Why are MARVEL COMIC CARDS exploding? Talking IMPEL UNIVERSE SERIES 1 2 & 3 - COMIC CARD INVEST PSA
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2021
- In this video I talk about the craze going on for MARVEL COMIC CARDS.
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Great video. Funny how collectibles that have been worthless for years are making such a huge comeback. Seems to be the graded factor is the reason, just like with comics. Getting that Gem Mint 10 makes that million print run a lot smaller.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out the video (love your channel). Yeah that's what's so interesting about the collectable market, you honestly just never know what's gonna pop off! And totally agree, everybody loves "Gem Mint" ;)
Love that Marvel Masterpiece video you did back in the day Gem and how you framed it, so awesome.
I was just about to link this video to you, Gem. I wonder if it's all Marvel cards, or just this set. Might be time to get your stuff graded 😆.
@@jasonw3479 all cards are up. I’ve been looking at mine and checking the centering. I have some strong Gem Mint contenders, but it’s expensive and take a long time to grade. Worries the hype might be down by then
@@Furrywallnutz thanks man! Love that set.
I loved the detailed info on the backs of the cards with the characters' power graphs and the "Did you know" sections. Recent Marvel Cards are hot too with original sketches and signatures 👍
Yeah me too. I used to LOVE reading that stuff :D
I gotta say....I watch your videos pretty often and I am so glad someone finally did one on marvel cards...this was my huge part of my nostalgia from when I was a kid and I just got back into it a few years ago so I can finally try to complete my collections....this was way more my jam than collecting comics as it was easier, cheaper and more enjoyable to me as I wasn’t much of a reader...though I do have a ton of comics as well which I have been collecting over the past 10 years and I literally have a high for this now, lol....it definitely warms the heart to know that my card collections are finally getting some praise....LONG LIVE SWAGGLEHAUS!
I would also like to add that...I really do think this will continue to last and grow even stronger for years to come...as long as Disney/Marvel keeps dominating with their epic movies.
hehe, I totally feel you on that. I was super into the cards and probably spent more time reading them than the actual comics when I was a kid. Part of me is happy to see them getting the respect they deserve, but I do think there will be a correction at some point. :P
Seems like the rush occurred after Gary Vee released a video saying that Marvel cards were underrated. I think that the market will cool off but I don't think it will totally crash.
Good call, I had that after I made the video and had to investigate. I didn't know who Gary Vee was but like you said he might have had some influence on it.
Great video! I found your video from Gem Mint. The card market is finally hitting its stride from all of the MCU buzz as well as people selling what they have to make money during the pandemic. I actually saw a Deadpool card (from X-Force #1) sell for $350 raw! I have a number of these cards and I plan on selling a few raw to enable me to start grading those cards as well as my old baseball/basketball cards.
I was heavy into collecting these comic book cards back in the 1990's. I wasn't expecting anything ever happening with them. I will go and look at them. It's been a long time since I've gone through them.
Thanks for this video.
Thanks for watching! Hope you find them and that they're in good condition. Let me know how the search goes for you.
I literally just found one of my little white cardboard card boxes and it has Terminator 2 cards and most of series one Marvel in sleeves. I was looking at it the other day.
@@stevefratus1546 Good to hear. I hope you have some good ones.
Wow! I learned something new today,never knew they made these cards, maybe because I’m older and was not young enough to collect or be aware that marvel produced them!!! Great show again
Thanks for checking out the video! Yeah from what I can tell these were only really popular among the 80's/90's kids. So make sense that you would have overlooked them.
I always wondered if I should start collecting marvel cards. Thanks for confirming my answer for me! I always hit the like button. 👍 have a great day friend!
Hehe, if you do decide to jump into it be sure to tread carefully! This market is crazy :P
Thanks for such an interesting video! I still have series 1-3 in the plastic card sleeves just like you. These were the things that first got me into comic book collecting.
So glad I saw this video! I have several unopened boxes of Series 2! Thanks for the video!
Wow nice! Those ones are being sold on eBay for like $800 a pop. Might be worth putting it on the market if you're will to part with them.
I grew up on these cards! I learned so much from the backs and the full page scene art was amazing! The card stock changed when the comics started to be printed on different stock as well.
