The Evolution Of The Comic Book Collector - A Guide For Both New & Old Comic Fans

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In this video I pull out the white board once again for another installment of COMIC BOOK COLLECTING 101. This time the topic is "The Evolution Of The Comic Book Collector" - every collector goes on this journey. Its a tale as old as time - the cycle of life. With this video I hope you can see how you may want to operate knowing the evolutionary process. As a comic book "collector" you always want to find yourself in the "buy what you like" window. Hope you guys find this video fun, entertaining and informative.
Hope you guys enjoy the video!
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
02:06 - The Entry Phase
05:12 - The Deep Dive Phase
08:10 - The Evaluation Phase
11:04 - The Key Collector
14:07 - The Trader
17:35 - The Seller
19:05 - The Dealer
21:17 - The Businessman Phase
24:47 - The Jaded Phase
26:10 - The Exit Phase
27:30 - Conclusion
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@timothymarkin4481 11 месяцев назад

I started reading comics in the early 70s when you could find them at every grocery and drug store around. They were easy to find and fairly cheap. The environment is completely different today and I don’t think if I was 7-8 years old today, I would be interested in them. It takes a certain kind of person to be interested in them; in the 70s, they were a part of almost every kid’s childhood because they were so ubiquitous; times are definitely different now.

@RonSM2112 11 месяцев назад

Yep......guessing we are about the same age, and I totally agree with this. We all started as simple "readers" back then, not "collectors." With $1.00, you could walk home with four comics, and pcik what you wanted from month to month. It wasn't until I'd been reading for several years that I discovered the back issue store, and I'd say that was when I became a "collector."

@reprintranch 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, I think of my earliest years as being a comic book “accumulator” because I purchased only new off-the-rack comics and only obtained back issues if someone gave me one or I happened upon something interest at a yard sale. This was in the mid-60s to early ‘70s.

@GerarddeSouza-yt3fc 10 месяцев назад

We didn't have home video; we didn't have streaming; we didn't have every superhero realized on film, we collected them to have our entertainment on demand.

@burnsbabe87 11 месяцев назад

I got to that "Buy What you Like" phase fast, and I'm not mad about it. It didn't take long to make it clear those "Top 10" lists and such are mostly hype and nothing else.

@DanSchawbel 11 месяцев назад

I got there in 1.5 years lol

@legionofpaper 11 месяцев назад

100% agree! The listings are a "nice to know", but definitely not something you should dwell on.

@steppingrazor9685 11 месяцев назад

This video is a work of art.

@stevetinker2058 11 месяцев назад

Great lesson prof Swag. Since I am currently in the dealer phase of your evolutionary progression, I am now scared shitless of becoming a businessman!

@Palvaran 11 месяцев назад

Thank you again Mickey. As always, great presentation and humor. Your ability to quantify things and explain it is amazing.

@jamesjordan3051 11 месяцев назад

Well done swags. U earned my subscribe this vid

@Swagglehaus 11 месяцев назад

Woot! Appreciate it 🙏

@jeffstanley6013 11 месяцев назад

"... sit in your basement, next to a water pipe ..." - Oh my gosh! That's hilarious! Been watching his channel for several months now but only JUST noticed the pipe the other day! LOL Great vid, as always! It's taken me 30 years to reach the Trader phase (sold my first book on Ebay earlier this year).

@hk9249 11 месяцев назад

Other than the ebay example (because we know after fees, that 25 bucks is more like $17)... this is one of the best videos about collecting comics out there

@paoloaccomando5249 11 месяцев назад

Single greatest Comic Book Video ever posted! I'm 53,I have been a hard core Comic collector for 40 years,I use to be a budding artist,and in fact was Gotham City Comics main artist for 2 years,I penciled many superheros for free at the 1990 Chicago Comicon and got into a war with unnamed Marvel artists because was doing it for free and of corse a dad with little kids doesn't care who draws it,but a price of free? Well now you have my ear!!! Anyways,bro,your channel is the most honest and true look at Comics I have ever seen!!! EXCELLENT!!!!!!❤❤❤❤

@sirloifior 11 месяцев назад

Thanks man,that was really great and funny❤❤❤❤❤ Very informative!!!

@07matronix 10 месяцев назад

Just wow, this is just mind blowing. Felt like a Nolan movie.

