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Sir Tannly

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    Is there a younger generation collecting comics?

    in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions

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    On 1/4/2019 at 2:06 PM, jimbo_7071 said:

     

    BBM (boldface by me)

    I have to agree. Another question might be, are there younger collectors collecting anything? I work in education and interact with young people regularly. Precious few have any interest in collecting anything at all. They live their lives digitally. It's unreal. Some researchers have speculated that the digital/social-media age is actually causing changes in they way humans' brains develop. I see some students reading comics online, but I rarely see any reading paper comics. I became hooked on comics at age 10; I don't see any young people hooked on collecting anything else. Collecting just isn't a part of the way they experience the world. I won't say there won't any young comic book collectors thirty years from now, but there will be very few. The hobby does have a shelf life, as any pop-culture-related hobby does. I realized that a long time ago, and I'm fine with it because I collect for enjoyment, not profit. I think of the money I put into my collection as entertainment money. After all, if I were to spend $5,000 on an overseas trip (which would be easy to do), I wouldn't get any money back from that, either.

    Back in the 80s and 90s,some very good businessmen like Bill Hughes did an excellent job of convincing people that expensive comic books were investments. It was an illusion, but that illusion has been sustained long enough to make some people fairly wealthy. The hobby isn't going to tank in the near future, but if you're in your thirties, you might not want your comic collection to be your nest egg. If you're in your fifties, you probably don't have to worry.

    As an old guy, I think I find it kind of dumb for 4 people to go to lunch (as an example) ALL in a booth looking at a small screen. Happens constantly though...

    Meanwhile, I am at a point that holding these pristine Heavy Metal mags is dumb also. What am I waiting for? The interested demographic to shrink even more?

    The very first issue to go out of print was Sept 1978 (or so) I have 4 copies that have never been opened. Gotta look that up to confirm.

    I thought some day... $$$  But alas, not to be. So, do I get them graded and slabbed? I'm still learning... and getting a bit discouraged.