This week, columnist Rob Salkowitz looks at recent trends for financial assets, what that might mean for collectibles, and suggests we buckle up.

These are estimates of graphic novels sales by Diamond Comic Distributors U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2022.

These are estimates of graphic novels sales by Diamond Comic Distributors U.S. to comic specialty stores during April 2022.

These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.

TCGplayer released their May data for sealed product prices and sales, which showed some new trends that have developed in the TCG collectibles market over the course of the month.

Top manga coming in August include an adaptation of Disney’s Cruella and a high school romance with a time-travel twist.

This week, Scott Thorne follows up on the shortage in collector supplies and also looks at organized play roll-out post-pandemic.

Nostalgix announced that Nostalgix TCG will be headed to retail stores in summer of 2022.

TCGplayer released their June 2022 sealed TCG product sales data and the price changes over the course of the month for their website. This new information brings to light new insights and trends that may have developed in the TCG market.

Thieves leave the money and take the trading cards from a Seattle game store, and Philadelphia’s ground-breaking Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse is closing its doors.