@kennythecomiccollector 11 месяцев назад

Wow, this was very insightful bro! I found myself being described in those early phases. 😀

@omnibud2708 11 месяцев назад

Hilarious, informative, and scary accurate 😂 You mapped out my entire journey. I've made it to the buy what you like seller phase. Considering my first name is Chad, I will save myself and my collecting love and stay in this phase forever

@MC-gz9et 11 месяцев назад

Great Video Swag !!! You hit the nail on the head . I can completely relate to this video .

@Jmillz181 11 месяцев назад

You nailed it.

@Swagglehaus 11 месяцев назад

Hehe thx!

@armstrongskyview2810 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic video, please make this a monthly sketch

@darthsneaky 11 месяцев назад

Pffftt...there's a 1 step evolution from noob to comic book god. Buy yourself a pallet or 2 of Shadowhawk #1 and wait for it to go To The Moon, Alice!

@ricknestor8930 11 месяцев назад

another awesomely funny vid , Swagg . i was laughing all the way thru . that's why i've subscribed to your channel !!!

@peterthornton8814 11 месяцев назад

I’m nominating this for best RU-vid video of all time. Loved it! I’m at the key collector phase and trying to decide if I want to move to trader. Thanks Swag!

@noahidecomics 11 месяцев назад

Excellent. TV Quality information.

@demonslayer8085 10 месяцев назад

Bath water, why didn’t I think of that! This vid was not only eye opening, but it was also entertaining and HILARIOUS! Subscribed!

@armstrongskyview2810 11 месяцев назад

Swaggggggg You listened, Thanks for doing this... Fantastic thanks for this, your well informed and very entertaining

@MikeV671 10 месяцев назад

Hey, great video👍🏽 you really put things into perspective for me. I’m currently in my return phase, I so into the hobby growing up in the 90’s (like most kids were back then) I kinda lost my passion for it once I started high school. I am in my early 40’s and just recently got back into collecting again. At the moment I am buying what I like, mostly issues I remember having back in the day. But being away for so long, it’s a very steep learning curve trying to know all the new era of comics. Just finished reading “King In Black”series. Venom was and is my favorite character, and I hope Knull makes his way to the MCU. And one more thing… I just watched your top 50 video and I just want to say, you have an amazing collection, and I was humbled… I like how you only have one slab, just shows your character💯👌🏽 you inspire me to want to just collect, not for what it’s worth (dollar wise) but what the comic means to me. Take care, and I look forward to your future projects.

@pokacat1 11 месяцев назад

Great stuff Swag! I know very much tongue in cheek video but you did miss an important branch. The completionist / Non seller sometimes can be just the one though usually both traits. The endgame being a massive hoarder of all sorts of stuff and leaving others to sort it out after they shake off this mortal coil. There are quite a few who fall into this category and less who manage to change their fate.

@SolveForX 11 месяцев назад

Your deep dive videos are always so entertaining. Haha

@watsonakanowt 11 месяцев назад

definitely in the deep dive / key collector phase now - bought my dad a chunk of the frank miller run for his bday and im looking out for doom covers, oh and spider-boy

@a3marketing991 11 месяцев назад

I love Frank Miller's cover and first Marvel work with John Carter Warlord of Mars #18. Definitely a huge Frank Miller key.

@formulafinds 11 месяцев назад

Great presentation. Finally subscribed after this video - only because I thought I had already done so.

@HaveNoFearComix 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic presentation,. Luckily I'm still in the key collector window, I'll have to make sure I don't take the next step though. Thanks for the warning.

@Swagglehaus 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@blakkcrowncomics 11 месяцев назад

Great vid brother 🔥

@tjnoshow2102 9 месяцев назад

It’s funny nearly spot on. I entered into the buy what you like but at times found my self in the phases before that

@BrandonMcIntyre541 11 месяцев назад

Being the 2nd comment Im leaving I just wanted to say the I will very likely be re-watching this again and again in slower motion. Even if just to pro-long the message extending it to current cinema lengths. So, so, so good. I would love to see more vids with this approach. Thanks for your time and prep. Beautiful execution.

