JazzMan Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Valiantman does a great job at crunching the numbers from the CGC census, but I was wondering what people actually collect and not necessarily slab. I would venture that it would be Amazing Spider-Man, but who knows, maybe Action Comics or Superman comics are more collected. In moderns, is it Walking Dead or others? What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summydad1 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 I would guess Spider-Man across all ages. Just a guess. Maybe Batman. WeR138 and littledoom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lazyboy Posted October 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 13, 2020 It's Amazing Spider-Man. ThothAmon, 500Club, The-Collector and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCOComics Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 37 minutes ago, Summydad1 said: I would guess Spider-Man across all ages. Just a guess. Maybe Batman. I agree. Batman is probably #1. Spiderman may be more widely collected but I gave batman the knod because he appeals to GA collectors as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summydad1 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Just now, KCOComics said: I agree. Batman is probably #1. Spiderman may be more widely collected but I gave batman the knod because he appeals to GA collectors as well. Yep. That’s what I was thinking. Batman has a couple decade head-start on Spidey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Amazing Spider-man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Archie waaaghboss, OtherEric and FoggyNelson 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Amazing Spider-man While I understand the argument for Batman, collecting a full run of ASM is still more accessible and somewhat affordable for more collectors than trying to do a Batman run. However, when I see things like ASM 300 in CGC 9.8 (direct copy!) sell for $4900 last night, I believe that ASM is quickly becoming unobtainable. This means that collectors will start becoming turned off at trying to collect the character deep into his flagship title. What to look for? X-Men... I have my issue 1 so I am comfortable saying this. I believe that once mutants appear in the MCU that collectors are going to start looking for runs on this title. The question is do they start collecting with issue 94 or 1? X-Men is far more affordable and obtainable than ASM. Arkham and Icculus308win 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Amazing Spider man bar none. bb8 and waaaghboss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-man Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Not fully up to date, but.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_comic_series oldmilwaukee6er 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man are Top-3 without question. I'm wondering if the link that @s-man shared includes Action Comics under "Superman" and Detective Comics under "Batman". I would think that ASM is the best-selling title of its time(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valiantman Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 14 hours ago, JazzMan said: Valiantman does a great job at crunching the numbers from the CGC census, but I was wondering what people actually collect and not necessarily slab. I would venture that it would be Amazing Spider-Man, but who knows, maybe Action Comics or Superman comics are more collected. In moderns, is it Walking Dead or others? What do you think? Sales of Golden Age books for Superman and Batman were in the hundreds of millions, but 99% didn't survive, so when it comes to books surviving to be collected today we would expect most to be Silver Age and newer. From that point in time, Spider-Man leads far above all others. Larryw7 and theCapraAegagrus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Cool Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Spiderman - anything else is silly. Almost any issue sells and they sell quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicmeta Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Skull the Slayer hands down right? I think it's Amazing Spider-man but is X-Men in the running as well...What about DC? ....Batman?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveinthecity Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 6 minutes ago, musicmeta said: Skull the Slayer hands down right? I think it's Amazing Spider-man but is X-Men in the running as well...What about DC? ....Batman?? Any future collectibility of Skull The Slayer vanished with issue #4 when new writer Steve Englehart turned the storyline on it’s ear and “killed” the supporting characters. musicmeta 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 23 hours ago, Buzzetta said: Amazing Spider-man While I understand the argument for Batman, collecting a full run of ASM is still more accessible and somewhat affordable for more collectors than trying to do a Batman run. However, when I see things like ASM 300 in CGC 9.8 (direct copy!) sell for $4900 last night, I believe that ASM is quickly becoming unobtainable. This means that collectors will start becoming turned off at trying to collect the character deep into his flagship title. What to look for? X-Men... I have my issue 1 so I am comfortable saying this. I believe that once mutants appear in the MCU that collectors are going to start looking for runs on this title. The question is do they start collecting with issue 94 or 1? X-Men is far more affordable and obtainable than ASM. I suspect the cost of asm 1-3 is far more of an obstacle in collecting asm than whatever a 9.8 newstand 300 is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolverineX Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 ASM. 23,000 CGC slabs of ASM 300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 12 minutes ago, Wolverinex said: ASM. 23,000 CGC slabs of ASM 300 And I don’t own a slabbed copy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolverineX Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 38 minutes ago, piper said: And I don’t own a slabbed copy... You don't need it.... Larryw7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazzMan Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 ASM followed by X-Men would be my pick. I am probably the oddball from my generation since I didn't collect X-Men outright, but looking at my own collection these are the top 5 titles and the number of issues I have: ASM - 149 (Includes vol 1, vol 2 and annuals) Defenders - 132 Marvel Two-In-One - 100 Captain America - 92 (Includes vol 1, vol 5) Wonder Woman - 64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
