Mastodawn

Someday it might be worth something

https://sh.itjust.works/post/49488558

The best selling comic book of all time was X-Men #1. No it’s not the first X-Men comic from the 1970s, it was a comic Marvel released in the 90s. The collectors all bought it because it was a #1 thinking it would be worth a lot of money some day. And this is exactly why Marvel did this.

Right now there’s probably at least a million copies of that comic preserved in mint condition by collectors. It’s worth about what they paid for it in the 90s… because there’s so many out there.

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lechekaflan

I do remember a neighbor who had a pile of X-Men issues from different times, and they were just ready to be read. No special covers, no gloves, no… while I hung around their house after school, I was asked to go freely read any of them, and it was truly entertaining reading comic books than just trying to hoard them.