Speculator Corner Archives

Currently Amazon are listing the B.P.R.D. Plague Of Frogs hardcover, to be released in February, at a massive 52% off. Down from $34.99 to $16.86. Given

As of today, there will be thousands of copies of Skullkickers# 1 on sale in comics shops. Well, two of them have just sold on eBay for $14.99 each. This

The last few weeks have seen a real return to the speculator market in comics of the nineties. But rather than concentrating around high profile franchise

Okay it's just possible that Bleeding Cool might have had a little to do with this. But days before publication, Skullkickers #1, the first issue of the

I understand that a week before the new Skullkickers #1 ships to stores from Image Comics, the creative team have already created and signed off the cover

Okay I'm not just trawling through eBay today. It's just that for some its one of the most perfect comic books ever made. To others they wonder how Paul

Guessing on sharp rises in the value of comic books is a mug's game. So lets all be mugs for a second. One recent trend in comics speculation is the

Recently a Frank Miller Daredevil cover went for over $100,000. Now a more recent McFarlane cover is heading into that ballpark. From Amazing Spider-Man

It's not just the American Golden Age comics from the nineteen thirties which are seeing a price bump of late. The Dandy Beano Summer Special from 1963,

Marvel's standard sized six-issue Premiere Hardcovers have stuck at the $19.99 price point through the year. Marvel trade paperbacks however have moving

It was released last week and sold out. Not that uncommon for an Image comic book. But it looks like Morning Glories by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma is

It was shipped 1 in 10 withe the regular run of Tales From The Fringe #2 from DC/Wildstorm. But it's started to make a small stir. Because it reproduces

I know I've got one of these somewhere. Can I find it before the bubble bursts? Scott Pilgrim: Full Colour Odds & Ends 2008 is a compilation of Free

It's rare that I run these kind of things. But they have in the past made certain people a little extra cash on the weekend. Bleeding Cool ran news of the

As Scott Pilgrim is about to hit, and media interest is at a high, now is probably the best time to sell anything you want to get maximum return on. The

So, you want to enter the dangerous world of comic book speculating. Buying a comic from a retailer for twice what he paid for in the hope that he'll want

1. Take one standard Avengers #1. Costs $3.99 2. Take one of the Avengers "prints" sold to retailers to give away as part of an Avengers promotion. Maybe

Here are twenty recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $50 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant

Generator Rex launched on the Cartoon Network two weeks ago, airing at 8.30PM on Fridays in the States. About a young boy with nanotech inside his

Well now this wasn't announced. There was nothing in the solicitation for X-Factor #204. But the issue in question features the first appearance of the

I know next to nothing about wrestling. So names like Jerry “The King” Lawler pass me by. Well apparently he's drawn one of the covers to an upcoming

Okay, here's a possible opportunity. Deadpool: Secret Invasion HC is one of those titles that was printed pretty much to order before the recent boom in

Avatar creates a nunber of variant covers for its comic books. It's part of its publishing plan, and has a long history of finding new twists on the

I said that this would be a $10 book by the weekend. I was wrong. Copies of Captain America #602, featureing an anti-tax protest labelled racists by one

Here are seventeen recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $50 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant

Anthony Lucynski is known online as the biggest Rob Liefeld fan. I don't think there's anyone who's come close. And a lot of the dedication has been given

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you about the existence of misprinted examples of DC's Blackest Night promotional items and name them Error Rings,

You think that Chew #1 in your vault is worth a bomb? That your Walking Dead and Deadpool collections will see you through the bad times? Holding onto

Well, what with everyone getting a credited column on this site, I thought I might as well have a go.  And yes I know that almost every article is already

The rule about selling comic books related to a movie is do it in the two weeks prior to release. After that, it's a case of diminishing returns. That's