Comic Shop Trends

HassanT · Post by **HassanT** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:29 pm

I went to my LCS today and they said that someone came in and purchased 14 copies of the Fantastic Four issue. 14 Copies!!!

Are people really thinking that this book will go up that much in value? Especially since a) Marvel is restarting the book AGAIN b) The person will be back in a couple of years.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:16 pm

HassanT wrote:I went to my LCS today and they said that someone came in and purchased 14 copies of the Fantastic Four issue. 14 Copies!!!

Are people really thinking that this book will go up that much in value? Especially since a) Marvel is restarting the book AGAIN b) The person will be back in a couple of years.

YES!! It will be worth at least 10k in 20 years! I bought 15.

Ivy league, Hassan. Ivy. League.

Sorry you will miss out.

HassanT · Post by **HassanT** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:29 pm

Trev wrote:
HassanT wrote:I went to my LCS today and they said that someone came in and purchased 14 copies of the Fantastic Four issue. 14 Copies!!!

Are people really thinking that this book will go up that much in value? Especially since a) Marvel is restarting the book AGAIN b) The person will be back in a couple of years.
YES!! It will be worth at least 10k in 20 years! I bought 15.

Ivy league, Hassan. Ivy. League.

Sorry you will miss out.

They won't be worth enough money to even buy one textbook

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:57 am

HassanT wrote:I went to my LCS today and they said that someone came in and purchased 14 copies of the Fantastic Four issue. 14 Copies!!!

Unless that person has 13 friends he's buying for, they should have asked them where they fill their prescription for "stupid pills"........

comicm · Post by **comicm** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:32 pm

Well the Fantastic Four issues still seem to be moving. The issues before the quote "death" seem to be moving at $6.99 a pop. There are still about 60 issues out of 300. The DC comics cover stint seems to have been a success because a lot of those issues only have 1-2 copies left on the shelf and some sold through for the lessor known titles like Doc Savage.

I went to the shop on Friday and they were already sold out of Amazing Spider-man. I thing he gets roughly 60-70 copies. Looks like he should increase his orders on this book.

It appears that Green Lantern/Plastic Man #1 bombed out at my shop. There are still roughly 10 copies and I don't think he ordered that much.

Webhead · Post by **Webhead** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:14 am

BobBretall wrote: Unless that person has 13 friends he's buying for, they should have asked them where they fill their prescription for "stupid pills"........

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HassanT · Post by **HassanT** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:51 am

BobBretall wrote:
HassanT wrote:I went to my LCS today and they said that someone came in and purchased 14 copies of the Fantastic Four issue. 14 Copies!!!
Unless that person has 13 friends he's buying for, they should have asked them where they fill their prescription for "stupid pills"........

When I was at the store the other day, a customer came in to pick up his books and was upset with a mix-up with this pull box. The owner quickly fixed it for him, but the weird thing was what he wanted and why. He wanted 3 copies of Amazing Spider-man #650 because he thinks it will go up in value?! In fact, he was talking about how he was better at pick comics than stocks.

You buy comics for fun not for investment purposes.

Post by **JohnMayo** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:55 am

HassanT wrote: When I was at the store the other day, a customer came in to pick up his books and was upset with a mix-up with this pull box. The owner quickly fixed it for him, but the weird thing was what he wanted and why. He wanted 3 copies of Amazing Spider-man #650 because he thinks it will go up in value?! In fact, he was talking about how he was better at pick comics than stocks.

You buy comics for fun not for investment purposes.

Wow. Talk about misguided and misinformed. Comics are entertainment, not investments.

Paul Nolan · Post by **Paul Nolan** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:16 am

I'm fortunate to have had a couple of comics that made me a few quid over the years

Elseworlds 80 page Giant - Sold for £120
Ultimate Spider-Man #1 - Sold for £90
Chew #1 - Sold for £135

I didn't buy them to sell them on, I bought them to read. But how many comics go up in value nowadays? 1 in 5,000? possibly less? and how may of them are marvel anniversary issues?

IanG · Post by **IanG** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:41 pm

At my local shop, the day after FF #587 came out it was gone. The shop automatically held a copy for every pull customer whether they had requested it or not. That's nice, I guess, unless you like to pick your comics off the rack. Thank god for DCBS, you order it and you get it. You don't have to hope to get it off the rack. I saw two guys come in, look for that issue, and walk right back out the door. I saw the same thing happen with that Obama Amazing Spider-Man issue. I don't think that issue is worth much now.

abysslord · Post by **abysslord** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:52 pm

IanG wrote:I saw the same thing happen with that Obama Amazing Spider-Man issue. I don't think that issue is worth much now.

It still sells for around $30-40 on Ebay.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:28 pm

abysslord wrote:
IanG wrote:I saw the same thing happen with that Obama Amazing Spider-Man issue. I don't think that issue is worth much now.
It still sells for around $30-40 on Ebay.

It will take another 5-10 years before it's worthless (well, at least < $10). If you want to snap up some $$, sell yours now while idiots are still paying top $ for it.

abysslord · Post by **abysslord** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:50 pm

BobBretall wrote:
abysslord wrote:
IanG wrote:I saw the same thing happen with that Obama Amazing Spider-Man issue. I don't think that issue is worth much now.
It still sells for around $30-40 on Ebay.
It will take another 5-10 years before it's worthless (well, at least < $10). If you want to snap up some $$, sell yours now while idiots are still paying top $ for it.

I don't have it, just the original #583. Luckily I sold my duplicate Skullkickers #1s while they were going for $10 a piece I think. I think now they're back to normal.

comicm · Post by **comicm** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:13 pm

Things I noticed

Power Man and Iron Fist does not seem to be moving to well.

Nick Spensors Iron Man 2.0 was sold out, I picked up the last copy. I am not sure how much he purchased.

Amazing Spider-man sold out for the third consecutive week on the same day of release. He needs to up these orders

Infestation - All issues have sold out.

Teen Titans - Sold out for the last 3 issues.

Star Wars the Lost Command seems to have sold out at all of the shops in Colorado Springs.

comicm · Post by **comicm** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:34 pm

Every week the owner lets me look at the pull customer adds and deletes. There were a ton of deletes this week and the other thing I noticed was one angry customer upset he did not get his pull item Thunder Agents.