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03-11-2010, 06:12 PM | #21 |
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Plus couldn't the god modding of certain characters have killed Comics? [After all look what they've done to one of my favorite ones, Cable!]
After all where's the fun in reading it if the main guy is gonna kick everyone's butt and pretty much gain new powers every time? But seriously, Cable, Bishop, time travel, X-Everything...it got friggin ridiculous. Just overkill. |
03-11-2010, 06:15 PM | #22 |
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The collector market killed the comic industry. Comic books became ultra hot for a few years and comic companies began to sell to a new collecting demographic. These people thought these newer books would put their kids through college someday and bought them like crazy. Due to this phenomena the companies starting printing huge numbers and offering multiple covers for the same issue. Some of the great examples of this are X-men #1 with four covers and X-force #1 with the trading cards sealed in plastic wrap. The height of this was the death of superman tho. I remember lines out the door of my shop to get this comic with a 10 per customer limit. They were selling for $40 within weeks of release. I just looked a few up on ebay selling for $15 shipped today.
The only reason older comics are occasionally valuable is because they are rare and people actually want to buy them. nuff said.
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03-11-2010, 06:20 PM | #23 |
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The collector market killed the comic industry. Comic books became ultra hot for a few years and comic companies began to sell to a new collecting demographic. These people thought these newer books would put their kids through college someday and bought them like crazy. Due to this phenomena the companies starting printing huge numbers and offering multiple covers for the same issue. Some of the great examples of this are X-men #1 with four covers and X-force #1 with the trading cards sealed in plastic wrap. The height of this was the death of superman tho. I remember lines out the door of my shop to get this comic with a 10 per customer limit. They were selling for $40 within weeks of release. I just looked a few up on ebay selling for $15 shipped today.
The only reason older comics are occasionally valuable is because they are rare and people actually want to buy them. nuff said.
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03-11-2010, 06:28 PM | #24 |
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No more demand. People realized buying a variant foiled cover Devilgirl from the Deep #1 isn't going to be Action Comics Vol 1 in the future.
Then there were kids like me who outgrew them and probably had no younger kids to replace me. They were busy with computers and video games. |
03-11-2010, 06:40 PM | #25 |
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I've always loved comics....just been such a good thing to relax reading an old issue [I'm talking early 80's late 80's comics not the new stuff]
I've been picking up Graphic novels left and right for 99 cents to $7 this month. It's always been something I've wondered about...I mean normally you could go to flea markets and find comics I barely find them around here and when I do they're those crappy Valient Comics.....
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03-11-2010, 06:42 PM | #26 |
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I feel that the comic industry is becoming stronger or atleast stabalizing now. I started collecting comics in '94-'95 as a kid and i never cared about values, i liked the stories, art, characters. In about 2000-2001 the local shops seemed to die off around me. It seemed odd, but they were carrying more and more merchandise than comics, they went from 3 walls of comics to 1 wall and 1 wall of toys, 1 wall/counter with videogames, then the magic tables disappeared and long boxes were set out with back issues. Then they would close. 2 Shops I remember the owner bought himself out. He would grab the rarities and jack values on things after a week. Videogames, I love them, but they killed the markets for Trading Cards, Comics, and Action Figures. Al Gore too for creating the internet. j/k.
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03-11-2010, 06:54 PM | #27 |
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My old man to me, circa 1985 -
"I can remember when comic books only cost a dime." Me to my old man - "Hell, I can't even remember comics being THICKER than a dime." Retail pricing killed comics for the kids. Got prohibitively expensive to the point where you couldn't find your favorite titles at the drugstore, the discount retail store, or the convenience store - why would these retailers carry an item where they lose money just putting them out on the floor? A lot of us either had to subscribe to comics (which, if you remember, was a colossal pain in the ass, courtesy of Marvel and DC back in the days before everyone had a credit card), or head three towns over to where those fanboy pricks ran their comic and collectible stores like their own personal disdain-for-everyone-not-wearing-a-Moon-Knight-shirt kingdoms. Oh, and that cable access show - Collectin' Stuff - killed it for a lot of us up in the Twin Cities back in the 90s.
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03-11-2010, 06:57 PM | #28 |
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The direct market is also a joke. The audience is getting older without attracting any new blood. If anything has saved comics over here it's the manga explosion that happened a couple years ago (thanks in no small part to Adult Swim). All of a sudden you've got kids, teens, and *gasp!* even girls reading comics.
For the most part though, american comics are still stuck in the same superhero ghetto, and for every ray of brillience (Planet Hulk), you get five acts of stupidity (One More Day). Dear Joe Quesada, Here's a razorblade, now go retcon yourself. |
03-11-2010, 07:01 PM | #29 |
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Most of my comic reading days where when they were 65-75 cents.
I think it jumped to $1 from there and that became expensive. |
03-11-2010, 07:05 PM | #30 |
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The comic industry got too greedy.. They would make you buy other comic books to finish a storyline that began in the comic you were buying.. They started producing too many incentive covers either in foilemboss or die-cut.. Then you had multiple comics for say the X-men it just got way too much they killed themselves just like the baseball card industry.. They released way too many sets under one name.. Same happened to comics..
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