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Save Money on Comic Books

By on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Want to save money on old comic books? Here’s and interesting strategy for collectors to consider.

Abandon the Local Comic Book Store

Many of us miss the days when you could go to the local comic book store and pick up nice looking books for a reasonable price. unfortunately, due to the Internet and E-bay, those days have pretty much come to an end. Unless you are lucky, many small town dealers are overgrading and therefore overpricing their comic books. What they are selling as a NM may in fact only be a Fine or Very Fine-. Here’s where the strategy comes in, plus a cool tool just for you readers.

A “Special” Search on E-bay

If you are creative you can overcome the problem mentioned above. Instead of buying a “raw” ungraded (and many time overgraded and overpriced) comic from a local dealer, make sure you check E-bay for a CGC graded copy. Once you get it, just crack it out and enjoy! You get the bonus of the CGC certified grade, plus their excellent restoration services. Collecting and investing habits have changes, especially with the poor economy, and many times you can find mid to low grade CGC comic books at or below Overstreet guide.

So how do you find them? Here’s One Strategy

You want to use a few tricks while searching E-bay. First, you want to search for CGC comics, so include that in your search terms. Next you want to use a little known and under-utilized search function, the negative search. If you were to search for all the lower grade copies it would be a pain, but with the addition of a simple “-” sign, you can exclude certain returns. I would exclude 9.8,9.6,9.4,.9.2, 9.0. Below you’ll see an example of the search for all lower grade comic books.

Enjoy the trick!

Here is the link to an RSS feed of the search if you want to save it in a reader.

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Incredible Hulk 1 For Sale and Investment Survey

By on Monday, September 19th, 2011 | No Comments

The Incredible Hulk #1 is a key issue in the Silver Age Marvel universe. The character has not only proven himself over decades of comics, cartoons, and movies, the value of this comic book has put it in the “blue chip”comic book investment category.

Incredible Hulk #1 Value and Potential

As long as comic books remain a desired collectible, there is no reason to believe issues of Incredible Hulk #1 won’t hold their own against other “blue chip” Silver Age comics such as Amazing Spider-man 1, Fantastic Four 1, X-men 1, Avengers 1 and many others. The rumor is he will be in the 2012 Avengers movie, keeping him in the limelight for the time being.

Incredible Hulk #1 For Sale

The first issue is the issue to have, but don’t forget other keys such as Incredible Hulk 102 (first issue after a long hiatus) and Incredible Hulk 181, a key Wolverine issue.

For a reference, a copy of #1 sold for $14,340 in early 2011. As always, a good place to start for values are the live sales on E-bay, along with a review of recently completed auctions. The live sales are posted below.

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Comics + Movies = Cash Avengers 4 Case Study

By on Sunday, September 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

It’s difficult to deny the positive link between comic book movies and certain individual comic values. The resulting price increases have been stunning, but you have to be careful. One impressive example has been Avenger #4.

Avengers #4 is what I would call a direct tie-in to the recent Captain America movie. As an added bonus we may see continued interest in this book due to the upcoming Avengers movie also. Avengers #4 is the first Silver Age appearance of Captain America, and most importantly he is found in a manner somewhat consistent with the movie.

Let’s look at some values.

In 2007, before there wasn’t any confirmed movie news and you could get a CGC 9.4 copy for $7,750. In 2011 the same grade will set you back $30,000! Pretty impressive, right?

Not all Avengers or Captain America comic books increased like this, not even close. You have to be careful and pick the right comics at the right time. When and if you sell you have to sell at the right time with the right method.

A couple of years ago I ran a video seminar and released an entire course about profiting from this comic book movie trend. The price for the entire package was $67.00. I had numerous requests to release a “light” version of the course to make it more financially accessible to collectors. I’m happy to say I’ve put together just such a product!

I took the two most important pieces of the Comics + Movies = Cash course and released them in a two piece product. If you are interested you can get access below. The new product feature the full video seminar plus an audio only mp3 version to listen to at your convenience. Instead of $67 I priced this new “light” version at $9.95.

Click Here for Access to the New Comics + Movies = Cash Seminar

If you want to see the entire sales letter click here: Comic Book Movies Cash Seminar

You can take a look at the video promo I did for the seminar below.

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