CPV Price Guide Advisor Profile
Cover price variant collector and historian. (Contact by email)
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If you went to the comic shop and you bought your books and you put them in a box and you kept them in a closet, you haven't done something special, you've done the common thing, you've done what everybody else did ...
Angelo Virone's credited CPV Price Guide articles cover CPV market reporting, CGC census and certified-market trends, newsstand-comics awareness, and rarity and top-issue analysis.
2024 has been a banner year when it comes to scandals with a 3rd party grading company known as CGC, which still sting investors and collectors to this day ...
I cannot tell you how many times I track books I want to buy and later discover that they settled in the USA ...
A growing segment of the collecting community is discovering the desirability and true scarcity of CPV's and now they want to own a piece of the pie ...
I predict with confidence, if the economy holds up, Key CPV's will break many more records given that new collectors as well as seasoned ones, not yet into this space, develop a better understanding of their true potential ...
Given the fact that regular newsstand copies for key Copper and Modern age books are now selling at multiples to their direct edition counterparts, I strongly believe and predict that KEY CPV's in the highest grades are presently under-valued as newsstand price variants because they are the scarcest of the first printings ...
It's interesting to see well known collectors who never fully got into Canadian Price Variant comics now entering the space paying big bucks for top graded key issues ...
The Quebec Effect definitely would have had some noteworthy directional impact on the "big picture" rarity characteristics for Canadian Price Variant comics ...
Angelo and I investigate the ThunderCats #1 situation.
Introducing my personal method when investing: I call it my ' Comic Score Card ' ...
