It is 2021 people! A new month, a new year, and things are looking up. Beyond all the actual life seriousness 2020 taught us, it also showed us that people bored and working from home also caught the collecting bug like the plague. Comics, toys, trading cards, antiques, fine art, jewelry, you name it; demand has been up across the board. The other EXTREMELY exciting thing 2020 left us off with was an incredible slew of announcements from Disney and Marvel Studious. While some collectors are worried about a saturation of content, the majority are ecstatic in preparing for another three years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
During the 2020 Disney Investor’s Day it was confirmed that the Fantastic Four would get a reboot with a proper introduction to the MCU. The only confirmed detail at this point is Jon Watts is set to direct and that the film is happening, but that’s it! The movie is a long way down the pipeline, but it is important information because this is an over a decade long hope for fans. Now it is becoming reality. Other news included confirming the title for Ant-Man 3 as Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and four additional Disney+ series on top of the previously confirmed eight shows. That is a lot of time spent behind a TV, but as always, I am sure devoted fans will find the time to watch them. I know I will but watching the series when they come out is one thing. The point of this article is to take the aforementioned information and apply it to smart investing and collecting habits for 2021. There is a lot of money to be made… potentially. There is always that off chance a movie, series, character etc. flops and nobody cares for the movie. For example, I reflect back to the great crash of Marvel Comics X-Men #101, first appearance of Phoenix after the Dark Phoenix movie. A $5,000 book in 9.8 fell to $3,500.00. That could have just been an outlier, as it was not an MCU, but you never know.
The point here is if you are a believer in the system, drink the Kool-Aid, and do not worry about over saturation of content, start buying up all the early Fantastic Four you can. Any important key books or early Silver Age will be worth putting away. I am happy to say I drink the Kool-Aid, but I started out in life collecting Transformers. That was my passion before starting my career, and we all remember what Michael Bay did to that Franchise.
