What Did a Comic Book Cost When You Started Reading/Collecting?
#1
DVD Talk Legend
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What Did a Comic Book Cost When You Started Reading/Collecting?
The other thread about the possible price increase of comics to $3.99 got me thinking about just how much the cost of a comic book has gone up since I first started reading, and then collecting. Granted, I'm probably one of the older members of this forum, and comics were still 10 cents when I was born (old? that's fucking ancient, dude! ) but they went to 12 cents when I was still a wee tyke, and that was the price I "grew up" with. I vividly recall seeing an ad for Adventure Comics #381 (1969) that had the shocking price of 15 cents! I was pissed. 3 cents was a lot back then!
So, what did a comic book cost when you first bought one?
So, what did a comic book cost when you first bought one?
#12
DVD Talk Legend
75 cents. And now $1-2 thanks to DCBS
#15
50 cents for regular issues and 75 cents for annuals and giant size issues. Shortly after I started collecting they jumped up to 75 cents for the standard issue. Most were still $1 when I graduated high school.
It much easier to buy the trades or hardcovers now,. Or wait and go to the conventions where you can get most of them from the $1 bins.
It much easier to buy the trades or hardcovers now,. Or wait and go to the conventions where you can get most of them from the $1 bins.
#19
DVD Talk Hero
$0.75.
Started seriously reading comics around "The Fall of the Mutants" crossover in the X-Files.
Started seriously reading comics around "The Fall of the Mutants" crossover in the X-Files.
#23
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Nope. Gave up comics(the first time) in summer of '71 just as they went to 20 cents. Don't remember if that was the reason or my interests changed. I do remember the last comic I bought during my childhood collecting was Amazing Spider-Man #101 with Morbius on the cover and the "Still 15 cents" blurb on the cover. I have rebought each of those comics at least once in adulthood.
Every one of the comics I had as a kid(1965-71) I wrote a small RW on the first page under the legend and often wonder if they are in somebody's collection.
Every one of the comics I had as a kid(1965-71) I wrote a small RW on the first page under the legend and often wonder if they are in somebody's collection.
#25
DVD Talk Gold Edition
On average- $1.00. I think there may have been a few at $1.25, and the Superman titles were $.75. I can't believe the constant hikes... another big reason I'm quitting monthlies soon (I'm down to one now).