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That 90s variant cover phase cost me way more than I'll admit
Back in 1993 I went all in on those hologram and foil covers (you know, the ones they said would be worth something someday). I must have dropped around $400 on a dozen of them from my local shop on Main Street. Now they're all sitting in a longbox collecting dust, probably worth about $5 total if I'm lucky. Wasted a whole summer's worth of lawn mowing money on cardboard that looks flashy but has no real value. Did anyone else get roped into that variant cover hype train back then? How much did you sink into those things before you figured it out?
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gibson.morgan1d ago
Man that's just how it goes with every collectible craze. People always chase the shiny thing thinking it's an investment when it's really just a trap for our wallets.
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Yeah, I got burned pretty good on those too. I think I put close to $300 into the X-Men foil covers and a couple of the Spider-Man hologram issues. The kicker is I still have them in a box in my basement and I can't bring myself to toss them because of the money I sunk into them. @gibson.morgan hit the nail on the head about the shiny trap. My advice is to just hang onto them for the memories at this point. If you want to make money off comics, buy the key issues from the Silver Age, not the flashy covers from the 90s.
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