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Now that AF #15 has sold for $1.1M

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RockMyAmadeus

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I say forget these silly over-priced funny books. :P

 

Collecting low grade pulps is the answer! :preach:

 

 

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:o

 

Get out of my transparently money grubbing, hypester...er, excellent and totally-without-an-ulterior-motive, I mean...thread with those tacky old pieces of junk!

 

( ;) )

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Conan_Aficionado

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the real period to collect will be the one immediately preceding the collapse of the comic book publisher, when large runs consisted of 10k prints and short runs of 1k.

 

that's the period where I'll pump all my money that should have gone into my 401k.

 

:tonofbricks:

 

 

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Theagenes

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I say forget these silly over-priced funny books. :P

 

Collecting low grade pulps is the answer! :preach:

 

 

WeirdTales1925-10fcsm.jpg

 

:o

 

Get out of my transparently money grubbing, hypester...er, excellent and totally-without-an-ulterior-motive, I mean...thread with those tacky old pieces of junk!

 

( ;) )

 

How about Pogs? (shrug)

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Chespirito

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WTF is Primer 5?

 

Now don’t quote me on this.. but I heard this first hand… Primer 5 is the nickname given to Daredevil Prime Romagno, known for his wild antics in the late 70 and throughout the 80s. He was first heard of, from a Michigan State football game in which he paraglided right over the goal post during half-time when he wasn’t even part of the show; he was only 11 at the time, and had to do community service for it, but he got his five minutes of fame. That is also where he was first referred to as Primer. When he was 16, he was the youngest person to ever attempt to a “break-free from chains and locks” event on the Mississippi River, while inside a wheel barrow, he had to break free from combination locks that were opened from their packaging in public and locked before a live audience, the wheel barrow was weighed in with 100 pounds of lead and thrown into the river; the crazy part was that all this with an angered raccoon. The stunt was successful (but near fatal), the raccoon unfortunately died; he was given community service for it. His notoriety and fame came when he decided to base jump off of the 6 tallest man-made structures in the world. He made the jump off of the first five, but when he tried doing it off of the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, he was not let into the premises and he decided to glide into it’s peak and then make the Jump. Something went terribly wrong the day he tried, he dished his glider 100 meters before making it to the tower, with a control parachute. The plan was to use a second one once up there. He wasn’t able to control it, and crashed head on to metal, suffering 33 broken bones. The glider had pummeled to a small crowd and killed 9 people. He was formally charged and sentenced to 28 years of hard time. He was given the now infamous Primer 5 name by the press…. :(

That’s what I heard… hm

 

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Magic The Gathering is about a decade away from blowing up per the 25 year rule. Buy up all the Black Lotus' and Dual Lands you can find now! (thumbs u

 

.... 25 years ago Jose Canseco brought Steroids to MLB... hm

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Magic The Gathering is about a decade away from blowing up per the 25 year rule. Buy up all the Black Lotus' and Dual Lands you can find now! (thumbs u

 

maybe? Bit of a tougher call. For sure there is potential but will it be realized? If it were an athlete I'd call it a real good prospect but not a slam dunk #1 pick.

 

It seems to be kind of a transitory hobby. You play for a few years, you stop. With that sort of cycle at play will people be excited enough about it when they get to their earning years to really chase them. I dunno. Maybe.

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Chespirito

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Magic The Gathering is about a decade away from blowing up per the 25 year rule. Buy up all the Black Lotus' and Dual Lands you can find now! (thumbs u

 

maybe? Bit of a tougher call. For sure there is potential but will it be realized? If it were an athlete I'd call it a real good prospect but not a slam dunk #1 pick.

 

Slam Dunk #1 pick:

Christina Vukicevic from Norway

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AGGIEZ

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Magic The Gathering is about a decade away from blowing up per the 25 year rule. Buy up all the Black Lotus' and Dual Lands you can find now! (thumbs u

 

maybe? Bit of a tougher call. For sure there is potential but will it be realized? If it were an athlete I'd call it a real good prospect but not a slam dunk #1 pick.

 

It seems to be kind of a transitory hobby. You play for a few years, you stop. With that sort of cycle at play will people be excited enough about it when they get to their earning years to really chase them. I dunno. Maybe.

 

 

True, true. But outside of video games, is there really anything else that fits the 25-year rule of thumb...say since 1990? I can't think of much.

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AGGIEZ

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The real thing you all need to do is find a hobby that's still pre-pube.

 

My 2cents

AFA graded g1 transformers

Sideshow collectibles statues

 

 

Really? Do tell...why do you think those are the future hot collectible?

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comix4fun

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Magic The Gathering is about a decade away from blowing up per the 25 year rule. Buy up all the Black Lotus' and Dual Lands you can find now! (thumbs u

 

maybe? Bit of a tougher call. For sure there is potential but will it be realized? If it were an athlete I'd call it a real good prospect but not a slam dunk #1 pick.

 

It seems to be kind of a transitory hobby. You play for a few years, you stop. With that sort of cycle at play will people be excited enough about it when they get to their earning years to really chase them. I dunno. Maybe.

 

 

True, true. But outside of video games, is there really anything else that fits the 25-year rule of thumb...say since 1990? I can't think of much.

 

 

Actually, in the OA arena the 20-25 year rule is alive and well. That's not really comics...but it's tied in tightly.

 

There's been a surge in artwork values for Wacky Packages, GI JOE and action figure packaging artwork, and Magic the Gathering card artwork. It all seems to follow the same path.

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Many of these books are quite rare in high grade

Not if high grade is considered 8.0.

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There's been a surge in artwork values for Wacky Packages, GI JOE and action figure packaging artwork, and Magic the Gathering card artwork. It all seems to follow the same path.

 

educate me... can you give me specific examples chris of known sales? I find this stuff fascinating.

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MrBedrock

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Many of these books are quite rare in high grade

Not if high grade is considered 8.0.

 

Alas! My humor logic fails!

 

:cry:

As did mine. :blush:

But your thread is full of win with the posting of the Norwegian track starlet.

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