Episode 72: Rarity of Mint
Mint comics are harder to find than you might think of, at first. It’s no wonder — they have to go through a lot of hands to get to yours. It’s a miracle any comic isn’t marked with spine tics, depressions, and folds. That contributes to their high values, which aren’t really as unreasonable as you might think.
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Boy, that takes me back. All of a sudden it’s 1993 again and I’m browsing through the Wizard magazine Price guide in the shop… Ah the days of the Kightfall / Death of Superman era, full of pristine Silver Foil embossed armbands, or something :p
From my perspective, CGC is a scam for rich ignorant gullible “investors”, now that regular Joes have been kicked out of the habit the hard way in the nineties. That trend drove me out of floppy collecting and back into proper books, after many a facepalm.
Of course BD is not exempt from some of this, we have our price guide, the infamous BDM, but we’re not so insane as to slab books so you can’t read them anymore. What made sense, sorta, for baseball cards and coins, makes none of it for comics. I do have a couple of friends who used to scroll through whole bookshelves at the store every week in a military fashion until they found the unicorn volume which survived the whole process you described and still be unscathed. Suffice is to say that there were not many of those… I never bought a book thinking about the resale value, so I guess my mind is not wired that way.