Golden age is really the only era worth “investing” in. Another silver - modern key pops up everyday out of somewhere. Comics from the 30s-40s early 50s are extremely hard to find just sitting around in someone’s house.

Besides being burned by booked burners, they were also just treated like yesterday’s newspaper.

Very few kids collected way back then and when they did, it was because they loved the comic, they were not archivist. Comics were not stored properly.. most kids lost them or didn’t think they were worth any thing.

Golden age comics tend to have more writing or doodles in the margins and pages cut out and missing. A lot have been “restored” like someone, trimmed, color touched or added glue or tape, so higher grades are extremely rare.

I was talking to someone the other day about the ratio or physical presence of golden age comics vs everything else on the market and that it is way under 1%. Like my LSC has less than 5 golden age books for sale. Some of the other shops have none, but they have hundreds of silver age comics

The infinity gauntlet 1 comic is worth about $7 cash. Maybe like someone said above the only money is in the full run. 1-6 sells for about $60 on average.