Top 10 Comics That Dropped TOO LOW! // Unjustified Prices for Dope Books!
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- I never thought I'd make this video! Here's 10 comics that had a bit of market OVER-correction that don't seem justified when you consider the impact of the character! What other 9.8 keys or perhaps raws do you think took a dive which, if we're being honest with ourselves, doesn't seem justified? Let me know in the comments below!
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The explosion of graded copies over the years of all these have saturated the market to the point you can find them all day every day on eBay and elsewhere in 9.8. It's great to wish they sold for more but the reality of a collectible market will show what they are truly worth.
Spot on.
I agree BUT I wanted to make this video to point out exceptions… a lot of these don’t have tons of 9.8s out there, so due to who the character meets the lack of 9.8s for these is surprising. Many comics there are plenty of 9.8s though and thus the price naturally would be lowrf
All the books in your list can easily be found at 9.8, but the point is it's fine to think they are worth X amount, but the market dictates what people are willing to pay at any time..@@MintHunterComics
@@MintHunterComics I agree with you to an extent. I mean, I am subbed to your channel, and I like your content. With that being said, what happened in the 90s with the comic boom is happening now with graded comics. Everyone and their brother has graded comics. -- I can walk into my local shop and there are bins of slabs of random 9.6 and 9.8s. It has become such a thing to grade that it was a bubble waiting to burst. Just my two cents. :)
IMO the minute differences between a 9.6 to 9.8 isn't worth the crazy price difference. I've even seen some 9.6s look better than 9.8s in the slab.
Squirrel girl has always been a mystery to me. Not sure what the hype is for her
I'm a big believer in collecting comics no matter the price as long as you love the book it should be priceless!! Thanks bro!!!
Right on!
The CGC scandal is going to hit slabbed comic sales very hard over the coming months.
Could be a great opportunity for buyers then, just remember that you're buying the book, not the grade.
Really zoom in on those photos or get a good look in person to make sure you agree with the grades.
Take advantage of the lows. Good time to complete runs. Not good for salers, but good for buyers.
Let's not forget that prices are dictated by demand. Azrael wasn't seen in comics for a while (didn't he just reappear in the Batman books?). Who cares about Azrael? Same with Agents of Atlas. They had their 15 minutes of fame but, honestly, IMO, that's a $40 book slabbed. Cassandra Cain? Is she even still around? I have no idea. LOL I DO agree with you on Kyle Raynor. That should be a steady $200 book, if not higher. I think the issue with Secret Wars is that SO many people are focused on #8 that everything else gets pushed to the wayside. Huntress? Not a top tier character even though I love her. Great vid!
Since at this point, I'm more of a buyer than a seller . This is great news to me. I still fondly remember the comic crash of the nineties. It was buyers' heaven. Always a bright side.😊😊😊
ALWAYS a bright side
I just buy what I like and then I’m not bothered by the price drops.
I'd say GLs are undervalued as a whole.
The big culprit is the number of 9.8s out there. Most of these books were hot and then submissions shot thought the roof. Then the market was hit with a loy of 9.8 Omega Red and Squirrel Girl. They're not as rare anymore.
These are expected casualties when comics become commerce instead of art.
I can’t wait until people start doing X-men keys post-Giant Sized. It’s wild how strong a lot of those holds are.
Like New X-Men 133. A modern MINOR X-men key and I cannot get that comic in a 9.8 under $300.
I feel like many Green lantern books are very underrated. Also Aquaman silver age!!!! The covers alone are so good
good calls dude! Kyle to the mooooooon! ;)
You know it!
I actually had no idea Secret wars 3 was even REMOTELY that low. For some reason I just assumed it was like $200
Oh yeah! it's almost always been a sub-$100 book
I got out of X-Men 4 at like, $130. It had done nothing but drop for months and months. Not sad I did. There are a million of these things out there and I can always get another.
9.8 prices are ridiculous compared to visibly indistinguishable 9.6s which almost all the time sell much much cheaper. I hope they all get lower.
