I stepped away from the comic market a year ago. What happened? 7 7

[XxSpideyxX]

I stopped following the market at the start of 2021.  

What is going on now?  What are the current trends and forecasts for 2022?

[joeypost]

Buy high, sell high. 

[MetalPSI]

Pretty much

[frozentundraguy]

If your a fan of DC comics there are still bargains to be found.

[blazingbob]

Roy has become a political activist.  Running with the truckers I hear at the protests selling shirts and burrito's.  Calls himself System of a protest man.

Edited February 13, 2022 by blazingbob

[ADAMANTIUM]

In short, how much time you got?

[frozentundraguy]

On 2/13/2022 at 8:09 AM, joeypost said:

Buy high, sell higher. 

Fixed that for you.

[Sweet Lou 14]

Buy high, sell undercopies for about half.

[THE_BEYONDER]

On 2/13/2022 at 8:53 AM, XxSpideyxX said:

I stopped following the market at the start of 2021.  

What is going on now?  What are the current trends and forecasts for 2022?

All of your books have doubled in price 

[romanheart]

I've been out of comics for about just as long. Virtually everything has gone up in price. Comics especially.

It's going to be an interesting 2 years. Comics appear to be a great place to store your money for a while.

[alexgross.com]

nothing happened.

[XxSpideyxX]

So there was no ‘bust’ after the stimulus checks stopped and people went back to work?  Many said the bubble would pop and the market would correct.  

[FoggyNelson]

All prices went mile high😷

[Terry JSA]

Comics are now stocks. 

[Gaard]

On 2/13/2022 at 10:53 AM, XxSpideyxX said:

So there was no ‘bust’ after the stimulus checks stopped and people went back to work?  Many said the bubble would pop and the market would correct.  

I've been coming here for about 8 years. People have been warning about a coming bust since day one.

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 2/13/2022 at 10:53 AM, XxSpideyxX said:

So there was no ‘bust’ after the stimulus checks stopped and people went back to work?  Many said the bubble would pop and the market would correct.  

They failed to take into account the Chinese market.

[Roger66]

If a collector was in a deep coma for the past 18 months and awoke now - he would be in a price-sticker shock-world  - and likely fall back into a coma.  The current market was I believe unpredictable despite what some might state or pontificate on. I also believe despite the settling of the market of late if not 'appearing to plateau' on some keys - it will never go down to yesteryears prices at least not what I covet - pre-1974 select books.   (btw I have nothing but eye-rolling, snarky comments and cynicism about the moderns and 9.8 variants etc, which I expect to absolutely implode one day .      )    So 'what happened?' you asked - it was a perfect storm if not a confluence of factors all occurring at once - the bit-coin crowd looking to park its' money somewhere, the proliferation if not inundation of super-hero movies, the echo-chamber of IG and you-tube prognosticators, (Covid-confined) collectors working at home having more time to buy online and my favorite being that like a fine wine - many comics have become truly historical if not vintage - i.e. just think about Hulk 181, which published in 1974 will be 1/2 century old soon.  

Edited February 13, 2022 by Roger66

[JollyComics]

One year ago is nothing in comparing to ten years ago.

[THE_BEYONDER]

On 2/13/2022 at 12:24 PM, JollyComics said:

One year ago is nothing in comparing to ten years ago.

What do you see 10 years from now? 

[goldust40]

On 2/13/2022 at 5:02 PM, Roger66 said:

If a collector was in a deep coma for the past 18 months and awoke now - he would be in a price-sticker shock-world

Year on year since 2011 is sticker shock-world. All I've learned is that you can't second guess the market in terms of leveling off or corrections, nor do mitigating factors mean quite as much as everyone thinks.

The difference in the last 12 months is that the market growth has been turbocharged.