adults weren't interested in things like NES or 80's toys back then so there's a genuine rarity to finding a pristine boxed GI JOE headquarters or NES games in their plastic packaging. we as kids were abusing the fuck out of that stuff and didn't save boxes.
if everyone is buying this shit now in the hope that it'll be valuable it'll likely end up like all those people who bought baseball cards as an investment which are now mostly worthless because everyone was doing the same.
Same shit with first edition and other rare issues of comics, they were considered slightly above disposable so the earlier you get the more of a chance it is that the average reader would just have shoved their issue in the bottom of a damp cardboard box to decay in. Then collecting started hitting its stride so companies cashed in with special edition covers and constantly relaunching comic runs to have more #1's, but most are probably only slightly above average in value now.
I think I read someone talking about how with all the variants between the publisher and vendor commissioned variant covers you can have like a dozen versions of the same issue, complete nonsense shit going on.
Comics have lots of variants now but I don't know if most people are buying them for future resale value. They just look cool and sometimes you might be a fan of the particular who is making the variant so you might request for that one.
adults weren't interested in things like NES or 80's toys back then so there's a genuine rarity to finding a pristine boxed GI JOE headquarters or NES games in their plastic packaging. we as kids were abusing the fuck out of that stuff and didn't save boxes.
if everyone is buying this shit now in the hope that it'll be valuable it'll likely end up like all those people who bought baseball cards as an investment which are now mostly worthless because everyone was doing the same.
Same shit with first edition and other rare issues of comics, they were considered slightly above disposable so the earlier you get the more of a chance it is that the average reader would just have shoved their issue in the bottom of a damp cardboard box to decay in. Then collecting started hitting its stride so companies cashed in with special edition covers and constantly relaunching comic runs to have more #1's, but most are probably only slightly above average in value now.
I think I read someone talking about how with all the variants between the publisher and vendor commissioned variant covers you can have like a dozen versions of the same issue, complete nonsense shit going on.
Comics have lots of variants now but I don't know if most people are buying them for future resale value. They just look cool and sometimes you might be a fan of the particular who is making the variant so you might request for that one.