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Thank you for the shout out!

The girl who swam in the opening scene from Jaws just passed away earlier this month. She must have took a look at that sweatshirt.

Don’t forget, ComicTom is a retailer. The more hype he can get on books that he has in stock, the better he will do financially. Just like Wizard Magazine has n the ‘90s. They owned a store and whatever book they had a lot of was suddenly a “Hot Book”. Great video too!

That shirt is awesome. You need the 1st edition Jaws book which the movie was based on.

Theres a Wally Wood comic from 1969 called “Heroes Inc presents Cannon” I think he drew it for army service members and at sometime a big hidden stash of uncirculated copies was discovered. Not an investment type comic, just a cool one thats cheap and easy to find

I used to think anything above a 40 cent cover price was never rare. I'm adjusting that downward to 1968. Anything after 1968 can be found without a lot of effort in high grade.

Enjoy your videos ! Congrats on the Superman pick up ! Golden age is a lot of fun but will be tough on the pocketbook !

Loving the shift in mentality from what it sounds like you’ve helped create amongst the larger comic KZfaqrs. I’m all in favor of helping protect people financially. After the financial damage and devastation caused to so many that got caught up in the pandemic hysteria we need this from influencers vs the buy this and that because xyz! Keep it up!

You’re helping to create a smarter collector, and I appreciate the heck out of that. Great video!

I don’t agree with the statement “there’s a lot of Incredible Hulk #181s out there. I’ve been to a lot of shows, shops, and flea markets over the past three years, and I’ve seen maybe 5 total. It’s not prevalent out there at all.

I bought a Wolverine 1 limited series from my LCS for $100 had it cleaned and press sent it to be signed by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont and it came back 9.8.

I would put my money on another cover

Comic Tom 101 has always talked about the Census(+/-). That’s what has separated him from others. I actually appreciate the turn towards more caution on several hot titles and Artists

Re-holdered 9.9 are sketch. Anything from the 20th century (pre-2000) can't be a 10.0 Wolverine's first appearance is the final panel of Hulk 180 - the only reason for debate is to keep the 181's exorbitantly priced and protect collectors & market investors from a price collapse. Yeah, I said it.

Good stuff and nice observations.

The golden age slab looks weird. Apparently they didn't have the right size slab?

This is why I buy raws this graded scam is not something i want to be a part of i have a few slabs but I'd rather have a book i can open

Pre intro you said "card prices" I assume you meant comics...

I'm 100% of the same opinion---who the heck cares if a movie/show is good or not if the character is good!? And especially comparing it to athletes, like do Shaq cards go down because he made the terrible Steel movie? Or will Brady or whoever take a hit if they suck in the TV booth? There's literally zero correlation which is one reason I think spec hurts comic collecting overall.

I have stayed away from Wolverine 1, Hulk 181, New Mutants 98, and a few other books because they are so highly inflated. I can get one of those books any time in the future. No fear of missing out on highly printed books.

Your ignorance about the history of comics and collecting seems to be common among people your age and below. That you think there's some magical hoard of Superman 16's waiting to be unearthed is laughable. The paper and metal drives of a couple wars created a great deal of scarcity. Sure, there are plenty of collections that haven't seen the light of day in decades. Are you foolish enough to think that they would all be made available to the public for sale? That there hasn't been significant private sales for whatever reasons for decades? Or that whoever bought them would suddenly get them graded so as to impact their value? That there haven't been original owner collections that would be considered pedigrees that were cherry picked and secreted away into dealers and other collectors own collections? Are you ignorant enough not to see plenty of significant books getting slow rolled onto auction sites already? Do you not understand that the guy with a long box full of Hulk 181's realizes that he can't just flood the market? People still had or have case(s) of #1's and other hot books from 25+ years ago(think Dazzler, She-Hulk, Spider-Woman, Wolverine at al.) very recently. In a nation of now 300+ million people, there's more than a few hoarders that not even their family are fully aware of what the have. The Fantast collection is a perfect example. And there's no way that family will divulge exact amounts of the books in it. Nor get them graded anytime soon. Wouldn't make sense. This is the perfect channel for those who think the world only mattered once they were born.

I have to laugh when people tell me how “rare” modern comics are. To me, it is a joke. If you want genuinely “rare” comic books, look into ones done 70+ years ago. Case in point, take a look at issues of Prize Comics. Slabbed census copies average below 30 copies per issue. Try completing a nice set of those if you can even find them. Most early issues did not survive the ravages of time. Remember, WWII issues often had ads in them about recycling the comic after reading for the war effort.

Wolverine 1 limited series is one of the ugliest covers….I’ve never wanted that book.Hulk 181 while there are a lot, is one the best covers and everyone wants it for the PC 👍👍