Specualtion and Investment More Money Comics - Potential of Marvel/DC Comic Books

Savage Sword of Conan The 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 potential across the grades of 9.4, 8 and 6. Very quickly, the green stained are positive issues and re...

   Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  Investment Potential and Analysis of Marvel Superheroes (MSH) Draft Issues 12 to 20 This title from the late silver age was action packed in characters introduced. We have the first appearance of Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers (aka Ms. Marvel, Binary etc), and the Guardians of the Galaxy. We have also Inhumans. Phantom Eagle, Spiderman, Black Knight, Kazar and Dr Doom as well in these issues. So I go in expecting the Capt Marvel and Guardians of Galaxy will be the main attraction here. Table 1 presents the Marvel Super-Heroes Issues 12 to 20 graded as to each issues Bias Score. Previous works shown in this blog have discussed the methods that allow a novel look into the Insider Investors and how much they desire each issue. The B Score Number is show and ranges from 2258 to 66. This is a broad range and really shows the focus of investors onto t...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  Analysis of the Defenders (Bronze Age) Issues #1 to 19 Table 1 represents the Bias Score analysis of the defenders series. Note the analysis is fairly short in that Issues 1 and 17 are Strongly Bias while Issue 8 is biased somewhat. (Lime green vs dark green staining). The other issues are overbought by the outsiders and can be ignored. Note Issue 2 is on the watch list FYI. Table 1 Bias Score Analysis of the Defenders Issues 1 to 19.  Table 2 is the SLN numbers which separates out the I/O worlds for each issues. Note that Issues 14 and 17 are strongly Biased while the other issues of 6 to 9, 11 to 13, 15, 18, and 19 are somewhat biased. This data number tends to be the less stringent and need to be carefully considered. Notice Issue 17 is noted as strongly biased as it was in the B Score Table. Table 2. SLNs Numbers for the I/O Data for the Defender...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  Bias Analysis of Iron Man Issues 1 to 56. As I have done in all my post, I will start out with the top level of analysis, the Bias Score. So given the popularity of Iron Man, I expected a lot of opportunities in this run. I have noted by color staining the issues strongly Bias by the insiders vs outsiders (lime green). Somewhat Bias issues have their issue number stained by dark green stain. So we see the strong issues are #1, 44, and 55. Note the B Scores are 370, 139, and 304. I discuss the desire scale of these three in table 5. I see issues 3, 9 13, 15, 28, 30 and 43 are dark green stained and deserve our attention as well. Also, I do note evidence of overbuying issues as seen by the high number of negative scoring issues. The story here is to focus on the lime green issues for full on investments. Table 1.  Iron Man B Score for Issues 1 to 56 S...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  Analysis of Early Captain America Issues 100 to 118. This is the beginning Blog Arc for the next group of Marvel Titles to look at. I have eased over in the bronze era as well. Captain America issues 100 to 118, Sub-mariner 1 to 20, 22, 34 to 36 and 43. Defenders 1 to 19, Iron Man 1 to 56, So given the interest in the recent movies, I suspected these issues would be strong buys.   As discussed before the Bias Scores gives us a first top down view into these issues. Looking at table 1, green denoted issues are those issues biased supported by the insider investors and are recommended as buy candidates. The only light green issue #117 is the first appearance if the Falcon.   Note its B Score is 519 that puts it in the top 85 silver age issues for desirability. That is a strong strong number. See the data in the Desire Scale Blog Post. I...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  This post is a final look into the last posts we have seen. I have a quick and dirty score card I use for fast decisions. I present the score cards below. Lime green means buy at all grades, dark green buy only at 9.4 , yellow means watch list only, no color is sell. Remember to review the post on angles and price points. I never Buy at average price. I either buy it below or walk. I have no emotion on the issue it's a vehicle for a 20 year investment program that I have tailored to me. You must find your own path. This data is a map that is all. A guide only. Next up runs like Cap America, Conan, Submariner etc. About ten more or so.  Good Luck. MMC!

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  This post is an introduction to the concept of the B Score data as a beginning to lead to the labeling of each issue in the 10 runs I have covered with a Desire Scale and a Simple Data Grouping. I copied the top comic book issues that had a B Score of 200 and above. I needed to transform the data to help me visualize the group. I tried log transformation and did not use it. I instead scaled the data and used the transformed data as a guide to separate the issues into groups. The five tables denote the grouping from A to I issues. The scale number means that you can use that number to compare two issues. For example Hulk 1 1117 vs JIM 84 132. Divide 1117 by 132 yielding 8.4. Thus on average Investors Desire Hulk #1 8 times as much as JIM #84.  The most surprising to me was the strength of FF#5 as the top non number 1 issue. Investors are very bullish on t...

Amazingly Secret Approach Using an Incredibly Novel Data Analysis Procedure for Comic Book Investing and Speculation.  Introduction and Material and Methods             In order to isolate potential key issues to focus my investing efforts on, I used a data analysis approach based on established values from two collecting universes within in the ASM run of the silver age issues ( Fantastic Four (Issues 1 to 53). I gathered value data from a variety of sources representing both serious investors (Insiders – I) and not serious investors (Outsiders-O). This data is current as on 3/2015. I choose to keep my methodology and data gathering proprietary at this time but I am giving my readers a simplified representation of my data that I currently use for my decisions. Results – Fantastic Four (Issues 1 to 53) Table 1. Bias Scores (B SCORE) of All Issues in the Run Issue B Score Issue B Sco...