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Investment Potential and Analysis of Daredevil 61 to 181 Assorted Issues T he first Table presents the   Bias Score   for all the issues. Bias scores show which issues are being bought by the Insiders (Pros) vs. the Outsiders (Fans Less Serious). The concept of my approach is to focus on the issues being bought  BULLISHLY  by the investors. We developed an analysis of data to quantify this Bias ( B Score ). We mark the issues with the highest Bias with Lime Green followed by a Dark Green staining for issues with a lesser but definite Bias.   Table 2 data deals with another data stream on comic-book issues. This run’s issues are looked at 3 grades 9.4, 8 and 6. The changes in bias between the different grades are calculated and the  SLN  numbers were born. The  SLN  numbers look into each “world” of the  I vs. O  bias data.  This data has shown historically to be the most liberal and establishes the investment poten...

Investment Potential and Analysis of Hulk, Iron Man, DD, SM, CA, Annuals, Specials and Giant Size T he first Table presents the   Bias Score   for all the issues. Bias scores show which issues are being bought by the Insiders (Pros) vs. the Outsiders (Fans Less Serious). The concept of my approach is to focus on the issues being bought  BULLISHLY  by the investors. We developed an analysis of data to quantify this Bias ( B Score ). We mark the issues with the highest Bias with Lime Green followed by a Dark Green staining for issues with a lesser but definite Bias.   Table 2 data deals with another data stream on comic-book issues. This run’s issues are looked at 3 grades 9.4, 8 and 6. The changes in bias between the different grades are calculated and the  SLN  numbers were born. The  SLN  numbers look into each “world” of the  I vs. O  bias data.  This data has shown historically to be the most liberal and establi...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  This blog represent part 2 of the wrap up of the 10 runs in this volume. I have mapped in landscape style the Y Axis of High I vs High O Bias Issues across the issue numbers listed. This given you insight into the entire length of the run. It's a way to compare runs as well. I suggest you study the patterns and think about questions these data may address. So look at TOS run we see a negative area from #73 to 86. In TTA we have a nice area of High I Bias from #52 to 60 and #63 to 85. As seen in Part 1 the TOS is currently the best one for investing. Hulk Issue seen to be neutral as alot of those issues are at 0. ASM was not the best run either with the key exceptions. This data cautions the investor to tread lightly and do your homework on the targets you have selected for potential investments. The FF run has a lot of strength later in the run whi...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  This post is just part 1 of a wrap up of the runs we have looked into. I like to have a Top-Down view of the runs. I have listed a tabular view of the first 20 issues/run at 9.4, 8 and 6. Followed by the Individual Pie Charts of each run's ADFs at each grade. Note I placed the table and pie chart in order from highest % of issues denoted as $ for Insiders Biased. The blue green color denoted Outsider Biased Issues. Note the $ % range at 9.4 was 85% to 30%, at 8.0 it was from 50% to 0% and 6.0 was 55% to 5%. So  I am going to assume these kind of numbers exist for all major runs in silver-age books. That my hypothesis anyway. Given the rarity of the 9.4 issues you could expect this result. I wonder with moderns if they show the same pattern not because of rarity but because we now have serious collectors buying and holding issues off the shelves. That po...

Landscape Bias Graphs of DD, Avengers, Thor, ASM, FF and X-men at the 9.4 condition I have plotted the level of I vs O bias in the first 20 issues of each run. The X axis is the issue count number (Thor-JIM 83 is 1 etc) while the Y axis is the bias level. 20 is highest, 10 is next and 2, 1 are the low I bias and 0 is no bias. Note as was seen in the data previously, we have the strongest insider bias at the 9.4 condition. Below is the image of the Daredevil Run . Analysis of this run shows as with most runs I have seen that high early insider bias followed by more chaotic bias pattern. Solid in the first 8 issues for sure. Only 3 issues 9, 11, 13 and 18 seem to be those to not focus on at the 9.4 condition. The next up is the Avengers run. See below.  The Avengers show a strong first 12 with insider Bias at the 9.4 level. From 13 to 20 on 16 is your focus at 9.4 conditions. Next up is the Thor (Journey into Mystery first 20 issues with Thor. Thus Issue 1...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  Cluster Analysis Part 3 I suggest you investigate the “Efficient-market hypothesis” vs. “Economic Bubbles and Irrational Exuberance”. Is the comic-book market efficient or subjected to “bubbles and irrational exuberance? Does irrational behavior have a real impact on the markets in comic book investing? Notice the era we are in seems to depend on the movie concept, that if a movie therefore the increase in comic prices. If that occurs then the market seems to be influenced by the “movie bubble” we are in. When did scarcity lose to the movie bubble pricing? Or did it? Do we have a complex market say golden age (Rare / drives high demand) vs. modern comics (movie/TV bubble drives high demand)? So a hint, if I look at bias do I care if it is rarity or a movie bubble? Will rocket raccoon ever go down? Short to long term investing? What happened to beanie babies?...