While this centers on the market manipulation happening in the video game market, the players and overlap with people invested in the comic hobby is important for all to see, and this manipulation is not exclusive to video games.
I can't help but wonder what may have happened if an investigative journalist, or the mainstream media at large, had taken notice of the allegations and outright shenanigans that took place right after, and in the subsequent years following, the rollout of the comic-book certification age.
While the hobby did have a "news outlet" publish an article in the attempt to address collector concerns following the discovery of the manipulated books from the Nicolas Cage Collection, as highlighted e