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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jul 28, 2017 19:31:46 GMT -5
Say what you will about the gimmick covers of the 1990s but I don't recall there being 10 variant covers for every issue (one of which seems to always be a blank white page with no artwork) like there is now.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 28, 2017 19:37:32 GMT -5
My town does have a LCS, but it focuses more on Yu-gi-oh and Magic: The Gathering tournaments than comics. Still, those do get a lot of traffic and it's likely helped keep them in business, so I have no problem with that. Pretty sure that is the LCS that I goto. Dug the final issue of eclipse run of Miracleman and the last 3 issues of the original Tick run out of the cheap bins. Talked to the owners and ya the CCGs keep the store open.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jul 28, 2017 19:45:40 GMT -5
I honestly never did. When the collapse happened, I lived in a small town that never had a comic store. I bought my comics from convenience stores, grocery stores, and pharmacies, which I can't do anymore. When I moved to a larger city, it had three major comic book stores, which are still in existence! The only reason I stopped buying comics was they were too expensive for 14 year old me.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 28, 2017 21:32:33 GMT -5
Dont forget the whole baseball card boom and crash of the 90s. Dealers were charging extreme amounts for stuff like the Griffey rookie and THAT Billy Ripkin card, while companies like Topps and Donruss simply flooded the market, meaning even rookie cards of players who went on to great careers became pretty much worthless due to overprinting.
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Post by andrew8798 on Jul 28, 2017 21:44:24 GMT -5
Dont forget the whole baseball card boom and crash of the 90s. Dealers were charging extreme amounts for stuff like the Griffey rookie and THAT Billy Ripkin card, while companies like Topps and Donruss simply flooded the market, meaning even rookie cards of players who went on to great careers became pretty much worthless due to overprinting. My brother was big time into those cards used to have blinders full
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 28, 2017 23:27:54 GMT -5
Dont forget the whole baseball card boom and crash of the 90s. Dealers were charging extreme amounts for stuff like the Griffey rookie and THAT Billy Ripkin card, while companies like Topps and Donruss simply flooded the market, meaning even rookie cards of players who went on to great careers became pretty much worthless due to overprinting. The speculators moved from Baseball cards,after that market was flooded,to comic books. And then to Beanie Babies and from what I saw Magic the gathering. Sadly speculators will always be in various collectors markets. Just like now it seems like they are in the Funko Pop market. In 5 years very very few of the Funko Pops will be worth more than 10 bucks. The trick is to figure out what items are rare and the speculators are ignoring. Also it helps to wait till the speculators leave a field and then figure out what is the rare items that will be in demand. That is why comics like TWD#1 are worth a decent price and should hold onto at least half that value.
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Post by cabbageboy on Jul 29, 2017 17:08:48 GMT -5
I recall by 1991 it seemed like the baseball card industry started tanking and to me it was simply because the market was overcrowded with companies. When you had Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Bowman, Score, and Upper Deck all putting out cards it was just impossible to keep up with everything and then you had the deluxe versions of some of those sets and it was even worse.
The sad thing? A couple of years ago I finally got that Griffey Upper Deck rookie on ebay, haha. I never got one at the time but finally got my hands on one.
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Post by Glitch on Jul 29, 2017 17:49:34 GMT -5
Around the early 2000s I started to get an idea of the exact reason why the market crashed. And I really started to hate the speculator collectors. I remember not liking back then how I was supposed treat my comics like delicate artifacts. I remember my brother teasing me for having a bunch of creases on the cover my comics (it's thin paper, so not that hard to have creases form). I just wanted to read about Spiderman fighting bad guys, and the Punisher shooting them.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jul 29, 2017 21:45:58 GMT -5
I wanna say I read about Marvel filing for bankruptcy in the newspaper in the late 90s.
The closest comic shop when I was a kid was over half an hour away from my house. I usually bought comics at the local newspaper/magazine shop or the grocery store. I definitely didn't notice anything was wrong at the time. I was young enough to think the gimmick covers were just cool.
Many years later, I picked up the book "Comics: Between the Panels" a sort of informal encyclopedia about comic book history, released in 1998. The entry on Marvel Comics reads like a eulogy for the fallen company, which is kinda hilarious in hindsight when Marvel characters are now more popular than ever (though that has more to do with the movies than their comic book counterparts).
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Post by Chainsaw on Jul 29, 2017 22:02:29 GMT -5
The funny thing was, I don't think I noticed any comic bubble burst when it happened, because I was still buying comics regularly and with great aplomb as I was going through the late 90's and into the 2000's. Having a job (even working at Diamond Distribution at a warehouse for a few months) pretty much let me get whatever I wanted, so I never really noticed whole companies disappearing. I think when Valiant had to cease operations and WildStorm was sold to DC was when it really occurred to me that the industry was on a low swing. Eventually, I had to stop buying so much because I had fallen of tough times, and I lost track, to the point that I really only sporadically buy books anymore, and no series with any regularity.
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Post by segaz on Aug 1, 2017 8:09:33 GMT -5
It's funny because i remember people loving the death and return of superman in the mid ninties.
For me, the most influential comic boon on my life was Sonic the Comic, and that went on till the early 00s.
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Post by hossfan on Aug 1, 2017 8:22:24 GMT -5
I moved in 1994 to a town where that had two comic shops that sprang up because of the boom. I knew they were in trouble around a year in when they stopped getting new books and were trying desperately to unload what they had. I remember walking into one store and then had like twenty copies of a month old title still on their display wall. They soon closed their doors, and I had to start driving an hour to get my books at an older, more established shop. It's still open, and I still go there a couple of times a month, but I confess to getting all my trades off Amazon.
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