2023 PNJ Comics Canadian Price Variant Market Report
Prices came crashing down hard and fast on 99% of the comic book market ...
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Prices came crashing down hard and fast on 99% of the comic book market ...
Paul Clairmont's credited CPV Price Guide articles cover CPV market reporting, newsstand-comics awareness, and rarity and top-issue analysis.
It was not easy to predict what would become more expensive because conventional economics didn't drive pricing in collectibles during the pandemic and especially in a niche area such as Canadian Price Variants ...
People need to remember the distribution channels for these books was not speciality shops with owners wearing white gloves carefully laying them out for the fine art crowd to come and carefully handle. These books were stuffed into unforgiving newsstands and spinner racks in convenience stores and grocery stores with employees unloading them with the same care as tossing tin cans of corn onto a store shelf ...
If you can achieve being first to market with the highest certified copy of even a semi-key book you can almost set your price ...
Here is a simple and very common-sense approach to understand the scarcity of Canadian Price Variant comics ...