Transformers comic #1

This spring and summer is certain to be the great renaissance of Transformers branded goods from the present and the past. I have been watching the prices slowly climb as the movie gets more hype, and draws nearer, and my suspicions are that this effect is also helping to drag up prices of all 80s memorabilia, due to the spotlight it is casting.

Today's eBay Watch features a copy of the Transformers Comic #1, which was offered in one of these fancy "CGC" graded and certified lucite enclosures. Granted it rated a "9.8", if anyone believes that stuff, but the final sale price of $500 was really something else. I guess I should ship off the several copies I have to get them 'graded' and then rake in the foolish loot. Oh wait, that's right, I don't sell stuff. It will be interesting to see if this was an aberration, or the sign of a continuing trend up until July, at which point, regardless of how well or terribly the movie does, I suspect that prices and interest in the series will begin to drop back to, let's say, 2004 levels.
Posted by charlie on May 11th 2007
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