While the graded magazine hobby has been growing like crazy, it’s still pretty small, especially compared to comics and sports cards. But there’s an inflection point happening right now that’s pushing this…
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Sports Illustrated Soccer Covers with Investment Potential
by Take Rootby Take RootWhen it comes to investing in this hobby, the old adage for any investment is just as true. Buy low and sell high. Part of that is being able to anticipate well…
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Sports Illustrated: Collectible Basketball First Covers
by Take Rootby Take RootWith sports cards, everyone wants to collect an athlete’s rookie card. For comic books, a character’s origin or first appearance are generally what’s most desired. Similarly, when collecting graded magazines, the most…
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What if I told you that you could go back in time about 20 years to when comic books were first being graded? What raw books would you race out to purchase,…
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What We Know About Reeves’ Batman Offers Great Spec Now
by Take Rootby Take RootFrom The Long Halloween to Zero Year, the true source of Matt Reeves’ Batman reboot remains a mystery. But, we already know enough to make some great spec investments NOW.
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Barry Windsor-Smith and the X-Men
by Take Rootby Take RootFor many collectors, Barry Windsor-Smith might be synonymous with Valiant. He provided cover illustrations for a wide variety of early-era Valiant titles. Books like Archer and Armstrong #0, Bloodshot #1, Solar #3,…
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Who is the Blue Marvel?
by Take Rootby Take RootWho is the Blue Marvel? Will we soon see him join Monica Rambeau? What potential does this character have for collectors?
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Who’s more foolish than the god of mischief? Nowadays, it is hard to think of Loki without conjuring a picture of Tom Hiddleston. Few actors have been as perfectly cast as Hiddleston…
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Start Throwing Confetti for The Legend of Zelda
by Take Rootby Take RootIt is a guarantee that throughout this year, we will keep building up towards Zelda’s 35th Anniversary. It seems that many of us are holding our breath and on the verge of…
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Perhaps it’s just the release of Cyberpunk 2077, or maybe I’m just really preparing for the inevitable corporate hellscape of the not-so-distant future. The cyberpunk genre as a whole has really captured…
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Top 5 Most Expensive Team Rocket Unlimited Pokémon Cards
by Take Rootby Take RootMoving away from Base Set shadow and shadowless Pokémon cards, in this article we look at the most recent sales of PSA/CGC 10s of the Team Rocket Unlimited set.
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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales wasn’t a game I was itching to get my hands on at the immediate release. I planned on holding out for the PS5 version. But with those consoles…
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Recently, on March 4th, a Tom Brady rookie card bearing his signature sold at auction for a robust 1.32 million dollars. This card shattered the previous football card record, a Patrick Mahomes…
Graded Sports Illustrated: Fade Patrick Mahomes, Buy Joe Burrow?
When it comes to the graded Sports Illustrated market, there are some buys that are predictable and some that are risky, but with a higher chance of reward. Let’s compare two football…
Are Manga Reprints the New Hot Spec?
If you’ve ever dug through dollar bins, you’ve probably noticed how they tend to be filled with American-published, English-language comic book reprints of Japanese manga from the 1990s. But do these consistently…
Everyone knows all about Secret Wars. It was the series that launched a popular toy line and gave Spider-Man a brand new suit. But what about Contest of Champions? Let’s take a…
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends!
Once upon a time, Saturday morning cartoons were a way of life for millions of kids. In the early half of the 1980s, one cartoon rose above the competition: Spider-Man and His…
Pokémon For Beginners, an Introduction to the Hobby
With nearly 1,000 different Pokémon and 74 different trading card sets, stepping into the Pokémon world today can seem very daunting. From booster boxes to tins and elite trainer boxes, there is…