@ddkixk 11 месяцев назад

This video literally described me through out my years of collecting, but I’m still in the key collector phase

@poochman640 11 месяцев назад

your best video yet

@charliehunter_ 10 месяцев назад

Nice! Im buying what i like at the moment and just scored The Walking Dead Compendiums 1-4 for £35 ($44.49 USD) for all 4. Great Video

@tweedy5101 11 месяцев назад

Very good, I enjoyed that. Key collector phase is king..

@lawcheukyui 4 месяца назад

I paused at 24:06 and Google searched "Bath Water," thinking I might have heard it wrong. But it turns out there is such a "collectible" item... Well, I definitely learned something new today.

@billyuscategui 11 месяцев назад

Loved your presentation. You forgot one important phase, that is the all important Marriage Phase. In my case, I was a serious collector growing up in the sixties owning most silver age Marvel books except a couple of dozen books. I continued collecting until such time I got married and you guess it, needed money. So I sold off the vast majority and lost focus on the hobby. It wasn't until I retired that I decided to reenter the hobby.

@robertt9342 11 месяцев назад

Weirdly enough for me, after I got married my wife got me back into comics.

@MetalBum 11 месяцев назад

Oof

@jerrydwallace7040 11 месяцев назад

Haha…I feel like such a cliche! Great video again. I’m still in that buy what you like phase but have the hope of just keeping it a fun hobby and upgrading the keys I have. Thanks again for all of the work….and you comic. Great issue one start

@thenandoknight9953 11 месяцев назад

This was fantastic lol I literally was going hey this sounds familiar 😂😂😂

@midwest_comic_fan 11 месяцев назад

Swagglehaus’ secret power = making constantly interesting, funny content!!!!!

@jeffreydc6788 11 месяцев назад

Great video!! Took me 30 years to finally start selling books. I guess I’m halfway through the evolution.

@GussPlay1020 11 месяцев назад

Cool thanks!

@tommypiffington3374 11 месяцев назад

This has been spot on quite shocking halfway through

@makeroomfordoom 11 месяцев назад

More of this please and thank you

@LoLShadows 11 месяцев назад

It’s like you were inside my head, everything was spot on haha

@popsequentialism7213 11 месяцев назад

Well done, sir.

@Michael-tn9wp 11 месяцев назад

Hilarious and informative! I'm entering the later stages, looking into 'bath water' - dang it!

@davebowen7392 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely brilliant! I've done all of this. I did find a narrow escape clause. I'm currently an eBay seller of 25 years experience, but have just begun allowing myself to collect books I like again without preconditions. It's fun again.

@funkified- 11 месяцев назад

Nailed it! After getting back into the hobby in early 2022, I quickly went through all those early phases and ended up in the collect what you like, and buy/sell phase. Made a lot of mistakes in those first 6 months back in, that Spec FOMO really bit me!

@legionofpaper 11 месяцев назад

Great video and spot on commentary!!! Bottom line, to reside in the "buy what you like" window, we require others to churn out to feed the activity on either end of the evolution. Make sure you make friends along your collecting journey. You never know when opportunities may come!!!!

@miketinson8648 11 месяцев назад

I had to rewind on the Comic Book Business Man descriptor ... superb (however ... I missed 3-4 phases to be a Fraz and Bronze Age horror high grade guy) ... love your work muh'man

@richardzaric2524 11 месяцев назад

Funny video and crazy accurate! I'm still in buy-what-you-like but do a lot of selling and dealing to feed that. Not jaded ... yet! What's funny is I know guys that are totally into high-grade bronze DC horror. That was a lol moment!

@joeball4012 8 месяцев назад

Fantastic video. So sad but true.

@scattercatnoir3380 11 месяцев назад

Fun stuff Swagg! NGL though giving off some slight Dr Gene Scott vibes with that board🙃

@chriscleary3850 11 месяцев назад

That hit hard

@michaelcoudriet5896 11 месяцев назад

well done sir

@zachbrobst9473 11 месяцев назад

Loving my phase 😎

@officialpreppernation 11 месяцев назад

Haven't been into comics since the 80s (Savage Sword of Conan) but seriously thinking about getting back in. Not for money, not to flip comics, but simply because I miss the art and stories. I appreciate this video and subscribed.

@JC-dg6vo 11 месяцев назад

Great how as usual.