I've been waiting for the right time to film my "Marvel Card Collection" video - I'm gonna take this as my sign to go for it 😉
Def the time! :D
Great vid - insightful. I was a teen in the early 90's and had a bunch of these cards. I just subscribed.
Thanks for checking out the channel! Glad you like the video. :D
Great info, I have a couple of sets, bunch of extra's, a few of the holgrams and other years like Fleer Ultra. Didn't even know they were going up. Sweet!
Oh nice! Fingers crossed they're all in great condition ;)
Great video , you explained pretty much everything we need to know , thanks for posting
Great job with this one, man! Now I'm pondering if I should send some of mine in too! lol.
Haha thanks! Yeah its a mad rush to get them graded, I'm hearing people saying its gonna take up to 6 months! I also think PSA is going to grade SUPER harsh with the influx of cards.
UA-cam recommended something good! Glad I found your channel. I sold a few series 2 & 3 sets a few months back and was surprised at the selling price. I have series 1-4 and cannot see sending any of the cards in to be graded. I have submitted comics to CGC and did well, but I do not have the confidence and experience with trading cards to risk the possible letdown of getting even high 9s for that cost of grading. Maybe when the market settles and we see the values of 9.8, 9.6, etc. to make that leap when they don't hit gem mint.
Thanks so much for checking it out. Glad you like it. That sounds like a good approach, its def NOT cheap to grade the cards. I too am gonna see how everything shakes out.
Another great vid, I believe i have a few in my collection. Very nice card collection and worth the trade off for a grail.
Nice! Hope you can dig the cards out and find some good ones :)
You're spot on with the card collectors that might want them. I am not that big into comics, but I love collecting cards. I have some of these old Marvel cards and will likely be submitting the key ones to PSA now. Even if the market crashes before I can sell them, I'd still like to have them in my collection.
This makes a lot of sense. Even though this was the juke wax era, many of these cards were collected by kids who didn't take care of them. Also Marvel is a huge brand right now with the movies and TV shows! It is surprising that it's taken this long to take off!
Agreed. Ive seen so many old videos of marvel card collections (valuable ones too) and the way the cards are handled/stored...Let's just say a sports card collector would have a heart attack!
haha, good points by both of you guys. Def seems like the MCU is having a huge effect all over the collectable market. And yeah those PSA 10's might actually be hard to come by.
Pop count for the whole set is under 3000 graded by psa. Think about that rarity
Pffff. There are sealed boxes all over the world. People are dumb.
Damnit! I could’ve bought a sealed box locally at my LCS for $50 a couple months ago. I can’t remember seeing them last time I went over there. I gotta make a trip tomorrow to see! 🤞🏼Thanks for the content! 👍🏼
Oh man, please tell me they still had it when you went back! :D
@@Swagglehaus I went back and they sold the box but I did find a complete set of 1992 Marvel Masterpiece and 1993 Marvel Universe in sleeves...I looked at them closely and they look like they’re in really nice condition, clean front/back, sharp edges...I took a chance and bought them a total of $100...I’m gonna comb through them again more closely and submit some to PSA! 🤞🏼
I have a full set of marvel series 1 and 2, series 2 is missing the holograms. Very excited to hear they may be gaining the appreciation I always felt they deserved. Great video. May get mine graded. The borders look good. Hehehe
Wow loved this! Thanks for the influx of knowledge!
great video man earned my sub. crazy how hot the market for these are now, just checked the listings and its insane
I’m a 90’s kid. My whole childhood was built around collecting Marvel trading cards. The Marvel Masterpieces were always my favorite. Still. Have. ALL. Of. Them!
Me too! I traded a couple of my dad's old comics(handed down) to get a box of the Fleer Flair Marvel Masterpieces box. Still have them. Complete Holofoils & Powerblasts. Loved the 90's
I've found the same withbb cards, ignored my collection for 15 years and now I have multiples of hundreds and thousand dolar value cards.
Yup me too!!!!
Alex Ross and the Kubret bros
Weird how Series 1 goes up in value. I find those cards to be very basic. Yet the amazing hand painted artwork of Skyboxes Marvel Masterpieces value hasn't budged in 30 years. The collector's market can be ass backwards at times.
