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Is it just me or is this comic ridiculously overpriced

Started by johny myman-migration,

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the blob

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yup, and back then $500 was a lot of money for a comic. I'd go to a convention and buy a couple of boxes of silver age books for that much. of course, you could have also bought 5 or 6 copies of Magnus 1 and those would fetch you about $50 nowadays.

 

In 1980 it was about $20, but then again, that could have gotten some nice stuff then too.

 

If you want to own it, buy a nice VG copy. Those will be overpriced too, but won't cost as much as a used car.

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more like 4.0, although some stuff, 6.0, 7.0. jimmy olsens, lois lane, worlds finest (and some other DC stuff), virtually any charlton or dell with a 12 cent cover as well as some late 60s marvel third string titles could be found in dollar boxes at that time in Fine to F/VF. I think a lot of those Jimmy Olsen's were like $6 in OPG in NM at the time.

 

anyway, two short boxes is about 200-225 bagged and boarded books, maybe less. you could get some pretty decent stuff out of $2 bins back then as well. I was just looking at some books I bought at a con in 1993 that still have their prices on them and they were like $3-$4 for solid VF copies of mid-60s DCs like Batman and Action comics. My recollection is that I would have bought a stack of them and gotten a further discount.

 

Remember, unless it was Spidey, X-Men and maybe FF, a lot of marvel Silver age was kind of slow then, as was a lot of DC (prices for non-Neal Adams/non-key Batman SA were still pretty low). People were busy spending $100 on Harbinger #1, plunking $50 down on New Mutants 87, buying 500 copies of Spawn 1 or Magnus 25 (or 2000 copies of Turok 1) or paying way too much for a mid-grade copy of ASM 129.

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