Posted on 09/12/2021 1:51:39 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The comic that debuted Queens’ friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was auctioned off for a record-setting $3.6 million Thursday.
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Once DC and Marvel digitalize their comics, these paper prints will lose a lot of value.
Who has silly money?
I would think the opposite. More valuable.
Nobody buys these collectibles to read. It’s an investment.
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.
let’s you know people’s sense of what is important or of value is completely outa wack with truth of what is really valuable and important.
a stupid comic sells for millions while people throw their natural immune system away and endanger not just themselves but countless others with jabs of crap chemicals just so they can feel safer or vacation or keep a job.
I believe they’re already available on computers. Besides, paper reprints have been available for decades.
Why would you want the original "Mona Lisa?"
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A similar question was brought up in the classic Who serial, City Of Death.
Doctor Who wrote “this is a fake” on several canvases Leonardo was going whip some extra Mona Lisas up as part of a finance plot extending centuries.
One of my favorites.
Surprised it went for that much - I assume back then it was full of toxic masculinity, white rage and not inclusive enough.
Money laundering.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Ultimately treasures in heaven are the only things that last.
I remember that episode... the best Doctor IMO.
If I take a 12 pound, 5" iron sphere and sell it for scrap, it's worth (depending on the going rate) probably somewhere between $1 and $5. Throw at in with a bunch of other scrap iron and it can easily be transported between state and international boundaries without raising an eyebrow.
If I put it on a little wooden base so it doesn't roll, call it a, "cannon ball paper weight," and put it on a gift shop on Gettysburg, I can probably sell it for $30-40.
If I can provide an authentic appearing document that states this same iron ball was a cannon ball recovered from the Gettysburg battlefield, I'm now looking at somewhere around $200.
If I provide convincing paper(s) verifying this is the cannonball that removed General Sickles' leg at the Battle of Gettysburg that very same, pedestrian iron ball would easily fetch six figures at auction.
The trick is in the provenance, and the matching documentation need not be authentic, but only appear convincingly so. The item and the documentation giving it value are easily transported/shipped separately and then matched up after clearing customs, audits etc.
Tom Baker, the best.
As long as I set up a giant monitor with the great classic paintings in rotation, why would I?
Once DC and Marvel digitalize their comics, these paper prints will lose a lot of value.
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Don’t believe it will. Music has been digitized but vinyl records are more expensive than ever.
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