I have so many collections from the 90's. I love collecting and stumbled upon your vid. I knew modern cards were insane on pricing but not the original Impel sets. WOW!
Thanks for the video, I had no idea. I will probably send in my holograms for grading. And look over my hand set. Thanks again!
Your videos are awesome- have you thought about doing a live question and answer session! You have a ton of knowledge
Great vid! Im having such fun going deep into Marvel cards, Ive done some vids on the 90's sets.
Got a chance to check out your videos! Awesome stuff, excited to see what your cards come back as. I'm totally a rookie when it comes to sending stuff into PSA but I might have to see if I have anything that looks like a 10.
@@Swagglehaus thanks man! I’m pretty new too but it’s great fun!
Glad I came across this..
I have quite a few 91-92 marvel cards not graded though..im going to review them and possibly get them graded..hope I didn't rough them but they have been untouched since the nineties..wish me luck
Dude, this is super exciting. A big set I think is going to blow up is the 1995 marvel metal set, gotta get the silver chasers and the bigger prints. I have all these old sets and holograms, so exited!!
I've seen a few comments of people mentioning the "metal" set...I really need to look those up!
@@Swagglehaus The metal set is definitely for completionists, still working on finishing my silver chasers, but they sure do look good. Plus Gem Mint gave you a shout out on his latest vid :).
Awesome video! It’s so great to see these cards finally worth something. I have complete sets of series 1-4 in plastic since they were released. I only wish I kept the rest of the bulk. At the time I didn’t pay attention to the centering of each card. I guess completing the set was my main focus lol. I am curious to see how high the prices will go up to.
GREAT VIDEO!!! Great explanation!!! I’m older so it’s out of my experience...... now I understand AND I think its great!! Nostalgia is powerful and fun..... and I’ll never have a need for them (which is fine with me)
Thanks! Yeah its really crazy what's going on with it, but I think we can all agree FOMO and Nostalgia is the most powerful drug there is, haha
Wow, exciting news if this lasts. I bought the second series and have several holograms. Will have to take a look at them. Also have the small unopened boxes of TMNT and Batman from the 1980s. Curious to see how much they are worth.
Wow very cool, I could see the trickle over to TMNT and Batman, both those properties are super popular.
OMG 😲 I'm sitting on Marvel Impel series 3! Thank you for this video I didn't know. I bought a box in the early 90's and got 4 out of the 5 holograms that there are!
Great video, I hit the sub button. Now I have to go dig out my tubs of cards!
Thanks for the video. My jaw is on the floor. As a student of economics, it is intriguing to me how a sudden demand like this comes to fruition. I have some Spiderman cards and Flair Marvel cards from that era (sadly no Impel) that I'll have to resurrect.
I've only got a handful of these in with my comics from back in the early 90s - I'll have to check if I have a good one or two! Thanks!
Fingers crossed you find some good ones!
I just stumbled across this video. Had no idea these had value. Told my son and he brought down a stack of them in binder pages. You are absolutely correct about the difficulty of finding cards that could be Gem Mint. But we’ll go through them anyway. You never know.
Fingers crossed, hope you find some good ones in your collection!
I just watched this video and had to laugh, great video by the way. I just turned 50 years old and remember collecting these cards in High School in 1990, then recently while I was moving came across 5 complete sets organized in a box with holograms in all. I'm glad they didn't get lost after all these years.
I had shoe boxes full in the early 90s ugh I'm kicking my self for not putting them up!!! 😥😥😥
Glad to see they're coming back
Great Video!!!
Nice! I have a whole binder of these cards. Never can see myself selling them though.
Me neither. Some treasures should be kept.
Wow.. just found my old box of these cards the other day...also have a full collection of series 1. I think i might have for the series 2 or 3 after as well. I have a ton of extra cards too.. time to take a look at what i have..
Those graded card prices are totally insane and it's only a matter of time before this crashes and burns
Agreed and Agreed. haha :P
Also agree!
I disagree. Series 1 had a lot of off center cards printed and many people just threw their cards in shoe boxes and or handled them a lot etc. PSA 10's will hold for some time no doubt
Agreed! That is why you gotta flip your cards now!
