Drew, you are to be commended. You are the ONLY comic book TH-camr to do a performance rating video of his OWN past recommendation video. Amazing bud! Drew, you have b**ls! Might I say "Golden Balls", pun intended. If only other TH-camrs would even DARE to follow suit. If they were to do so, they would not fair well my super friend. Please continue to produce this great and educational comic book industry content. Kindest Regards, your Canadian Allie.
Haha, thanks! I try to be straightforward and transparent with the content. I don’t want to clog up the channel with a bunch of videos rehashing old lists, but from time to time I think it’s good to measure how we’ve done. Also helps to remind everyone that this isn’t an exact science. Thanks again for the kind words.
10/10 would have been better, but I’ll take it. I’m glad I started when I did, because I’ve learned a thing or two in the last year. Feel like the quality of the new Top 10 lists are significantly better than the early ones. Hopefully that’s coming through on your end as well. Thanks for watching, as always!
I remember the original video. One of the first I watched from your channel. Thanks for this excellent update! A 90% average will get you in the Hall of Fame! X-men 141...let it go Drew...let it go, hehehehehehehe.
Love your insight and advice. You really know your stuff and tend to showcase books that everyone knows is a good investment but aren't thinking about at the moment. Great stuff! I've been watching since the beginning. Keep it up Como Comics!
Thanks Jesse! A lot of the 70s Marvel mags are really cool. If you ever get tired of chasing the same ol, same ol they make a fun side project when you need to mix it up.
The entire deadly hands run is great Great covers great stories great art Can’t recommend enough to everyone Especially always liked the pre white tiger stories of the sons of the tiger
I definitely agree. I love always enjoyed collecting most of Marvel’s magazines. The painted cover art always made them pop more than your average comic cover in my opinion.
@@miguelh4750 I only sell at shows/cons and they’ve been fairly sparse over the last year, so it hasn’t been overly burdensome, but I’ll be interested to see how things progress over the course of this year with things starting back up again.
Enjoyed the video Drew. On some of the titles you mentioned values for "direct" and "newsstand", but you skipped over it on Thor 337. What kind of price for NS on this issue in NM ?
I find with comics like any other market you have to diversify. Don’t put all your money into 1 comic. Buy a large range of comics, this will give you a greater chance to have gains. Ex. I purchased FF48-50 over a year ago. 48 and 49 have seen big gains, but 50 not so much.
I bought a Sandman #1 in what looks like a 9.0 or better in the bag for $217. Just a wild hair under FMV, but I'd be proud even if I hit exact FMV on it. That book will never come back down.
@@bottomtiercollector that casting announcement yesterday probably isn’t going to help. It’s on my list, but I’m definitely more focused on my Silver Age and PCH goals at the moment. Oh and TMNT1 1st. 😬
@@CoMoComicBooks man. TMNT 1st. That would be the biggest grail I would never sell because of the rarity. I would flip anything else in that tier or bigger. Good luck man, hoping to see that achievement video!
Hey this is Bob in Connecticut I have put up some comments before because I gave up bartending about 10 years ago because of comic books. I just want to say any of the old key comic books they are out of most peoples price range. Right now X-Men and Spiderman are in total control. look what happened to amazing fantasy 15 I got my 6.0 a few years ago in New York for only $4000. There is a trickle down effect on amazing fantasy 15 because 9.4 just sold recently for $1.2 million. My 6.0 just sold for $96,000 I don’t think I’m ever selling my copy . X-Men 1 yes that is beyond belief because I paid $300 for an ungraded carpet in about 15 years ago at the comicon in New York. There is a 5.0 right now on eBay that is that $23,000 with a couple of days left. My sister told me to sell a comic book and get a brand new Corvette or a Dodge Challenger RT I don’t want a Lamborghini🤣🤣🤣
Hey Bill! I don’t see much spec value for them at face value. If there was some unusual combination of popular character and unusually small print run for that particular variant, then maybe, but nothing here is on my radar beyond simply being desirable to fans of the featured character or Ross’ art.
