Comic Book Collectors; Nerdy Geeks or Shrewd Investors?

Back in the days of my youth (what, several millennia ago?), I adored reading comic books. And so did a lot of my friends. Whenever we had an extra dime or sometimes a quarter, we could run up to the local small town grocery and spend several really happy times at the comic book rack.

We would-be even as go out and find small odds jobs for pocket change, which was enough then to purchase 2 or 3 nice flights of adventure and fantasy. I can even as remember creep under our home to retrieve a cat that had the misfortune of dying there. My Dad couldn't stomach the smell and enticed my friend and I to accomplish the duty for ample pocket change. We braved the spiders and different crawly creatures to retrieve and bury the unfortunate cat. Not long after that, we were the proud owners of yet, several more intriguing comic books. Even as the local bully (who was actually a pretty nice guy) would-be purchase our worn out or unwanted magazines for far more than they were worth, so we could purchase new ones.

I didn't cognize more simply about aggregation then. I simply likeable saving what I enjoyed. I had a large cardboard box that I unbroken under my bed, filled with all my little treasures. I didn't realize that I had the beginnings of what could have been thing really lucrative. In later years once I headed off to college, I dragged my large cardboard box with me. At one point in time, I left most of my belongings in the charge of what I thought were trustworthy friends. Once I returned from my forest firefighting adventures, my box full of magazines were no wherever to be found. And uncalled-for to say, were my trustworthy friends either. Others had seen the value in what I had and wanted it for themselves. Oh well, live and learn. That limited collection of comic books and different magazines would-be have been worth a small fortune today.

Are there big bucks in the comic book genre? Simply look at what Hollywood has been up to for the last few decades. As far as I can tell, the actually big blockbusters started back in 1978 with the release of Superman, The Movie. And since then there has been comic book hero after comic book hero to hit the silver screen. And they all do tons of money. The Hollywood moguls may or may not be "into" the genre, but the can smell large profits. And these kinds of profits aren't harvested from a small out of touch with reality niche. It take large amount of individuals forking out 5 to 10 dollars a pop, to accumulate the astronomical profits that Hollywood is seeing these days. Individuals who may or may not want to admit their avid interest in comic book characters. I wish stand up and say, I enjoy look these movies and have even as started my own collection of comic book character DVDs. Who knows, mayhap several day my DVDs wish become as valuable as comic books. Probably not.

Although, not every individual's collection has magazines worth thousands of dollars, there are a sizable figure of collections that can be worth hundreds of thousands or even as millions of dollars. These are not folk that have lost touch with reality. A patch back, the actor, Saint Cage, put his comic book collection of simply about 400 magazines up for auction. Word was that he power have complete a value into seven figures. That ain't chicken feed.

It is not uncommon for single additions to be worth several hundred to several thousand dollars. Several comic books can enter the realm of several hundred thousand dollars for one magazine. Now the owners have to be several pretty rich economically savvy geeks. Are these the types of small niche individuals who have lost touch with reality or don't want to confess they like comic books? So the next time you hear being profess, yea I collect comic books, you may want to look inside yourself and say, how do I release my hidden passion and start aggregation myself?

Dave Gieber, a former rocket engineer, has definite to take up residency on the Internet. He is the owner and editor of several websites, one of which was built about one of his childhood passions; www.comic-book-collection-made-easy.com . You can visit here to support up to date on the earth of comic books and comic book collecting. Feel free to sign up for my comic book ezine.