That’s the same thing people have been saying about sports and tcg cards forever, and we are yet to see it
I have 90,91,92 sets as well, had to collect them all the old school way in packs and trading with friends. I know most people just threw their cards right out after years of hanging on to them. Great video
Just subscribed after watching this great video and commentary. Excellent points regarding time and investment in grading versus return. If you originally bought the cards from a perspective of true excitement and nostalgia, then hold on to them as long as you can.
Wish I kept mine. I had some of those high-value cards you mentioned. Also introduced me to the coolness of Ghost Rider in Series 1 and 2.
Great video-never would’ve dreamt that this stuff could be worth this kind of money
Me neither, I was blown away when I found out.
Swag you’re killing me. Love love the video but you’re killing me lol. These cards are the reason I got into comic books back when they first released And for the past three years I’ve been telling myself I want to buy a box of series one through three for myself on open and now you’re telling me that these boxes have gone out of my price range right now 😭😭😭. I wish I still had my originals.
150 a box last March, 5k and climbing as we speak rn 😳
Oh my bad my bad! haha. Lets just see if the market cools off or maybe all those people who had unopened boxes are gonna come out of the woodwork and prices will start to go down. I would actually check card collectable stores, I feel like maybe those owners don't know whats going on in the market. :D
Crazy!
Marvel's first cards series came out in 1966 from Donruss. Topps in 1967, 1974 and 1975 made sticker sets. All of these sets are rarer and older than the Impel sets. Yet somehow the Impel set has become more expensive. Craziness..
Thats an easy one. The 66-75s were collected in SECRET by fans. No media, no stores selling out in 1990. The Impel cards were already hot in the 1990s, they were all over the news. So as the 2000s rolled around those of us that collected the pre impel stuff forgot about them. The kids that collected impel have a fond memory of them, so they're always in thier thoughts. Hence the crazy 2021 highs.
I had to have a look in my stuff and found I still had some of these cards. Cards were part of that 90s comics speculator boom too. Sports, comic books, movies, et al.
I had that Silver Surfer hologram! Not graded but I had one. The only hologram I pulled from the packs I opened back in the 90s.
Woah that's awesome, hopefully you can find it ;)
Great video. 3 years ago I was cleaning out my closet and found my binder of Marvel cards. I had a whole set......or so I thought. Much to my horror, I noticed I had a damaged Wolverine card and even worse? No set of the 5 hologram cards! I quickly remembered that I traded the hologram cards for some key comics back in the day. As for the damaged Wolverine card, I don't know how that happened. The next day I went on eBay and was able to score the set of hologram cards for $30.00 and the Wolverine card for $3.00! Glad I was get them before this Marvel Comic Card fever!
Smart man, it's always nice to see a collector who's actually on top of their game-"EXCELLENT A+!!!!"
Thanks! :D
Cool video. I think I have a few of the series one cards, but I still have my complete set of series 2 and 3 with holograms. I also have the Marvel Masterpiece.
This is where I got most of my Marvel knowledge from when I was younger. My dad would collect sports cards and I was into these. The perfect combo. lol
I got same sets almost complete. Spiderman hologram for the 90s set. I also have other sets from 90s. I need to go threw them, and sell. They all are stored in cases and books. For sure great video!
Just sent in 9 of mine, your video is doing great, it’s sending viewers to me after.. Thanks for spotlighting this :)
Got a chance to check out your vids. Fingers crossed! Hope you get high grades
@@Swagglehaus thanks :)
I ran a Comic book store from the mid 80's to mid 90's and I remember when these cards first came out they were so cool, and people bought them up like crazy, but by the late 90's these cards were practical worthless. It's amazing to see the rebirth if these cards. I used to have some really cool cards, mostly holograms, prisim, and X-MEN cards, had all my stuff in a storage unit. When I was hospitalized for 6 months last year I lost the unit, brings tears to my eyes to see how cards are pricing now. But I still have my life, and had to learn that stuff like that is just that, stuff .
I bought the series 3 in 92 a pack at a time till I completed the set and have had them ever since. The hologram cards were the only ones that had any value and that was not much till this happened. Think Ill just keep my set no matter how much the cards current value since I have had it forever.
