 Hi everyone, this is Cheethro. Welcome back to my channel and what we're gonna do in this video is I'm gonna show you a comic book haul okay and it's just one comic book and it's a great comic book okay and this is the this is what we're gonna crack open it came with it came in a huge box because the person that was selling it was using eBay's global shipping program so what they end up doing is sending it to a depot in Kentucky and the Kentucky people package it up and then they send it to me because I live outside the United States and if you remember during a previous comic book haul video when we bought I bought some valiant comics and I bought the quantum of what do you run the person that was selling those books was going through eBay's global shipping program when the package came to me was damaged and it was horrendous packaging job from that company and it cost me an arm and leg to get it done right and I mentioned during that video that I wouldn't be buying any books from anyone selling shipping by global's eBay shipping program but I ended up buying this one because I've been looking for something like this and this is special and this sort of links back to the beginning of sort of me creating content for comic book videos back in 2014 because if you remember when we when I started sharing this contest and in the content in the introductory video I mentioned that we're going to overlap a lot of stuff with mathematics and take a look at the you know economics of comics right take a look at investing in comics what how that plays out and take a look at some of the possibly publishing of comic books and some of the other factors involved with with comic books specifically relating to mathematics right and the first one we're going to hit up is investing in comic books right and this sort of links up to the beginning of that video and during that introduction of video I sort of mentioned that we're going to do readings and we've done a whole bunch of readings since then and I showed you some my comic book collection and we did some comic book haul videos where we've collected a whole bunch of comics and we you know put the stuff into an excel file into a spreadsheet and we've you know I have that stuff tabulated so we've got enough data now that we can take some of that information and actually do the mathematics on it and take a look at how prices fluctuate and what happens when you start investing comic books and what you should look for and what you know how you can calculate growth rates and rate of return and all that jazz right but we get into a lot of that stuff later what I want to do is show you this comic book okay because again this sort of connects back to the beginning and for those of you who've seen some of those earlier videos I think you'll have a really good appreciation for this for this book right and I got it at an amazing price at an amazing price right but before we craft this one open I want to show you my you know handful of graded comics that I have okay and right now they're all CGC but I'm not opposed to you know buying books that are graded from other companies especially especially the most recent one that came out that was one of the people that started CGC and if I ever end up at some point I will be sending my books and to be graded as you know I've shared some of that some videos showing my collection I have a nice sized collection there's no way I could afford or I would grade all the books but there are some books in my collection that I would when the time comes at some point I will be selling them and the odds are the more high-end books I will send them to be graded and most likely I'll be sending it to a different company that I bought these books for but I'm open to both I believe the market should have multiple sources of authenticating comic books they're great because you know just linking it up talking about mathematics economics of comics investing in comics having comic books graded sort of gives it a certain worth gives it a certain authentication right that you can actually place it in terms of value on a scale system right so that's one way that economics plays into investing in comics right that's one reason people buy graded comics because there's a lot of people that are buying these comics not because you know they necessarily read the comics books but what they're doing is they're investing in assets right investing in art that they're hoping that the price will slowly creep up and we sort of did a personal finance put up put together some personal finance video and the last one of that we took a look at what the growth rate of you know the most I guess the what's the terminology the book that everybody's looking for which is the action comics number one the highest value comic book out there as far as I know anyway and see you know we took a look at what the graph rate of the growth rate of action comics number one and how that compared to the growth rate of you know income housing stock market S&P different types of funds and even cryptocurrencies right so you know there's a lot there and we will be talking a lot about that but I'm going to show you right now before I show you the book we got the hall we got I'm gonna show you the graded comics that I have and it's just these ones and back in 2014 I think I didn't have any graded comics right and people started asking me about graded comics and I mentioned that you know I'm not really into selling my comics so I'm not grading them and buying anything graded because I feel confident enough with my abilities to grade comics to be able to price them on a you know play someone a scale system or price them to level that I'm satisfied with what I'm paying right but if you're you know if you haven't handled enough comic books and you don't you're not comfortable with your grading abilities then graded comic books is one way people are going right have been comfortable with what it is that they're getting so I have one two three four five six seven graded comics that I've bought since 2014 and this new one makes it eight okay and initially I wasn't looking into buying graded comics but if we are gonna look at the investment aspect of comic books look at the mathematics aspect of the comic books I sort of had to get my hands dirty with this I had to buy some of these and take a look at you know specifically some of the grading tick points that they have and take a play around with the website and track some of these some of these books right so I decided to buy my you know start buying some cgc books and let me show you the first two that I bought and let me pull these out and these two that I bought I didn't specifically go out to buy these I bought a comic book a lot soon after loading on the first set of videos comic book videos that I put up right so I the first two cgc graded books that I bought came with a whole bunch of other comics so I wasn't necessarily paying for the cgc grading I was buying that lot okay and I just wanted to have a feel for how I would feel having graded comic books and it was okay I couldn't crack a wall and take a look inside but