Month: September 2018

Each week Anthony from www.comicsheatingup.net puts out a video talking about the new comic releases for the week. Here is this week’s for delivery 8/5/18: Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for September 5, 2018”

The Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List is a great speculator tool. It shows what books retailers are going back to get more of, in advance of their release. They are actually putting their money up betting these books get big. These are the books people are talking about in shops, message boards, and websites. Here is the Diamond Comics Advance for 9/3/18: Continue reading “Diamond Comics Top 25 Advance Reorder Comics for September 3, 2018”

Love them or hate them but store exclusives are here for the time being. One of the nice things is, some stores put out inexpensive variant. In this case, a cover priced one. Babs Tarr, most notable for her many DC covers, is doing an exclusive for the upcoming Stranger Things comic.  Continue reading “Inexpensive Variant Alert: Babs Tarr Covers Stranger Things #1”

What up CHUllectors!?! Shawn B. the One Year Later Investigator, back with another One Year Later round up, where we take a look at some of the comics that Anthony, Mel, and Poyo specced on one year ago. Their specs turn out to be quick flips, slow burns, straight up misses, straight up winners and on and on. Sometimes they spec with their hearts out of their passion for comics. Sometimes they spec based on data. And sometimes they spec based off the word on the street. Either way, all their specs appeal to a few or many collectors whether it is due to them having similar taste in writing or art, or just an opportunity for a collector to flip a book and make money to “support their habit”. So, this is our weekly chance to look back at how some of our buys from a year ago are doing today. Continue reading “One Year Later: Spec Review for 8/30/17”