What is a comic book 'speculator'?

What is a comic book 'speculator'?

Mark Zaid (Owner of Esquire Comics) gives expert video advice on: When did comic book collecting become popular?; How do you become a comic book collector?; Should I insure my comic books? and more...

A comic book speculator is a comic book investor. Obviously there are individuals who come in to the hobby, who don't have necessarily interest in the books. They are not reading the comic books, they are looking at it from an investment standpoint. By buying this Superman 1 in this grade, for this amount of money and by going to the air, will it turn a profit? There is nothing wrong with that, there's not a lot of people who do it, a lot of people who could make a good deal about the money of it. But I would think, at least for me, the reason why I am in this, is that it's a hobby. You can make money out of a hobby, you can be both an investor and a collector. Sometimes they bang against one and other, because you have to sell the comic you love so much, but if you can understand that you re not doing it only for the enjoyment of the item of the book, but the baseball card, the stamp, the coin, but also for the investment quality, I think its the combination of the best of both worlds.