What Silver or Golden Age Gem Should I Build A War Chest For?

[Kirk Kenobi]

Oh brilliant boardies. I need your help. Would love to hear anyones thoughts on what books you'd recommend given the parameters below.

 

1) $4000-$5000 in price

2) Mid grade slabs (nothing lower than a CGC 4.5)

3) Off White Pages or better preferred.

4) I'd like to stay away from the movie hype inflated books (Thor, GL, Avengers, Spidey, etc.)

 

All right everyone. Any suggestions?

 

 

 

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

Detective Comics #168.

[COI]

All right everyone. Any suggestions?

 

 

If you're building a war chest with your own hard-earned money, I would suggest buying what you like.

[faster friends]

Early Action or Detective Comics

[JiveTurkeyMoFo]

For SA: TOS 39...prices have slowly started coming back to earth and supply is on the rise, and you can probably get a real nice 7.0 in the mid $4k-$5k range.

 

For GA, this price point is really hard to find a decent key for. Depends on your definition of "key" I imagine. I recently purchased a Startling Comics # 49 (Classic Schomburg cover) in CGC 9.0 for $6k. Plenty of nice mid-grade copies of 1st appearances floating around out there in that price range though, especially if you are okay with 2nd tier characters (like a Black Canary). A 9.0 Sub-Mariner Comics # 1 with Slight Resto also sold for under $6k recently....so there are bargains to be had out there.

 

 

 

 

[Kirk Kenobi]

All right everyone. Any suggestions?

 

 

If you're building a war chest with your own hard-earned money, I would suggest buying what you like.

 

Great advice. If it was your war chest, what would you get?

[RockMyAmadeus]

All right everyone. Any suggestions?

 

 

If you're building a war chest with your own hard-earned money, I would suggest buying what you like.

 

Great advice. If it was your war chest, what would you get?

 

Detective Comics #225.

[Kirk Kenobi]

For SA: TOS 39...prices have slowly started coming back to earth and supply is on the rise, and you can probably get a real nice 7.0 in the mid $4k-$5k range.

 

For GA, this price point is really hard to find a decent key for. Depends on your definition of "key" I imagine. I recently purchased a Startling Comics # 49 (Classic Schomburg cover) in CGC 9.0 for $6k. Plenty of nice mid-grade copies of 1st appearances floating around out there in that price range though, especially if you are okay with 2nd tier characters (like a Black Canary). A 9.0 Sub-Mariner Comics # 1 with Slight Resto also sold for under $6k recently....so there are bargains to be had out there.

 

 

 

 

Broad range here. Love your thought process.

[Conan_Aficionado]

you see, you set parameters to your questions and you get viable answers.

 

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

Batman #11.

 

(There seems to be a theme developing here...)

[COI]

All right everyone. Any suggestions?

 

 

If you're building a war chest with your own hard-earned money, I would suggest buying what you like.

 

Great advice. If it was your war chest, what would you get?

 

The only book I would save up for over a long period of time is AF 15, but I wouldn't stop building at 4-5K.

[Bomber-Bob]

Brave and the Bold 28

Wonder Woman 1

Detective 359

 

[JiveTurkeyMoFo]

All right everyone. Any suggestions?

 

 

If you're building a war chest with your own hard-earned money, I would suggest buying what you like.

 

Great advice. If it was your war chest, what would you get?

 

The only book I would save up for over a long period of time is AF 15, but I wouldn't stop building at 4-5K.

 

What, a nice 3.5 isn't good enough for ya?

[Kirk Kenobi]

Batman #11.

 

(There seems to be a theme developing here...)

 

Our friend in the cowl is trending indeed.

[mrmitchgro]

You could get a nice copy of X-Men #1 for that kind of scratch!

[COI]

All right everyone. Any suggestions?

 

 

If you're building a war chest with your own hard-earned money, I would suggest buying what you like.

 

Great advice. If it was your war chest, what would you get?

 

The only book I would save up for over a long period of time is AF 15, but I wouldn't stop building at 4-5K.

 

What, a nice 3.5 isn't good enough for ya?

 

If it was, I would have one.

[Kirk Kenobi]

You could get a nice copy of X-Men #1 for that kind of scratch!

 

That's on my list, but going to wait until after the movie hype dies.

[Conan_Aficionado]

I think from the silver age any of the ones in any grade would be good investments:

ASM 1, Hulk 1, IM 1, FF 1, etc.

 

 

[Gatsby77]

All-Star 8.

[seank]

Brave and the Bold 28

Wonder Woman 1

Detective 359

 

I don't know about Wonder Woman 1, but B&B 28 and Tec 359 are both good suggestions.

 

As for Tec 255 mentioned earlier, given that no one really cares about the Martian Manhunter right now, isn't that book grossly overvalued?