![]() Many of the storylines were analogous to the racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and Islamophobia that occurs in the U.S. My ex had turned me on to The X-Men, which was a well-written series about a group of mutant superheroes who try to do good deeds even though much of society are prejudiced against mutants because it’s a classic case of hating/fearing those who are different. This started while my ex-husband and I collected comic books. Too many knock-offs of the same character or concept. In contrast, I nearly gasped when I heard the store clerk charge the couple $100 for that comic book pile.Ģ. The big difference is that we used to pay something like $25 for that comic book stack. They reminded me of the days when my ex-husband used to buy a stack of around 25 comic books. In fact, not too long ago, I saw a young couple at the cash register buying a stack of around 25 comic books. Thanks to that $3.99 price tag, I tend to pass on the comic books that have awesome covers, especially if I’m not familiar with the characters or storyline, because it would be incredibly easy to drop $75 or higher on a pile of comic books. That has an effect because in the past, when my ex-husband and I collected comic books early in our marriage, we used to buy an extra comic book or two on impulse because we liked the cover. That high price has definitely put a damper on resuming collecting comic books to the point where I’m extremely picky as to which comic book I’ll purchase. I started checking out comic books again over the last few years but nowadays prices have risen to an astronomical $3.99 per issue. By that point we had also gotten more involved with our jobs and other activities so we didn’t have as much time to read comic books as before. My husband and I continued to read them after college and during the first few years of our marriage until the prices shot up to $1.25 per issue and we grew tired of shelling out so much money for comic books. By then comic books were priced at around 75 cents per issue, which still wasn’t too bad because they were still affordable to kids, college students, and people who either were unemployed or worked low-paying jobs. I put comic books behind me after that until college when I dated my future ex-husband and he was the one who was into collecting comic books. (At least the reprinted volumes of the 1970’s Howard the Duck comic books, which I wrote a series of reviews about last summer, had the 35 cent price on the covers.) I fell out of reading comic books when I hit the fourth or fifth grade only to briefly pick up an issue or two of Howard the Duck which I found at a local pharmacy for around 35 cents when I was in middle school. They were cheap enough for children to buy with their own allowance money or convince their parents to buy one or two issues. I’m old enough to remember when comic books used to cost 25 cents per issue. ![]() Not surprisingly that executive’s quote has literally lit up social media as comic book fans of all stripes weighed in on this matter.Īs someone who has been reading comic books off and on since childhood, I have my own reasons why comic book sales have gone down and none of them have anything to do with increased diversity in the number of superheroes who are female, LGBTQ, and/or people of color. Recently an executive at Marvel made this statement where he claimed that the reason why the sales of Marvel comic books have gone down is because there is too much diversity among its superheroes.
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