I feel you. I'm so emotionally attached to my cards because they were some of the first stuff I bought as a kid. Hard to figure out what I want to do :P
@@Swagglehaus I still have all the series 1-3 (I think complete sets. I’d have to pull them from storage) as well as the GI Joe series, the death and return of Superman, and the DC comics ones that came out around that time frame. It’s cool to see vids like this. Keep up the great work.
Smart. Hold them. At scale, in the long game you will come out much better. In 15-20 years you should be able to cash-out! I would consider grading the best looking ones, most centered, cleanest surfaces, etc.
Well this made my day. I'm more of a basketball card collector but I also have a STASH of these marvel cards LOL I'm floored by the fact that they're worth something now. Looks like those "Wizards" magazines were worth looking into after all. I knew my countless number of spidermans and wolverines were underrated
Love how a year later and the market for these cards are still going high. I’m glad I still one unopened box each of series 1 through 4. Plus I have a PSA 10 of Stan Lee trading card awhile ago. These are still awesome and having a PSA 10 of Stan Lee feels like a holy grail compared to having with comics.
Thank you for this! I have a ton of those cards in sleeves. Series 1 in amazing condition. I think I have those holograms too. Plus I have a couple of series of X-Men cards with a ton of holograms. I truly believe I have my Silver Surfer hologram too.
Yes there were a lot of these cards printed, but guess what, most of these were opened and handled which degraded there condition. Thanks for the video.
Yeah I think you're right, getting Gem Mint 10's is gonna be harder than people think.
Great video. Such a hot topic right now.
Great video! I actually come from the sports card collecting side of things. I feel that the recent boom in marvel cards is due to all the “sports card investors” looking for the next big thing - much like how Pokémon exploded. I feel that this is going to be short lived and just like you alluded to, once the market gets flooded with graded cards I think there will be a pullback and they won’t be selling for these crazy prices. And as you said even out of the box, the cards can be off-centered and really affect the grade so gem mint 10 cards will be hard to get. I feel that the real value is in the actual comics and comic collectors would be right to sell these and use that money to buy the grail comics. Great perspective! I’ve been wanting to jump into comic collecting as it was something I did as a kid, but it feels so overwhelming to me right now!
Thanks for the insight! I don't know too much about the sports card world. But that makes sense if this is the "next big thing." Yeah, comics like every hobby can be a little daunting to get back into, but its a lot of fun! :D. I try to make my videos pretty accessible to people, so maybe they can help.
I love those cards. I have some, but I do wonder if more grading companies begin to grade them how that will have an impact on pricing. Yeah, centering is huge in card grades.
Yeah, I'll have to check back in on the market 2 or 3 months from now to see where these cards fall.
This is great, I went on a buying spre 5 years ago. I have a unopened box of series 1 marvel cards.
I completed my series 3 set not too long ago with the purchase of the Wolverine card. I have some series 1 and 2 lying around somewhere, but I never had the chance to collect too many of them. I just remember they were hard to find even back in the day.
I can't believe we both have the full Marvel Series 1 and in the same blue binder!! Wow...I can't wait to find these in my old room ....I think they must be been protected and untouched (good point about the alignments tho'...)
Lol crazy! Yeah hope you find them. Let me know how they look :D
Wow, I have these cards in my storage unit. I have my Marvels in a binder and a giant box of doubles etc of those, Masters, and DC stuff. A few holes too. I'm sure the markets cooled, but I better dig them up.
The first set of Marvel cards I got was a boxed set in 1984 that had the covers of key issues.
I have a set of those, and still have the box
I have my series 3 cards in the same red binder been waiting for these to go up in value for years
Wow...can’t see this lasting. I’d sell em raw and buy comic book grails before they crash in price. I didn’t keep any of mine. Only one I could find was a fleer 1995 Batman promo card for the DC versus Marvel comics mini series. Sadly only worth a couple bucks but worth a good smile down memory lane.
what you mean government just printing another 2 trillion dollars man. You think that money just disappears once its release lol
heh yeah, I've been looking into putting mine on the market. I think I'll probably just sell them raw.
Maybe thats why your a bad investor lol
What up swagg !! I think as long as Marvel keep making movies 🎥 The characters are becoming more popular. Movies 🎥make the business and animated movies as well and shows. As long as their going strong 💪🙌everything Marvel is hot 🔥even the cards we grew up collecting like the Marvel universe series and the master pieces and upper decks and fleer and flair sooo many back in the early 1990s thank God some of us still have them and took care of them.
