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04-06-2012, 09:40 AM | #141 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Dec 2011
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Overproduction, Speculation, bad distribution, abandoning the newsstand market, almost no kid comics anymore.
Here in Germany, we still have a large selection of comics for small kids, under 10, sold together with a cheap plastic toy, but they have moved almost all comics for readers above the age of 10 to the collectors market. But a 11 year old reader cant shell out $ 7 for a 48 page german superhero comic. So almost only adult collectors buy the new superhero comics. Thats fine, as long as the fan base exists, but it cant work in the long run, if there is no new reading generation. Because of exorbitant oil and gas prices, Ive had to cut my monthly comic budget from $ 150 to under $ 100. If there is only one interesting Masterwork in the month, there isnt much left.... |
04-06-2012, 10:50 AM | #142 |
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The new 52.
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04-06-2012, 11:27 AM | #143 |
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Two years ago I was in my local comic shop when one of the speculators came in with 3 long boxes of '90s comics. When he told the clerk what he had, he was told no thanks.
He started to get really angry, the clerk pointed to the dollar bins and told him he had at least 10 copies of everything the guy brought in in those bins. He told the guy he'd make more money if he went across the street to the library and donated them for the tax write off. He wasn't being a dick, but he told me every other month, for years, someone who bought all these books hoping to pay off their college loans comes in expecting to walk out the door with thousands of dollars. They alwasy get furious when they find out all the money they sank into those books was for nothing. When half a million copies were printed and they were all preserved, the demand just isn't there anymore.
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04-06-2012, 11:48 AM | #144 |
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Quote:
Two years ago I was in my local comic shop when one of the speculators came in with 3 long boxes of '90s comics. When he told the clerk what he had, he was told no thanks.
He started to get really angry, the clerk pointed to the dollar bins and told him he had at least 10 copies of everything the guy brought in in those bins. He told the guy he'd make more money if he went across the street to the library and donated them for the tax write off. He wasn't being a dick, but he told me every other month, for years, someone who bought all these books hoping to pay off their college loans comes in expecting to walk out the door with thousands of dollars. They alwasy get furious when they find out all the money they sank into those books was for nothing. When half a million copies were printed and they were all preserved, the demand just isn't there anymore. |
04-06-2012, 01:20 PM | #145 |
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Northwood, NH
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There are still plenty of kids comic books out there.
The problem is that they kids don't have access to them. Does no good for Archie or Rescue Rangers or Darkwing Duck or the Marvel kiddie line or Tiny Titans to be in the direct market stores. Kids won't find them there. Also, I hate the idea that a kid needs a kid comic. Guess what my first comic was? G.I. Joe. Followed quickly by Transformers, Avengers, X-Men, etc.. The same stuff the adults were reading. I read the scene where Jean Grey and Cyclops had sex on the couch in Ship in X-Factor way back in my early teens. I also had some of the old Disney Whitman as well as the horror comics that were available on the newsstand as well. A book doesn't need to be a "kid" book for a kid to read it and more often then not, it has the opposite result of what we want. A kid reads Tiny Titans, why would he go and pick up Teen Titans? The thought is that it's a natural progession, but it's not necessariy that way. That same kid reading Tiny Titans will outgrow it, he may not end up ever picking up Teen Titans.
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04-06-2012, 01:57 PM | #146 |
Cobra Viper
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Location: los angeles
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Like many others have said, in the 90's comics could be found everywhere and then comes Death Of Superman and Knightfall that the average non-comic collector bought up tons of copies thinking they would retire on them.
Around this time there were also the crap Image stuff which can now be found in the 50 cent bins. I've mostly stopped buying singles for 10 years now because the prices of $2.99 or $3.99 doesn't justify a 32 page comic that I know wait for the TPB's. But now there's the decision of whether to buy the hardcover of standard TPB. |
04-06-2012, 02:02 PM | #147 |
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I was saying all those things during the time of the comics boom. How can bagged "special" copies of the same comic be worth something later if everyone has them? The reason old comics were worth something was because at the time, they held no value and most people threw them away.
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04-10-2012, 04:46 PM | #148 |
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For me what killed comics in the 90s was hipping them up. I did not need my heros to be hip or brooding I just wanted more of the stories I grew up on in the 80s.
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04-10-2012, 04:58 PM | #149 |
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Not sure, but I love comics on my iPad....I didn't think I would as much as I do.
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04-10-2012, 09:38 PM | #150 |
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