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Zeus posted...

However, you'd have to be savvy enough to see the investment opportunity and, more importantly, the odds of making that kind of money again are greatly diminished by the fact that the conditions that enabled that value -- such as comics not being viewed as being all that collectible so people weren't taking care of them -- have changed.

This is probably the biggest issue with collecting for investment purposes. Even stuff that's explicitly meant to be collected and has a limited production run for that reason isn't going to increase in value if people in the future don't care about it, and especially if it sees a rerelease (which becomes more likely as its value increases). It's very easy to look back and say "man, I wish I'd bought more obscure comic books," but making such predictions is much, much harder than assessing it in hindsight. It's basically sheer dumb luck.

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