I’m now trying to work out which motivations are the strongest, do I enjoy looking at my copy of Detective Comics #18 (connoisseur Walt), my copy of the Marvel Value Stamp booklet (nostalgia Walt), my collection of Romance Comics with wild, corny and sappy covers (fanboy Walt). So, as of right now, what kind of comic book collectors are we? I asked myself this question, and it turns out I’m a mix of many motivations so I’ll assume most of us are. Over time our motivations and collecting patterns will most certainly change and that’s fine it’s realizing that we will be changing that is helpful. What are our motivations, our goals? Why do you collect? For nostalgia? For a quick payday? For long term investment? For the thrill of the hunt? To read the stories? Are we hoarders that will never look at this stuff again? For other reasons? I’m sure there are other ways people collect that I have not mentioned above. The first thing we need to do to become “better” collectors is to step back and figure out what type of collectors we are. I mentioned above my hope that these posts will help us to collect “better”. I see a collector as a default investor whose decision on what to do with the collection when it is “time to collect” as their choice and not relevant to this exercise. These Time to Collect posts will focus on the collectors and investors and not spend much time on the consumers. A collector can be an investor but not necessarily so, I know collectors who have donated their collections to University archives, local charities and even reading programs like Big B’s Comics for Grades program. I’m certain there are a percentage of our customers that are just consumers and I’m sure a smaller percentage are just investors and speculators that do not read what they buy but I’m also sure that there are many customers that collect what they buy.Ī collector can be a consumer but not necessarily so. Are these customers digging in the bins and turning a quick profit collectors?ĭefining comic book collecting it turns out isn’t that easy. They also dig for our ‘mistakes’ – books of value put into the bargain bins.
COMIC COLLECTOR MOVIE
I know lots of guys that scour our bins looking for comics that recently appreciated in value as a collectible because of some movie announcement or some actor being cast. We have a large back issue comic selection, especially in our Hamilton store and in both stores we have a great selection of bargain comics priced at $1.99 CAD or less. Are these speculators/flippers collectors? Are these comic book consumers collectors?Ī comic book is also a collectible and our comic chops have a large clientele that comes in regularly looking for new issues that they can speculate on, and/or rare variant issues they can immediately flip online or through the various social media platforms.
She may have zero interest or motivation tin putting the book in a bag and board and then in a box and then find a dark, cool, dry place to store it. She can toss it out, give it to her roommate, donate it to a school etc. If the utility of ownership has been satisfied with her reading the book, meaning if she felt what she paid justified the enjoyment she received from reading the comic and enjoying the art, then her relationship with the book has ended. Is a person consuming this entertainment a comic collector? A customer walks in and picks up Part 2 of the latest Batman story arc, she goes home and devours it with joy. Comic collectors might actually be in the minority.Ī comic book is a periodical, sequential art entertainment presented to the reader most often in a serialized form. What is comic collecting? I own a couple of comic book shops, Big B Comics in Hamilton, Ontario and Big B Comics in Niagara Falls, Ontario and I got to thinking how many of the people coming through the doors are comic book collectors? I initially blurted out “all of them” but quickly realized I was wrong. Recently we tackled the generic term “comic collecting”. I had a nice chat recently with my pal Chris Owen: Chris and I have recorded the Comic Culture podcast for the last 10 years and have talked a lot about comics. I’ve kept the parameters tight in this introduction but we’ll allow ourselves the right to deviate from them as we see fit. The goal is a better understanding of how and why we collect and how we can be “better” at collecting, “better” both in terms of enjoying our collections and making “better” financial decisions while collecting. We’ll focus on recognizing and exploring our collecting motivations and uncovering some common mistakes we seem to be prone to.
COMIC COLLECTOR SERIES
Time to Collect is a series of posts exploring collecting comics.
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