i've been collecting for almost a year now and i gotta say, the hobby is so fun collecting some of my favorite characters. it's always fun to watch these kind of videos. all of this information is spot on.
Great tips and insights as always! Thanks for the inspirational video, Bry! Btw, do you have a preferred inventory and pricing app/program for your collection/business; i.e. GoCollect, CLZ, etc?
I really liked the bit about , "there will always be another" . In my 40 years of collecting comics I have missed out on one issue that I have never seen come up again. Whilst it bugs me a bit , ONE in 40 years is pretty great.
Great tips, thank you! As someone who recently got back into comics, I appreciate the words of wisdom and constantly remind myself that this hobby is about collecting what you love. I'll have no regrets, no matter what I buy or sell, if I do that alone.
Preach it! These are amazing tips to live by for comic book collectors. It's a long journey for everyone and it's best taken with patience and love (much like everything else in life!). Thanks for the video.
Great stuff bro! It’s definitely a good idea to be patient. About a year ago, I was looking to buy a CGC 9.8 of one of my favorite comics. At the time, it was priced out of my budget. From time to time, I checked in one the going price. About 10 months later, I scored one for 80% less! 👍🏾😀
Great tips. If I can just add one: make friends..seek out really nice like-minded collectors for help and advice with your collection. And avoid sketchiness at all costs!!
I can tell everyone that this is solid advise!! It took me 30 years of patience to get the right price on my Fantastic Four #1 & #5. Glad I got them when I did at the prices I paid! They are my grails and the icing on my complete run!
Great tips, as always. Collect what you love is something you've said multiple times, and for sure I follow that one! I also like the tip about not imposing rules on yourself...I think I started that way when I got back into this last fall. And lastly, for sure pounce on those CBCS discounts sometimes! If it's for the PC then heck, why not? By the way, nice 10 gem mint on that Edge of Spiderverse!!
I've collected since I was a kid. The 70s had been great to me. My best books are coming out of my own collection. Golden, Silver and bronze keys, they are all there, I also including the ones in between. Great advise. Be flexible and patient.
lol, I'm literally the guy trying to collect all 5.0 ow/w tasm keys. I love the hunt to get my collection with them all in the same grade and love it. Thanks for the tips.
I recently started collecting again after years of not buying because of the high costs of collecting. I don't care about investment or condition as long as it is complete. I love the artform and always have. I limit myself to only buy comics that are one dollar or less and am having a blast. Buying at that price is addictive though, I've spent over 2k in the last couple months and need to slow down. LOL
Hindsight is 20/20…and I wish I had these Tips in 2020😜…particularly “Be Patient.” It’s been a fun journey with you Bry and I appreciate your dedication to your craft. Keep grinding bro!✌️
The only rules that makes sense to me, Bry either alluded to or directly stated, and are the ones that should inform the comic collecting community as a whole: 1: Do it because you love it. 2. Comic collecting is NOT the stock market and defining the hobby by it leads to speculation - when comic collecting is like the stock market, SPECULATION will lead to similar results (please see EVERY recession in recent memory and the results speculative greed causes, like COLLAPSE of the housing market, etc...) 3. Something is worth what someone is willing to reasonably pay for it - it should be, and only be, the LOVE comic book readers/collectors/etc... Have for a particular book/character/storyline that Determines. Its. Value. All that said, basing "value" on movie appearances, or characters and stories being adapted into seperate media other than comic books themselves is the whole problem. Case in point: saw a vid recently where the recent interest in the "Ruins" storyline was shit on - where comic sellers were urging people NOT to generate value for a really interesting and beautiful book - and even if they didnt realize it - basically were doing so because THEY passed on it being a big deal years ago, there weren't enough graded copies on the census, etc and i.e. THEY didnt have the book to sell to you so you shouldnt buy it AT ALL. Does that make sense to anyone? Comic books that people wanted to collect used to consistently increase in value over the years long before the 89 Batman movie led to SPECULATION and the comic book industry as a whole ALMOST BEING DESTROYED/CEASING TO EXIST AS AN AVAILABLE MEDIA - it functioned this way for far longer than the current "stock market/get rich" method its morphed into, and did so almost solely based on a character's import to their home universe/publisher, the relative rarity (and yes, rarity IS STILL A VALID FACTOR - might be 3500 Amazing Fantasy 15s on the census, but along with the cracks and resubmits, how many of that number are 9.0 and higher... See what I'm saying...) of a book, if a particular issue contained an event that was significant to the overarching story of either certain characters or their world as a whole... I guess in summary what I'm trying to say is this: comic dealers/sellers are the only ones who. Make. Money. via comics - us collectors either get lucky or have to work exceptionally hard, spending LOTS of time and money paying attention and aquiring as many books as we can, knowing one or a few of the bunch might turn out to be a diamond in the rough - however, if ANYONE involved starts hyping a book, doing their absolute best to inflate and drive up the potential value, guaranteed THEY are the only ones who are going to "dump their stock" at the perfect moment, and we all end up holding the empty bag. P.S. Anyone into comics for the money/as a means to "invest" in the future/etc... Here's a quick observation based on a nearly 40 year interest in, and with the majority of those years actively buying books: back in the late 80's I bought a run of mid to high grade ASMs raw - issues 56 - 60 - for 70 bucks each. Last time I checked, those books have basically the same exact value now 30 years later. Based on inflation alone, they should be worth more... But they aren't... Because their value in comic circles are no longer based on what lent to their value before... And more importantly, because concepts like "inflation", "economy", "investments", etc... Don't really apply - they apply to MONEY. Id go on about how the concept of money itself is absurd and needs to go if we're... Ever... Goin... Listen to me ramblin' - that's a story for another day - I guess for now its 'Nuff. Said.
