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Welcome to the last week of August Newsstand sales charts. 102 newsstand copies were sold this week, which is about a 10% decline from last week’s 126 copies. The proportion of sales in the different price categories remain similar, as cheap copies dominated, followed by a few strong >$100 sales. However, due the Ebay completed […]
Apologies in advance for the long pause between Summary #8 and this one. Truth to told, the chat was repeating the same books so there wasn’t much new stuff to report. Even this summary took a bit of time to squeeze something from. 1. Comics heating up Darth Vader #3 4th Print A 9.8 from […]
Buying lottery comic books is about probabilities. We are speculating on the low probability that a non important comic can suddenly become hot and wanted. Since the probability is low, we want to keep the cost down to minimize financial risk. Traditionally, the usual way of keeping cost down is to buy cheap comics. Another […]
I have started looking into X-Men characters who debuted post 2000. While older X-Men books have been rising in value, there seems to be little to no movement on these modern X-Men characters, some of which have become fan favorites. I believed buying them now at current prices might yield rich returns down the road, […]
This week’s newsstand sales saw a total of 126 copies being sold. However, there were no 4 digit sales like last week, which was more of a outliner week. In fact, if I discount the 9.8 sales this week, which can be high regardless of newsstand or not, the highest price obtained this week is […]
In this week’s Comic Speculation Sunday, I am going to talk about Pixie and her confusing first appearance. Pixie (Megan Gwynn) is one the modern day X-Men who has make plenty of comic appearances since her introduction. According to the PSM model, she would considered a slower burner as she has a high comic appearance […]
Thor #165 was one my earliest picks when I first wrote about undervalued silver age comics in 2013. A very fine copy then will only cost $50. You can imagine I went a bit overboard to buy these cheap comics up. Bear in mind though. While $50 is considered cheap now, it was the market […]
Ghost Rider Vol 3, #28 contains the first appearance of the Midnight Sons, a team that can potentially become the default supernatural team in the MCU. It also contains other first appearances that add value to this book. However, even with the above good points. the high print run of this book makes it a […]
Collecting black covers has always been a niche among comic collectors. They are harder to secure in high grades thus increasing the challenge for any collectors. In this article, I will take a look at which modern black cover are scarce in high grades. I choose moderns as these are less well known than older […]
This week saw one of the highest sales amount being achieved by post 1998 newsstand copies in a single week. Not only were there 149 sales, there were 5 copies that sold over $1000! 55% of newsstand comics sold are sold at $10 and below prices. This is a relatively higher number than what we […]
