TTA 27 or Showcase 22 both in mid grade, what is the better investment?

[brasseye]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

[FlyingDonut]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

 

Depends on what the time frame is and how much risk/work he wants to do. You can very easily double your money if he puts some work into it.

[ft88]

As far as Antman goes, I'd rather get issue 35 and have an 8.5/9.0 vs a 6.0 27. Or even a high grade 1st appearance of the Wasp. For Green Lantern I'd rather have All American 61 in any grade, even restored. GL 40 has gotten hit pretty hard in the past few years so you might be able to get a CGC 9.2 for a decent price. I think 76 has been played out IMO. And 59 is a dead key and has been for a while now.

[tth2]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

 

Depends on what the time frame is and how much risk/work he wants to do. You can very easily double your money if he puts some work into it.

Please don`t be talking about using the $1250 to buy 25,000 $0.05 beaters and then flipping them for double at $0.10. Life is too short...

[brasseye]

As far as Antman goes, I'd rather get issue 35 and have an 8.5/9.0 vs a 6.0 27. Or even a high grade 1st appearance of the Wasp. For Green Lantern I'd rather have All American 61 in any grade, even restored. GL 40 has gotten hit pretty hard in the past few years so you might be able to get a CGC 9.2 for a decent price. I think 76 has been played out IMO. And 59 is a dead key and has been for a while now.

 

Nice assessment.

GL has taken a big ride on the speculators/collectors rollercoaster a lot more than other books for some reason.

[Twistty1]

Here's the type of book you should be aiming at, not astronomically priced, though still holding high desireability.

 

 

 

Very nice book, I'm jealous..

[VintageComics]

As far as Antman goes, I'd rather get issue 35 and have an 8.5/9.0 vs a 6.0 27. Or even a high grade 1st appearance of the Wasp. For Green Lantern I'd rather have All American 61 in any grade, even restored. GL 40 has gotten hit pretty hard in the past few years so you might be able to get a CGC 9.2 for a decent price. I think 76 has been played out IMO. And 59 is a dead key and has been for a while now.

 

Nice assessment.

GL has taken a big ride on the speculators/collectors rollercoaster a lot more than other books for some reason.

 

I owned a TTA #35 CGC 9.0 that I could not sell. It's an impossible book in grade (only 1 higher at 9.4 or 9.6) and even had an Overstreet Advisor contact me just to tell me how tough the book was...but the buyer pool is very small for that book.

 

R.

 

 

 

[Twistty1]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

 

Depends on what the time frame is and how much risk/work he wants to do. You can very easily double your money if he puts some work into it.

Please don`t be talking about using the $1250 to buy 25,000 $0.05 beaters and then flipping them for double at $0.10. Life is too short...

 

haha, no...I neither have the time nor the desire to do that..

I was also thinking of a Flash 105, and yeah that TTA 44 would be a nice book as well. I was contemplating up grading my TOS 39 but with the prices I've been seeing I may have missed the boat on that.

 

[supapimp]

early TTA's are HTF in HG, but i did get lucky off of eBay raw

 

[Twistty1]

early TTA's are HTF in HG, but i did get lucky off of eBay raw

 

Wow, I rarely get lucky off of ebay, alot of over grading, only a couple of gems over the years.

 

Nice book...I was just getting over my jealousy of Brasseye, now I'm feeling jealous again..

(thumbs u

 

[kimik]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

 

Depends on what the time frame is and how much risk/work he wants to do. You can very easily double your money if he puts some work into it.

Please don`t be talking about using the $1250 to buy 25,000 $0.05 beaters and then flipping them for double at $0.10. Life is too short...

 

haha, no...I neither have the time nor the desire to do that..

I was also thinking of a Flash 105, and yeah that TTA 44 would be a nice book as well. I was contemplating up grading my TOS 39 but with the prices I've been seeing I may have missed the boat on that.

 

I would pass on these books as well and grab a nice 6.0 copy of Avengers #1 with the funds if I were you asap. It is a book that moves readily, and with a movie being rumored/coming up has significant room to grow. Even though it is not the 1st appearance of any main characters, the book is probably undervalued a bit. I think a movie will have a similar impact on prices for Avengers #1 like it did for X-Men #1 - there was a time not so long ago that you could pick up nice looking FN copies of X-Men #1 for well under $1000.

