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Spotting High Quality Books for Speculation
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Spotting High Quality Speculation Books Quality Control: Dings and Dents Section Let us talk a bit about choosing high quality books for speculating. I believe it is important to think about this when buying any books. Speculation books, in particular, that have not caught fire yet. Those books you hunt for and can find in…

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Exploring Black Hammer as Speculation Investment
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Exploring Black Hammer as Speculation Investment Drop the (Black) Hammer Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth / Trillium) is back again with his tender storytelling stuffed full of interesting characters. Which is pretty much his signature. What makes this fun and heart-warming tales of super heroes different is the human element. Even if they are not human.…

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How to Better Your Speculation Evaluation
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How to Better Your Speculation Evaluation Comic Speculation is Cool We all like to speculate on comics. What if we were better at evaluating our speculation? There is a rush in finding a book no one has talked about, and when it does see some time in the sun, well that rush is awesome! While…

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The Long Boxers - Hero - Not All High Grade Books Part 4
Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 4 of 4
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Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 4 of 4 This is the end… You have made it through quite a bit of information. I am assuming you found it interesting or I am prepared for a massive flame. If you happened to miss any part, you can navigate to…

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The Long Boxers - Hero - Not All High Grade Books Part 3
Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 3 of 4
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Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 3 of 4 Welcome to part three of the article. Hopefully you found the first half interesting and helpful. If you happened to miss either part, you can navigate to the different sections using the buttons at the bottom of this page once…

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The Long Boxers - Hero - Not All High Grade Books Part 2
Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 2 of 4
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Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 2 of 4 Welcome to part two of the article. Hopefully you found the first part interesting and helpful. If you happened to miss that part, you can navigate to the different sections using the buttons at the bottom of this page once…

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The Long Boxers - Hero - Not All High Grade Books Part 1
Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 1 of 4
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Comic Investing: Not All High Grade Books Are Created Equal – Part 1 of 4 A Does Not Equal B (Learning how to assess which comic books to invest in) Math? Eww. No one told me there would be math. Relax. There is some later, but it is pretty straight forward and not painful. Now…

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Comic Investing: Variant Covers—The Wild Wild West of Comics
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Comic Investing: Variant Covers—The Wild Wild West of Comics Variant covers are a somewhat new way to market comics. The idea, as you would guess, is that you get the same book but with a different cover. If only it stopped at that statement! There are also different ratio variants. Obviously, some of these will…

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