@@CoMoComicBooks it just seems like stores are already selling out of them and I'm seeing certain ones jump to $15 from $4 or $5 already. Being a variant isn't the print run already lower?
@@billgober2 in the short term, I could see where people looking to complete sets would pay a premium for some of the harder to find or more desirable issues. In the long term, outside of collectors working on a set or just fans of Ross’ art I don’t see where these have much staying power. Some will be worth more than cover price, the majority probably will be worth less. There are exceptions to every rule of course, but that is typically what one would expect on a long running series of variants such as these, especially if there weren’t ratio requirements to over come to order them. I don’t know much about them to be honest, as I don’t play the variant game 99.9% of the time.
You know i love how i got she hulk 1 for 75 dollars. Came back a 9.6 unpressed. Resending to get pressed and clean to see if it gets into 9.8 Poor seller probably rolling 🤣
Hard to say for sure. Probably bronze age keys as silver gets ridiculous, even in the low grades. Hulk 181, GSX 1 (if those aren't already considered out of reach), ASM 129, MS5, DD 131/168, X-Men 94/101/129, Thor 337, Wolverine 1, maybe Eternals 1 if that movie is really good.
Wolverine is always a solid pick up remember he has no movie yet in the mcu.. when it does all the prices you see know will seem like a good deal....a 3000 cgc 9.8 print count is no longer a lot of books if the character is right and Wolverine is that kind of character
@@rbruggeman7722 Yes, #107, #120/121 are really booming now, hitting $200+ for the good stuff...#121 is a very hard comic to get these days, lots of competition.
Out of this list. I have avengers annual 10 raw and waiting to get it graded. I used to have that Thor book but sold it years ago before it took off. She hulk I have no interest to invest in. ASM 361. I sold my 9.8 a couple years ago for 300 and really regret it. Sandman 1. I have as a 9.8 Deadly hands of Kung fu. Never heard of it Hulk 340. I got a year ago as a 9.6 and I am seeing a nice 200% gain I’m not buying a he-man book. Same reason why I won’t buy gi joe, transformers, Rick and Marty, thunder cats, power rangers, ect X-men 141, I just bought a copy this month at 9.6 along with x-men 142 at a 9.6. X-men 141 goes for almost double then 142 at that grade. Daredevil 131 - I should probably get that. I think we’ll see wilson Fisk rejoin the MCU and then bullseye will be along with him.
You don’t think WandaVision was successful? Poll any 10 people in the hobby and I would venture that 8+ would answer in the affirmative. White Vision blew up. People know what the Darkhold is now. Etc, etc. The show was a success.
A show that doesn’t even have a confirmed second season isn’t successful. You’re own words “in the hobby” just shows that only the niche market within a hobby liked it. Just because YOU and other fans of comic books liked the show doesn’t make it successful. Let’s see a few more seasons and then we will talk.
@@stevemichael652 thanks for your feedback Steve. The channel is geared towards comic book fans, collectors and investors, most of which enjoyed the show. If you’re not in one of those groups or didn’t enjoy the show then I could see why you’d disagree. Thanks for watching.
Drew, you are to be commended. You are the ONLY comic book TH-camr to do a performance rating video of his OWN past recommendation video. Amazing bud! Drew, you have b**ls! Might I say "Golden Balls", pun intended. If only other TH-camrs would even DARE to follow suit. If they were to do so, they would not fair well my super friend. Please continue to produce this great and educational comic book industry content. Kindest Regards, your Canadian Allie.
Haha, thanks! I try to be straightforward and transparent with the content. I don’t want to clog up the channel with a bunch of videos rehashing old lists, but from time to time I think it’s good to measure how we’ve done. Also helps to remind everyone that this isn’t an exact science. Thanks again for the kind words.
@@CoMoComicBooks 👍👍👍
Love it! You’ve come a long way! I know I’ve used your videos to get my butt into gear and add books to my collection. Keep it coming!
