90's dreck posted by Anyone

[Hepcat]

If you stockpiled copies of New Mutants 87, 98 or the newly hot book X-Factor 6....

 

If you stockpiled anything since the late seventies, you were one of many, meaning financially you will lose out - big time!

 

[DougC]

The 90's get a bad wrap for value in HG copies. I can say this with a straight face due to putting together a X-Men Volume 2 run and even when offering larger over payments the books just do not exist (the caveat to this is if you are a dealer with access to garage stored boxes of multiple duplicates). Trying to find random HG issues of X-Men, Ghost Rider, Sleepwalker, Darkhawk, and others is a test of will sometimes.

 

Everyone has copies of these books but we have been told for so long that they are worthless drek no one takes care of them. These are fun reads and a representation of the time they were created unfortunately due to stereotyping and a burst bubble an elitist attitude has developed that if you collect this stuff then "you obviously do not know what your doing".

[Garlanda]

The 90's get a bad wrap for value in HG copies. I can say this with a straight face due to putting together a X-Men Volume 2 run and even when offering larger over payments the books just do not exist (the caveat to this is if you are a dealer with access to garage stored boxes of multiple duplicates). Trying to find random HG issues of X-Men, Ghost Rider, Sleepwalker, Darkhawk, and others is a test of will sometimes.

 

Everyone has copies of these books but we have been told for so long that they are worthless drek no one takes care of them. These are fun reads and a representation of the time they were created unfortunately due to stereotyping and a burst bubble an elitist attitude has developed that if you collect this stuff then "you obviously do not know what your doing".

 

I've noticed this too. It seems as if the speculator bust has simulated the attrition rates of Silver and Bronze caused by kids reading and disposing of their books. Many Copper Age books were dumped into discount bins for quick liquidation as comic shops closed or specualtors got burned. By now, these have pretty much been grappled to FN- by being shuffled around to and from cons or just being rummaged through.

 

It won't be too long before this era of comics are mined for ideas, just like how Batman's corny sci-fi adventures were revitalized by Grant Morrison. In the hands of a competent writer, Stryfe's Mutant Liberation Front from the early X-Force issues could be an interesting enemy, similar to the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The "Externals" plot thread is still out there, kind of, 21 years later. There are debates about Omega Red's first appearance over in the Modern Forum.

 

The only real problem with Copper Age comics was that publishers were more interested in putting out as many comics as possible, meaning many were written by subpar writers who didn't know how to craft an interesting story without the first appearance of a new character with a mysterious origin.