They will be a good blue chip now.
Star Wars was the most popular comic book of the 1970s.
So many people were introduced to comics because of Star Wars.
Star Wars kept Marvel in business.
Star Wars comic saved Marvel.
Leave it to Roy Thomas to add a little common sense to the over the top exaggeration: “Marvel benefitted tremendously,” Thomas says. “At that time, comics were having problems because newsstands and mom and pop stores were drying up. I don’t know if you could call Star Wars the comic that saved Marvel, but it certainly came along at a time when it made a big difference.”
There aren't a lot of numbers for publisher's during that time, but Amazing Spider-man went from 273,000 in 1975 total paid circulation to 281,000 in 1977, a small dip in 1978 to 258,000 (no numbers in 1979) to 296,000 in 1980. Similar type of deal with other Marvel Comics during that period.
I think saying Star Wars kept Marvel in business is an extreme over statement.
+1
To all of this. And it also underscores how utterly common the book really is. This book and a few others in the copper/modern age are on very serious "bubble watch" right now.
-J.
I disagree on this one.
The ebay auctions don't look shilled, and when a book is also selling for higher prices (net) on the boards than on Ebay that's a pretty good sign.