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Comic book stores have told me in the last month, they have seen a much greater interest in the appearances of Thanos in Marvel comics. And certain people

It cannot have escaped many people's notice that The Walking Dead is a popular comic book. So popular that retailers cannot keep up with its increase in

Yesterday lots of people got lots of comics for free. Then some of them put them on eBay. The star is, as expected, the Mouse Guard HC. It has sold for up

  In the early nineties, I self published a number of comics with Mike Meyer. Seven issues of a comic called Dirtbag, six issues of a comic called

Well it's taken long enough. But with the third and final volume of Phonogram being announced for later this year, Immaterial Girl, it seems there's been

It's not just the first few issues, and the first appearances of Michonne and The Governor that are going for big bucks on eBay. The most recent issues

Well ain't that a kicker? a copy of The Walking Dead #1 in CGC 9.9 condition has just sold for $7000. A year ago a copy in the same condition sold for

The greatest hope for the economy right now seems to be people selling their copies of The Walking Dead. We looked earlier at how the collections are

This chart is the only chart that measures "buzz", by looking at the comics being ordered by retailers after the usual orders are in. It measures the

The Amazing Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth has only just started publication today. But the hardcover collection of the crossover is already on Amazon for

Here you go folks. The current asking - and getting - price of a copy of Saga #1 on eBay is $8.99. And one seller has sold five of them at that price -

Bleeding Cool looked at recent speculator fueled demand for a number of comic books recently, resembling the speculator boom that occurred around the

After a bit of a lull, we have Image first issue fever on us again. Anything published in recent weeks with an issue 1 on it, is rocketing in value. Check

Earlier we looked at comics published in the last thirty years that have been selling for over $200, raw, unslabbed, without variant covers or signatures

Here are the comics published within the last thirty years that have been burning up the top of the charts and selling over $200. All raw copies, no

There's nothing a comic book speculator loves more these days than a new issue number one. With Chew, Morning Glories, Nonplayer and more in their

Nothing can quicken the heart than the prospect of making a quick flutter at the comic store, picking up the last few copies of a gem, then flipping them

The standard cover for Fatale #1 from Image Comics has just successfully sold for $9.75 plus $3.95 shipping The standard cover Prophet #21 from Image

The backbone of the success of the DC Relaunch was the publisher offering retailers incentives to order more of the comics, so they could be easily bought

UPDATE: Now with added Rob Liefeld variant and original cover, in their street trade dress. Over the last few years, there has been a rule for speculating

A couple of weeks ago a CGC slabbed signed Chew #1 9.8 sold for $909 on eBay. Was it a complete and total fluke? No, no it wasn't. This week a copy of

We ran a couple of pieces on the limited edition Joe Jusko CGC slabbed 9.8 cover to Boom's Valen The Outcast #1, how they printed 500 but burnt most of

Valen The Outcast #1 is published by Boom! tomorrow. It comes with a 1-in-200 variant for the first issue featuring a Joe Jusko cover. Basically, if you

When DC took the reins of the top slot on the sales charts for the first time in years due to the launch of the New 52, they also took over the back issue

Yesterday, we ran a list of modern comics breaking the $200 barrier. Now we set our sights a little lower to the still-impressive $100 successful sale

Here are nine comic books published in the last thirty years that are currently breaking the $200 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase

You know those DC New 52 first prints that go for a little too much money on eBay? Well, the price have been falling a little this week. Like Animal Man

Yesterday a copy of the Hastings cover variant to the Star Trek/Legion Of Superheroes crossover from IDW sold for over $75 on eBay. Yet there are still

It's a superhero comic written by a rising star in the industry. Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov told the NYCC today that he's spent ten times as long on each

Bleeding Cool broke the story of the details of one Strange Talent Of Luther Strode by Justin Jordan and Tradd Moore earlier in the year. And yesterday it