iongot money for most of these.

Well, give us a few examples of some undervalued books.

@@Boxingbear There really aren't any. The "investors" are going to get destroyed. There are maybe 50-100K regular comic readers in the nation and you guys imagine there are hundreds of thousands of collectors who JUST HAVE TO HAVE one of ten thousand ASM 300s in 9.8.

@@CharlesCharles-bb6qx You assume too much. I've been collecting for 30 yrs. You think I give a shit about ASM 300 ? So there aren't any undervalued books..ok Go back to the sandbox.

@@Boxingbear It was a comment on the state of the market today and since oh say 2020 really.

Agree

No fair to compare the best comics to an average pool index. Much more fair to compare the best comics to the best stocks - fortunately David did provide this in the video with the best comics only returning about 1/3 of the best stocks. My perspective - just buy what you like. Someone else will probably like it down the line too!

Yea I was watching the video and I was thinking he's not talking to me lol. The Deadpool were affordable

I'd be more interested in books that are worth $1,000 at the most.

This is exactly my approach to investing.👍👍 I mix it with a collecting mindset. If I like something about the book, I will purchase it for investing. If I don't like the character or the art.. etc.. I won't. I definitely like increasing the value of my collection but it's not ONLY about the money🙌🙌

Thank you Glad you liked it

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I don’t like the cover but Joker is the best character.

@@DanSchawbel Psychopaths are the most boring characters of all. Overdone and predictable. I just don't get the ongoing appeal.

art is always a on eof a kind

Crimesuspense 22 is always a really good one

Silver age comics aren’t rare.

Thank you. You too

ASMs are right up there with Batman GA, ASMs are huge money in 9.0+

I'm a part of that age group, and I want the actual manga from Japan (which I have). Kids aren't that into comics. Go after the real deal if you want to invest in manga

@@internationalcomics1158 I’m in the age group as well. I have a Shonen Jump 51, most manga collectors just don’t care about investing yet and don’t look at their collections as investments. That’s why in the recent manga downturn folks who have been selling their collections haven’t gotten nearly what they paid. Once they actually have money to invest they’ll happily want to spend $5k on a manga or comic that they can actually make a profit on.

That's awesome. Congrats! Trimpe is the best artist on Hulk.. imo🙏

yes there are some good ones in there for sure

Well I picked up issue #83 for $10. Nothing crazy but I get to expand my silver age collection.

Agree

But I made a killing off of Night Nurse #1. :(

If you do this, you are at the whims of what happens in Hollywood. Like Jonathan Majors getting arrested. Or James Gunn making Adam Warlock a somewhat uncool character.

Yeah that market is pretty much long gone today with the speculation disappearance.

It's worth doing, if you're doing it correctly. Speculating like that should be relatively cheap, low risk. Timing is important too. Have to anticipate and sell the news or even sometimes the rumor. I purchased first Arana a few months ago for cheap, cgc graded it 9.8, and tripled my money once the spider-woman trailer dropped. To be fair, if I had more money at my disposal, i would go for mostly, older more established books. Even now, I'm mostly moved away from cheaper modern spec.

As an average buyer myself. I'm not a greenhorn or super fan, neither of those are even on my radar. I think deadpool especially is overhyped.

​@@Stargayzer---I totally agree. I don't think Deadpool has the legs similar to other gains on this list. New Mutants 98 is the only book on the list I personally disagree with. Jmo

Yes

DC was terrible in the silver age. They owned the golden age.

@@DanSchawbel Yeah.. War Titles aside, the SA scripts from most DC books are pretty silly. They were still writing stories for children and having Batman fight Aliens and weird monsters because Sci Fi was all the rage. Meanwhile Marvel was spinning off incredible stories geared towards adolescents and young adults in titles like SPIDEY, Y FF, Strange Tales, Tales To Astonish and JIM. BUT Those 'silly' DC SA books are hard to find in high grade and have a very nostalgic feel to them. The older collectors who grew up buying them as kids love them. I buy my share of SA Batman, Detective Comics and Action Comics/Superman - mainly for the cover art. But I prioritize SA Spidey over most other things.

Correct, manipulated

I think these books will go up over time. Long term. But it won’t go up like it did in 2021. Seeing a 2-10% per year average over time is something that would be realistic

You forget as we get older we slowly become our parents.

