As we’ve discussed recently, Marvel’s hot streak at the box office and in the hearts of fans seems nearly unstoppable. The latest Avengers movie, Endgame, is closing in on $2 billion globally for its first week in theaters. That number is staggering, but not surprising. Endgame
has a legitimate claim to being the most anticipated movie of all time.
Those of us who lived through the 90s remember the fever that surrounded Star Wars Episode
1, or more recently, the other return of the franchise with Episode 7. In both cases, the rush of the franchise’s return died away in rather short order, or at least, dissipated to a degree.
Certainly, movies like the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Dark Knight
Rises were major tentpole events.
None of them compare to Endgame because of the sheer scope of what has now been dubbed
“The Infinity Saga”. It was the culmination of 22 movies over 11 years. That has never been done in cinema. Even high-volume series like James Bond had their outings spread out over decades, with different actors, wildly different tones, and very little connection to one another.
Marvel set out a strategy to translate the cohesiveness of their comic book universe to film, and
have done so perhaps even more cohesively than the comics.
Marvel goodwill is at an all-time high. Will they be able to keep it going? It seems unlikely, but
after 22 movies, the quality that has actually improved exponentially over time, and a movie that just
topped the fantastic Infinity War, Marvel failing is a hard bet to take. Movies like Iron Man and
Captain America: The First Avenger, which were upper-echelon comic book movies at the time
of release now seem almost quaint in the face of the recent hits.
We’ve discussed plenty recently about what the movies have done for the price of Marvel key
issues, especially oft-forgotten bronze era issues featuring, at the time, obscure characters.
Silver Surfer #44, the debut of the Infinity Gauntlet, which hails from the black hole of comic
value that is the 90s, has done well recently with the increasingly iconic stature of the Gauntlet.
When Google has an Infinity Gauntlet button that makes half of their searches disappear upon
clicking it, you know that golden glove has hit the big time.
So this leaves the question: buy, sell, or hold?
Buy – Marvel is unstoppable. Characters like Captain America and Iron Man are at the peak of
their popularity, but the recent Fox purchase promises to introduce a new era of Fantastic Four
and X-Men, with plenty of iconic issues and stories primed to hit a second wind. Meanwhile,
Marvel is digging into their history to pull out cosmic characters like The Eternals and Adam
Warlock that will put them in front of a new generation.
Sell – If you have Marvel comics, you could hold them and wait for the MCU to increase their values even more. Or, you could cash out with good will at an all-time high. Coast2Coast
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