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Darth Vader is arguably one of the most popular Star Wars characters. However, the speculative markets seldom discusses his key issues, probably because Darth Vader is already so well established. Instead, we are seeing prices of other Darth shot up exponentially. The latest being Darth Bane in Jedi vs Sith #1 as well as Darth […]
This week saw one the lowest sales volume in the modern newsstand market with 84 copies being sold. Either the supply is drying up or collectors are more careful with their money due to the covid situation. 35.8% of newsstand comics sold are sold at $10 and below prices. X-Men and Batman lead the sales […]
Welcome to this week’s Comic Sunday Speculation where I speculate on “out there” ideas. This particular article is my first Transformer comic speculation. Transformers speculation are not easy due to continuity complexities as well as multiple publishing companies. In addition, common research resources such as key collector comics only provide information up to certain issues. […]
If you have read my latest sales report on copper age 9.8, you will know that this category of comics is heating up. In addition, here is one recent sale that also showed the potential of this niche market: Personally, I am very happy with this trend. It allows someone like me who grew up […]
I wrote about the value of 2nd appearances 2 years ago, using a set of bronze age blue chip comics as data points. For this update, I have added another column to include 2020 prices. This is to analyze if buying those 2nd appearances 2 years ago was a profitable but safer strategy vs modern […]
This week’s newsstand sales managed to keep above the 100 copy mark as 113 total newsstand copies were sold. In addition, there is a bigger proportion of higher value sales relative to last week. For example, in the above $100 price category, we have more than 10% of copies sold belonging in this category. 31% […]
Monster related characters are taking off due to the expectations of their appearance in Marvel phase 4 or 5. This includes Elsa Bloodstone and even Kid Kaiju . In fact, I highlighted that one new film genre Marvel might consider is the Jurassic Park/King Kong type of monsters genre. In this week’s Comic Sunday Speculation, […]
This article investigates the average price points for Marvel team’s first appearance that do not contain the member’s first appearances. Examples of such comics are Avengers #1, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 #1, Marvel Features #1 etc. In other words, books such as X-Men #1, Eternals #1, Young Avengers #1 will be excluded. This […]
The multiverse is set to become an important part of the MCU phase 4 and beyond. However, it is a big space which makes it difficult to speculate on specific comic issues. The current expectation is that the multiverse will be used to bring in the Fox properties such as X-Men and the Fantastic Four. […]
Sales volume finally rebounded this week after selling below the 100 copies mark for the past few weeks. This week saw 136 newsstand copies being sold on Ebay. However, majority of these sales occurred in the lower price category, with only a few books selling above $30. 45% of newsstand comics sold are sold at […]
