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Fred J Chamberlain
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I have gotten a sizable discount on new comics and
graphic novels for years. That said, the primary factor
in my pull list size shrinking (No comments, Paul), has
been the direction that the writing and characters have
gone in. I simply don't recognize them anymore. The
prowse in in the most popular comics is more dense than
the novels that I read. Most of the stuff just bores me.
I picked this up somewhere years ago and just converted
it to jpg, to share with you guys. It is limited and I
can't remember the original source. I suspect that it was
from an article on one of the comic news sites.
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Mark Haslett
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That chart starts in the 70's, long after the comic book stopped staying the same cost of LIFE magazine which was 10cents in 1938, but already $2 in 1977.
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Fred J Chamberlain
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I know that Mark. It is something that I was reminded of,
after seeing this thread and thought it would be of
interest to some. The "1977" at the top made it pretty
clear that it started in the 70's.
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Mark Haslett
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I'm sorry, Fred. I didn't mean to imply you didn't know it started in the '70s. I meant that any look at the "inflation" in comics which doesn't start at the infancy of the format is skewed.
The conclusions in the chart are based on misconceptions because comic book prices never grew according to inflation and were not always as "cheap" as they seemed in the 70's.
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Tim O Neill
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It looks like an article from Rich Johnston - you can tell because he treats the words "So" and "Wow" as complete sentences.
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Joe Smith
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Who STARTS reading comics at Alpha Flight 26? O.o
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Eric Jansen
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On one hand, comics HAVE been $3 for a very long time (15 years?). On the other hand, that chart shows that they started at $3 WAY early!
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Mark Haslett
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Eric: On the other hand, that chart shows that they started at $3 WAY early!
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Unless you actually put the chart in context and see that in 1977, when the chart starts, magazines with the original cover 1938 cover price of 10cents were already at $2.
So it would be a valid point to say that comics actually got to $3 WAY late-- not early. And in some ways, the comics are still suffering from the side effects of having kept their price so low for so long.
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Eric Jansen
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They're not equivalent. You'd have to ask what a 22-page comic would have cost in 1938. Let's bump it up to 32 pages and say that would have cost 5 cents in 1938. We've gone from 5 cents to (going back to my original post's purpose) 5 dollars.
All that to say--DC is dumb.
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Darin Henry
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Comics were all 64 pages for the bulk of the golden age, weren't they?
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Mark Haslett
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Darin: Comics were all 64 pages for the bulk of the golden age, weren't they?
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Yes.
In 1977 there were several 80 page titles.
These had a cover price of 1 dollar.
Meanwhile, Life had diminished in size and gone up to 2$.
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Bill Collins
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Wasn`t there a leaked DC letter saying words to the effect that $3.99 is what people will pay,so that`s what we`ll charge?
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