Do silver age comic books go down in price?
September 4, 2010 by admin
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It’s been our experience that comics in general go up in price. So if you bought a silver age comic 10 years ago, it should be worth more today. (Especially if you stick with high-grade/popular character comics – i.e. Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men).
The reasons that these silver age comic books go up in value is because of comic book supply and demand. The supply of high-grade comics decreases over time. (Comics are paper products which will eventually disintegrate. So over time, there will be fewer and fewer high grade copies). The demand for these popular characters increases as more and more people get into the collecting arena or as more movies are made of comic characters. Increasing demand/Decreasing Supply means higher prices.
In figuring out if you’ve made money holding comics, don’t forget the “dealer tax”. Usually a collector buys a comic from a dealer. He usually pays full price ( the price that the price guide says the comic is worth). When the collector tries to sell that comic back to a dealer, he finds that the dealer is only going to give him 20-30% of the value of the comic. And so the collector gets less money than he was expecting.
Here is an example to make it more concrete. The customer buys a comic for $10.00. At the end of 10 years, the comic is worth $20.00. However, when the collector tries to sell the silver age comic to a dealer, the dealer will only give him $6.00 for it (30% of the $20.00). This is the “dealer tax” in action.
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What is the funniest Batman comic cover that you’ve ever seen?
August 3, 2010 by admin
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Well … It depends on what you define as funny, I guess. My favorite comic cover featuring Batman is one which features Robin and Superman as well. I know it’s not a silver age comic. It’s in fact from the Golden Age. However, the first time that I saw it, I was drinking a coke and I started laughing and snorting the coke through my nose. So I am going to pick the infamous “Three men, three cannons, and three goofy smiles” cover.
I wonder which D.C. character is sitting on the biggest cannon?
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What’s the difference between the Golden Age of Comic Books and the Silver Age? What are the time periods?
July 28, 2010 by admin
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| The golden age of comic books, 1937-1945 |
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