Thanks Brett!
I remember watch your first top 10. You did well 9/10 is excellent.
10/10 would have been better, but I’ll take it. I’m glad I started when I did, because I’ve learned a thing or two in the last year. Feel like the quality of the new Top 10 lists are significantly better than the early ones. Hopefully that’s coming through on your end as well. Thanks for watching, as always!
I remember the original video. One of the first I watched from your channel. Thanks for this excellent update! A 90% average will get you in the Hall of Fame! X-men 141...let it go Drew...let it go, hehehehehehehe.
I’m working on it. Still a little confounded, but oh well.
Also, you're smart with your commercial style plugs for your channel in the middle of the videos. Smart tactics.
Thanks Jeremy. They help with engagement too, as I usually zoom in and throw in a nice transition in there as well.
Love your insight and advice. You really know your stuff and tend to showcase books that everyone knows is a good investment but aren't thinking about at the moment. Great stuff! I've been watching since the beginning. Keep it up Como Comics!
Thank you for sticking with us Jeremy! I’m glad you’re continuing to enjoy the content!
I'm in the same boat on Sandman #1, I've been putting it off for ages and now it's gonna cost me. Great video!
One day we’ll learn... 🤦🏻♂️
Great to see so many books moving up. Only book I need is the iron fist book. But as you mentioned a tuff rundown. :) great job as always bud.
Thanks Jesse! A lot of the 70s Marvel mags are really cool. If you ever get tired of chasing the same ol, same ol they make a fun side project when you need to mix it up.
The entire deadly hands run is great
Great covers great stories great art
Can’t recommend enough to everyone
Especially always liked the pre white tiger stories of the sons of the tiger
I definitely agree. I love always enjoyed collecting most of Marvel’s magazines. The painted cover art always made them pop more than your average comic cover in my opinion.
Great list as usual. ITs hard to see these insane prices for the higher end copies go up on a weekly basis. Yet I' happy I have some raw copies.
It’s tough to keep up right now. Record sale after record sale, day after day is wild!
@@CoMoComicBooks As a seller, you must reprice after every record sale. How do you manage ?
@@miguelh4750 I only sell at shows/cons and they’ve been fairly sparse over the last year, so it hasn’t been overly burdensome, but I’ll be interested to see how things progress over the course of this year with things starting back up again.
I’m a big believer in X-men 133-wolverine’s first solo story-awesome cover and story
The last page of 132 is 🔥🔥🔥
Enjoyed the video Drew. On some of the titles you mentioned values for "direct" and "newsstand", but you skipped over it on Thor 337. What kind of price for NS on this issue in NM ?
Hey Joe! Right now I’d put a small premium in the newsstand copy. The Marks Jewelers copies seem to be the top dog at the moment.
Great content, I actually just picked up Deadly Hands 19 as well as Spectacular Spider-Man #9 a few weeks ago.
Very nice! Thanks for watching!
Anything bought at the beginning of the pandemic was a great investment right before the market boom.
It was a pretty fool proof time to buy.
Anything bought 2 months ago!!! 😂
@@jacobbornowsky4013 it’s crazy out there...
I find with comics like any other market you have to diversify. Don’t put all your money into 1 comic. Buy a large range of comics, this will give you a greater chance to have gains.
Ex. I purchased FF48-50 over a year ago.
48 and 49 have seen big gains, but 50 not so much.
FF50’s cover is just so meh compared to the other two, in my opinion.
I bought a Sandman #1 in what looks like a 9.0 or better in the bag for $217. Just a wild hair under FMV, but I'd be proud even if I hit exact FMV on it. That book will never come back down.
Ugh... I still haven’t bought one. I suck at this. 😭
@@CoMoComicBooks hype is a little cooled off right now. I don't expect the inevitable spike until a trailer release. Still time.