@latenite.comics 11 месяцев назад

I peered into the depths of the abyss (collecting journey) and reverted back to the evaluation phase. I feel comfortable here. I might even venture into writing my own stories (comics 😅).

@jrucker4181 11 месяцев назад

😂 I am a unicorn!!!! This video made me laugh. I can see it all. Is it possible to be all of those things? I have 10k books I almost sold a few weeks ago. This is only a small portion of my collection and did not have a key or high value books. I would have still kept all my original art, cards, toys and tens of thousands of books. Oh well I think you should add the Unicorn hoarders that still exist! We buy, keep, chase and read all of our books!

@joegonzalez2917 11 месяцев назад

The buy what you like phase is golden I buy a book it goes up like crazy I can sell it if it drops I am happy to keep it for 30 years.

@guyzuponstaeg6598 11 месяцев назад

Slow clap sir, nicely done.

@brute_nm 11 месяцев назад

Ryan with his water pipes and Excel sheets 😂

@Quasi_Terrible 11 месяцев назад

Hey man I saw you popping around claim sales on the Gram tonight, hope you picked up some crispy Darkhawks or other lesser keys!

@horvathsogranfume658 11 месяцев назад

im a paper smeller too

@jabezcreed 11 месяцев назад

Prefect example of the seller making sacrifices - Chuck with Mile High Comics. He had all those keys and sold them to fund a bigger business. You can't have any emotional attachment to comics at that phase.

@robertt9342 11 месяцев назад

Yet, he loves comics and his attachment has led to him jacking up prices to slow sales so he can hold onto them longer. He’s always been a dealer though.

@jeffkeller9009 11 месяцев назад

Never got into the trader, seller, dealer, businessman. Just stayed a hoarder with boxes and boxes, Running out of room and just giving up.

@richchappell 5 месяцев назад

I didn't realize I was so early in the progression. I recently got back into comic collecting after about a 30 year break. It has been fun (and expensive) trying to catch up on the approximately 1.3 million X-Men related titles and volumes. I'm now almost to the stage where I stop buying $3 bulk items to complete collections and start buying expensive older stuff like 1970s X-Men issues, or the first couple of issues of Ghost Rider or Luke Cage or Secret Wars #8. So far, the most I have spent on a single comic book is $100, for a very minty copy of John Byrne's Next Men #21. Sometime before I die I would like to have every issue of X-Men / Uncanny X-Men (1963). I'm only about 130 issues shy of that goal at the moment, but they are not the $3 issues. I have a hard time imagining myself actually trading or selling any of my comics, so I may end up stuck in my current phase.

@user-zo7mr3op8i 10 месяцев назад

Started collecting DC and shortly after, Marvel. in 1960 (When American comics began being regularly appearing in the U.K). I was 8 at the time and the Silver Age was ongoing but still early enough to catch all the Green Lanterns and JLAs etc. Marvel universe began a couple of years later and I had every one of the keys as they came out (From FF 1). I'm in my 70s now and been through the many phases - selling big collections, buying again, becoming a dealer, totally losing interest then deciding to build a set of reprint books containing all that great 60s stuff. Now I have a pretty extensive wall of Omnibus volumes etc. Trouble is I'm now in my seventies (Not been 8 for almost 64 years). Bit feeble now too. Many of my books are too heavy and cumbersome to comfortably read without a lectern to hold them in. THAT'S comic book evolution.

@JM-jv6cb 11 месяцев назад

Good job swag

@Floridamancomics 11 месяцев назад

Did Mickey leave out the stage where you get whatnot addicted and fill two short boxes with independent comics that don’t hold their value and have to get a separate bank account to maintain domestic bliss?

@uscm223 11 месяцев назад

I’ve been buying wolverine every month since 1988. I have all of his monthly issues up to date of this comment. Been happy for a long while

@200percenthealth 11 месяцев назад

I laughed and almost cried at the @22:11 mark....i am that person.

@beowulf1563 11 месяцев назад

All I hear is spider-boy is going to the Moon BUY! BUY! BUY!

@jeffheath2727 11 месяцев назад

Damn swag . You got us scared lol . I've been trying to only buy what I love but like you said the fomo has people trying to buy everything. It's just not sustainable. I had to learn the hardway. Gotta keep my series under 20 . Lots of people when they first start go crazy . Lol . Thanks great video.