When these came out my older brother and I made a game out of playing series 2 using the backs.
Interesting! That sounds kinda fun.
Ha. My cousin and I did as well. Very cool
"Playing, using the backs"? Uh how? Like the power level rankings and stuff? Well that's cute. ✌ my brother and I played just fine with TMNT figures as well. But I think that's where my hardcore collector spirit was born with that toyline back in the late 80s.
I also have my cards... somewhere. May even have unopened boxes. Great, now I have to look for everything. Maybe I'll update this post once I unearth everything.
Awesome! Fingers crossed that you have them and in good condition :D
the graded prices being nuts. But for people cant get the graded cards they may start to look towards upgraded. Nostalgia is powerful thing and right now I think everyone wants to remember happier times
I collected these when I was 18. I have a complete series 1, 2 and 3, with full sets of holograms for each including duplicates of almost all of them. I remember the hardest card for me to find back then was a Cosmic Spider-man.
I work in a comic store and I just got about 5 of X-Force 1, DeadPool Cards from out the back and there is still lots more boxes of X-force to look into yet. I have never sent a card to be graded before but this time I will.
About 5 years ago I lost an auction for a series I or II box at a local action house cause it was over $30 back then that was too much 😆 I still have all my sets bindered from the 90s with no plans to move them but I’m glad a lot of people will make money since so many were printed ! The overprinting actually worked in our favor ! PSA will probably be hiring now 😂
Still have my cards! Gonna go through them tonight and See if I have anything good. I think I have series one, three, Spiderman cards from the early nineties and star wars cards...
That’s great man. Good luck! 🤞🏼
Awesome! Hope you found some good ones :D
Those Star Wars cards are blowing up as well! Good luck!!
Thanks for the heads up! I'd love to see some follow up videos on this.
Is it just the Marvel Universe series 1 that's popping off? Or is it all the old Marvel cards across the board? Marvel Masterpieces, Jim Lee's X-Men, etc?
Definitely giving you a sub. Good stuff!
Thanks! Yeah it seems like the Series 1 is the most valuable (right now)...but its all about the Gem Mint 10's...I'm not sure people will be chasing cards that are graded 9's or 8's. Hard to tell how this will effect all the other card runs...we'll have to see in a couple months.
Good video. I have a number of these sets from back in the 90's. None in the box, but I generally bought a box because back then you could put an entire set of the base cards together from one box. Mine went right into the plastic inserts that went into notebooks, so they should be in excellent condition having been handled only once. I find the centering of the card makes a difference to be interesting because generally, with respect to comics, miswrapped covers do not affect the grade. Will this resurgence in cards last? I don't know. Our hobby seems to have an obsession with nuanced grading. I thought this 9.8 craze for comics would end long ago, but yet it continues on. It's all kind of silly to me because the difference between a 9.8 and 9.6 is minute and subjective. By the way, I have some of the original color art that made some of these cards, and I did a video about is in case you are interested (see the following link): ua-cam.com/video/zum-6A8B3aU/v-deo.html&t
Thanks for the comment. Yeah the 9.8 craze is really crazy and doesn't seem to be slowing down. It feels like these cards might get the same kinda treatment with the "gem mint 10 or bust" type attitude. I checked out your video. Really cool! I've been thinking about getting into the "original art" collecting :D
I think you’re right tho. These have probably been undervalued but they just don’t have the historical significance and impact that comics do so I don’t think it will last
Totally agree.
damn might have to pull all my cards out i have the complete set plus uncut cards that i got as a special for buying the box back in the day
Fleer METAL !!! Very neat stuff. ( He's got a GOLD - Mine of stuff - WOAH ! )
Lots of people have mentioned the "metal" cards. I need to check those out!
@@Swagglehaus swaggle, you never had any of the metal ones? What you collecting at the time then? If I recall correctly, I think it was around 94-95 that the Fleer metal line came out. They were super thick though.
I have tons of this stuff because I have never stopped collecting and I purchase all I can afford. I plan on sending in some stuff, by the end of the week to get graded,
You were lucky to get complete sets. I'm not sure what's driving the market if it is true love of the comics or just speculation. I remember the 90s comics bubble, this seems like the same thing.
