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

[tth2]

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.

Yeah, what Scott said.

[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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

All great suggestions. However, having a fiance I must divide my porn watching and comic grading, and collecting for that matter, very wisely.

 

As for the Avengers 1 I recently just picked up a copy in 8.0 for a pretty good price so I lucked out on that one. In regards to the flipping several boxes of Silver age stuff, I recently had a friend who used to own a comic book store that has been out of it for a while offer me his 15+ long boxes. When I saw the amount of boxes and the space required to store them, I immediately pictured my gf castrating me and told him I would hold off for the moment.

 

Maybe I'll look around for some space and take him up on his offer. What kind of silver age are we talking about, non-keys I take? I think he said that it was stuff like X-men 200 and on, mostly complete runs. So I think it may be more later type issues so I'm not sure if it is worth my time or not..

 

BTW a BB# 28 just sold on ebay for over $800, that would have been more than i was willing to pay for that issue...So I think that estimate of it's 9.0 price would be about right.

[gaz973]

If it's 15 long boxes of stuff like X Men # 200 then it'll take forever to shift. I'd steer clear unless there is a decent amount of SA to go with it.

[Twistty1]

If it's 15 long boxes of stuff like X Men # 200 then it'll take forever to shift. I'd steer clear unless there is a decent amount of SA to go with it.

 

Yeah I dont know if I have the time to do something like that..I'll have to look through it first and see what kind of stuff exactly he is offering..