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genuine_article_comics Posts: 44
2/28/2016
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Hi Everyone,
As the title suggests I'd like to get everyone's input on whether you believe comic book market values have peaked or is there still room for growth?
I realize this is a very general question because I truly believe comics like Action 1 and Detective 27 will always increase in value, forever. My question is more general. Overall, are comics still increasing in value? Is there still room to continue an overall upward trend in value? Are we headed for a "crash" in the near future? How long can this upward trend continue? Etc..
Thanks!!!
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
3/4/2016
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I spend a decent amount of time in my LCS every Saturday and there are plenty of young folks that come in and who are subscribers. What is more promising is that for the youngest the parents are very cool with them wanting to buy comics. This was not the case five plus years ago and when I was younger.
There are also more women.
What I find most promising is that if you do not want Marvel or DC fares there is a great wealth of good reads out there. While the smaller publishers still have a hard time getting noticed it is largely their offerings that make this one of the very best time to actually get into comics. You can buy almost any genre and actually get a quality read. There is nothing more important to have than a robust offering of quality material.
IMHO whether all comic fans want physical copies or not really doesn't matter as long as they are buying what they like. There are are always going to be physical comic collectors out there to keep the market going as long as there are people spending money on comics in all forms.
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genuinearticlecomics Posts: 19
3/3/2016
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Robbie wrote:
Will the current teens and 20s want comics in the distant future?
It's an interesting point. Right now they mostly don't care about physical stuff. Gigantic collections of movies, music, games... all downloaded or on the cloud. Will they want real world stuff when they get old?
The answer to that question is the future of this hobby/industry.
If you believe the answer is "no", kids will not want physical product as they get older and the current crop of collectors "age out' of the hobby then at some point the market will crash....probably crash hard.
If you believe the answer is "yes" than we're probably safe and the market will continue a general upward trend in value.
If you equate music CD's to comics (not really a fair comparison...) then we know what happened. Massive drop in CD sales. Maybe vintage vinyl is more of an accurate comparison. Vinyl (I believe) has been on the rise after a huge drop.
Are there better examples to compare to comics?
UPDATE: This is not to suggest that even if the values of the old comics crash that the collecting hobby ceases to exist. people collect because they love the art form.
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