you know they had their pluses I guess so these are the first two graded comics that I bought I don't know what the price is for these because they came in a lot I didn't pay very much for these at all okay so this is Dr. Strange number 37 from 1979 okay and it's graded at nine it's you know its value is not much it's you know you're basically paying for the grading the cgc and the grade 9.0 is for me if I'm having a not graded that's fine with me if it's you know more than a reading copy there are definitely books that I have that are graded way less than this that are that I would get graded because they're either rare or extremely sought-after so that was one of the books here's the other one that came with that lot I'm happy with this one because I love this and it's Devil Dinosaur Jack Kirby created this and I have I don't know if I don't think I have the full run but I do have number one I got a couple of copies of number one and this is again all of these are cgc and it's cgc 9.4 again it's not worth very much this one right so I bought these soon after loading on comic book haul videos or comic book videos because I sort of wanted to have a feel for what cgc grading was like being happy enough having graded comic books okay let me show you the next two that I bought and these were selling singles and I bought these because I wanted to buy these because it's one of my favorite characters ever if not my favorite character I don't know I have a few favorite characters in comic books but this is definitely I could say at times my only favorite character in comic books and I bought Omega Man number three first appearance of Lobo 9.6 right the second one that I bought specifically I chased look for this and I bought them I believe I bought them from the same seller right and again it's Omega Man number three first appearance of Lobo and they're both created 9.6 and as far as I'm concerned I bought these because this is an amazing character I think it hasn't been treated properly it could this potential is so much so much more right and I would definitely buy more copies of this Omega Man number three the first appearance of Lobo okay so these are the first two officially graded comics that I bought specifically looking for them right let me show you the other three books that I bought that I had been keeping my eyes on them and and my comic book store my local comic book store had the set so I bought the set okay and just so you know the Omega Man number three graded 9.6 both of them I bought for I think around $80 each right so if I recall correctly I don't have the price on them do I have the price the prices no the price is not here but it was around $80 each okay this book or these three books I'll tell you the prices because I have the prices the prices are on them and I paid $100 for this and it's Sandman number one graded at 9.4 Neil Gaiman now if you're gonna start off a CGC book collection Omega Man number three first appearance of Lobo and Sandman number one is a pretty good place to start right and $100 for Sandman 9.4 graded not bad the next book I want to get out of plastic Sandman number two graded at 9.4 and I paid $50 for this one and it's a good price great price and as I said this is a set right and the third or I guess the fifth actual graded comic that I bought intentionally for buying it for this because I love these books is Sandman number three CGC graded at 9.6 for $40 and by the way these the Omega Man were US price I think it was like $70 or $80 US these prices for the Sandman books Canadian prices right fantastic deal fantastic to really to send the book to CGC to great great get graded costs around $30 US right and you're not guaranteed to get back at 9.6 and I do have this run I don't I don't know if I don't think I have the full Sandman run and I haven't finished all of Sandman I've got to like three quarters of way through and you know life circumstances I stop reading but at some point when I do decide to read Sandman finish it off I'm gonna go back to the beginning and read the whole thing again right then if you never read Sandman highly highly recommend reading Sandman okay so those are my CGC graded books so far and I just added one more to them okay and let me show you what that one is put these things on one side this guy and again this is I'll say it again the odds are I'll never buy from any seller again if they're using eBay's global shipping program but never say never because if the right book comes up and if the price is right I wait I you know I'd be willing to pay the extra price for having the shipping to get it let me show you what this is let's see how they package this one the last one I got from these people that shipped it it was brutal so they got it in a whole bunch of filler here's what they have it in so it's not that it's loose but and they have and they have the receipt here and here let me show you what I paid for this I don't want to do any reveals I paid $59 for this right US and the shipping for cost me shipping and duty together cost me like 20 25 bucks so it kicked up the price but I paid $59 for this and this is graded at let me show you this is great at a 5.5 and I've bought ungraded copies of this and I have two copies of this already and you would have seen what it is and the book I'm about to show you is the book that we did the first reading for when we started this whole comic book playlist okay after my introduction video this is what we read and it's mystic number six six Basil Walruten's Eye of Dome right and I have two copies of this already and they're great they're low grade they're graded at around I would give them a grade anywhere between two to three right two and a half two two and a half right and I paid more for those ungraded copies I paid I bought those for about 80 bucks a pop right 75 80 bucks a pop right I think including shipping maybe not but shipping wasn't as much as this so I bought those for $80 and this one is graded at 5.5 mystic number six and it's a fantastic story if you want to have read through it take a look at that video and take it out of the plastic cases nice saw somewhere where some people had been scanned by buying CGC books or graded comic books and one had slid a thing change the cover and stuff like this but the cover of this is a very good there's no denser scratches so I do check the covers buying CGC and what I did for buying this I tried to track it track down the number you can look up the number here go to their website and make sure that this is one of the graded copies right so this is officially I guess the seventh book I have graded comic book I have in my collection and I can't believe I got it for well $60 or at the $25 so I got it for 85 bucks that including the shipping right I paid that much for a two ungraded basically two and a half ungraded and this is on my radar all the always really I've seen some of the ones selling on eBay and an ungraded copy like a two sells for you know it sells sells for you know it varies on the seller the prices fluctuate one I saw that didn't even have to cover on it was selling for around $80 as far as value-wise