@@bottomtiercollector that casting announcement yesterday probably isn’t going to help. It’s on my list, but I’m definitely more focused on my Silver Age and PCH goals at the moment. Oh and TMNT1 1st. 😬
@@CoMoComicBooks man. TMNT 1st. That would be the biggest grail I would never sell because of the rarity. I would flip anything else in that tier or bigger. Good luck man, hoping to see that achievement video!
Hey this is Bob in Connecticut I have put up some comments before because I gave up bartending about 10 years ago because of comic books. I just want to say any of the old key comic books they are out of most peoples price range. Right now X-Men and Spiderman are in total control. look what happened to amazing fantasy 15 I got my 6.0 a few years ago in New York for only $4000. There is a trickle down effect on amazing fantasy 15 because 9.4 just sold recently for $1.2 million. My 6.0 just sold for $96,000 I don’t think I’m ever selling my copy . X-Men 1 yes that is beyond belief because I paid $300 for an ungraded carpet in about 15 years ago at the comicon in New York. There is a 5.0 right now on eBay that is that $23,000 with a couple of days left. My sister told me to sell a comic book and get a brand new Corvette or a Dodge Challenger RT I don’t want a Lamborghini🤣🤣🤣
Flex more bob that paragraph wasn't enough
Thanks Drew. Another great video! It's a shame I can only subscribe once
I appreciate you Dy! Thanks for being a part of the community!
Liked and subscribed 👍🏼
Thank you! Welcome to the community!
Great stuff once again Drew
Thanks Donato! It seemed like continuing to put these out without any sort of follow up wouldn’t be all that transparent, so I figured why not!
The first comic I ever shared with my boys was Uncanny X-Men 141. It is my fave too!
That’s a good place to start! I hope they’re enjoying it!
I just subscribed and hit the like button, I’m awesome.
Indeed you are! Thanks for watching and welcome to the community!
Good list bro have several of these already.
Thanks for watching!
I still wouldn’t mind having a nice high grade xmen 141
It’s a good one! Thanks for watching!
A 9.8 ASM361 newsstand sold on comiclink for $2200 2 days ago.
Yeah! High grade slabbed newsstand copies are 💰💰💰 right now. Raw copies aren’t cheap, but the slabs a definitely pricey.
What do you think of investing in the Alex Ross Timeless variants?
Hey Bill! I don’t see much spec value for them at face value. If there was some unusual combination of popular character and unusually small print run for that particular variant, then maybe, but nothing here is on my radar beyond simply being desirable to fans of the featured character or Ross’ art.
@@CoMoComicBooks it just seems like stores are already selling out of them and I'm seeing certain ones jump to $15 from $4 or $5 already. Being a variant isn't the print run already lower?
I mean I could be wrong but even if they go from $5 to $25 in a couple years that's a 5x return
@@billgober2 in the short term, I could see where people looking to complete sets would pay a premium for some of the harder to find or more desirable issues. In the long term, outside of collectors working on a set or just fans of Ross’ art I don’t see where these have much staying power. Some will be worth more than cover price, the majority probably will be worth less. There are exceptions to every rule of course, but that is typically what one would expect on a long running series of variants such as these, especially if there weren’t ratio requirements to over come to order them. I don’t know much about them to be honest, as I don’t play the variant game 99.9% of the time.
@@CoMoComicBooks that makes sense. I know the sketch ones have a 1:100 ratio so those will probably be the pricier issues.
Man, I'm never going to be able to afford that first appearance of Carnage. Wish I'd kept my copy from the 90s
You might check into the 2nd print. Still not cheap, but more affordable.
I bought a cgc 9.6 a few months before the first venom movie and maaan seeing woody harrelson in the post credit scene made my night!
I was about to sell my x-men 141 but now I think am going to hold on to it.
I have no doubt it will come back. Too iconic of a cover and issue to be down in the dumps for too long.
