This is why I eye roll at channels like Hot Tom Comics. No offense to them but the overreacting gets old.

I'm the one that bought "The Lost Years". 😂

Like selling a house. There is a buyer for the house, it's just a matter of getting them together. I think comics are like that. Timing and buyer have to come together. A lot of people may not be aware of the significance of these picks.

I saw 4 copies of that Batman 89 in NM for $1 a piece today lol.

@jimbomba4365

2 ай бұрын

Got mine from half off bin about six months after the series came out. That particular LCS had dozens of unsold copies of the first four issues.

The market is killing my hobby. Comics are meant to be read. Just sayin...🍺

@barryblack5103

2 ай бұрын

No one learned a thing from the 90's. The stakes aren't as high this time, but still seems like the same cycle.

@user-ix5gf2on1w

2 ай бұрын

Great attitude but for some it's not that simple.

@user-ix5gf2on1w

2 ай бұрын

Wonder man is a wack character his most interesting trait is his brain patterns were transferred to vision that,s my opinion nothing further.

@user-ix5gf2on1w

2 ай бұрын

Slabbing comics no thanks suprise suprise I want to read it......goodnight.

@Matthew.E.Kelly.

2 ай бұрын

Some folks would rather wait for collected editions than have a bunch of single issues of modern stuff sitting around, & in some ways I agree with them 🤔 but I always get worried I'll miss a cool run/arc as it happens & try to stay subscribed to a few titles. Weird though because a good 90% of my 15,000+ issue collection is Silver & Bronze Age even though I also have all the omnibus editions & Epic Collections, Absolutes, etc. 😅 I do agree however that people who actually _read_ the comics are a little bit more my people than the ones who just buy them as "investments" or whatever.

Seems like a lot of it is relatively modern and the supply is there. Once someone has a copy, there's no need to get another one.

@freemankeyz

2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@robertt9342

2 ай бұрын

Demand isn’t there either. Much of the market was inflated by speculators and hype, and both have declined.

I love tthe 70's Cap and Falcon books with the Romita and Kane covers, as well as the Byrne run.

People want Steve Rogers Captain America. Not the modern, post 90s, activist stories of Isaiah Bradley and Sam Wilson as Cap. And “The Daughters of Liberty” has failure written all over it for the 4th Cap movie. The MCU just won’t learn their lesson.

You just need to realize that this is the worst time to be selling comics. For a collector it is great. Why would I pay you 5-10 bucks when I can find them for 1-2 dollars?

Great video, but I have a counter argument: It's not surprising that the actual first appearance of Hallow's Eve doesn't sell. People care mostly about the heroic/villainous personas. This holds pretty solid i.e. First Mac Gargan as opposed to first Scorpion, etc.

@doorsfan173

2 ай бұрын

It's also worth noting that Hallow's Eve is the byproduct of a pretty vocally disliked run (that persona specifically).

I've found Batman 89 # 1 in the dollar bins

Hey you came to my house a few years ago and help me sort my collection and make a video. I am thinking about moving half of the collection(about 1000 books) it's all marvel bronze and a little silver age. Not sure if you want a shot at it otherwise I will try my local comic shop. Let me know if you have interest

I am writing this before I watch but I think I agree with you. I sell a lot of books and very rarely does the sales relate to the hot list. What it was doing was generating sales after the list came out but since the comic book downturn it does not even do that. I will watch and then re-comment if need be, after.

Steve Rogers is Captain America. When you remove Steve Rogers, you have nothing. Say there's a Beatles tribute band, and they decide to release some new material. That's "Captain America" and, for that matter, "Iron Man" without Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, respectively.

Why would Wonderman be hot. Disney isn’t even using that version of the character.

Forge was very popular at the time. He was the last major new character in the lead-up to UXM 200-201.

Agree, Forge and dazzler(before Taylor swift rumors) have always been the most unimpressive xmen

@chelzartnstuff

2 ай бұрын

Forge is about to become Omega level somehow. I’d like to see how

I would rather have the Batman Movie Adaptation than Batman '89.