Yes I dont get it. I've seen 9.6s look a little better than a 9.8 in the slab. People are paying thousands of dollars more for the 9.8 label
Honestly, I think several things are contributing to the low slab prices. 1) In the case of a lot of these books, they're just not rare. Maybe 9.8's are, but not the books in general. Some exceptions would be Sword of Azrael and the Marvel Super-Heroes book. They're more rare than most, but suffer from what has been done to the characters. Back in the 90's, good luck finding a cheap Sword of Azrael #1. But that character has been nerfed and mis-used so much that he's just not got much of a fan base anymore. And Squirrel Girl....Even though some of her appearances have been pretty funny and fun, she is kind of seen, thanks to her last run, as a lot of what is wrong with the "woke comic culture." Previous fans are just tuning out because they see it as part of the problem.
2) Comics in general are in a down-market. I'm not one of these people shouting that the sky is falling, but we're in one of those slumps that tend to happen after a boom. This one is more obvious because comics were such a big deal during the Covid Boom and the comic book films were bringing in a lot of people more interested in collecting rather than reading alone into the market. With the burn out/failure of so many comic movies, the mainstream is starting to tune out and there just isn't as much movement as there was a while back. I'm sure it will drift back to normal status eventually, but right now, it's a buyer's market. And with so many re-sellers trying to unload, it's making the prices drop pretty intensely...Especially on books that have been too highly priced to start with.
3) The Slab Scam. With the issues with the CGC slabs being opened and switched, a lot of people are probably getting nervous about buying slabbed books. Honestly, I don't know what will come of this. I don't think it will be the end of slabbing, but I don't know that there is much that CGC can do to protect the books even more. This is just kind of something that, like Thanos, was inevitable. So, strangely enough, at the moment raw high grade copies are probably trusted more than slabbed books.
Green lantern #25 vol 3....as a fellow lantern fan i imagine you understand just how bonkers $100 for this book is.
The book i always have thought of being undervalued is Iron Man & the Sub Mariner, it predates both their solo appearance which does mean its namors true first silver age appearance and yet its worth almost half of the other two. Not to mention the Sub mariner #1 is a continuation of that book
5:55 - I had a handful of GL 48's from my personal collection (original owner) that I sent to CGC early last year: about half and half 9.6's and 9.8's. I sold through most of them last year (kept 1, a DCU logo 9.8), and most of the 9.8's, as you indicated, went in the $120-130 range. (All sales started as $99 7-day auctions.) But my last 9.8 only sold for the start price of $99, the sale on 12/23/23 shown in your screenshot. And that was AFTER it had been relisted a time or two with no bids. The market is slowing, and prices are dropping.
PWJ 6 and 7 are such good covers, as well as the two with Jim Lee's Spidey on there (14 and 15)
I am surprised with the relatively low value of Punisher #1 (first mini series). Awesome Zeck cover and it’s his first mini series. Personally, I think it should be up there with Frank Miller’s Wolverine #1.
Yea I agree the GL 48 is a steal under $100. I enjoyed the entire run especially the impact of 48 - 50 with the glow in the dark issue 50 😊
Another great video. I need to make it to your booth soon!
Always love to buy the raw vs. Slabbed
Cassandra Cain is one of my favorites. Her solo series was good also
Great insight, more like this please!! My fav content on TH-cam is cold keys content
Many I agree with are too low (Especially Kyle Rayner and Cassandra Cain) I remember those days where DC killed Superman, broke Batman, and turned Green Lantern into a villain. Months later, Superman and Batman returned but Green Lantern? Hal's Fans had to wait a DECADE for him to return as Green Lantern. One of the reasons was that Kyle developed such a huge fanbase. I'm more of a Hal Fan but I could definitely see Kyle's Appeal. Hal was the Swashbuckler Hero that took out opponents with fists and occasional constructs, Kyle felt more like a relatable person but most importantly, he was an artist that had a tool powered by his imagination. The constructs alone that he created made his books worth picking up.
Cassandra is my favorite heroine in all comic books. I absolutely love her story and Batgirl #25 when she was forced into a fight to the death with Lady Shiva ranks as the second best fight in all comic books. Unfortunately Cass's Character was destroyed in Robin #50 and she never made a full recovery. Still hoping one day she returns to her pre-52 glory.
The one I disagree with on that list is X-Men #4. My reason is far too much supply on this one. There are almost 12K copies graded and around 4750 copies in a cgc 9.8 alone. Omega Red or not, no way I'd pay over $140 for that one.
