I was digging through some of my old boxes today and came across my stash of old price guides. It was a fun walk down memory lane and lot of wishing I had a time machine. Overstreet has been putting out annual price guides since 1970, but with the internet they have become really an antiquated source of information, but even in the late 70's and 80's using a book that only came out once a year really didn't capture what the market was doing and to be honest could have held the market down. In 1986 Overstreet put out it's first quarterly bulletin. And it honestly was a game changer. Eventually other price guides would come out and would become a monthly fixture in hobby shops as collector's wanted to find out what was hot and if they had any hidden treasures in their collections. Let's have a look at what some key issues were going for in the summer of 1986.
1st JLA $380, about $500 today.
1st Spider-man $1150, about $2500 in todays money.
1st Appearance of the Punisher: Amazing Spider-man 129 for $2!!!! That would change soon as the mini-series came out around the same time as this issue and once the regular series started that issue would top over $100 in just a couple years.
1st Wolverine, Incredible Hulk #181 - $30!
I could go on and on. Oh to have not been 12 and had some pocket change in the mid-80's.
I do the exact same thing with my old baseball card magazines. If we only knew then... what we know now.
ReplyDeleteI love looking through my old Beckett's, tuff stuff's and baseball card magazine's. just the ads alone are fun to peruse.
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