Comic Book Value Appreciation has a problem, and Kelekshen is here to solve it
Several criteria are used to determine just how valuable a comic is or has the potential to become, such as limited availability, the popularity of the creator, film or TV adaptation of the story and characters, and the condition of the comic. Action Comics #1 A Single issue of the 1st appearance of Superman Sold for $3 million in 2014. This type of value appreciation is only possible due to scarcity.
Problem
With the increased popularity of comics from record-breaking movies like Avengers and Black Panther, publishers have printed more books to meet that demand. Meanwhile, as the comic industry continues to grow towards digital formats, the lack of scarcity has become untenable, making it challenging to maintain the value appreciation aspects of new comics in digital format. Making the possibility of sales such as Action Comics #1 not probable anymore.
Data hub GPAnalysis calculate total revenues from comic book trading at $1,048,922,897 USD since 2001, showing the power of the comic book secondary market that is ready to be streamlined by NFT blockchain technology.
Solution
Kelekshen, the web 3.0 home for the comic book community, brings all the benefits of NFTs and blockchain technology to the comic book world. The distinct characteristics of NFTs allow digital media to be verifiably scarce and unique. The Kelekshen platform empowers creators and collectors to leap into the next century of comics. Using membership NFTs the Kelekshen marketplace enables creators and publishers to launch new digital comics. Comic collectors can buy, read and trade on the secondary market while maintaining scarcity, uniqueness and exclusivity, and lifelong royalties for appreciating comic book assets.
What is Kelekshen?
Kelekshen is an NFT comic marketplace founded by A.D. Largie and Abdur Rafay where members launch, buy, sell, and trade digital comics, manga, and graphic novels. Giving comic enthusiasts a new model of digital ownership and creators a new model for value appreciation of their creations and continued royalties for their work. Kelekshen is the first NFT comic marketplace with an authentic purpose for comic book creators, readers, and collectors.
Benefits for creators There are many amazing comic artists, most of them displaying their work on platforms like Instagram for likes and shares. By bringing their creativity to the Kelekshen platform, they can generate lifelong royalties from sales on the secondary market as the popularity of your comic creations grows. There are also tons of other benefits. Read the whitepaper where we spell it all out in great detail. The Kelekshen NFT comic marketplace levels the playing field for comic book creators & publishers of all sizes to monetize their content while maintaining scarcity & building asset appreciation and fans.
What are benefits the benefits for comic collectors and readers?
As a comic book collector or reader Kelkeshen NFTs represent the value of your comic book collection. Your comics are always in mint condition and cannot be stolen, lost or damaged. You can buy, sell or read them anytime. There are tons of other benefits. Read the whitepaper where we spell it all out in great detail.
How much Is the NFT?
The Kelekshen marketplace allows comic book creators and publishers to launch new comics. Each new episode comes with its own NFT for access. The prices are set by each individual publisher/creator.
Will Kelekshen launch a utility token?
$KELK — Kelekshen is proud to be a community project for creators, collectors, crypto lovers, and raving NFT fans. Kelekshen aims to be the premiere NFT marketplace where you can mint, buy and sell comic assets in an easy-to-use user interface and across blockchain networks.
Marketplace liquidity mining is a coin adoption model that distributes KELEK tokens proportionally with marketplace activity. 35% of $KELEK total supply will be released through marketplace mining.
To participate, adopters must be token holders, creators, or collectors.
Get $KELEK: MINT new comics, BUY, SELL and read comics on the platform.
All the details about the $KELEK token can be found in the whitepaper and pitch deck.
Kelekshen will also hold pre-sale initial offerings for early supporters. Register for pre-sale notification here https://forms.gle/usEKf3gq1bQyiuHU9
Will Kelekshen drop originals?
Absolutely (!)
I want to help; what can I do? how I can get involved?
Invite other comic book collectors, fans, and creators to our Discord, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and website.
Kelekshen is currently in pre-launch. Creators and pre-sale participants can sign up here https://forms.gle/usEKf3gq1bQyiuHU9