@sixtogarcia9130 11 месяцев назад

Swag, you forgot to include the 15% ebay takes off for each sell.😢

@artisticflavaz8460 11 месяцев назад

Genius

@RexxCollects 11 месяцев назад

I also learned, stay in the V!!! In the V is where you will be happy!!!lmao

@78pts.of.articulation 11 месяцев назад

"Double X Chromosome To the Moon Book" now that's the book to get!

@dakoitcave817 11 месяцев назад

I’m in the horror and Frank Frazetta phase…nearing bath water…

@timelkins3537 11 месяцев назад

I’m a key collector on the verge of becoming a trader. 😉

@markdevera2342 7 месяцев назад

You forgot to add my phase witch i believe is right before the KEY COLLECTOR phase. I like to call the JUNK COLLECTOR phase.

@hinathan5631 8 месяцев назад

You want to learn more about foreigns, its easy to learn but hard [or expensive] to find

@murdock1116 9 месяцев назад

Great Video!

@Swagglehaus 9 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@thousandaireradio3199 11 месяцев назад

The comic book business man was always just a business man. He pretends so good he thinks he actually feels. And maybe he did. Maybe.

@jabezcreed 11 месяцев назад

At what point do the simp covers get introduced?

@GerarddeSouza-yt3fc 10 месяцев назад

These phases are largely foreign to me. I'm a late boomer and comic books still are just another form of entertainment. I guess I was always in a "buy what you like" phase. While it's a bonus if something I bought turned valuable, I'm looking at art and-or story. Take care of them, yes, but I'm saddened that the comic book has primarily become a commodity.

@MetalBum 11 месяцев назад

Lol this is amazing. Be a CHAD

@ComicsCollect 11 месяцев назад

Basically from "never tried drugs" to "Tony Soprano "

@williammaxwell8934 5 месяцев назад

20:04 😂

@JM-jv6cb 11 месяцев назад

The final phase you left off is the dark hawk double cover collector

@Jcarroz 11 месяцев назад

Great video… maybe instead of “key collector” use “focused collector”. I like ur chart. I do a lot of this stuff for work in the tech industry.

@pepOnshow 10 месяцев назад

this video was sent to me and I've always purchased what i love to read i started in 1992 with batman thor green lantern spiderman jl avengers spawn darkness and many more if i'm lucky like i have been many times to get a possible key or hot book off the ones i love to read and buy cool, and I started buying old comics like silver age and bronze age since 2008 obviously of super hero books i like and love to read like Batman and Thor I have over 25 long boxes and really cool room to show them off have I thought of selling them ? NO I will never sell them or trade them (unless I get doubles) because they remind me of a better time and plus it's my favorite form of entertainment. If I die and don't get rid of them I will def leave a will to get donated to various comic shops or send them to exhibits because these books are art and fun to read. I don't like youtubers that are always telling you what to buy or what's hot in prices it defeats the purpose of a collection or the support of comic books because in reality they are just investors and don't collect for the love of comic books or art, and that's fine. But these youtubers make it really difficult for kids to get into comics because if they can't convince their parents to buy them 3.99 tcg pokemon magic whatever if they see how these youtubers skyrocket some of the prices they will think "it's too expensive I will find something cheaper"

@doctornesneb3955 11 месяцев назад

Where does, “I think I’ll try to write my own comic book series!” Fall on the scale???

@KAISERDJG 11 месяцев назад

This man spends time on funnyjunk I can tell

@KAISERDJG 11 месяцев назад

P s love the subtle references to other channels

@Sportboomtimmy 7 месяцев назад

Collected in the 90s Sweet Spider-Man’s death of Superman’s. Then moved on to collecting sports cards.Covid hit mad a killing selling sports cards. I buy graded keys and sigs Stan Lee Todd McFarland. I chase and hunt grails for my PC at a great price only. No idea what place I’m in collecting.

@brandonp9967 11 месяцев назад

I lost it at "everything is shit" phase😆

@kcewing1 11 месяцев назад

Bath water...BOOM!!

@NearMintNando 11 месяцев назад

As someone who has already experienced the "everything is shit" phase in other trades and hobbies, I really hope I don't eventually get there with comics too! 😂