Will we have first appearances that are valuable ever again in Comic Books.
Back than there was Action Comics #1/Superman 1, Detective Comics #27/Batman 1, Spider-Man 1/Amazing Fantasy #15 and all the way to X-Men 1. From comic books eras like those and others first appearances are worth great value but the last few eras is seems like comics books are worth nothing beside special issues.
Thoughts.....
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Nowdays there are so many people who collect comic books, where as getting your hands on one of the first appearance comics from back in the day was something rare. You can bet that there are at least a thousand basement-dwellers that have a copy each in mint condition, locked up in a safe.
This is why this forum has died. The poor quality of answer to simple questions. The only comic books that have been worth something in the last three decades are those that were unexpectedly popular with a low print run. This is true for both first issues and issues of comics where something special happens. This can be compounded with legal issues preventing reprints. For example Miracleman. It can also happen if said comic has a low print run and the writer suddenly becomes hot due to something else.
The industry will eventually collapse, and as generations pass so will the comic books, until very few will remain, which will most likely be very valuable. So by the time your grandchildren's grandchildren will have grandchildren, they will probably be rich.
Of course, that will never happen though, since Earth will probably die in our lifetime.
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Well if you are looking to make a profit, comics aren't what you should be buying. They should be for entertainment value. They don't differ from any other form of widespread literature, art or music.
As for the Earth dying out? Nah The generation before us said the same thing and them before them and so on.....
Probably. The Death Of Cap issue costs between $60 and $80 at my local comic store. The first print variant Obama cover for Spidey goes for between $80 and $100. Plus you have issues where there are mistakes and then recalled but a few get sold. Like in AS Batman & Robin. Copies went out where you could see the curse words because they weren't blacked out properly. Quan will stop you!!!! He's like Thanos.
I am talking about non special issues. When X-Men came into the comic world for the first time it was huge. Now, a good team like the Authority comes out and its worth crap and means nothing really. Wolverine number 1 is like nothing compared to X-Men issue 1, it didnt have the same effect really. So, unless some thing big happens to the comic world, theres going to be a lot of copy cats and comic world wont have the same impact like the old comics did.
Re: Will we have first appearances that are valuable ever again in Comic Books.
a huge part of the value of older comics is due to parents/grandparents hawking them when their kids went to collage or whatever. also comics were thought of as trash reading for a long time so the value for remaining issues skyrocketed.
plus stuff from back in the day was epic, actual jack kirby/stan lee, bob kane I.P's ....c'mon now, that stuff is gold. they don't make em' like they used to.
Comics are no different from literature in this sense. In a very generalised theory, the rarer or harder to find a comic, the more expensive it should be. This means that in theory something modern could be expensive one day, provide the copies are hard to get hold of.
The very reason characters like Spider-man are popular was because many people bought his first appearance, so there were loads o copies sold (for that time) it's just easier to get access to something today than it was then....
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Mar 1st, 2009 03:11 PM
The generation before us said the same thing and them before them and so on.....
He's like Thanos. 
