Hmm, wonder if this will join the King Kong insert on the list of "high price paid and did NOT make a profit when selling" list?
wouldn't surprise me
while investments can be made at some level in collectibles, reality is that the average collector of any type of collectible doesn't have the business asset truly needed to be able to achieve profits in general: a solid customer list and their own website, mailing list or catalog to be able to sell without going to someone else who gets a commission (sometimes quite a high commission) and that doesn't even take into account market forces that work against any investor in any market.
Universal horror paper and maybe to some extent 50s horror-sf has suffered considerably since the financial meltdown and the Kerry Haggard scandal with both factors dovetailing in at the same time in 2008/2009, while at the same time lots of pre-1960 paper has diminishing values due to generational aspects of collecting. Even lots of my own buys (lots of them) have turned out to be poor "bank accounts" because of a reducing market in that area, or an overabundance of such material being offered in a small number of venues and when you consider that I am in perfect position to be an actual investor in collectibles due to my wealth of knowledge, longtime customer list and ability to sell with no external costs, it becomes very obvious how poor collectibles as investment can be