Bro i'm pretty new to comics, But let me tell you, I'm all in LOL. The problem I'm having is Now I want to collect everything I see, Virgin covers, Star Wars, Spider man speculative comics and anything else that attracts my attention lol Only problem is I don't have that much money or space. LOLI have to definitely exercise more restraint moving forward brother. Thanks for all your insight you've been a big help.
Your videos and advice are absolutely the best on UA-cam. I've recently opened my own comic book business on eBay and someday hope to expand to my own website. A store front in California is a little out of my reach. But I never miss one of you videos. Keep up the awesome work.
Def have more money! All joking aside; just started collecting and have made up mind to only collect slabs. What should my first 5 books be under $300 each???
@@Swamp-Bat If you want to read the book, collect raw comics and read them. If you're collecting for value, slabbed comics will appreciate more in value (for the most part) because they're graded.
Great tips. I was always someone that bought what l loved so lots of x-men, x-factor and LoSH. My only regret is collecting every single issue of anything ultimates related but stopping when vol 2 Ult spiderman ended. I thoughg the new spiderman was a gimmick becuase of Ultimatum. I was 4 issues away from having Ult fallot 4
Great tips Bry. I might add that when one sells a book for substantially less than what one paid for you can write off the loss which helps offset the profits one earns from other sales. Who could have known that Bry’s comments were slowly turning into a tax and accounting tips advice column? 😂
Believe it or not, I bought a CGC 9.4 copy of Star Wars #1 (1977) a couple years ago and didn't realize that the label said "white to off-white pages" for at least a year later. Once a book is slabbed, it really doesn't matter (to me). Of course, given a choice of a "white pages" or "off-white pages" copy, with the grade and price being equal, I'll go with the white pages copy. But I wouldn't turn my nose up to an off-white copy.
100% agree I been doing most of tips on this list and it’s been working for me my only problem is I been to focus on silver age I need to expand to bronze and copper I just don’t know where to start
Patience: finally found a raw mint copy of Saga 1 first print for $90. Been looking at it online for years. I went into a shop out of state yesterday and it was just sitting there. I wasn’t planning on spending $100 but it was too good a deal to pass on.
Your tips are essentially spot-on. The tip about imposing rules on yourself is more poignant than people realize, *especially* when forcing a rule leads to ill-advised decisions.
Tip 4! Yeah, we have all been there. You kinda have to separate the emotion and the disappointment out of that situation, and that can be a hard hurdle to get over. Sometimes we make the hobby harder than it has to be.
Sound advice. Funny thing about the brittle page example is that not a whole lot matters once the book is plasticized. The grade often references defects that no one will ever see, like a loose centerfold or a missing value stamp. You can't even look into the damn thing. There is a common trope online that people collect comics to impress or trump other people and their collections. I don't believe this is remotely true except maybe among people who live to be liked on the internet
Patience is the most important key in this hobby 👍🏻
Good information to have
Great video. I must agree, having bought from you, you are more than reasonable when it comes to pricing. I recommend you to all my friends.
Many thanks my friend!
i've been collecting for almost a year now and i gotta say, the hobby is so fun collecting some of my favorite characters. it's always fun to watch these kind of videos. all of this information is spot on.
