The best selling comic book of all time was X-Men #1. No it’s not the first X-Men comic from the 1970s, it was a comic Marvel released in the 90s. The collectors all bought it because it was a #1 thinking it would be worth a lot of money some day. And this is exactly why Marvel did this.
Right now there’s probably at least a million copies of that comic preserved in mint condition by collectors. It’s worth about what they paid for it in the 90s… because there’s so many out there.
I do remember a neighbor years ago who had a pile of X-Men issues from different times, and they were just ready to be read. No special covers, no gloves, no… while I hung around their house after school, I was asked to go freely read any of them, and it was truly entertaining reading comic books than just trying to hoard them.
The 90’s were a golden age for companies to trick people into thinking they were going to get rich someday. It had to do with the rising popularity of shows like Antique Roadshow and the expanding reach of media and stories about old comics and paintings being discovered in yard sales and auctioned for tens of thousands or millions of dollars.
I still have boxes and boxes of “first issues” with die-cut, holographic covers and other stupid gimmicks. I already dumped my old collection of trading cards and action figures all trying to cash in, I’ll probably have a big free box of comics and donate or burn anything leftover.
Seems like some things are the same. Seen those pictures of huge Funko pop walls, people expecting to those figures to rise in value. Now also we have other “get rich” gambling scene in loot box collectibles like labubu or similar.
It do feel like burning everything of these would be good.
I remember, around this time, Spider Man relaunched with a dozen different holographic covers, and there were a million variations of The Death of Superman. Everyone thought they were going to be worth big bucks down the line.
The best selling comic book of all time was X-Men #1. No it’s not the first X-Men comic from the 1970s, it was a comic Marvel released in the 90s. The collectors all bought it because it was a #1 thinking it would be worth a lot of money some day. And this is exactly why Marvel did this.
Right now there’s probably at least a million copies of that comic preserved in mint condition by collectors. It’s worth about what they paid for it in the 90s… because there’s so many out there.
I do remember a neighbor years ago who had a pile of X-Men issues from different times, and they were just ready to be read. No special covers, no gloves, no… while I hung around their house after school, I was asked to go freely read any of them, and it was truly entertaining reading comic books than just trying to hoard them.
The 90’s were a golden age for companies to trick people into thinking they were going to get rich someday. It had to do with the rising popularity of shows like Antique Roadshow and the expanding reach of media and stories about old comics and paintings being discovered in yard sales and auctioned for tens of thousands or millions of dollars.
I still have boxes and boxes of “first issues” with die-cut, holographic covers and other stupid gimmicks. I already dumped my old collection of trading cards and action figures all trying to cash in, I’ll probably have a big free box of comics and donate or burn anything leftover.
Seems like some things are the same. Seen those pictures of huge Funko pop walls, people expecting to those figures to rise in value. Now also we have other “get rich” gambling scene in loot box collectibles like labubu or similar. It do feel like burning everything of these would be good.
I remember, around this time, Spider Man relaunched with a dozen different holographic covers, and there were a million variations of The Death of Superman. Everyone thought they were going to be worth big bucks down the line.
They probably have to wait another 40 years, then it’ll be totally worth it!