San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives: Where to Put Your Money
Are you ready for the biggest pop culture buying festival of the year?
Hello, and welcome to the uncanny seventh issue of Collectibulls - your monthly tracker of the hottest new collectibles across the pop culture world.TL;DR: This newsletter is not investment advice.
🚨 Hot List
SDCC 2024 Exclusives
COMICS. ACTION FIGURES. EVERYTHING.
The biggest comic-con is less than 1 month away and the exclusive comics and action figure images have been dropping like crazy and has everyone excited.
There are a few I am excited about like the GI Joe Once-A-Man Cobra Commander action figure ($40) from GI Joe: The Movie which is such a deep cut how can any child of the 80s not want it? Hasbro must know how old the people who buy their exclusives are, since they are also offering a Death’s Head action figure ($40) - a character from the Doctor Who and Transformers UK comics - deeeep cut! The SDCC Unofficial Blog is keeping track of all the new stuff dropped.
Here are 5 of my personal favorites based on coolness or nostalgia:
Superman 7″ Scale Gold Label Figure from McFarlane Toys ($40)
G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes – Commando Edition from Mezco ($112)
Batman Hot Wheels Batmobile Collector Set from Mattel ($50)
Bubblegum Crisis: Complete Archive Hardcover Collection from Udon Studios ($70)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eastman & Laird first appearances 40th Anniversary 2-pack from NECA ($70)
What are you buying?
It’s not hard to find out what the hot exclusives will be - just do a quick “SDCC pre-order” search on your favorite secondary market and you’ll find things like the Batman Hot Wheels collection already there for $140 and the SHFigurarts Son Goku and Son Goku 2-pack at $180.
Lets be honest though, going to SDCC is very expensive - $350 for a ticket, $300 a night hotel room x 4 nights, $500 airfare - so a 200% mark-up on these figures is not that bad in overall budgeting.
If you wanted to hit the show as an investor in exclusives this issue we will take a quick look at what has hit big in Comic-Cons of the past 2 years. If you ever wondered why there were massive lines at the Funko area of SDCC: now you’ll know.
From SDCC 2022
BRZRKR #1 BAIT Exclusive Trad Moore B&W Cover
🌶️ Original Retail: $40. Increase: 1,275%
GI Joe Classified: Dr. Mindbender action figure
🥵 Original Retail: $40. Increase: 275%
Freddy Funko As Optimus Prime with Black Light Funko! POP
🌶️ Original Retail: $30. Increase: 2,940%
From SDCC 2023
Mondo X-Men: The Animated Series Logan 1/6 Scale Action Figure
🔥 Original Retail: $215. Increase: 132%
Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron “Storyboard Series” Set Of 3
🥵 Original Retail: $60. Increase: 733%
Freddy Funko as Spartan Freddy Funko POP!
🌶️ Original Retail: $30. Increase: 2,733%
What we can learn here:
The more limited the better: 500 pcs and under.
The lower the retail price the better: Under $100.
Funkos have the best return 😅
Wolverine #50 Original Artwork (UPDATE)
ORIGINAL COMIC ART
Wow that was fast! I thought you might like to see this quick follow-up from last weeks story on Jim Lee restoring his original art for Wolverine #50. 33 years later he brought this piece back to life by using an ink that won’t fade. See the original here.
🐺 Original Sale: $40,000. Increase: ∞%
Uncle Scrooge #1 Variant by Pepe Larraz 1:100
COMIC BOOKS
The newest Marvel x Disney book is Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime and you know the Disney collectors are going to come into comic shops for this and then the Marvel fans are coming in for this 1:100 Pepe Larraz (X-Men) cover. This book is hitting $150 on secondary. There were a whopping 16 variant covers in total but the regular Alex Ross one is the one I like the most, but then again, when else will you see Frank Miller or Walt Simonson draw Scrooge McDuck?
🦆 Original Retail: $7.99. Increase: 2,042%.
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