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On 5/13/2024 at 4:33 PM, shadroch said:

May I suggest that a committee be formed to examine whether a committee is needed to look into this?

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On 5/12/2024 at 8:21 AM, gunsmokin said:

Woah..

Woah indeed.

Think that just sold at auction recently for $8K. Let me see if I can find it....

EDIT: Here it is:

https://www.comicconnect.com/item/1035769?tzf=1

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a) crack

2) 'bout tree-fiddy

and

"Phil's Parking Lot"

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On 5/8/2024 at 4:40 PM, Dr. Haydn said:

When I started reading Marvel Comics around 1974, the reprint titles were doing some of the peak late 60s material. The Tablet Saga from Spider-man, Galactus from FF 74-77...

Agree. Those reprints really inspired my collecting habits once I had some disposable income. 

I was buying several titles a month pretty regularly in the mid '70's like Avengers. Then I'd grab a Marvel Triple Action reprint and see a little blurb about "*As seen WAAAAY back in Avengers #8" and it set a hook.

Lately, been picking these up cheap from the dive boxes just for the fun of it - grabbed the Marvels Greatest Comics FF-Silver Surfer reprints for $5 for the set. Still a nice deal for the entertainment value bang per buck.

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58 here as well  

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On 5/1/2024 at 8:00 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

 

Best I can do ATM, idk if the threads are them, but quick sesrch

Thanks sir 

The poll results look dorked, but judging from the posts, the demographics don't seem to have changed much over the past 20 years.

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On 5/1/2024 at 7:35 PM, batman_fan said:

I think post retirement spending may slow, I know it will for me

+1

Hopefully we can find the last poll and compare results over time.

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On 5/1/2024 at 7:25 PM, MAR1979 said:

wanna know why there won't be another comics boom...~67% of collectors are 50+

Exceptions, Outliers, and Hot item De Jour will always exist but the pandemic was the hobby's last across the board hurrah. The only question is how fast attrition occur.

 

 

But isn't that the age period (when you look at the sum of 40+ to 70) when people have the most disposable income? 

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Fellow Paper Boys Unite!

Delivered the now defunct Cleveland Press 7 days a week for about 3 years before we moved out of town during my 6th grade year. Had to do the weekly collections, which never really bothered me since the weather blows 6+ months a year in Cleveland and the sidewalks were seriously uneven. Hated the Sunday paper - the wagon would be plenty heavy. Grew my route to 4 city blocks by the end - think I pocketed a whopping $5 a week.

Moved to the country and got a job on a farm that paid $5 a day (plus food, drinks, horse riding), but it was real work.

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