Thanks so much for this vid! Really surprised about all of these, but especially Stephanie Brown (and I have no understanding of the market fluctuations with Cassandra Cain lol)
I thought I was lucky when I spotted X-Men 4 in the wild for $10. I was surprised I got it for the price I did. Especially a couple other books like spawn 1&2 and batman 386 I picked up for under $20
I remember 3 years ago (in the HEIGHT of the boom) so guy at a yard sale threw one in as a bonus for free haha - that was when it was like a $50 raw book lol
Awesome list James! I’ve noticed the decline in price for a few of those books and it’s very tempting to grab them now.
Other than the GL, I have all those books shown (some graded, some raw), and completely agree that the drop on a few of them is perplexing. I guess it "is what it is" and all that, but seeing non-spec'd upon books drop below pre-boom prices is just...annoying.
Years ago, I had most of the Punisher War Journal run. I forgot about that book. I probably should pick that book up.
I'm always surprised when I find out a comic I own is worth a good amount
Guess I'm gonna go after DC #647. Thanks James, you did it again Homie! 😆
Thanks for the video James! I agree with you on some of these book being way too low but, time to pick them up.
I've been around the hobby since day 1 of Cap'n Carrot. That figure looks dope.
X-Men #4 decrease in price could have been partially influenced by speculation that Omega Red will be in the next Deadpool movie, and that movie being delayed a long with an overall decline in popularity of comic book movies.
I have Secret Wars 3 newsstand in a 9.6. It was my very first slab i ever bought when i was younger and had no idea what i was buying. I just remember buying it cause it was really cheap for a slab 😂
Great list James. It's a nice time to pick these up.
I think so too!
Great video. I'm looking forward to more auctions!
That's why I never do eBay auctions haahha
I've been able to score a few Wonder Woman 105 CGC 9.8's for dreadfully cheap. Direct for $40 newsstand for $70. My belief is that there's just so many issues and various variants of issues that there's not enough eyes to go around to follow everything that deserves watching. Really valuable comics sell at auction for super cheap because the market is saturated with so much stuff that things inevitably get overlooked when they shouldn't.
Love the videos.
Witchblade #1 always loved that story
Maybe one day James you'll find an unopened shipper box of that detective comic. Then you'll get a potential 9.9! ;)
So glad I picked up that war journal 6 for 50cents a few months ago. It's not perfect but it is clean.
I have an X-Men #4 newsstand that is yet to be graded... Since newsstand editions have started to be chased as a variant in their own right, it's held reasonably stable.
Great video!
Holy Captain Carrot, Batman those prices are crazy low.
I was laughing when people were pumping up X-men #4 to $300 during the boom and I'm laughing now. There are just way too many of those and every time the price creeps up, a bunch will come out of the wood work.
Great video and totally agree with your GL48 analysis. Eventually Kyle and the entire Emerald Twilight GL48-51 run will make it into film and we will see those books take off!
I started looking for these books right way.
Thanks very informative
Some of the current prices for books make absolutely no sense to me. There are some books I've looked up that in my opinion should be worth a lot more than they are, but can be bought for a song. Good thing I'm not looking to retire off of my collection.
As soon as I saw capn rabbit dude on the McFarlane pre order I was like oh i know whose getting this. I got a 9.6 Azrael for 30 bucks! Awesome
Punishe War Journal 6 9.8 is actually going for $300+ but only if it’s a newsstand
I have so many slabs that have dropped so low I refuse to sell them at this time. I'll let certain books sit in limbo until I can get a respectable price. Ride out the storm thinking.
X Men #4 seems crazy to me!
I’m taking advantage of this,opportunity!
man that is depressing to know those went down in price big time but, also it's good if you have been wanting to get them much less than what they cost normally.
I don't know how much upside that there will ever be with Punisher War Journal 6 or Secret Wars 3, for the same reason that Spawn 1 never goes very high: there's too large of a supply from a time where comic books sold far more than they do now.
The Punisher was already one of Marvel's top selling comics in 1989, enough that they gave him a second book, and comic book stores knew that Jim Lee + first meeting with Wolverine and Punisher would be huge and ordered more than usual. And even though Punisher is apparently going to become part of the MCU, he'll never be close in popularity to what he was in the late 80s and early 90s.
Contrast that to DD 158 (first Miller) or ASM 298 (first TMac). Those titles weren't even in Marvel's top 20 when Miller and TMac took over.
