DC Bronze Age Keys? 2 2

[Jonathan78]

Perhaps more minor keys, but here are some others:

House of Mystery 175 -1^st Cain

DC Special #4 1^st Abel

House of Mystery 179  -1^st Wrightson work

DC 100 Page Super Spectacular 4 –Classic Wrightson cover (I know they are all classic)

G.I. Combat 138 -1^st Losers

Swamp Thing 2 -1^st Patchwork man, 1^st full Arcane

Swamp Thing 3 -1^st Abby Arcane

Showcase 82 -1^st Nightmaster

Doom Patrol 121 –Death of Doom Patrol

[Jonathan78]

Forgot Adventure Comics 428 -1st Black Orchid

[Gatsby77]

53 minutes ago, Howling Mad said:

You're not incorrect, but 1 appearance 30 years prior is a bit different from most character arcs. The Rock is attached to it. It'll pop just like everything else.

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Define "pop."

The film was first announced back in 2014, and the book in CGC 9.8 immediately spiked from ~$150 to $1,000+.

Today it's sitting at $1,800 in 9.8 and it's been consistently selling at ~$300 in CGC 9.2 and ~$400 in CGC 9.4 since 2015.

The point?

It's already popped.

Where, realistically, do you see the book going from here? That it will double? Triple?

That suddenly folks are going to be paying $1,000+ for 9.2 copies and $4,000+ for 9.8s?

The time to buy this book was before the movie announcement. The time to sell is the week the first trailer drops (probably next April, if the Dec. 2021 release date holds).

Dropping $1,800+ for a 9.8 -- or even $400 for a 9.4 -- on a non-first-appearance, speculating on a book for which you know demand will peak in less than a year, seems idiotic.

 

 

Edited July 20, 2020 by Gatsby77

[Howling Mad]

On 7/20/2020 at 5:36 PM, Gatsby77 said:

Dropping $1,800+ for a 9.8 -- or even $400 for a 9.4 -- on a non-first-appearance, speculating on a book for which you know demand will peak in less than a year, seems idiotic.

 

 

Welcome to the hobby, that's pretty much the gold standard over the last decade.

Like anything I'm sure 9.8's will hit ~$3K for a month or two and then go back down. That's how all of the movie books work. Some solidify a new base, some don't. Still compared to most bronze books it has a pretty low amount of census copies at 671, with only 36 9.8s.

Edited July 24, 2020 by Howling Mad