Speculating on ‘Hot Titles’ : A Risky Business? 0

[THE_BEYONDER]

[LowGradeBronze]

Interesting read, thanks for posting. Copies printed vs copies circulated always leads to the question of where all those extra copies went. At least in the case of Thor 337 and Spidey 252 we have some small insight.

[Ken Aldred]

For me, the classic Icarus example is pre-Unity Valiant, where dealers sat on boxes of the stuff, with high market prices up until soon after the period during which the comic company was constantly pumping out very low quality drek, the polar opposite to the initially brilliant Jim Shooter books, alienating readers, and the wings then melting off the investments with them crashing back down to Earth very quickly.

As someone who actually wanted to read the books but was not willing or able to afford to pay nosebleed prices, I had little sympathy.

Edited December 9, 2022 by Ken Aldred