Yeah def seems like a mix of 90's nostalgia and collectable craze going on here. Curious to see how this all plays out.
I bought sealed boxes of Series 1 and 2 (among others) a few years ago for like $30 a box. I opened them and was giving packs of cards to my son in return for him cleaning his room. Those were some expensive room cleanings in retrospect. I still have about 20 packs of each still unopened though.
Great video! Super informative and interesting!i collect funko pops, lots of videos about these cards have been recommended to me recently.i Think after these cards get back in the hands of owners and go up for sale the price will inevitably drop because there will be the same demand a greater supply so price wars will start. How much does a single pack of these cards cost? What are the prices like for cards that are in demand but without a perfect grading, such as a 7-9? It seems like a big gamble buying boxes of these cards.i I have seen boxes opened with mint cards, but I have seen way more boxes containing cards with damages such as-water stains, Grease from the machinery on cards, damaged corners(It seems like the plastic wrapper the cards come in does not do a very good job of protecting the cards leading to corner damage), and the biggest complaint is the amount of cards that are not centered perfectly(I saw somebody yesterday using a tool he got off of eBay for $10 that makes determining how well a picture is centered on the card extremely easy) of course I know there is the thrill of catching an extremely expensive card in great shape which can pay for the entire box and then some, and by then some I mean mucho Dinero.lol. Everybody knows that when there is an opportunity to make fast "EZ" cash that will attract lots of people trying to hit the big pay day. Inevitably that will lead to people just trying to make money that have absolutely no interest in what they are buying or selling, that leads to the shady underbelly of collecting and miss leading pictures, scams and counterfeits. Buyer beware, as always when collecting. Good luck to everybody trying to pull some of those super Dynamite cards!!!
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Will be interesting to see if CGC will dent PSA's monopoly on this! I just checked my unopened X-Force 1 and have the Deadpool promo card. Might send it in for grading, but I wonder which company's grading will hold better long-term value...
UPDATE: Just read the CGC terms and they currently only accept Pokemon and Magic cards. Decision made then...
Yeah I wonder if this will make them give Comic cards a second look. Also I think that Deadpool promo card is blowing up right now too, haha.
I can't say I am surprised because I am a collector of Comics, Cards and Baseball and Basketball and others. The pandemic is making a lot of ppl collectors again and these cards are really cool! I put together a Marvel Masterpieces Series 1 set along with the Spectra Cards and wonder if those cards in a PSA 10 slab would fetch a high premium as well? I don't know if I have these first Marvel cards but I do have Ultra Fleer X-men cards and Marvel 2099 sets as well.
Very cool! Yeah I've gotten a bunch of messages from sports cards collectors and they're telling me that a lot of the hardcore people in that scene are looking at Marvel cards as the "next big thing" or "untapped potential"...so we'll see what happens.
I remember watching and episode of Comic Book Men a few years ago, and a guy came in with Series 2, and was turned away. Times are changing😃
Omg I bought hole set perfect condition when I was teenager still have them perfect in binder!!! Lol
Nice! Hope they're centered well :)
@@Swagglehaus there not sadly it's kinda bad but other wise I did my part in keeping them perfect and complete card company's machines suck balls lol still to this day so unless they do it on purpose...
Bought a sealed box series 1,2,3 when infinity war 2 hit theaters, was gonna open em for fun and nostalgia but fuck all that these bad boys gettin sold !
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@@jayx4489 its on ebay now you should buy them bro
I don't see these cards holding value in the long term. Comics have additional value, but these cards I don't see younger collectors going after. Seems like a short-term investment to me. But hey, awesome for those that are holding the cards and looking to sell! Great video.
Thanks! I agree with you. Def seems like a bubble. But those Gem Mint 10's are pretty hard to come by...they might walk away with a bit of value after the dust settles.
During our addiction, mine got sold with all my comics for dope money while I was at work. We’re better now, but damn, I’m missing my collection right now.
@9:05 - here in 2022 that same $1,700 black suit spidey just sold for $252 last night on eBay.
I had an unopened box of Series 1, busted it open, and I’m now waiting to hear back from PSA. Still have an unopened hobby box of Series 2 cards.