Awesome tips. I overpayed on alot of books but it's the collecting and the hunt that makes it fun.
"Collect what you love", great advice, all your tips were awesome, love the analogies, stories, and your collection.
Yeah, great advice. Most of us learn the hard way. Thanks for helping us move forward.
Great tips and insights as always! Thanks for the inspirational video, Bry! Btw, do you have a preferred inventory and pricing app/program for your collection/business; i.e. GoCollect, CLZ, etc?
Pricing I use GPA…no preference on catalog apps…
@BrysComics 👍 Thanks!
That last part, the bloopers.... I freaking love it 🤣🤣
I really liked the bit about , "there will always be another" . In my 40 years of collecting comics I have missed out on one issue that I have never seen come up again. Whilst it bugs me a bit , ONE in 40 years is pretty great.
Gotta ask - what was the one that got away?
Great tips, thank you! As someone who recently got back into comics, I appreciate the words of wisdom and constantly remind myself that this hobby is about collecting what you love. I'll have no regrets, no matter what I buy or sell, if I do that alone.
So true
👏👏👏
Tip #1. Have more money.
And space lol
Tip #2: see tip no. 1
Lots of money.
Appreciate how honest you are on EVERYTHING and how you break it all down! Never quit man, we need more people like you
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As a beginner I appreciate your tips. Easy to get into FOMO with all the information out there.
Waiting for a good deal is a large part of collecting. Knowing when to buy is another key. Great infotmation.
Thanks for the tips! Just started collecting comics a few month ago!
Preach it! These are amazing tips to live by for comic book collectors. It's a long journey for everyone and it's best taken with patience and love (much like everything else in life!). Thanks for the video.
Great LOGICAL tips for a hobby we LOVE.
There is ONE rule I impose on myself...to always watch Bry's videos. Informative as usual. Thanks!
Great tips. Another helpful video. My favorite tip was Collect what you Love! Thank you
Great stuff bro! It’s definitely a good idea to be patient. About a year ago, I was looking to buy a CGC 9.8 of one of my favorite comics. At the time, it was priced out of my budget. From time to time, I checked in one the going price. About 10 months later, I scored one for 80% less! 👍🏾😀
Spreading your wisdom yet again. Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Great tips. If I can just add one: make friends..seek out really nice like-minded collectors for help and advice with your collection. And avoid sketchiness at all costs!!
Great tip!
I can tell everyone that this is solid advise!! It took me 30 years of patience to get the right price on my Fantastic Four #1 & #5. Glad I got them when I did at the prices I paid! They are my grails and the icing on my complete run!
One of your best videos to date. Cheers!
Great tips, as always. Collect what you love is something you've said multiple times, and for sure I follow that one! I also like the tip about not imposing rules on yourself...I think I started that way when I got back into this last fall. And lastly, for sure pounce on those CBCS discounts sometimes! If it's for the PC then heck, why not? By the way, nice 10 gem mint on that Edge of Spiderverse!!
I've collected since I was a kid. The 70s had been great to me. My best books are coming out of my own collection. Golden, Silver and bronze keys, they are all there, I also including the ones in between. Great advise. Be flexible and patient.
Thanks for the video Bry! Miss you on WhatNot.
I’ll be back soon!
Thank you so much for this information 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Honesty about the comic biz...rare. Thanks Bry
heritage has some nice outliers during the GA auctions
Great advice, I collect for my personal collection of enjoyment so tip 6 is totally right on
These are great tips. I like these videos that Brys does. They help me out with my collection. Thanks for the info bro.
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Thanks for the tips Bry. Good advice.
I appreciate your pricing philosophy. It helps us as collectors find a fair price.
lol, I'm literally the guy trying to collect all 5.0 ow/w tasm keys. I love the hunt to get my collection with them all in the same grade and love it. Thanks for the tips.
Ouch!! Taunting me with the Walking Dead black label!! Great advice. Thanks for all the wonderful videos!
I recently started collecting again after years of not buying because of the high costs of collecting. I don't care about investment or condition as long as it is complete. I love the artform and always have. I limit myself to only buy comics that are one dollar or less and am having a blast. Buying at that price is addictive though, I've spent over 2k in the last couple months and need to slow down. LOL
Some great advice Bry! Good vid as always
All good tips there my man -you have some nice books there on that wall
Thx Bry. I'm new to collecting, and it can be a little overwhelming with all the insensitive covers, and exclusives.
I would steer clear of insensitive covers altogether, people should just be nice…kidding 😜
I’m pretty new to collecting, so thanks for the advice
Thanks for the tips...very informative!