@@CoMoComicBooks yea am going to hold on to it for a couple of months
ill be reading that children of the atom
You know i love how i got she hulk 1 for 75 dollars. Came back a 9.6 unpressed. Resending to get pressed and clean to see if it gets into 9.8 Poor seller probably rolling 🤣
Wow! That’s a big turn around on a $75 investment!
I just got some money and this what I need right now 😀
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Does anyone know what are the future blue chip books that will take over once the recent ones are out of reach?
Hard to say for sure. Probably bronze age keys as silver gets ridiculous, even in the low grades. Hulk 181, GSX 1 (if those aren't already considered out of reach), ASM 129, MS5, DD 131/168, X-Men 94/101/129, Thor 337, Wolverine 1, maybe Eternals 1 if that movie is really good.
@@austa7859 early Xmen also has first Alpha flight and Starjammers. DAREDEVIL 9 first Echo,
Some solid advice here: ⬆️
Wolverine is always a solid pick up remember he has no movie yet in the mcu.. when it does all the prices you see know will seem like a good deal....a 3000 cgc 9.8 print count is no longer a lot of books if the character is right and Wolverine is that kind of character
@@rbruggeman7722 Yes, #107, #120/121 are really booming now, hitting $200+ for the good stuff...#121 is a very hard comic to get these days, lots of competition.
Out of this list.
I have avengers annual 10 raw and waiting to get it graded.
I used to have that Thor book but sold it years ago before it took off.
She hulk I have no interest to invest in.
ASM 361. I sold my 9.8 a couple years ago for 300 and really regret it.
Sandman 1. I have as a 9.8
Deadly hands of Kung fu. Never heard of it
Hulk 340. I got a year ago as a 9.6 and I am seeing a nice 200% gain
I’m not buying a he-man book. Same reason why I won’t buy gi joe, transformers, Rick and Marty, thunder cats, power rangers, ect
X-men 141, I just bought a copy this month at 9.6 along with x-men 142 at a 9.6. X-men 141 goes for almost double then 142 at that grade.
Daredevil 131 - I should probably get that. I think we’ll see wilson Fisk rejoin the MCU and then bullseye will be along with him.
Deadly Hands 19 was way under the radar for a long time. You’re in pretty good shape it looks like though!
Yes you got a like from me. Thanks Drew.
Thank you! I was maybe a little too amped up on caffeine when I was working on the script.
@@CoMoComicBooks lol nothing wrong with that. Better fast than dragon ur ass. Lmao!
I just sold a X-men 141 in Mid grade for $150
Well done! Slabbed or raw?
@@CoMoComicBooks Raw. I had it at 189.99 and someone offered 150 so I took it.
Wait on x-men 141. It’s a sleeper and it has multiple first appearances.
It’s coming.
X-men 129 was dead for a while then boomed. This will too
I still believe in it for sure. What’s that age old investing advice? Buy the dip!
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Ty for believing in me
😂 Sorry, I was kind of a wise ass when I scripted this one out earlier this week.
@@CoMoComicBooks I thought it hit well! Made me laugh
Carnage and Venom are becoming way overpriced. There must be 100,000s of each of those comics. Those will drop in price.
To your point, I want to say ASM300 is either the most or one of the most graded books CGC has.
I mean, you have to know that saying crap like “undeniable success of Wanda Vision” makes you lose credibility, right?
You don’t think WandaVision was successful?
Poll any 10 people in the hobby and I would venture that 8+ would answer in the affirmative. White Vision blew up. People know what the Darkhold is now. Etc, etc.
The show was a success.
A show that doesn’t even have a confirmed second season isn’t successful. You’re own words “in the hobby” just shows that only the niche market within a hobby liked it. Just because YOU and other fans of comic books liked the show doesn’t make it successful. Let’s see a few more seasons and then we will talk.
@@stevemichael652 thanks for your feedback Steve. The channel is geared towards comic book fans, collectors and investors, most of which enjoyed the show. If you’re not in one of those groups or didn’t enjoy the show then I could see why you’d disagree. Thanks for watching.