 

Flash #105 is not a great investment pick IMHO, and TOS #39 has already jumped up. JIM #83 is another possibility, but it has already taken off. The problem with TTA #27, #35 or any other issues is that it is a relatively dead title as Roy aluded to.

[FlyingDonut]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

 

Depends on what the time frame is and how much risk/work he wants to do. You can very easily double your money if he puts some work into it.

Please don`t be talking about using the $1250 to buy 25,000 $0.05 beaters and then flipping them for double at $0.10. Life is too short...

 

haha, no...I neither have the time nor the desire to do that..

I was also thinking of a Flash 105, and yeah that TTA 44 would be a nice book as well. I was contemplating up grading my TOS 39 but with the prices I've been seeing I may have missed the boat on that.

 

As an investment, all the books you've discussed are lousy. Flash 105 is a total and complete dog. The train has left the station on TOS 39.

 

If you want to "invest" in a single book with that money, buy the highest grade Amazing Fantasy 15 you can get for $1250. Grade is irrelevant.

 

What you should do is take that $1250 and use it as a leveraging tool. Cash is king. You should be able to buy two long boxes of Silver Age books if you shop around, and then flip those books for four to five times what you paid for them. You can get mid-grade post-1965 Silver Age without much problem, even mainstream Marvels, for this price, if you shop around.

 

Everybody disparages this model, but it works all the time.

[kimik]

 

As an investment, all the books you've discussed are lousy. Flash 105 is a total and complete dog. The train has left the station on TOS 39.

 

If you want to "invest" in a single book with that money, buy the highest grade Amazing Fantasy 15 you can get for $1250. Grade is irrelevant.

 

What you should do is take that $1250 and use it as a leveraging tool. Cash is king. You should be able to buy two long boxes of Silver Age books if you shop around, and then flip those books for four to five times what you paid for them. You can get mid-grade post-1965 Silver Age without much problem, even mainstream Marvels, for this price, if you shop around.

 

Everybody disparages this model, but it works all the time.

 

I think that AF #15 will be peaking out shortly so I would wait on that.

 

However, Dan's suggestion of buying books in bulk and flipping them is a good idea. If you don't want to spend the time doing this, find a LCS that has a poor stock of older books and consign through them. It will cost you 20%, but it helps to create another distribution channel for the books. If you buy right you will still more than double your money even on the consignment.

[showcase4]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

 

Depends on what the time frame is and how much risk/work he wants to do. You can very easily double your money if he puts some work into it.

Please don`t be talking about using the $1250 to buy 25,000 $0.05 beaters and then flipping them for double at $0.10. Life is too short...

 

haha, no...I neither have the time nor the desire to do that..

I was also thinking of a Flash 105, and yeah that TTA 44 would be a nice book as well. I was contemplating up grading my TOS 39 but with the prices I've been seeing I may have missed the boat on that.

 

As an investment, all the books you've discussed are lousy. Flash 105 is a total and complete dog. The train has left the station on TOS 39.

 

If you want to "invest" in a single book with that money, buy the highest grade Amazing Fantasy 15 you can get for $1250. Grade is irrelevant.

 

What you should do is take that $1250 and use it as a leveraging tool. Cash is king. You should be able to buy two long boxes of Silver Age books if you shop around, and then flip those books for four to five times what you paid for them. You can get mid-grade post-1965 Silver Age without much problem, even mainstream Marvels, for this price, if you shop around.

 

Everybody disparages this model, but it works all the time.

 

 

hm

[FlyingDonut]

Well money in a high interest account will win everytime for risk vs reward analysis, but nowhere near as much fun.

 

What alternatives did you have in mind

 

Depends on what the time frame is and how much risk/work he wants to do. You can very easily double your money if he puts some work into it.

Please don`t be talking about using the $1250 to buy 25,000 $0.05 beaters and then flipping them for double at $0.10. Life is too short...

 

haha, no...I neither have the time nor the desire to do that..

I was also thinking of a Flash 105, and yeah that TTA 44 would be a nice book as well. I was contemplating up grading my TOS 39 but with the prices I've been seeing I may have missed the boat on that.