Hindsight is 20/20…and I wish I had these Tips in 2020😜…particularly “Be Patient.” It’s been a fun journey with you Bry and I appreciate your dedication to your craft. Keep grinding bro!✌️
The only rules that makes sense to me, Bry either alluded to or directly stated, and are the ones that should inform the comic collecting community as a whole:
1: Do it because you love it.
2. Comic collecting is NOT the stock market and defining the hobby by it leads to speculation - when comic collecting is like the stock market, SPECULATION will lead to similar results (please see EVERY recession in recent memory and the results speculative greed causes, like COLLAPSE of the housing market, etc...)
3. Something is worth what someone is willing to reasonably pay for it - it should be, and only be, the LOVE comic book readers/collectors/etc... Have for a particular book/character/storyline that Determines. Its. Value.
All that said, basing "value" on movie appearances, or characters and stories being adapted into seperate media other than comic books themselves is the whole problem. Case in point: saw a vid recently where the recent interest in the "Ruins" storyline was shit on - where comic sellers were urging people NOT to generate value for a really interesting and beautiful book - and even if they didnt realize it - basically were doing so because THEY passed on it being a big deal years ago, there weren't enough graded copies on the census, etc and i.e. THEY didnt have the book to sell to you so you shouldnt buy it AT ALL. Does that make sense to anyone?
Comic books that people wanted to collect used to consistently increase in value over the years long before the 89 Batman movie led to SPECULATION and the comic book industry as a whole ALMOST BEING DESTROYED/CEASING TO EXIST AS AN AVAILABLE MEDIA - it functioned this way for far longer than the current "stock market/get rich" method its morphed into, and did so almost solely based on a character's import to their home universe/publisher, the relative rarity (and yes, rarity IS STILL A VALID FACTOR - might be 3500 Amazing Fantasy 15s on the census, but along with the cracks and resubmits, how many of that number are 9.0 and higher... See what I'm saying...) of a book, if a particular issue contained an event that was significant to the overarching story of either certain characters or their world as a whole...
I guess in summary what I'm trying to say is this: comic dealers/sellers are the only ones who. Make. Money. via comics - us collectors either get lucky or have to work exceptionally hard, spending LOTS of time and money paying attention and aquiring as many books as we can, knowing one or a few of the bunch might turn out to be a diamond in the rough - however, if ANYONE involved starts hyping a book, doing their absolute best to inflate and drive up the potential value, guaranteed THEY are the only ones who are going to "dump their stock" at the perfect moment, and we all end up holding the empty bag.
P.S. Anyone into comics for the money/as a means to "invest" in the future/etc... Here's a quick observation based on a nearly 40 year interest in, and with the majority of those years actively buying books: back in the late 80's I bought a run of mid to high grade ASMs raw - issues 56 - 60 - for 70 bucks each. Last time I checked, those books have basically the same exact value now 30 years later. Based on inflation alone, they should be worth more... But they aren't... Because their value in comic circles are no longer based on what lent to their value before... And more importantly, because concepts like "inflation", "economy", "investments", etc... Don't really apply - they apply to MONEY. Id go on about how the concept of money itself is absurd and needs to go if we're... Ever... Goin...
Listen to me ramblin' - that's a story for another day - I guess for now its
'Nuff. Said.
Bro i'm pretty new to comics, But let me tell you, I'm all in LOL. The problem I'm having is Now I want to collect everything I see, Virgin covers, Star Wars, Spider man speculative comics and anything else that attracts my attention lol Only problem is I don't have that much money or space. LOLI have to definitely exercise more restraint moving forward brother. Thanks for all your insight you've been a big help.
Begin with the end in mind my friend
asm 1-50 imo
Thanks for sharing your insight. Enjoy your videos.
What cover is the Powerman and Iron Fist slab that is on the wall?
Very good points, thanks for sharing!
Great insights, Bry. I collect what I like and forge my own path. Happy to get more books from you in the future.
Well done sir!
I have a huge problem with FOMO. I am worked ng on it though.
Good stuff today! I try to look at good deals outside my collection goals to trade for books I really want.
Important rules to guide you at any point in time or market
Your videos and advice are absolutely the best on UA-cam. I've recently opened my own comic book business on eBay and someday hope to expand to my own website. A store front in California is a little out of my reach. But I never miss one of you videos. Keep up the awesome work.
Awesome man, best of luck!
Sage advice from big brother Bry 💯
As an older collector, I can tell you that those are definitely good tips and ones I have to constantly remind myself of.