Interesting post and although there was a mix of books, there were mostly newer books. I tend to dismiss most newer Comics though I have bought some that were of interest to me. When I see high prices on new books that have not stood the test of time, I know it's just hype, usually associated with a movie. Later when the book comes of the hype, spec buyers might feel a pinch of buyers remorse. I will say with the price corrections we now see, there are some fantastic values out there to be scooped up and as a fanboy of the Marvel Silver age, I'm liking it. Best to all.

Picked up Wonder Man #1, Volume 2 the other day for a $1. It’s a pretty good read. Who knows if it will ever make that TV show run I keep hearing about.

Yeah, although the online hype and reported FVM says otherwise, I frequently see most these books for $5-10 at stores while traveling.

That Spiderman Lost Years is an absolutelly underrated book. Not because of this or that characters or whatever. It is Because it is an amazing read!

Justice league run is awesome. So well written

more of these, definitely is an interesting video topic and approach, do more please

Since I have most of the X-Men I want and Amazing Spider-Man is always stupid expensive, maybe it's time for me to branch in to Captain America. Always been a favorite character. I've noticed even Tales of Suspense seem to go for reasonable prices.

I would think that the Cap book (DoL) not selling has nothing to do with the movie, much like actual interest, but more likely the speculating market has taken a hit during the market down turn and the speculators playing hot potato are not as active in the market as they once were.

I sold a X-men 184 for $20 a couple of weeks ago. I was surprised and honestly forgot it was Forge's first appearance.

@MintHunterComics

2 ай бұрын

That'll do it!

You know what is NOT on this list? Pre-1975 comics. Stick with the old ones, they are more stable.

@MintHunterComics

2 ай бұрын

True!

I feel like the ones on this list are ones that either someone has a lot of spec copies and they are trying to unload. Some of these books were dollar box fodder for the past few decades.

Prices and popularity are sometimes a real mystery. Best wishes.

Yeah it’s very weird how spec books and ones that are “hot” work I can never understand it

@robertt9342

2 ай бұрын

Makes sense to me… it’s a market based on a false sense of demand that is artificially inflated by marketing hype…. When some of that disappears or is not capable of getting a long term collector to buy in then it tends to stall.

sean gunn has already been cast as maxwell lord

My understanding is that Sean Gunn is playing Max Lord in a DC Film. I feel like movie spec has died down when people don't really care that much about the character.

I bought the Batman 89 when it first came out, i didn't really care for it, so i only got the first issue. Superman 78 which came out at the same time was a much better read. Where's the love and value for that one?

I agree with you with all books, except the Damien Wayne books. I've had and sold Batman: Son of the Demon graphic novel, and sold it very, very easily.

Awesome Video Idea! Since these comics have been on certain hot lists, and even before, they’ve not moved. •the MAXX #1 •X-Men #290 + #239 •Captain America Vol. 9 #7 •Justice League #1 •Star Wars High Republic #5 •the Toxic Avenger #1 •X-Men Adventures #1 •Wolverine #36 (Hellverine) They Get Views and Some Watching, But Even With Competitive Pricing They’ve Still Not Moved! Not So Hot

Which "Robin" post-Grayson sells decently well?

Some of the prices "hot" books sell for are the acceptation to the rule, like Batman '89 for example. The graphic said it sold for as high as $15. Was that just one sale, or several? To me, a genuinely hot book is a book that maintains its value for at least a couple months. "Hot" books now fizzle quickly.

I have all the first appearances of each original Thunderbolt and those are more interesting.

Captain America comics are usually the dogs for sales anyways as in marvel vs other big name heroes

Very little is hot at the prices people want. Ebay in particular seems reluctant to adjust prices from 2 years ago. I loved that JLA glad to be silly run. Fair bit of early Adam Hughes in there as well.

great video, thanks.