Anyone feel free to correct my numbers with actual numbers.
Captain Carrot is actually my uncle... and my psychiatrist. (Poor guy!)
When prices go up more copies come out of the woodworks. That may be what causes the drop?
Azrael 1 9.8 is my next Batman book I’m sending to CGc
I never thought about it, but if you win an Ebay auction at a low price; does that hurt the actual FMV of the book? It's nice to get a good price, but if it lowers the value, was it worth it. Good video.
Absolutely! It sets the new standard
Great show watching from u.k 👍
I think Alias #1 and 100 Bullets #1 are both grossly undervalued.
I think the 1st appearance of Knull is criminally underrated. 9.8 went in the $275-300 range and now you see sells for like $175. Cool character that I’m sure will see in live action down the road
I picked up a CGC 9.4 Incredible Hulk 347 for $36 recently; but I'm not sure if that's ridiculously low or not. I would have been willing to go higher, but nobody else bid on the auction after I put my bid in.
I've started doing regular ebay searches for any 9.6 or 9.8 slab under $50. If you can pick something up for 30-50 bucks thats about what you would pay to press and grade it.
Great time for buyers
Have a 9.8 Omega Red. Big character but there's a bunch of high grades out there.
I picked up some recent books that were too expensive
guess kt also depends on what the cgc numbers were in those years compared to now, many of these books mentioned have doubled in numbers graded, that needs to be taken into account
Moon Knight 1
Solid choice
Right now, star wars 1.
I think those books are a great pick up right now.
Right on!
Just saw Spawn #200 9.8 go for $40 yesterday!
Agreed, Stephanie Brown’s first appearance is very underrated and under valued. Don’t give up on Detective #647. You’ll get that 9.8 eventually. Keep on submitting.
If nothing is driving demand...then prices will drop. Non popular character keys are probably fairly valued.
Nice to see that I could make money on my favorite xmen if I wanted to. Love that xmen issue.
If you want to see, a very unjustified dip, just look at the first appearance of Alpha flight in X-Men books. That book is taking a beating even though they have yet to be brought to the MCU there is no reason for it to be as low as it currently is
SO TRUE
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CARROTS!
I didn't know these comics were this low. Some of those are to low.
Well, I think any slab or raw I own whenever it dips is a travesty, but joking aside, I have a few I am shaking my head at, but GREEN LANTERNISSUE #1 - LCSD 2018 FOIL, IMO is criminally underrated...it's probably one of the well-done foils out there...
Good info
Glad it was helpful!
Too Low?? Never too low until I get all of MY copies!! hahaha
Its a collectors market ,if the economy stalls watch out .
I agree your list of books are undervalued, and there are probably 50 other modern 9.8 first appearances that can be added to the list as well if you wanted to make an hour-long video. In my opinion, there are a lot of contributing factors to the drops aside from 2021/2022 price corrections. 1) A lot of the flippers are now out of the hobby and books are not turning over as much. 2) Lack of interest - as movies, TV series, and new comics just aren't that good to keep the motivation to collect comics going. 3) Inflation is real. It's difficult to spend money on buying a Secret Wars #3 when the electric bill is 40% higher, and hamburger meat at the grocery store is 50% higher Hobbies have to take a back seat. 4) The world is changing. Younger millennials and Gen Zrs aren't necessarily into owning physical copies of things, like the first appearance of Kyle Rayner (same for Blu-Ray and CD collections). This causes the pool of people that buy these books to get smaller and smaller and the demand to go down. Demand = price.
All of Dc is undervalued in general. Most people are too focused on post year 2000 books it seems at the moment.
I love good deals!
Is it possible the X-Men #4 dropped due to too much inventory when the price jumped and everyone rushed to get theirs graded?
Kicking myself for not picking up first Azrael comic for $10 raw.
Oh man, I am still waiting for the Squirrel Girl book to come down some more. Id be willing to pull the trigger at $200 flat.
5/10 I own yay 😂. Omega Red I don't get everyone loves him, But haven't seen ( I know in DP2 they made a tease) in a movie.
well when payday comes around i know a few books that i may pick up now XD
My time to shine 😎 (rubbing hands together)
Man, if I had the funds I’d pick a bunch of these up at these “low” prices! 😅