Thanks for the tip Brys!!
Be patient is probably the best advice in this hobby
Really great insight as always dude!
Oh man. I don’t want to sell it price. Good advice. Thank you. I’ve done that. This was a good video.
Mile High Comics is an entire store of "I don't really want to sell it."
So weird
The owner actually brags about this. But then he's always running 50% to 60% off sales which does bring the prices more in line with the market.
Awesome tips, thank you!
Love this. Thank you!
Hey Bry you had a video where you wore a spiderman shirt with the Pat Gleason ASM 55 cover image. where did you snag that?
Great stuff as always!
Def have more money! All joking aside; just started collecting and have made up mind to only collect slabs. What should my first 5 books be under $300 each???
if you buy modern slabs i suggest 9.8s only
Just wondering but why do you prefer slabs to raw books?
@@Swamp-Bat I’m looking for long term investments; my impression is raw books are treated with more speculation than graded ones
@@Swamp-Bat If you want to read the book, collect raw comics and read them. If you're collecting for value, slabbed comics will appreciate more in value (for the most part) because they're graded.
Great tips. I was always someone that bought what l loved so lots of x-men, x-factor and LoSH. My only regret is collecting every single issue of anything ultimates related but stopping when vol 2 Ult spiderman ended. I thoughg the new spiderman was a gimmick becuase of Ultimatum. I was 4 issues away from having Ult fallot 4
Great tips Bry. I might add that when one sells a book for substantially less than what one paid for you can write off the loss which helps offset the profits one earns from other sales. Who could have known that Bry’s comments were slowly turning into a tax and accounting tips advice column? 😂
Believe it or not, I bought a CGC 9.4 copy of Star Wars #1 (1977) a couple years ago and didn't realize that the label said "white to off-white pages" for at least a year later. Once a book is slabbed, it really doesn't matter (to me). Of course, given a choice of a "white pages" or "off-white pages" copy, with the grade and price being equal, I'll go with the white pages copy. But I wouldn't turn my nose up to an off-white copy.
Great vid Bry! 🔥🔥🔥
Great tips Bry!
Thanks for the tips as always
As always really good advice.
100% agree I been doing most of tips on this list and it’s been working for me my only problem is I been to focus on silver age I need to expand to bronze and copper I just don’t know where to start
It can definitely be overwhelming…
imo id start bronze at hulk 181 😅
Patience: finally found a raw mint copy of Saga 1 first print for $90. Been looking at it online for years.
I went into a shop out of state yesterday and it was just sitting there. I wasn’t planning on spending $100 but it was too good a deal to pass on.
Perfect example! And now it’s that much sweeter to own…
I'll take some of that advice. :)
Your tips are essentially spot-on. The tip about imposing rules on yourself is more poignant than people realize, *especially* when forcing a rule leads to ill-advised decisions.
Tip 4! Yeah, we have all been there. You kinda have to separate the emotion and the disappointment out of that situation, and that can be a hard hurdle to get over. Sometimes we make the hobby harder than it has to be.
I was very lucky to purchase a raw copy of Fantastic Four 48. It was on sale. It was kind of expensive but worth it 🤙🤙
Some great tips. Collect what you love
What is the book on the top row, to the right of the two Tales to Astonish books, and to the left of the SIKTC ones?
Bry’s Comics W0RLDTR33 #1 CGC 10!
@@BrysComics Thanks for the reply. It looks great! Might try to find one of those for myself :)
Nice tips Bry!
Thanks for the tips!
You are the most educated comic book guy of all time!!!!
What book is the 5th on the top left? and 6th on top left?
Great tips. Could probably add a tip on cons (maybe along the lines of the not overpaying)
👍
Thanks, Good info.
You’re a man that lives by rules! I think that’s a quote from a movie 😆 great vid great tips
In my experience the key is Patience, research and been mindful of the budget😂
Super valuable and “rare” advice
Great advice…. 🙏👍
Great info!!
Yeah... patience is my problem... which affects my money... and bigger keys. Lol. Great video!!!
Good info thanks
Great advice
Sound advice. Funny thing about the brittle page example is that not a whole lot matters once the book is plasticized.
The grade often references defects that no one will ever see, like a loose centerfold or a missing value stamp. You can't even look into the damn thing.
There is a common trope online that people collect comics to impress or trump other people and their collections.
I don't believe this is remotely true except maybe among people who live to be liked on the internet
Patience yes very important
This was a really good video.
Cool comic covers
All solid advice!