cards, some collect newer ones, and others collect both.
  4. I'd wait until Monday to call and let them know that you want to combine shipping for your wins/buys if they haven't sent you an invoice. I'm sure it's not a problem for them to accommodate your books into one shipping bill. I don't know how long they can hold your won books for if you're trying to make offers on others. That definitely needs a phone call or email to ask.
  5. Here's hoping . It might be time.. Although back in the early - mid 90's I wasn't really focusing on collecting comics, so I didn't know the market well. Back then I was more into Marvel trading cards, sports cards, and a sprinkle of cheap books here and there like Image Comics.
  6. I think the surge in silver age books will spill over to certain popular titles and major keys in golden age books. We'll see.
  7. Give it some time, this will double in value in like 5-10 years . Look at how much a NM #98 and IH #181 in 9.9 are worth now!!! And back then people (including myself) were laughing at how much the buyers paid for these respective books. Now they're laughing at us lol.
  8. You're forgetting sealed NES/SNES video games . Prices still going up in practically every time Heritage has an auction. The same grade of that game getting trump to a higher sale a few months later. I'd put comics and video games as neck and neck #2 spot. Sports cards I believe has already plateaued and coming down slowly (looking at some premier cards such as the 1986 fleer jordan, 2003 chrome lebron, etc.)
  9. Waiting for the bubble to pop so I can get back in
  10. Yeah I'd take the old label Action 1 as well because it is showing Superman's red undies