joeschmoe16

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9/19/2016
Topic: Marvel's ressurecting 70s bargain bin characters

joeschmoe16
joeschmoe16
 It seems that quite a number of Marvel bronze age comics, especially from early-mid 70s, have shot up in value thanks to the reappearance of numerous characters that garnered little interest at the time. I'm curious whether Marvel has actually been explicit that this has been their intent, at least in part, to resurrect marginal characters from the trash heap in order to generate interest in previously worthless back issues. I suppose DC has shown similar trends. Is this something that in your opinion has been going on at the same rate throughout the history of comic books, or do you think there's been an increase? Me, I'm surprised a few times a year when I look at the "Comics to Watch" section and see what I used to consider worthless junk listed there because of some character I probably had forgotten about the day after I skimmed through the book. Present examples would be The Incredible Hulk Annual #6 and Power Man #19.
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