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Originally Posted by Azlord
I loved the Punisher, I have the 1-5 mini series and 1-90 of the normal series, plus the war journals etc etc. I am always tempted to sell them, and then I remember the sotries everyone has about selling shit too early and all that.
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If you're buying comics hoping they'll be worth some later, you're better off taking the money and putting it into a bank account. Or your mattress.
The majority of comics are worth less than the cover price the day they come out.
The reason older comics are valuable is because they didn't print many of them and many were not well preserved by their owners.
These days, print runs are much higher and companies offer multiple reprints.
If you *do* want to make money on comics, it's the newer issues, variant covers, etc. that turn the most profit. It's almost like the speculation market. Books come out, shoot up in price absurdly...then slide right back down never to come close to their peaks again.
Barring that, the only real money in comics comes from professionally graded comics, and they have to be Mint/Near Mint.
But I digress. I have exceeded my geek quotient for the hour.