goes my budget was low so I would I did a what do you call it Hail Mary or throw caution to the wind and a whole bunch of other things in different languages I figured I try my luck and I placed a bid on this and my bid was higher than what it actually cost me but it was nowhere as high as what I think this book is worth and I've talked to some people I've you know mentioned that I wouldn't sell this book not even close to what I paid for it I think one person I mentioned that I wouldn't you know the price I would pay for this book is if I had the money right but I didn't have the money and I'm happy to have it for 60 bucks ready bugs right so mystic number six Basil Ward graded at 5.5 and this sort of takes us back to the beginning of this whole thing of comic books wow this is a great out this very happy to have this and it's got what does it say off white to white white pages Basil Waterton Manny Stallman and Vernon Henkel art and we haven't read we just read the first story we read this one right the eye of doom we didn't read the old ladies son what it's nothing and other mystifying tears and I flip and I rewatched the video that we made of this through reading the whole thing just flipping through it just to get a feel for what it is that I bought again right because I love the book and I'm so happy to have this and I would definitely buy it's like logo Omega Man number three there's certain when it comes to collecting comic books they're collectors that have a certain preference sometimes to certain issue to certain series to certain artists there's some people that just collect certain writers or certain artists or certain series right for me I have multiple loves and have there's certain comics that I have that have multiple issues of and I continue to buy certain for certain issues for certain characters I buy multiple copies of certain things right it's sort of on the mindset of investing to a certain degree just like any stock you buy right if you're in the markets or whatnot if you think the company is going to be worth more down the road then you can invest in it at a certain time and continue to build your assets regarding that and there's a lot of people to do that right there's a lot of people have done that with many different characters right I've talked to a lot of people that were buying you know the first appearance of Thanos back in the day or people buying Omega Man as you can guess these are the only copies of Omega Man number three that I have right they're the only great copies of Omega Man number three that I have but they're not the only copies of Omega Man number three that I have right and mystic number six this isn't the only copy I have I have two very low grade ones and I will continue to keep my eyes out eyes out of for this right so that's one thing to consider as well you can focus if you're investing or buying into comic books if you like something you can just focus in a narrower level in a certain style or certain comic books in a certain year right in certain era and just collect either golden age silver age bronze modern age if you want you could collect just variants if you want right doesn't make a difference doesn't make a difference as long as you love what you do right and I'm very happy to get this very very happy to get this I can't believe I got this and this is just I just just if you want to know if you integrate a comics I went on the website and punched in this number and it matches this this comic right and there are only seven graded mystic number six in the database they might be more I don't know how the logistics of it works as when it comes to grading I'm for some reason I don't think I don't know about the other grading companies but I don't think cgc automatically they must automatically put into their database to keep a record of what they've graded and what's there but based on the website based on the information there's only seven graded mystic number six out there okay and this is I think the fourth highest graded or in the middle with seven you know the range whatever you have is one of seven right and this is sort of in the middle okay fantastic and if you guys are curious in a previous video I showed you I did a rotation out of the framed comics that I have and I didn't show you this one because I framed this I mentioned that I got the bug for framing some of my other comics and I have some more frames like this and I just recently framed this one okay so we can add this one to the frame comics collection night this is underdog number one the first appearance of underdog and the reason I framed this one sort of in honor of them finding new unpublished material from that period I think from the 1970s or 1960s that 1970s that never got printed never got published and they're releasing that I think either in a couple of months I think that in the most recent preview so I thought I put this up in there and Mighty Mouse who doesn't love Mighty Mouse right so this is another one of the frame comics that I have now that I think I'll be keeping up for a while okay mystic number six fantastic fantastic so I think we've got enough data I might collect a little bit more along the way so we can do an analysis on the economics of investing in comics but that's sort of if you're curious that's sort of the direction I'm going and one thing one concept that really plays well into this right now for me being able to buy this at a ridiculous price of $60 eight let's say $85 including shipping is the concept of liquidity right which is something we talked about when it came to personal finance where we looked at how automation came to play in the stock market in the first not the first time but one of the times like even the 2000 and 1929 mark stock market crash in the 1980s stock market crash 87 stock market crash specifically the article we talked about with automation kicking in into high frequency to you know the beginning of high frequency trading we read a little excerpt on what happens when liquidity disappears from the market right and more obscure things that you invest in like most likely assets like this right if the market can handle it all some liquidity drops and the prices drop so you know this is a very good example of liquidity sort of being very dependent on the mark on the market sort of not absorbing all the I guess comic books out there and liquidity dropping and price dropping so if you're able to take advantage of a situation like that when it comes to investing in any type of market then you can get amazing deals on certain things and as long as you don't need that you don't need to liquidate that asset or you don't need the funds to maintain your life right then usually you can you know get into the game during those periods right but we'll talk a lot more about that I'm sort of going off on tangent sort of I guess you can consider this to be a primer on investing in comics right but we'll do a full introduction on the concept of mathematics of comic books and economics of comic books in the future that's it for now I'll see you guys in the next video video together framing this guy as well