Our parents did not have over a trillion in student loans, could buy a house on a working-class income, or a collapsing medical system. Also, my parents never collected comics so that concept definitely does not hold. But keep in mind, "who will be paying these crazy prices in the future as the old folks retire and more and more of these hit the market...?".

@@joshuawyatt4381True. And yet for something so obvious, most collectors just don't want to accept it.

Love it

Invincible is huge on Reddit. More popular than most DC and Marvel Characters. Has a top 5 most viewed forum. The younger generation is really into him.

@@teetoo3790 i think it’s one of the best super hero series I’ve seen recently. Refreshingly new. Buying up a bunch of invincible when I can

I think the comics are amazing. Hopefully, the mid second season so far won't hurt the market. We shall see in a few weeks.

1-129 for sure. Then it’s still good after but not as much

The correlation between comic prices and movies is only a modern trend. There are a lot of people collecting today that can't even remember what made comic values increase before the MCU and DCEU took hold of people's attention. And alot f the books mentioned in this vid have been solid investments for decades. Movies are going to play their role moving forward but their significance pertaining to long term comic collecting and 'investing' is waning. And will not be that important over the long haul. Remember, stamps died out for a different reason. Comic books and comic characters are a solid fixation in popular culture and that will NEVER change.

@@Boxingbear I agree with some of the things you stated, but I also respectfully disagree with your other points. I can list a ton of books from the SA that have been lifted from under a rock due to movies, and there are reasons why moderns are more volatile, due to stuff like accessibility and lesser risk. But keep in mind, the only reason that comics have value is because there are buyers. Once the buyers are gone, only a handful of books will be left standing. I give the market about 20 years... by then, I hope to be divested from all my valuable books. I'm not saying that comics will disappear, but like stamps, coins, records and other past collectibles... it will become a relic in the digital age. Go to any comic con and look at all the grey, bearded old men in t-shirts. Yes, the superhero brands will live on, but the folks who are connected to the nostalgia of print wont. Thanks for responding.

Marvel will mess up FF again, easy prediction.

@@DanSchawbel Now that Disney owns Marvel I can see a lot things getting screwed up. Their most valuable and popular character is owned by Sony - and they can't get anything right either. DC has a better chance moving forward. Look for characters like Metamorpho, Lobo, Plastic Man and The Question to pop up and take things in a bit of a different direction.

@@DanSchawbel The Christopher Reeves Superman, Michael Keatons Batman and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man were all hits initially. They all treated their respective films with some degree of realism, creating anticipation and wonder... as per the Superman, the movie tagline: "You'll believe that a man can fly." The same could be said about Marvel. The first phase was all about these fantastical beings set in the real world with real consequences. But then, they all became kid friendly, cartoony and literally "comical". Screaming goats in Thor, a planet full people who sing in Marvels... it's all become a joke for the kids. Can or will Marvel change their trajectory with a stretchy man, his wife, a fire guy and a rock dude? I have my doubts as well. The Fantastic Four should be an updated Fantastic Voyage (1966). A fantastical voyage with a family of adventurers using the Kirby treatment... but instead, it will be another CGI mess like Quantumania. At least the first Ant-Man gave us an ants perspective, which was interesting. This is why comic investing has become a game of hot potato. Buy low, sell high before the movie.

Add inflation and it's even worse.

Bingo! I purchased the Bronze Holy Trinity in 2014 - 2015 in 9.8 for 5 - 10K . I will definitely make a substantial return on this investment, but the window on these items is now closed and will never open again.

@@solaire-jd8jd Better crack the cases. Everyone is now predicting a huge drop in the value of graded slabs.

Hulk 180 is the first appearance!

The census sucks, the amount of raws hoarded sucks and yes, manipulated.

@@DanSchawbel I wonder how many were printed. 250k? 500k?

WHat do you mean "Bring price back to market value "? Do you realize past sale are market value and whatever it's currently selling at, that that's what the market price is? That's like saying "Once people sell their Bitcoin, it'll go back to market value" Makes no sense.

@@User8vfjhejf I was thinking about Spawn 306 Mortal Combat Cover when I made the comment. It used to go for between $2k to $5k. Now you can buy a raw for $200. We need to see the supply released to consumers to get a clearer picture of its true worth.

There is no capitol gains in comics. If you sell it through a service like eBay. Then it’s counted as income. Which if you have write off you can get rid of. If not. Then it just raises your income.

@@ComicBookInvestments my bad I thought anything generally over a year is considered long-term capital gains which is really high on collectibles something like 28%