Correct. I grew up in Fayetteville, NC, right outside of Fort Bragg, and nearly every DC comic on the stands had a Mark Jewelers insert from around 1972-1982. After 1982, it was really only Marvel and Archie that would have the insert, and not as often as DC did in the past.

What year did you have your store? Thats cool you had a store. I remember going into my home town comic store back in the early 90s, then the comic boom happened and they were able to upgrade to a bigger place. It stuck around until about the early 2000's

@@ComicBookInvestments I bought out the LCS in 1993, just as the "Death of Superman" boom was collapsing all around us! We survived, and I upgraded to a new shop in 1994, and eventually sold the new-comic half of the shop to my manager in 2009. He is still going strong 12 years later and I'm just dealing with back issues and old toys now. Somewhat like in your case, my dad was huge into comics, owned Superman #1, Whiz Comics #1, etc. when he was a kid. He got me into it strong when I was 7 and I got my first comic shop job at age 12. I also had a short stint working for Sparkle City Comics as an artist and behind-the-table young punk in the late 70s... But I digress! 😂

Whoa. Crazy origin story. That’s awesome though. I didn’t even know sparkle city was around in the 70s. That’s cool that your shop is still going. It seems so hard in today’s market.

@@ComicBookInvestments Thanks Dave. There have definitely been some booms and dips over the years, but it's been more than just a labor of love. We always paid the most of any one in town for collections and treated people like we would want to treated. Long-term loyal customers and employees that are more like family than friends, and an unabated love for the hobby has kept us prosperous for many decades..

@@ComicBookInvestments yea and i feel like almost any store owner has to also be dealing online these days to really make it

Ya it can add some value. Depending on the year. It’s attached at the centerfold

Ya I can do a video like that. I’ll put it on my list of videos to make

@@ComicBookInvestments Looking forward to it.Thank you very much.

You are correct. I just saw that a Secret Wars #8 Mark Jewelers, 9.8 grade sold for $21,000 on eBay a few weeks ago.

Ya. I problem. Let me know if some turn out to be Mark jewelers

Hahaha ya they do add extra layer of thickness. They don’t add too much value though.

if u want sell any hit me up on IG mr Miller

@@ComicBookInvestments It seems like they do add value now. I think things have changed in the past couple years since your video.

ya i've seen those before, didnt know thats what it was indicating

All of mine have that star stamp. It's a good thing or I wouldn't have noticed they were different when I was pricing longboxes of back issues in the store!

@@ComicBookInvestmentslike I said, it's not 100% of the starred covers have the MJs, but most of mine that have MJs have had the stars, so it can be an indicator.

That’s cool :) 108 is the first byrne right?

@@ComicBookInvestments yes sir, but John didn’t let cgc witness so I had to go with cbcs

Thank you. They can give a slight bump in value depending on the year from my research

Ya it’s always fun to randomly catch one in the wild

Ya I never cared that much about them either. They are just a nice little snippet of history and kinda interesting. I’d never go out of my way to collect them though

It really depends on the value. Or if u want them to look nicer.

I think it’s around 5% of books had the insert. So pretty rare. But rare does not mean more valuable. There just isn’t much demand for a MJ insert. So people won’t really pay much more for it

@@ComicBookInvestments true, rare doesn’t mean more valuable speaking of new mutants 98! Tons of those and the price keeps going up regardless.

Lol I had to google that guy. Hahha I’ll take it. He’s funny

@@ComicBookInvestments No yeah it's a good thing man. He's a cool dude.

I’ve gotten jim Carey and Adam Brody before. I think even Matt Damon as well.

@@ComicBookInvestments Yeah I could definitely see some of those.

Ya I mentioned those as well. Basically the prequel to the mark jewelers. There is actually one before the diamond insert. Mennen inserts. They were usually after the cover though not the centerfold

@@ComicBookInvestments yup yup! Ah the fun niche areas of the hobby are the best!

That’s what I try to do :)

Ya I’m my video it shows it only averages around a 5% increase. So not much of a bump. They are more just kinda interesting

i believe the more recent ones are more commanding of a premium because kinda like regular newsstand comics, they seem to wane in numbers as the years went on. Also, although we know how much condition matters in the value of a comic, the condition factor is HUGE on these. Its very hard to find these in great shape. When you get into the NM ranges of grades for these, they most def command a premium, even on non keys. Plus, no sales numbers a person could possibly find on these hold almost any weight whatsoever because there is simply not enough of a sample size of recorded sales on these. Ppl are still really sleeping on these but they are rare af. Way more rare than just regular newsstand comics. Id say about 88-92 or whenever they stopped doing them is the sweet spot for them

It’s just a slight bump in price. And you kinda gotta wait for the right person to get it

True, for me personally if it was a random ish I might pay $5-10 more tops just to have a cool older book with the insert (like 70s era not 80s or newer). Even on a key issue you gotta find the right guy