Category: Key Issues

by Doug Ohlandt | May 2, 2024

We’re back with another look at our Chartbusters! These are the comics that sold for the highest price over the past thirty days, and the April 7 Heritage auction dominates the charts.

by Don | April 28, 2024

Early in 2022, when the comic book market began a two-year long correction after the biggest boom in its history, some collectors said we should "buy the dip." Unfortunately, buying the dip turned out to be more like "catching a falling knife."

by Doug Ohlandt | April 22, 2024

Undervalued and Overlooked Comics is back! This is where we identify comics that are either currently lower in value than they could be, aren’t as well known in the collector market, or both. So, let’s get started with a few oddities from DC in the Silver Age. 

by Ryan Kirksey | April 13, 2024

Analyzing the Hottest Silver Age Comics of the last 30 days, we may be beginning to see a trend emerging from some highly-anticipated upcoming DCEU and MCU properties, such as Deadman. Many of these on-screen adventures are still quite a ways out, but smart investors are starting to invest in some of the books...

by Doug Ohlandt | April 10, 2024

 In 1955, to get around the newly created Comics Code Authority, EC Comics shifted their comic Mad to a magazine format. The irreverent magazine that threw tomatoes at just about everything would remain in publication for more than 60 years. Let’s take a look at the key issues of Mad in the magazine format that...

by Doug Ohlandt | April 8, 2024

One area of focus in comic collecting that has been overlooked since other forms of media began to have such a great influence on the hobby is that of hunting down key comics by top creators. This time we’re looking at the works of Dave Stevens.

by Doug Ohlandt | April 2, 2024

On March 19, a 6.5 graded copy of Detective Comics #27 sold in a ComicConnect auction for $1,825,088. That’s the highest price paid for Batman’s first appearance in any grade. What does this tell us about trends for this book and do we see those trends in other early Batman keys? 

by Joseph Overaitis | March 31, 2024

Did you miss us GoCollect universe? The GoCollect writers missed all of you. In the down time the writing team was very busy. Articles were researched. Events were documented. Conventions were attended.

by chubellcomics | March 31, 2024

It's been a year since Part 1, which means all the Disney-Marvel variant covers have been released, and Mickey Mouse is in the public domain.

by Matt Tuck | March 29, 2024

At long last, the Teen Titans are getting their own movie, and that has serious investment implications.