 

As an investment, all the books you've discussed are lousy. Flash 105 is a total and complete dog. The train has left the station on TOS 39.

 

If you want to "invest" in a single book with that money, buy the highest grade Amazing Fantasy 15 you can get for $1250. Grade is irrelevant.

 

What you should do is take that $1250 and use it as a leveraging tool. Cash is king. You should be able to buy two long boxes of Silver Age books if you shop around, and then flip those books for four to five times what you paid for them. You can get mid-grade post-1965 Silver Age without much problem, even mainstream Marvels, for this price, if you shop around.

 

Everybody disparages this model, but it works all the time.

 

 

hm

 

Buy for a dollar. Sell for five dollars. Repeat.

[kimik]

As far as Avengers #1 goes, I see that 3.0 copies are fetching $600 now. I really should have held onto that 5.5/6.0 copy I sold in March for a measly $1,000. doh!

[FFB]

What you should do is take that $1250 and use it as a leveraging tool. Cash is king. You should be able to buy two long boxes of Silver Age books if you shop around, and then flip those books for four to five times what you paid for them. You can get mid-grade post-1965 Silver Age without much problem, even mainstream Marvels, for this price, if you shop around.

 

Everybody disparages this model, but it works all the time.

 

Yes, but it takes a ton of time and energy. If it were as easy as you say, people would leave Wall Street en masse and start flipping grubby old boxes of silver age comics. It's possible on a relatively small scale, but the time spend grading, listing, selling, packing, and shipping all of those books is more than most people want to invest. And that time has a cost (value/opportunity cost) that isn't being accounted for in your calculation.

[FlyingDonut]

What you should do is take that $1250 and use it as a leveraging tool. Cash is king. You should be able to buy two long boxes of Silver Age books if you shop around, and then flip those books for four to five times what you paid for them. You can get mid-grade post-1965 Silver Age without much problem, even mainstream Marvels, for this price, if you shop around.

 

Everybody disparages this model, but it works all the time.

 

Yes, but it takes a ton of time and energy. If it were as easy as you say, people would leave Wall Street en masse and start flipping grubby old boxes of silver age comics. It's possible on a relatively small scale, but the time spend grading, listing, selling, packing, and shipping all of those books is more than most people want to invest. And that time has a cost (value/opportunity cost) that isn't being accounted for in your calculation.

 

True, but its time that I would spend wasting watching porn or something.

[VintageComics]

What you should do is take that $1250 and use it as a leveraging tool. Cash is king. You should be able to buy two long boxes of Silver Age books if you shop around, and then flip those books for four to five times what you paid for them. You can get mid-grade post-1965 Silver Age without much problem, even mainstream Marvels, for this price, if you shop around.

 

Everybody disparages this model, but it works all the time.

 

Yes, but it takes a ton of time and energy. If it were as easy as you say, people would leave Wall Street en masse and start flipping grubby old boxes of silver age comics. It's possible on a relatively small scale, but the time spend grading, listing, selling, packing, and shipping all of those books is more than most people want to invest. And that time has a cost (value/opportunity cost) that isn't being accounted for in your calculation.

 

True, but its time that I would spend wasting watching porn or something.

 

I watch while I scan and read comics...whats the proble

 

Nevermind.

 

[tth2]

As far as Antman goes, I'd rather get issue 35 and have an 8.5/9.0 vs a 6.0 27. Or even a high grade 1st appearance of the Wasp. For Green Lantern I'd rather have All American 61 in any grade, even restored. GL 40 has gotten hit pretty hard in the past few years so you might be able to get a CGC 9.2 for a decent price. I think 76 has been played out IMO. And 59 is a dead key and has been for a while now.

 

Nice assessment.

GL has taken a big ride on the speculators/collectors rollercoaster a lot more than other books for some reason.

GL 40 and 76, yes. But early SA GLs and the GL Showcases are very undervalued compared to Flash and JLA (and their respective Showcase/B&Bs). The sole 9.4 Showcase #23 (2nd appearance of GL) went for just under $16K in a Comiclink auction recently. I can guarantee you that a 9.4 B&B #29 would go for well north of that. A 9.4 Showcase #8 would be on a completely different planet altogether.