I can’t stand Wonder Man, but the one with the Sienkiewicz cover was terrific.👍

I want all those Damien Wayne issues. Love that art.b

Cap keys r cheap now time to buy cap

I wont' go on a tear about how certain KZread comic shows try to get heat going on comics just because they're sitting on a bunch and want to move them. Oops, I just did. Looking at you, Comic Tom. Anyway...I can't speak to all of these, but as to Uncanny X-Men #184, I would just say too many people had them. Back in the 80's, the X-Men books got smoking hot around the #172 range. And people bought the heck out of them until around #200. So this one, being smack in the middle, is just in too many people's collections or gets sold in Estate/yard sales too much. Not digging on Forge, it's just a realllly common issue.

good advice video, bro.

Great video thanks

Thanks for the awesome vids

Damien should be around the same price of a Red Hood key I think.

I have the same issue. Avengers Twilight #1, Uncanny X-men #239, X-men Adventures #1

Still sad about the lack of Cap love. Absolutely astounding how poorly the Damian Wayne books are performing!

@MintHunterComics

2 ай бұрын

Isn’t that surprising?!

Maxwell Lord is supposed to show up in the next Superman movie. I believe Forge is prominent in the X-Men '97 cartoon.

I was thinking about getting damian 1st appearance last week.But its so confuse.Batman 655 Technically is first appearance but what about son of demon storyline. Is this part of mainline story now？I dont know so i didn't buy it.

@jimbomba4365

2 ай бұрын

Mike W. Barr has said that he does not receive royalties for Damian Wayne because DC claims that he is not the same character as the child of Talia that appeared in Son of the Demon. If DC won't acknowledge Son of the Demon as the first appearance of Damian Wayne, then neither should the market. On a side note, Barr wanted to do more stories with Talia's son after, SOTD, but Warner Brothers put the kibosh on the character ever being mentioned again. WB were making the Tim Burton Batman movies at the time, and they thought it would negatively affect his image with the viewing audience if he was depicted as having fathered a child out of wedlock. Of course they didn't have a problem with Batman having sex with Vickie Vale in the movie, but getting a woman pregnant was a step too far. The really ironic part is that Denny O'Neil had done a story in 1978 (DC Special Series #15) where Batman and Talia were legally married by Ra's Al-Ghul (Batman was an unwilling participant, but in their home country only the consent of the bride and the father is required to perform a wedding ceremony). When DC editor Dick Giordano initially objected to Batman having sex with Talia in his story, Barr reminded him of O'Neil's story and point out that there was nothing morally questionable about a husband and wife consummating their marriage.

Firstly... Excellent content - Wow, you sure do know a lot about modern comics! How do you remember this stuff? Secondly, I think the reason why so many comics aren't as hot as expected is simple - it's because most of the books that have been pegged as "hot" (by certain "hot list" youtube-ers) are NOT hot. I think there's a tiny number of people chasing an ever-changing list of 30 or 40 books, and creating videos about them, but these people do not reflect the market - and the fact that a small number of people paid $40 for the first appearance of a 4th string character who is rumored to get a show, or whatever, does not make these 400 books per year "hot". Think about it this way... there are hundreds of books every year that are named as "hot" ("key" is even worse) and there are 5,000 to 40,000 copies of each and every one of these so-called hot books. It should be obvious that there's not enough free, available money to buy even a tenth of those copies at the inflated prices. What happened was... there was just a smidgen of money spent on just a handful of copies that traded at the $20 to $40 per copy price.There's not enough free cash (or mastercard credit card money) available to buy more than a few dozen copies ( maybe 100 copies) after that, once all the fools have been separated from their money... there's literally no more demand at that price. Unfortunately, that inflated price starts getting quoted as the "FMV" (or quoted as the most recent sale by hot-list youtubers)... The problem these books have, is best summed up by Gertrude Stein's famous quote.. "There's no there, there." and there's no one willing to buy them.

