My Comic Book Collection is Worth HALF of What I Paid

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[Paul_in_mich]

I collect what I like, but always try to get a good price on it. I think half the fun of collecting is the hunt to find something. I have several full runs ( Spiderman, Web of Spiderman, Flash vol2, etc ) that I know I'd probably lose money on them if I sold them, but it was the fun of going places, meeting new people, tracking things down was well worth it. To me it's a hobby, and any hobby costs money.

[SamuraiKidMusic]

I spent prob over 4-5k on university textbooks over the years....all worthless now haha

[stevechow]

You have a great video here because you are being honest, helpful and transparent, so unlike most others' postings. Most ppl want to only show their successful stories and make sure they "look good". Your sharing I'm sure was not fun to do, but as a seasoned comic fan, I appreciate your story.

[danielcochran]

I got lucky, I sold my Avengers 1, Marvel Spotlight 5, F.F 49 to name a few if about 15 books I sold I the height of pandem collector boom. I have since reacquired them all back but made 10 grand more than the total cost of biying them back. It was pure luck ( needed to finance a new front deck) just turned out that I sold at a peak we wont see again for a long time.

[uglyewok]

I wouldn’t worry about loses really. If generational amnesia occurs as I suspect… Bronze Age thru modern may be worthless quicker than we know. We will all be facing the reality of a generation that cares little for old paper. As the years draw on, memory of the good old days of the MCU fade… we will be facing true generational wipeout of perceived value of old comic books. I see a day when comics are a novelty of a bygone age… maybe hanging up decorating the wall of some nostalgia themed restaurant.

[spful]

Thanks for being so transparent its tough to look back at something you invested in and have taken a loss I sure havent taken account yet. But in the process of paring down and will for sure take a huge hit

[spinnerrackstudios]

Good video -- appreciate your honesty. Not many on Youtube can admit to these mistakes. I would reiterate that PATIENCE is probably the most important virtue in this hobby. Regarding buying new books off the shelf: my hold slot is very limited at my LCS. They are part of my entertainment budget and nothing more. I view my relatively minimal new comic purchases like I do seeing a movie or buying a novel to read -- money spent that I will never recoup. Thankfully, I never got caught up in chasing the 9.8 game. I could go on about how silly investing in 9.8 moderns is, starting with there is no discernable difference between a 9.8 and 9.6.

[yolobro.]

Appreciate the honesty stickygoose, I think many of us have a similar comic collecting journey, so could really relate. Thanks!

[BrianStaal-ns]

I love your honesty and humility. I now subscribe to your channel.

[ScoutReaper-znrz]

I go to the same comic shop I did when I was 12 years old and I'm 41 now. Everything I bought was done so at cover price. I have never purchased a comic outside of the shop with a few online exceptions and I've never bought slabbed comics nor had any of mine slabbed. I complete full runs and not just keys. Soon I will sell off some full runs I didn't like to get back issues I'm missing for other titles.

[Rydonittelo]

collecting comic books isn't always about financial investment. I collect silverage, bronze age books the same way as someone who collects vinyl records. I love taking care of them, displaying them, taking great care to bag and board them and amateur grade them myself. I probably have about 300 silver age comics and shelves upon shelves of TPBs. When I go into a an independent comic shop it reminds me of what old music shops were like. Honestly, some days I'll just unbag some of my favourite books from.the 60s and 70s and just admire them.

[DeusExAstra]

Watching this video, it makes me think that a lot of people learned nothing from the 90's comic book crash. Buying new books thinking it's an "investment" is just dumb. Comics are a disposable buy. You buy them to read and that's where your money goes. It's like paying money to watch a movie. That money is gone. You keep the comic to re-read later and for sentimental reasons, and that's the way you should think about it. Only sometimes do comics become valuable, but usually because they are old and/or rare. Everything else is pure gambling (oh, sorry, I mean "speculation"). I still have all my comics from my youth because I kept them in meticulous condition so I could read them over and over and maybe, maybe... maybe one day a few of them might be worth something. At that point, I'd leave them to my kids. That's the way I think about it, and it's worked out well for me. I have some comics that are actually worth something, but if I had been everything that came out hoping to make money in a year or two... I'd be broke long ago.

[mekanix]

I collect comics for the love of it . I don't collect looking to profit from it.

[BronzeAgeBryon]

Brutally honest my friend. Great advice for people who LOVE this hobby. Thanks for sharing. I'm at the crossroads of maintaining my pull list or dropping it entirely. Good news is that I only collect what I read. So I'm not chasing any spec books upon release. But as you say with new books costing $4 - $7 each they are like a car driven off the lot in value in the days and weeks after release. So it's getting increasingly hard to justify buying floppy copies. Which makes me sad since I LOVE my LCS and enjoy being around comics and comic shops.

[rodnicker]

I think a lot of collectors are right there with you. I knew there was going to be a correction in pricing from 2021 and that the economy was going to take a turn for the worse. However, I still started doing a lot of buying in mid-2022 thinking the prices wouldn't drop much lower than they had already (I was very wrong). I am now very upside down on many key and blue chip books including Hulk 181, Amazing Spiderman #1 and #129 to name just a few. I am into collecting and not into flipping, so I am into this for the long haul. Hopefully, things will get better, it just may take 10 years or more.

[philipsatterthwaite]

I appreciate your honesty as someone getting back into the hobby after 15 years or so.

[lafanfarlo]

It's better to spend $4 on a pre-ordered book that you'll enjoy than miss out and having to spend several hundred dollars to get back on track. The best collections are often built on simple happenstance.

[Xstormrage]

2 separate thoughts, 1 stay away from influencers n key collector, it’s basically a pump n dump, cause it’s funny how they magically have the books that jump to sell on eBay n whatnot. Buy cold n smart and ask yourself where will this book be in 5 or 10 years. 2ndly currently I wouldn’t call you a collector but an investor. You don’t talk like a collector when you complyabout making runs n complaining about the value or price paid. There’s a fine line between the two and I would say you don’t care about collecting anymore but the value of your collection and what you can get from it, there’s no comic love in that

[jacobbornowsky]

Thanks for the video sticky goose! I remember a lot of these influencers with huge comic hauls every week during the pandemic boom and I think back know and realize 1. These people lost thier asses on all those books 2. Did this person just Recommend buying this book at its absolute height!!….. a lot of these people still make videos and give advice..having no clue what they are talking about with the comic market.

[HeroicAge]

This sucks dude sorry to hear that. The way I collect I consider every dollar I spend on comics is a dollar burned forever, and I’m never unhappy. FOMO sucks but I made extremely strict rules for what books I can buy and it keeps my collection based on what I want and not what is worth money.