Posted on 09/12/2021 1:51:39 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
I’m sure it will have some premium value, because it’s on paper. But, if everybody in the world can read it on computer, why would I want the paper copy at all?
The fact that by increasing the supply of being able to read the exact same story, but on a computer screen should result, imo, of a loss of value of the comic book.
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As Zach Attack said, nobody buys these collectibles to read them, it’s an investment.
There have been books for years that included old comic books inside of them. People have been able to read them. It has nothing to do with reading them.
Wow. Inflation really is getting bad.
You can read Shakespeare online, or buy a cheap used paperback of Hamlet.
Even so, a paper copy of his collected plays, published in 1623, sold for nearly $10 million.
Same concept.
Although I admit, comic books are stupid. Never understood the appeal of comics for anyone older than 10.
Some billionaire buys a crappy abstract painting for $500,000. Everyone calls him crazy.
Years later, he donates the painting to a museum. An arts appraiser and the museum agree the painting is now worth $20 million.
So the billionaire spent $500,000 for a $20,000,000 tax deduction. Seems he wasn't crazy, but orchestrated a tax dodge.
Who knows if the painting is really worth anything? There's much fraud in art appraising.
Comics are a great medium to discuss issues that parallel modern life.
They are philosophical mediums.
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