Batman 89 was a great read, I think covid brought back the comic boom because everyone was stuck at home and getting on KZread watching channels like yours kind of helped stir the pot and added newbies, trend chasers, investors, with the OG's. Yes, it brought people who are looking for a quick flip instead of people who actually enjoy reading them but for a moment It was cool watching my LCS flooded with people but as I got to know everyone that weren't subscribers in line I learned they weren't really into it, it was the new hobby, it was all those damn variant covers, youtuber speculations that are/were killing comics all over because now I noticed the NCBD crowed subside, everything Marvel/Disney is releasing is trash. #readcomicbookssucka

I got like 5 copies of 8billion genies 2 of Damien wayne they will be hot so those or mid spec. Batman will hit the public domain in 2034 so someone will have to be the new Dark knight.

i would guess damien wyane doesn't sell as much because he's a newer character. people probably got his first apps and whatnot when they were released. new collecters might need it but thats wht the hobby needs , new collectors

Ugh DMZ was one of my favorite indie titles ever and they did a miniseries on HBO and it had just about nothing to do with the comic and was pretty rushed and awful and destroyed any value for the book.

@MintHunterComics

Ай бұрын

Wow somehow I didn’t even know that

I think that some "hot picks" should be called "want to be hot picks", unfortunately.

The problem with a 'hot' book is it can only be hot if there are enough to move in numbers, so that even if you have one (ahem, Spawn 1, X Men Adventures 1) you are competing with the countless other people who are selling one just like yours

Who is “Damian Wayne?” I never heard of that character. ???

@MintHunterComics

2 ай бұрын

Wait actually?

*looks around* I collect Cap!

@MintHunterComics

2 ай бұрын

Woot woot!

These books are all not hot for a simple reason - not great stories. Daughters of Liberty was the low point of the series for me, why they want to use it for the movie is beyond me. DMZ already had a netflix show nobody cared about where they female swapped the main character. The Lost Years was part of clone saga crap storyline - 'nuff said. Forge is just a gadget guy - entirely replaceable - so who cares? The Truth probably sells better as a TPB - the art was also not great. Damian Wayne's early bratty appearances weren't enjoyable reading - couldn't stand the character until he teamed up with Nightwing.

DMZ? Oh yeah, after January 6th, i think a lot of people are tired of the division, real or made up....I wouldn't be surprised of the movie tanks too.

@MintHunterComics

2 ай бұрын

Very true! I actually saw the movie and thought it was AMAZING

@jimbomba4365

2 ай бұрын

Civil War is currently the Number One movie in America, and had the highest opening weekend of any A24 film (more than doubling the previous record set by Hereditary). That said, the film cost $75 million to make and market, so more than likely see a profit until the international grosses and streaming revenues are added in.

@user-bp2mi1nt3c

2 ай бұрын

@jimbomba4365 yes, America wants another CIVIL WAR for sure

I did well selling Batman ‘89 closer to when it released. I got rid of all mine a while ago though.

The time to buy is when an item isn't popular. Back in 2010 those Nintendo valiant books were still pretty cheap, but that's because no one really wanted them.

lol the hype lol

Ahhh, why is near mintie being said so often getting on my nerves…

@MintHunterComics

2 ай бұрын

Near minty 😂

Hot..But Not.

james ur a hot comic

This is all BS alot of these hot comics are crap, badly written story and art not much cop, but the biggest killer of collecting comics is the TV show/ movie speculation is messing up comic collecting.

I was looking forward to reading that Batman 89 comic. When i read it, it was so bad i threw it in the bin. I think you can blame 'woke' culture on about half of these books & how they ruined the characters in the movie / tv shows: I.E. I sold that Truth series for £100 just before the tv show came out.

@wheeljack0

2 ай бұрын

@@richardolney1822 That is all the fans want. One of the reasons i stopped buying modern comics

@jimbomba4365

2 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but what was woke about Batman '89? The book had problems, most specifically being that it devoted so much time to the character arcs of Harvey Dent, Barbara Gordon, Robin, and Catwoman that Batman became a supporting character in his own series, but wokeness was not one one of them. Yes, they modeled Robin after Marlon Wayans, but that's who Tim Burton had planned to cast as Robin if he didn't get pulled from Batman Forever. And I don't remember anybody throwing a fit in 1989 when Billy Dee Williams was cast as Harvey Dent.

@wheeljack0

2 ай бұрын

I will have to read it again online as i have forgotten the story say what annoyed me. I did hear good things about the Superman one though.